The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-24
Big Four Broken
 Very Badly Now Defeats of Yale and Penn Hurt Regulations of SO Called
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 The Big Four" is no longer the aggressiveley dangerous combination it once was. The smaller colleges are now teaching the big universities something of the gridiron game. It was only by the rarest good luck a lew years ago that an outside team could score over Yale, Princeton or Pennsylvania. Yet on Saturday the Army team routed Yale, Annapolis played Princeton to standstill ana Harvard and Cornell managed to scrape through.
 1t is really surprising the way the teams of the smaller institutions are developing, Browns rise has been phenom enal. Last year Brown an initiated the Ellis and crushed the Quakers. This year it has beaten Pennsylvania and has the Harvard coaches scared stiff.
 This will be busy week in sev- eral big college football camps. Penn coaches will be busy eliminating the effects of the 60 defeat which Brown gained over them. At Yale they will be pointing out defects which cropped up in the play of the Ellis. who lost to the Army by a 6-U score. At Princeton the coaches will be driving the squad hard.
 Harvard was the only member of the Big Four" to win on Saturday, the Crimson gaining a 11--0 victory over Amherst: While the record of the Cambridge eleven has been very good this season in the early games, the coaches will have to be vigilant to prevent that dangerous over-confl- dence which might crop up in the contests with Princeton and Yale.
 1t must be said for Pennsylvania that while she lost to Brown there was no disgrace attached to the de- feat. On a slippery field, with the odds favorfng the heavy Brown team, the Red and Blue fought gamely, and idence lads which gained the verdict.
 With Capt. Hart back the Tigers are likely to recover some of the con- ffdence they lost at Annapolis. But some hard work will have to be done during the next few days if Princeton intends to give Harvard a hard fight on Nov. 4. The Navy game brought out several weaknesses in the Tiger team very. clearly, the most important of which was the offensive weakness of the team against a good line. At present the Tigers are decidedly lack ing in q scoring machine. In fact, at present there is no real Princeton football team, but football squad, and there is a lot of hard work ahead of the coaches If eleven n are to be picked and whipped into shape within the next two weeks.
 < The time for experimenting with the players may be over but, judg- ing from the game on Saturday, a big shift in the makeup of the eleven is due. Pendleton's genera1ship was not of the best and there are many yUhn vU011ld 1fka v1!av r. ter. The speedy Pendleton is in a class by himself when it comes to re- ceiying kicks and running them back and he is mighty clever player at quarterback, but his judgment in choosing plays is not always the best.
 Vaughan has not done what was ex- pected of him at end, and it is pos sible that he may be used in the back field this week. This would necess1- tate reducing either Baker or Sawyer both are excellent backs on a dry day, although of somewhat different types, 1t would be difficult matter to choose between them if Vaughan should receive g. berth at half-back.
 The Harvard line seems to be about settled now, with Capt. Fisher, Gar diner and Smith at guard, tackle and end respectively. The other side, however, is in anything but a satis- factory condition. The loss of Rogers WuO WdS ORCIdleQ OL l0E SdppGuulC1llS, has put the coaches in rather a hole. Leslie appears to have the call for the present over Reyes for left guard. In the absence of Rogers Jencks and Hitchcock, who have been substitut- ing for Gardiner on the other side, ton, with indications slightly favoring the latter. There are plenty of goou1 candidates for the position of left end. Felton, Milholland. Howard, Hollister and Dana are the leading candidates at present.
 State College is Penn's next oppon- ent, and this guarantees another Sen- satioal battle at Franklin Field. With a victory over Cornell, much bet ter comparative showing against Get tysburg and 8 team that is the best it has ever had State has every reason to be full of confidence. Penn's op- ponent has a couple of backfield men who are wonders at running back the ball on kicks and in open field work. Miller. the little quarterback, is s wonder, as he has repeatedly got through his opponents this year for runs of fifty and sixty yards, while Mauthe and Barry are also as good Tn this respect and much better in oth- CTS. In the line State has some pow erfu1 men. The star, of course, ,s the captain, Very, considered by many the best end in America to-day. Har- low at tackle has also been showing wonderful form and is out for All American honors.
 The game between the Colgate team and Yale next Saturday should fur nish some material for comparison between Princeton and the Blue The Tigers defeated Colgate week ago last Saturday by score of 31 to 70, which would indicate that Yale has rather easy game on her hands. Holy Cross will also provide students of the game with a chance for com- parison between Princeton and liar ward and Yale, as the eleven will be seen in battle with the Tigers. Yale beat Holy Cross by score of 26 to 0 on Sept. 30.
 A week later Harvard beat Holy Cross by a score of 8 to o, which, however, hardly showed the superior ity of the Crimsons. Princeton