The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-10
Sons Of Eli Show Well Despite
Low Score at Holy Cross.
Tryout Given Different Styles
of New Game.
EVIL DAYS AT HAND
Harvard Crippled by Injured
Players and Slow Men.
Western Games Show Coaches
Are Learning New Rules.

New Haven, Conn.,, Oct. 1O.-On a
basis or comparative scores for the
early season period, Yale appears the
top notcher of the eastern football
the Ellis rolled up 26 points a week
ago with comparative ease, using
substitutes for about half of the
game. Last Saturday, under about the
points.
Princeton has been registering some
large scores, but has not met any
teams as strong as the Holy Cross
eleven and has shown a lack of con-
certed action, the power and the spirit,
which has characterized the Yale
play.
The varsity coaches here are not
making any sanguine claims to cham
pionship titles this early in the season.
but they declare with some conf
dence that If the developemnt of the
big elevens is equal from now on. the
Blue will have the edge, so to speak,
on Harvard and Princeton. OF course
much may happen between now and
the championship contests.
Yale Tries New Plays.
YaIe's twelve to nothing score
against Syracuse was a disappoint-
ment to some of her supporters. but
side line observers noted that the Blue
styles of the game and did not at
tempt a high score game. Analysis
of the contest clearly reveals a team
that will go far.
Harvard. on the other hand. was
hard pushed by Holy Cross. according
to the Yale scouts. But for a tumble,
the Worcester eleven probably would
have scored on a placement kick from
the 10-yard line.
Princeton scored 81 points on villa
Nova, but this tally was due almost
entirely to the speed of the Tiger
backs. Villa Nova's line showed a de-
Tense that bothered Princeton at
practically every stage OF the game.
Cambridge, Mass. Oct. 10.-With
two quarterbacks on the hospital list
and a probability that WigSiesworth
will not play again this season, Har-
ward has fallen on evil days with re-
gard to the connecting link between
the line and the backs. Potter, who
from present indications will retain
first call on the position, is regarded
as the most accurate and discerning
thrower of the forward pass in the
eastern ranks, but there is almost no
one available for a substitute.
Harvard Is Out Guessed.
There lis good material at Harvard
this year and plenty of it, but not the
tip-top material there was in several
places in the line last year. 1t is evil
dent that a finish is lacking in Har-
wards play as compared with last
year. Still, there are flashes of real
first class football which gives the
coaches hope An Improvement is
noted in the interference of the backs
and flankers and more aggressiveness.
A marked weakness in the Holy Cross
game was inability to diagnose the
open play formations of the visiting
eleven.
Chicago. Oct. 1o.--Although there
were few surprises in Saturdays FOOT
ball games in the Middle West the ad-
vanced form displayed by the major
ity of elevens, the frequent use OF the
forward pass and other open plays
showed that the coaches and players
already have good ideas of the posi-
bilities of the rules and the caliber of
the gridiron game in succeeding strug-
giles it is predicted will improve.
What About Iowa.
In the west the form of Chicago,
Illinois and Northwestern, the me-
diocre work of Minnesota, and the de-
feat of Purdue by Wabash caused
much comment among football play
ers. who believe the conference title
now lies between Illinois, Minnesota,
Wisconsin and Chicago. Iowa has not
haan mt to the test