The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-28
HARD WORK TO CHOOSE
 LEADING COLLEGE TEAM

Turning back over the files to about the 18th of September, one finds the critics relieving themselves of a safe and sane observa tion as follows:
 "All the large colleges have good material on hand and chance to finish at the top of the football lad der Yale, Harvard, Brown, Penn, Princeton and the Service Schools are all in line to win the champion ship. By the middle of october, the race will have been greatly narrow ed down, but just at present it is hard to make a choice between them.
 Cross out the remarks about Octo- Der and substituting November in place of them, you will have the situ- ation today. Yes. by the middle Of November we will know something more about the teams-but it doesn't look as if the critics would be able to pick a sure winner even then.
 An odd season so far-but one which has been intensely interesting. Foot ball on many of the college fields has been ragged, but it has not been dull. Even the games where the scores have run up over twenty in favor of a to the spectators, and it certainly looks as though the final games would go down as the most spectacu- lar in the history of the game.
 Summing up the situation in few words, it must first be emphasized that the same teams have a chance to win out as they did when play and Princeton will simplify the situa- tion this year by each one playing each other. Yale has strong material. and in spite of the GO defeat at the hands of West Point, it has had the most even development of any of the three ancient rivals.
 The team which the Blue will put on the field in November will be bet ter than the one which defeated Princeton and held Harvard to a scoreless tie last season. Harvard has been coming along slowly, but the native strength is there and the tech nique of the eleven will be thorough ly tested out this Saturday. Prince ton got down to brass tacks after the revelation of the weakness of her line demonstrated in the Lehigh game, and is now on the up-curve of devel- opment.
 Brown has made the most convinc- ing showing of any team to date, and the schedule of the Providence team is such that no one will be able to dispute her right to the title if she goes through it successfully. In ad- dition to her recent victory over Penn. Brown will play Harvard, Yale, and Carlisle.
 The Army and Navy teams are both handicapped this season by the lack of a schedule sufficiently hard to test them out in the games of the com- ing month. their only resource being the rolling up of large scores against adversaries, which with one excep> tion are completely outclassed.
 That Carlisle eleven is a strong and shifty aggrega tion. and promises to cause the teams it encounters a lot of trouble. The only trouble with the Indians is their inability to fight an uphill battle When things start their way they run up large scores, but the sticking power of Warmers team is questioned in many quarters.
 Lafayette has shown undoubted signs of strength and when that team meets the Indians on Saturday a close score should result. Penn State is annother school which has to date a much better record than any of the larger universities. Cornell, for in- stance has done nothing so far to indicate the strength in football to which her registration and prestige in other lines of sport should entitle her. Trinity, Dartmouth and Lehigh, also took like formidable elevens at this stage of the season
 The west Is looking forward with