Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-11-04
HARVARD AND PRINCETON LEAD.
Have Comfortable Majorities in Rank
ing of Big EIevens at Present.

With ONLY two weeks remaining be-
fore the first of the so-called cham
pionShip games, Harvard and Prince
ton lead the fasteners. They are the
only elevens which have won all their
games without being scored upon by
opponents. The Navy also has a clean
slate to date but Rutgers played the
midshipment scoreless tie early in
the season. The Annapolis team,
however. can hardly be ranked among
the leaders because of the rather low
calibre of the opposing forces. The
first chance to get line on the COM
parative strength of the naval cadets
with the big teams will be when they
meet the Carlisle Indians in two
weeks.
Harvard and Princeton have earned
thir way to the topmost rank by de-
feating teams that have been for
years right at the heels of the Big
Four elevens usually capable of put
ting the best teams to severe test
and once in a while able to come out
victorious Princeton has successfully
passed the hardest of it's preliminary
tasks, and it now looks as though the
Tigers were going to end the season
with an undefeated team. Only Holy
Cross remains to be tanned before
Yale is met, and as Yale had an easy
time with the Worcester collegians.
there is not much fear of an upset be-
fore the big contest.
With Harvard. however, the situa-
ton is a bit different. Before the
Crimson meets Yale in the climax of
the season Cornell and Dartmouth
will have to be put away. Whether
Cornell's team is high class or not is
hard to tell. The Ithacans have won
every game so far by comforta BILE
| margins, but the opponents have been
of the weaker sort. Cornell has not
| had things going any too we'll in its
efforts to develop a good team. There
has been 9, lot of trouble through con-
f1icts of study schedules in getting out
the best available material. so if the
! Ithacans make a good showing against
| Harvard it will be quite a feather in
/ their coachs cap.
In spite of Dartmouths defeat by
| Princeton. the Hanover team showed
| that it has one Of the best teams in
tn east. and Harvard should have q
| is not at all impossible that Dart
mouth will give the Crimson harder
battle than Yale The contest will be
i one Of the most interesting of the year.
because it will furnish an opportunity
/ to compare Princeton's strength with
| that of Harvard.
| Although the Tigers and the Grim
son have been marching serenely on
ward and Yale has been more or less
in the doldrums, the New Haven adj
herents have not yet reached the
point where they consider all lost.
Football followers from Cambridge
who watched the Army play Harvard
Saturday said that they had seen many
a Crimson team in years gone by
| which looked as though it should
| trounce Yale soundly be played to a
standstill in the final game. The same
goes for Princeton. too. and while
both of these elevens are not worry
ing lot they are not a bit over con-
f1dent.
Yale is now in a period of rehabilita-
ton. The squad has been shifted
and shuttled about SO much in the
last week that it is practically diff
ferent one from that which lost to the
Army. The new combination APP
peared to work fairly we'll against
Colgate Saturday, and there We're 8
few CLEANS of hope started by some
of the things that were done. Colgate
played Brown a scOreless tie, while
| Harvard beat the latter in a hard
game Il to 0, so those who are FOND
Of comparisons may see a new light
for the Yale team in their 10 to 0 tally
against Colgate
One of the plea sing things about
/ Yale's work Saturday was the variety
that the attack showed. and it is thi.
that will help team a whole lot. be-
cause it keeps the opponents guessing
The blue. however. showed that it still
lacks drive when in position to strike
, The fact that Colgate held for downs
three times within their five yard line
makes it eveident that more powe,
must be instilled into the Yale rushes.