The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-10-12
SMALL TEAMS
ARE IMPROVING
EXPERT SAYS TIME Is COMING
WHEN MINORS WILL MAUI
MAJORS.
TIGERS NEE) QUARTER
Harvard Had Trouble With Williams
Last Week--Yale Buster Than
Evcr-Footbal Like
Baseball

New York, Oct. 11.-From the re-
suits of football games Saturday it
looks as though star e,evens of years
gone by are coming nearer and nearer
to the time when they will no longer
have a monopoly on victory against
There has been steady advance in
the potentility of college elevens that
have but few men from which to
chose their final team ever since e
passing of the old game, where beef
meant so much.
1t is possible from the outlook that
in few more years the same uncer-
ltainty that lies in baseball may pre-
vail on the gridiron. Glass. of course.
will always tell in football, just as it
does in every other branch of sport,
and tradition also Is big factor in
the maintenance of the supremacy
Iamong the important teams. These
characteristics help a great deal
against the minor teams.
First Since 1891.
When team like Williams scores
a touchdown agains Harvard. as they
Ibid Saturday, for the first time since
1891 it looks promising for the
Ismaser eleven, 1t is true enough
that it WAS due to the lucky recovery
|of a missed punt that the Williams
team was able to get within scoring
distance, but Harvard teams of other
days might have stopped score any.
way. Even II the circumstances
which led IN to this tally was more
or less. lucky, what Williams did to
Harvard during the first half showed
that the purple had better team in
the field
Ii evidently was Il case of the Grim
son holding Williams too cheaply, as
the full strength was not placed in
the field until it looked dangerously
like Harvard defeat. There was
some encouragement in the way the
regulars tore up Wtiiiams once they
got the chance, and the narrow escape
that Harvard had must not be taken
to mean that the Cambridge men will
be helpless before Yale
That contest is long way off yet,
and Coach Haughton will have lots of
opportunity to smooth down the
rough spots
Princeton Had Trouble,
Princeton shows that it is still in
a crude stage. The rdc:.ling of tho
Tigers against Fordham was just
about like one sees in the first scrim-
mage of the year against the scrubs.
Many of Fordhams gains would not
have been made had not the Tigers
insisted on tackling very high and at
times missing the runner completely.
There was a great deal of offside
play reported in this contest that
went without penalty. 1t has been
seen on more than one occasion that
more or less leeway is given in this
regard in the early games, and it is
usually the visiting team that gets
the worst of it,
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ment of a quarterback in TigertOwn
Neither Dawson or Chrystle showed
any marked ability, and Gargan of
Fordham was better than either, Daw-
son is more certain in catching punts
and lacking in the secondary de-
tense than Chrystie. The latter
fumbed or iuggled the ball nearly
every time it was kicked to him, and
lots of times was easily put out of
the way.
On the whole it was very ragged
exhibition by Princeton, and an influx
Of coaches may be seen shortly to
that colleeg town.
Vale Machine Busy.
Yale showed that It's scoring ma
chinery has not been neglected to any
great degree. Any team that can
score thirty-six points in two twenty
minute halves with INV show Of re-
sistance must possess speed and &C
curacy in handling the ball, Spring
field cannot be called weakling
NiCfVH tAdNttNs III view vi It's Ni'toi9
over Amherst, so Yale's big tally
looks pretty nice for prospects for
New Haven.
Pennsylvania misses some of the
old stars, bu the struggle that Is
going on among the candidates for
the various positions is making the
Red and Blue play harder game
than at corresponding period last
season. West Virginia is said to
have one Of the best teams in its
history, vet the Quakers doubled the
the tally made in 1908. 1t was no
easy victory at that, but it proved
that there is a good fighting spirit in
the Rcd and Blue makeup.
Penn State is Strono.
Some may have been surprised at
the tie game that Pennsylvania State
played Carlisle, but any one who saw
the Quakers play last season might
have expected them to cause troub'c
for the big teams this season.
In spite of the fact that Oberln
made touchdown against Cornell
the Ithicans showed possibilities of
coming along well. The tally did not
display any particular weakness of