Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-01
Big Teams Start Off Well.

Three Of the big eastern universities
opened their foot ball season Wednes-
day, and practically all of the others got
under way yesterday. Yale and Cornell
vanquished their opponents. Wesleyan
and Allegheny, without much difficulty,
but Dartmouth had all kinds of trouble
to beat Norwich College, IS TO 3. There
were plenty of imperfectionS in the game
played at Yale. For the first few min
utes Yale had things her own way. scor-
ing Is points. The remaining q were
made in the third quarter. Yale made a
rather severe test of the forward pass
using it wherever the opportunity Of
fered. Apparently it was not very sue
cessful, for 1t was continually intercepted
by Wesleyan.
That coaches are not neglecting any OPP
portunities to score by means of drop
or place kicking was shown emphati-
cally in the first games of the season
when all three of the games mentioned
above were featured by goals from field
Capt. Howe scored in this manner against
Wesleyan from the 30-yard line. Cornell
is going to be very dangerous this year
with such man as Quarterback Butler
on her team. Butler is equally proficient
with the drop or place kick. Against AL
legheny he kicked two such goals. one a
drop kick from the S0-yard line and the
other goal from placement from the 40
yard line. On account of his kicking he
the Dartmouth Norwich game there
were three field goals. Barends the Dart
mouth right tackle, scored two such field
goals, one a drop kick and the other
from placement. Underhill. the Norwich
fullback, scored once in this manner.
Although this was a mighty good start
for the kickers, all the other big univer-
sites are well equipped with drop and
place kickers and are dangerous on that
account PENNSYLVANIA has three such
a Marshall
end, and Thayer a haifback Princeton
has most dependable man in Pendleton
the star halfback, while Harvard has a
very good man in l.. Smith. If 1t should
result that there are good many field
goals made this season there is no doubt
that the rules committee will seriously
consider the ACCESSIBILITY of reducing the
| value of a field goal from to > points
to and 3 points. which is it's present
value.
Less Interest in the West.
| 1t is unfortunate for the popularity OF
| foot ball in the middle west that peace
has not been made between the Univer.
| sity of Michigan and the Conference AS
| sociation, permitting the Wolverines Il
| play the various members OF that or
ganization. Michigan has no reason Il
| feel badly because the other members OF
that body will not play her, for she ha.
| shown capacity to take care of herself
| to much better advantage than her ole
| associates. The Michigan men wer,
| clever in arranging a two-year contrac
| with Minnesota, and while that has no
| been renewed on account of the attitud,
| of the conference. Michigan has done wei
| ny arranging a game with Cornell, which
| added to the championship match will
] Pennsylvania, will enable her to lool
| forward to a most interesting schedule. !
! There Is still speculation as to tn,
| likelihood OF Michigan and the confer
! ence burying their differences, but sine,
| Michigan continues to prosper with he
new alliances in the east il is pretty GER
tain that the next move will have 10 b'
made by TIL conference.