The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-26
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Harvard Eleven May be Defeated by C0nquerers of Pennsylvania
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 There is no team on the schedule which the men are so anxious to defeat as Harvard said Capt. SprackIing a few days before the Pennsylvania game. Hast season we won from Yale, and we have good hopes of beat ing PennsylVania-but Harvard is our nearest rival. and while the team has played a good many close games in past years Brown has never wen. g game"
 Since the defeat of the Pennsylvania team it is likely that the Brown idea of achievement has widened consider ably, and the college can now see no reason why spracklins's eleven shouldn't go ahead and win the cham pionship. Yet the game with Har- ward is really the goal of the season, and if the Rhode Island eleven had it's choice of another. win over Yale and a defeat oyer Harvard there isn't any doubt as to which one they would choose. Therefore it ts safe to say that the men will play a great game at Cambridge this week, and the bat tie will have a definite effect on the ranking of teams at the end of the season.
 Coach Robinson, who is largely re- sponsible for the rise of the Provf- dence team in the football world, is one of the best strategists in the coun- try. and at the present writing.he has a team which is the best drilled in the country At the start of the sea- son everything was not as rosy on Col lege Hill as most people thought, but Robinson has succeeded in making up a team which for all around play is better than anything except Michi- gan at the present writing. This does not mean that 1t will necessarily rank first at the end of the season-Or that it will defeat Harvard next Saturday. Robinson now has the most difficult task which any coach can face-that of keeping a team which has appar- ently approached pretty close to the apex of it's development from rum ming into a mid-season slump which would be fatal to the most important games of the season.
 The Providence eleven came out of the game with Pennsylvania with a few injuries, and Charlie Huggins, the trainer says the same eleven men will be able to play in the game against Harvard on Saturday.
 The fact is that the team will prob ably be stronger, for the injured ankle of Geib is rapidly improving, and he will probably get in the lineup. Bart lett. the Worcester Academy player,
 
 it is said that Goldberg will be the substitute if Geib is able to play.
 Goldberg is entirely too fat to stand the pace with Leslie and Jenckes, the Harvard line men, will set. Getb is a hardened player and ecan give them an even battle if he is in shape to play. Ashbaugh and Adams will have a much stiffer proposition at the ends than they did at Philadelphia, and Ia QyHy7 ic football than Penn.
 Penney, the freshman right halfbach who scored the touchdown against Penn, has fulfilled his early season promise. He is built fairly close to the ground, but has a tremendous chest and shoulders. He hits the line like Ted Coy, and when he meets ob- structing players they hit the ground with the same emphasis.
 His advance resembles speeding ball going down a bowling alley. When the line of pins Is reached. they, fly right and left. Penney came to Brown from St, Paul, Minn., and is an illustration Of the wide drawing power which the athletic fame of years.
 Although the team at Cambridge has failed to show definite strength and power. and in spite of the criticisn of Boston writers whose judgment is always worthy of consideration, 1t Is impossible to shake off the impres- sion which resulted from a three days stay at Cambridge early in the sea- son.. There is great potential power in that first squad at Harvard, and 1t seems that there has been an inten- tional slow development. The teams encountered so far were not of a char acter to lend strength to championship claims at the end of the season, and while there is no definite way of proving 1t. it seems as though the Crimson eleven ought to show the re- suit of Haughton's coaching.
 In an article written for the Bos- ton Globe after Saturdays game with Amherst, Paul Wilmington, who year ago was in the thick of the fray, and who is assisting Haughton this year, gives as great raking over the coals to the Harvard team. After comment ing on the weather conditions, he says: "But even Soldiers Field. mud pud- dle that it was, was no excuse for the crude, unintelligent football play ed by the Harvard team. The game from beginning to end was full of fun- damental errors, the players seeming to think that the slippery field render ed good playing impossible, and that therefore they would not be blamed for slip-shod play"
 Wilmington continues his frank talk for 8 couple of columns and says that the line charging was too high, that the Harvard line lacked aggressive ness throughout, and that "Hollister, the sub end, was the only man who showed real fight" As little chance was given the backfeld to do brilliant work, Wilmington certainly doesn't paint up the chances of a victory over Brown in alurfng cOlOrS
 It may be true that the Harvard play was crude on Saturday, but an eleven in good physical condition can come along rapidly in five days, and when play is called at the Stadium on next Saturday the chances are that the Crimson will have pretty efficient machine in the field.
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