Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-31

the first of the So-called championship
foot ball games, Harvard and Princeton
lead the fasteners. They are the only
eievenS 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 midshipmen a
scoreless tie early in the season. The
Annapolis team. however, can hardly be
ranked among the leaders because of the
rather low caliber 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
their way to the topmost rank by defeat
ing teams that have been for years right
at the heels of the big Four" elevens
usually capable of putting the best teams
to severe test and once in while able
to come out victorious. Princeton has
successfully passed the hardest Of its pre-
liminary 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 colegians there is
not much fear Of an upset before the big
contest.
Two Hard Tests for Harvard.
With Harvard, however, the situation 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 Cornelps team is high class OF
not is hard to tell. The Ithacans have
won every game SO far by comfortable
margins, but the opponents have been of
the weaker sort. Cornell has not had
things going any too well in it's efforts to
develop a good team. There has been a
lot of trouble through conflicts Of study
schedules in getting out the best available
material, so ii the Ithac3ns make good
showing against Harvard 1t will be quite
a feather in their coach's cap.
In spite of Dartmouth's defeat by
Princeton the Hanover eleven showed that
it has one Of the best teams in the east.
and Harvard should have fine test of its
power against it. It is not at all impos-
sible that Dartmouth will give the GRIM
son harder battle than Yale. This con-
test will be one of the most interesting of
the year, because it will furnish an OPP
portunity to compare Princeton's strength
with that of Harvard.
Although the Tigers and the Crimson
have been marching serenely onward and
Yale has been more or less In the dol
drums, the New Haven adherents have
not yet reached the point where they con-
Cambridge who watched the Army play
Harvard Saturday said that they had
seen many Crimson team in years gone
by which looked as though it should
standstill in the final game. The same
goes for Princeton. too, and while both
of these elevens are not worrying a lot,
they are not q bit overconfident.
Rehabilitation at Yale.
Yale is now in a period of rehabilitation.
The squad has been shifted and shuttled
around SO much in the last week or SO
that it is practicallyla different one from
that which lost to the Army. The new
combination appeared to work fairly we'll
against Colgate Saturday, and there were
a few CLEANS Of hope started by some OF
the things that were done Colgate played
Brown a scoreiess tie. while Harvard
beat the latter in a hard game. IL to O.
so those who are fond Of comparisons
may see a new light for the Yale team
In their 10 to o tally against Colgate.
One Of the pleasing things about Yale's
work Saturday was the variety that the
attack showed, and 1t Is this that will
help a team a whole lot, because 1t keeps
the opponents guessing. The Blue, how
ever. showed that it still lacks drive when
in position to strike. The fact that Col
gate held for downs three times within
it's 5-yard line makes it evident that more
power must be instilled into the Yale
PUSHES.
Harvard's most serious fault is tend
ency to tumble the ball. If this were
eliminated it is hard to see how any
eleven can make an impression on it. The
sort of men that compose the team is q
contradiction to the theories of those who
thought the new rules would see the passJ
ing of the big, brawny men on the grid
IRON The Crimson aggregation is one of
giants, and there is immense power in the
machine 1t Is not slow-moving mass,
either. The line is fast and aggre ssive
and the back field speedy and alert. Cor
bett played as good game against the
Army as any halfback in the east this
year and his teammates behind the line
were not far below him in caliber.
Pennsylvania comfortable victory over
that the Quakers are going to rank we'll
this season in spite of their unfortunate
start. They took advantage of all Car
isles mistakes in very keen manner
ard made few themselves.
Michigan's victory over Syracuse came
as somewhat Of surprise to the knowing
ones. The Wolverines record this year
led many to believe that the fasteners
would have an easy time of it. The re-
suit will do a lot to add interest to the
contest between Pennsylvania and Mich
igan, ais the latter now appears to COM
pare favorably with the big eastern teams
There is no reason for the Army root
ers'' to feel discouraged over the defeat
of their team. They met a remarka BILE
eleven and were handicapped by the loss
of some of their most cap able players
They have no particularly hard opponents