Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-07
TIGER ELEVEN'S RECORD IS
NOW MOST ENVIABLE ONE
Old Nassau Only Eastern Team to Win All
Games Without Opponents Scoring,
But Harvard and Pennsylvania
Have Beaten Stronger Forces.

Princeton is now the only team on the
Eastern gridiron which has won all OF Its
games and still kept its goal lire safe
from opponents. The Tigers have only
one more game to play, that with Yale.
and from the catastrophe at New Haven
Saturday casual observer might be led
to the belief that Old Nassau will have
the points all on the credit side OF the
ledger when the curtain is rung down on
the 1910 season. A glance at the records
of the matches between these old rivals,
however, shows that there were but Few
shutouts. Even when everything pointed
toward a walkover> there were sudden re-
markable braces made by one or the
other. some lucky happening In the game
which resulted In q score. So. In spite
OF the fact that performances this year
make 1t look as il Yale should be unable
to tally, it would be no great surprise to
see the Blue get some points in one way
or an other.
The present game gives more openings
than Of yore for the weaker team to
score, and there has been feature all
this season that has resulted In the max
ing of more than one tally. That Is
fumbling. For some reason or other the
1910 players have had a tendency to Jug
gle the ball, and there has scarcely been
a contest in which dropped ball has not
figured in the result. 1t was q costly
thing for Harvard to miss the ball in the
Cornell game. Had Pierce handled it
clearly Harvard would have q clean
slate. This tumble. however, just about
balanced the f1uky play in the Army game
that gave the Crimson its only points, so
there should not be any great amount of
disappointment at Harvard over the
Ithacans' score.
Opinions Differ as to Leader.
There is a diversity Of opinion az TO
whether Harvard or Princeton is the
leading team to date. Just because the
Tigers have not been scored against is
no reason for the assumption that 1t is
superior to the Crimson. From end to
end the Cambridge line looks better than
that of Old Nassau. and the backfield Is
every whit as good. Harvard's record
is better than Princeton's SO far. Outside
of Dartmouth the Tigers have not met
nearly such good teams as the Crimson.
Victories over Cornell. West Point and
Brown are more impressive than ones
over Holy Cross. Carlisle and Lafayette.
OF course, it remains to be seen what
the Harvard team can do against Dart
mouth this week. The Hanover eleven
goes into this contest always as the cli-
max Of the season and VIII De IN prime
shape 1t looks as though Dartmouth
will give Harvard the hardest tussle of
the year.
It is disappointing to football lovers that
the Orange and Black will not meet the
Crimson this year, for in the event of
Yale being beaten by both the question
of the championship will be merely a
matter of personal opinion. 1t can be
said. though. with quite some degree OF
assurance. that Harvard and Princeton
will resume relations in 1911 on the grid
iron after a lapse of many years. Nego-
tiations for such a contest have been
under way some time, and an official
announcement of the date may be eX-
pected before long, The last time the
two teams met was in 1906. and the