Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-15
FOOT BALL BATTLES
important Games on the
Schedule for Today.
LOCAL TEAMS KEYED UP
Tigers Take on Lafayette. Yale
Tackles Army and Quakers Clash
With Brown.

Today we have some real class in the
foot ball games. 1t is a long schedule and
a highly interesting one, The first period
is over and the harder games are from
now on. The material is pretty generally
picked and the work of welding II into a
team will occupy more time from now on.
Several OF today's games will give a bet
ter idea of their ability of the material
than any that have been played, bring to
light better than any that have preced-
ed points OF weakness and strength for
the coaches guidance-and perhaps
worry
Leading games on the bill this after
noon outside the District are Yale VS.. the
Army. Princeton VS.. Lafayette and Penn
syNania -vs. Brown. The Syracuse-In-
dian game also is an important one. There
is an even chance that one. and per-
haps more than one, Of the big eievens
will taste of defeat before the sun sets.
Lafayette, always a thorn in the flesh
for the strongest Of teams. has been pre-
pared carefully by Coach Folwell for the
battle with the Tigers. They know foot
ball at Lafayette and have good material.
Besides they aren't trembling in their
shoes at the prospect of engaging the
Princetonians. There Is last years VIC
tory over Nassau to spur them on. and,
by the same token, the Tigers are bent on
wtping out that stain. Princeton scouts
went to Easton last Saturday to look
over their opponents, and this week
Princeton has been In secret practice get
ting ready.
1t will be the first momentous test of
the Princeton material and how II shapes
up, and the result will have a bearing on
Princeton's later prospects. The same is
true Of Yale regarding the west Point
game. Once in SD often the Soldiers tie
the Ellis or scare them badly, and IN 19<A
the West Pointers won. This years 1ale
team Is a HARD nghung aggregation, but
green and at present not the equal oI
numerous Yale teams that have gone be-
tore.
The West Pointers think this is a ripe
time for them to lay Old Eli low. They
have a good nucleus OF veterans anu
among them several f1rst-claSs men, and
while their attack hasn't been developed
very far along, they probably are as wei
on as Yale In that respect and never fail
to put up an aggressive defense. One or
two of Iale's best men may not be in the
game, not as strong an array as she Will
muster later, but a handicap to the Army
is that it has played in only one game.
West Point did better against Turts than
Yale did, If that is any line. The driving
work TO Whlcn pOtn teams nave peen SUD-
jected this week will count for much In
the result.
Like Yale, Pennsylvania plays away
from home today. The QuaKers have
been going better of late, but haven't
struck anything as stiff az Brown is or
should be- The development and showing
Of the Brown team has been retarded by
injuries to good men and the eleven Will
bot be at ats, best this afternoon The
work this week has all been with the
Penn. game. in mind and extra attention
has been given to the men who will take
the places of the missing regulars. Brown
incidentally has beaten Pennsylvania once
and played several close games with the
Red and Blue.
Harvard is to meet Amherst and 1t Will
be a surprise II the Crimson doesn't win
comfortably. What the Crimson needs Is
q strong opponent to give 1t a thorough
test The schedule follows: