New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-23
ON COLLEGE CR|D|RONS
Football Now Ready for Jump
Into the LimeIight.
BROWN KEEN FOR HARVARD

Yale Team Lacks Finish and
Needs Much Polishing for
Games to Come.
! Baseball will no longer stand In the way
of college football which has now reached
| a most interesting point In the season. Inc
so-caled preliminary games have paVed
| the way for the real struggles OF the grid
iron. and they will come along from now
on thick and fast BY far the most impor-
tant game Saturday will he the meeting
between Harvard and Brown at Cam
bridge. The Providence eleven has forced
its way into prominent place in the last
two or three years. and last season was
, ranked second only to Harvard In this
column. after going through the season
with a remarkably good record, which IN
Guided one-sded victory over Yale. one
year ago Harvard defeated Brown by
score Of u to 0. but on the merits OF the
! play the latter did not suffer in COMPARE
son. In truth, the Brown team showed
the greater offensive strength OF the TWO
in rushing, and was beaten by disastrous
| tumble and by Graustein interceptlng
| forward pass after the Crimson team had
been forced we'll down 10 its own goal line.
| 1t is almost impossible at this time TO ORA"
any comparisons between the two eleyens
for the game on Saturday. If anything
Brown appears 10 he quite as strong as
year ago. II not stronger, as indicated in
clean cut victory over Pennsylvania on
Saturday. Harvard has been a bit slow
I fr1f
10 the fact that the team is rounding to
its best form, which with the excellent
material on hand means much The game
will be well worth seeing, in any case, and
while Harvard may win no easy path TO
the goal line is in sight.
The Colgate team will travel to New
Haven to take the field against Yale, and
the game will be the more interesting. as
Il will furnish. a slight chance for COM
parison between Princeton and the Blue.
The Tigers defeated Colgate a week ago
last Saturday by a score Of 81 to o, which
would indicate that Yale has rather easy
game on her hands. Holy Cross also VIII
serve as a medium for comparison be-
| tween Princeton and Harvard and Yale,
as the eleven will be seen In battle with
! the Tigers Yale beat Holy Cross by
score Of % to o on September 80 4 week
later Harvard beat Holy Cross by a score
! Of & 10 a. which. by the way. did not show
/ altogether clearly the superiority Of the
| Crimson. Princeton should win, but the
test will be a good one. Still another
chance for an interesting comparison Will
come at Philadelphia. where Pennsylvania
J ,erri,- a,,Ia of
The latter defeated Cornell a week ago by
score Of 10 q, and If Pennsylvania wins
by a decisive margin on Saturday IT VIII
point the way I'm a measure 10 more fun at
! Cornelrs expense on Thanksgiving Day.
! Other games on the card include Dart
mouth vs. Vermont, al Hanover; Cornell
VS.. Pitstburg, at Ithaca; Carlisle Indians
VS.. Lafayette. at Easton, Penn; Navy W.
Naval Reserves. at Annapolis. and tho
Army VS. Leh!gh. at West Point.
II begins 10 look as If the right side Of
the Harvard line was definitely settled,
with CAPTAIN Fisher. Gardiner and Smith
at guard. tackle and end, respectively. The
other side, however, appears to be quite as
unsettled as at any time this season. The
less of Rogers, who was operated on for
appendicitis a few days ago. has entered
into the problem Of the coaches. Leslie
appears 10 have the call for the present
over Keyes for left guard, in spite Of the
fact that the latter is stronger and heavier.
In the absence of Rogers Jencks and Hitch
cock. who have been substituting for Gardi-
ner on the other SIDE are working hard for
the tackle position. with indications slightly
,11Vas
Of good candidates for the position of left
end FELTON,, Milholand-both OF whom are
good drop kickers-Howard, HOLSTER and
Dana are the leading candidates at present.
It begins 10 look as If Storer may get the
call over Huntington at centre although he
is lacking slightly In weight for an ideal
pivot man. So far as can be judged. Potter,
AT quarterback. and Wendell. at halfback,
are the only two players sure of a place
in the backfeld. The material is so good
and the competition so keen for the other
two positions that there is no telling al this
time who will get first call in the Princeton
and Yale games. The two Frothinghams,
Graustein. who intercepted a forward pass
and made touchdown against Brown last
year. when things looked dark for the
Crimson; Blackall, who has made big
strides recently: BEETLE. Campbell O'Buen
and Reynolds are the ones who are chiefly
considered at the moment In the opinion
Of a number of good critics the eleven is
not so forward as It was at this time last
year II required some effort TO beat AM
herst on Saturday. by a score II Il TO o.
Yale's defeat by the Army on Saturday
was so carefully analysed by Sol Metzger.
the onetime Pennsylvania captain and
coach. in yesterdays Tribune that little
need be added at this time. The conditions
Of soggy grldiron and a slippery ball
were against good football. and the reverse
must not be accepted too seriously. The
eleven lacks finish at this time and much
polishing must be done in the next two
weeks
All credit must he given the Army eleven
for its clever play. The team is strong
individually and collectively. but II also
needs much much polishing. II has been
well coached. however. and is IN a forward
condition for this time Of the season As
the Navy held Princeton to a no-score tie
the annual game i'm Philadelphia between
the two branches OF Uncle Sans service
already holds out nigh promise OF a bitter
struggle.
The Cornell football team at the present
time is I'm a peculiar state Of development
The game against PENNSYLVANIA state. ir-
respective Of the defeat. was unsatisfactory
I'm many respects. but the eleven at that
time was severely handicapped by the poor
condition Of several OF the best players
Butler was only in the game for short