Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-26
nv u. Y. WELLER

The first big game of the 1910 grid
iron season will be played at West
Point Saturday between Harvard and
the army boys. The Crimson has al
ways looked forward to this meeting
as a crisis in the seasons schedule and
although West Point is not one OF
the a- conference schools, nevertheless
the boys are able to put up a game
that keeps the rah-rahs on the run
from the start.
Another game which will attract the
fans of the saWdust arena is the IN
dian-Pennsylvania meeting at Phila-
delphia. The Indians have been work.
ing steadily since their defeat at the
hands of Princeton last Saturday ana
are confident of giving the university
heaYyweights a hard struggle. Ihe
Indian team has always Deen light
one. and this year has been greatly
handicapped by the loss of many of
its star men by graduation. The new
rules, according to the majority of the
eastern coaches, call for a heavy
though fast line. and the combination
is something of a paradox. carlisle
was the first of the big schools TO en-
phasize the value of the open style
of play and should thrive under the
revision of the code.
Pennsylvania had q bad start. IN
familiarity with the code, lack or
graduate coaches, trouble with train
ing tables, a little internal strife, all
combined to give the setback which
handicaps a team throughout the sea-
son. An appeal to the alumni has been
answered by a swarm Of veteran grid
iron stars. and since their initial de-
feat at the hands of Ursinus the husky
brood of Quakers have been thriving
on a diet of pre-digested rules and
signal salads.
THE third big game OF the Saturday
schedule will be the Chicago-North-
western mixing on the Chicago hcId:
This will be the principal game OF
the western schedule and undountedIy
will decide the championship OF the
western conference colleges, Michigan
| being out of the running. The Bad
gers and Northwestern will collide al
Madison, but neither team is of the
class of the two programmed for
| Chicago.
| ECKERSALL TRAINS CHICAGO
The Minnesota eleven has been Mich
| igan's chief rival during the past five
wears and has been able to take Chi
| cago into camp at will. Under the
captaincy and coaching of waiter
Eckersall, probably the greatest quar-
! terback, punter and place kicker the
! game has ever known, Chicago devel-
oped into one Of the greatest SCORING
| machines of the west When he grad
uated there came a slump ana up W lc
| the present time the Chi boys have
been little in the reckoning. Eckersall
! however. has "come back" not in the
general meaning of the term, but has
! been giving his spare moments 20 elu'
| cidating the complications of the I'M
proved game" to the tyros in moleskln'
| who have been elected to the honor o.
representing the Illinois school. Eek
i ersaU is a coach of the snap and lift
of Yost of Michigan, and he may
accomplish wonders with the nucleus
in hand.
Yale and Walter Camp have beer
synonymous terms for some time, AM
the report that the sedate father Of IN
American game has doffed ms Goa
and taken to the active work OF coacll
ing will be welcome news TO the Iol
lowers of Old Eli. When Camp cam
to los Angeles some three weeks ag
he could scarcely keep his adopted
school from his mind. He talked Yal
and her football prospects from A to 4
and even limited that the old bulldo
might land on the 1910 pennant yei
Yale's style has always been the grea
machine mass-play formations, styl
that depended upon the whole tear
working as q unit, every one nclpin
|
of Yales athletic adviser, however, TN
Eli grjdironi warriors will have TO dis
card their patent belts for tahder
nlays. throw away their Wonderfull
intricate vet systematized plans o
= attack and defense, in fact, forge
, | the old football and relearn under IN
tutelage Of the author Of the codC
Walter Camp. .,,..
Whittier and Pomona at Claremor
: | --iiI 10 +bo leading feature of the lOcs
! schedule and big Renneker ana NJ
men are planning some surprises fc
both friends and rivals. Indeed the
have aspirations that are influence
nv more than hope for that intanglbl
4 something known as the pennant
1910 The big game with Occident;
on October Is has aroused iootpa
spirit the Quaker student BODY ths
will admit Of no denial annd the scho'
which has been known for seyers
seasons as the cellar champ may bios
som into something of the champion
ship variety ere long.
POMONA DOPE SCARCE
What the sagebrush huskies wi
evolve in the shape of pennant wiz
ming possibilities is an all-importar
line of discussion among the ran
/, From time immemorial the blue an
q white have been serious contender
for football championships and hay
! annexed tho Southern California tit
p. school. Will it be a repetition or form
e er times, or a change in the rote
- That is what the rah-rahs are askin
each other.
3 The Arlington ball club was admi
/, ted to membership in the lnterurpa
t league at last nights meeting OF Il