The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-19
Fans in East Believe 6
Eleven Are Entitled
Place of Honor.
YALE DETESTS DEF[
Bulldog Spirit at Old &
Unable TO Smile Aftt
Licking. u
BY WALTER MARnHAn,


NEW YORK. Nov. ls.-.Just
moro than week now will IA.
wind-up Of the football season
and a most interesting season
have been. q.
The meeting of Harvard An
next Saturday and of Army an
on Thanksgiving day are the q,
real big games remaining 10 he
and they will furnish ittinr
10 tho season. Fl
] think any expert follower
game will not question the pro'
that Uncle Sans bows hsyc
earned the right TO he considc
the championship along wifi
Princeton aud Harvard. Both
and Pennsylvania this wear ara h
~ out Of the running. so thr
not be figured in the ehampiots1
at all. II | was compelled 10 4
Big Six this wear | would pui 4
llsic lndi.n along with the tea,n1
and let 1t go at that.
Some genius has figured i'm 4
centaEes Of the leading footbai|
since the game became the test Ia
supremacy in athletics and AN
Nale'5 football eleven. Judging H.
great string of victories ruuniuc
The early days ot football I'm tha n
is fairly entitled 10 the chalnpIo'
The gridiron. Yale's winning 1,ci
reaches the noble figures OF Or
thus season, which Is not inchl5oI
summary, eighteen Victories hn|
scored over Old Eli by all or
since football WAS started at Nq~
Hogan s Team Was WcaI
Aside from Harvard and Primo
three teams have managed Ia
the Blue gridirou warriors. we
has taken three victories away m
this years being tho thlrd. Jim
lamentable outft. hy mauY consid
worst that ever wore the blue, W
10 defeat by tho Army IN 1904. N
1876. when Columbia managed h
lone goal. had the sons OF III
any hut Harvard or Prlnceton-
Last year tho Army again defea
and. TO make matters worse.
whitewashed the Ellis bv lar1
OF II 10 o. This was the end
world for Yale. Every football ed
remembers how Princeton was
by the close score OF TO 2.
the powerful Harvard eleven n
10 a uo-score tic at New Haven
iatcr. That was direct result
defeat by Brown. Yale never smii<
face OF defeat. The bulldog spir'
evident, and any bulldog that n
licked Is too weak TO grin.
Yale has met all the strongest
on ths gridiron. too. Weak feI
not given much consideration bv
mentors. They have an elaborI
tom Of training. which. like tho
Sparta, demands bitter medicine.
ton is the best liked of all yisitIr
at New Haven. because the or1|
Black has proved "A worthier ON
the Blue than has Harvard.
Nine victories have been scor
Yale by Princeton since they bee
annual battles. Yale broke vI|
ward several times since they con
playing football. but Princcton'1
goes back in an uubroken line
when Yale registered It's first
over the Tigers. Yale has won
games from Princeton. and sew
ties.
Prlnceton's winning figures Of
Titles II 10 second position beh||
for football supremacy. AsId<
Yale. Harvard and Pepnsyiy@|
teams have humblcI the Orr
Black. Little Rutgers. which
have some football teams In ~
days. did u In 1869. by n score al
In 1899 Cornell managed 90 vi
the Tigers. In 1900 both Coltiu'|
Cornell defeated Princeton.
Dartmouth Beat Princet0u
Dartmouth sprnnS Into the 4
the Green defeated tho Orange en-
down. Three years later this
tho Tigers going down TO n 20 4
feat. SL
This year the navy team bed
lowers with joy. In 1901. how
Middies defeated the Tigers by .
OF 10 10 2. Lafayette, through n
velUus kicking of It's captaln.
won from the Tigers I'm 1908 br
OF i TO o. McCrea kicking two So
the field.
IIaryards winning percentaso
and but i've teams, aside from
vania, Princeton and Yale. o.
from tho Crimson. Wesleyar
TO slip away with n victory bac< |
under the old style OF play.
Curtis's brilliant running. won
Boston Athletic association
against Harvard In 1896, Dartm0
Amherst both defeated the Camr'
In 1908. This was a great ye1I
Dartmouth eleven. which snov'*
its greatest opponent, Brown. p
of c. 10 o. In 1907 Dartmouth
Isle defeated Harvard. the Gree
OF 2e TO 0 being decisive. Iary1
hefnre the Indinns and lost. ~ ~