The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-17
Big Colleges In
 Plenty Of Trouble
Yale, Princeton and Penn Have
 Hard Games Next Saturday

l Hard Games Next Saturday
 While all the big college football teams were confronted with heavy sasa;, tasks on Saturday. they only got g 1 small foretaSte of what is to come | later on in the season. Some very ] much harder battling will be experi- l enced before very long. The Yale men, for instance, who have been having are easy time so far. will meet gregation that win be difficult to beat me Army game is usually one of the hardest obstacles of the season for the Ellis to surmount.
 The TiSers. like Yale, are in for a strenuous time next Saturday, when the Nassau eleven will play the Navy Princeton, however, will have had the advantage of having been in a first class game this season. This exper- lence will mean a lot. There is a chance that neither the Tigers nor Ellis may derive much satisfaction from next Saturdays results. but both VIII learn things about strength and weakness in the eleven which will be of value for future development. An other real battle next Saturday will De the game betweeen Pennsylvania and Brown. The Quakers are used
 
 Brown has been having things her own way and, like Yale, will meet a foe of quite different calibre at the ende of the week Harvard has no hard game booked until the 2Sth, when Brown will go to Cambridge.
 The hard games ind2llged in so far by Princeton, Cornell Ind Pennsylva- mia clearly showed up the weak spots. Cornell made such poor showing that sine wem down to defeat; Prince ton luckily got off with nothing worse than a tie with Lehigh. Cornell was against tirst-class eleven and one which has a legitimate right to win yania will play this team on the 18th and this game becomes additionally important after what happened in Ithaca last Saturday.
 Princeton had an eventfu1 time last week. After making a miserable showing early in the week the Ii gers unexpectedly came back three days later. After the way Lehigh ripped up Princeton, some surprise was caused, at the overwhelming ,su- periority shown by the Nassau men in the game with Colgate.
 In the game with ~Lehigh, Prince ton was lamentably weak in line playing. The forwards were sluggish and uncertain and helped the backs scarcely at all. The left wing was the weaker of the two, and both wings played as if they thought their duties ended when they presented a bold front to the opposing line. The Yale line isn't anything to write home about, but it is alive and ac- tive as compared with that of Prince ton. The Princeton backs are faster at getting away when running back kicks than Yale's but no faster at getting away on line plays.
 Dy1f oft ;e 1oil Co f. urday's games on the college grid irons of the East developed certain signs that the elevens are rounding into the shape for which the coaches have striven in preparation for the seasons more important games, now The presence among the larger col lege, teams this season of a number of remarkable backfield men has re- suited in the development of strong scoring machines, along old-style lines of play. The use ofe the open. game has been noted most among the mi nor colleges. Uncrossed goal lines among the larger colleges are unus ually few.
 Students of the game who look to comparative scores to convey an idea of the relative worth of the teams find Princet3n, heading the larger Eastern colleges in the number of points SCOT ed, with 142 in five games, is the only one, except Penn. and Cornell, to have its goal invaded for a touch down.
 Brown. next in point of standing with total of 127, which, like Prince tons total was amassed at the ex- pense of teams rated weaker than those met by Yale and Harvard, has kept her goal clean.
 Both Yale and Harvard also have kept their goals fnyiolate while run ming up smaller aggregate scores of 92 and Al points, respectively. The Crimson, however, has only played three games as against four for most of the other colleges.
 Field goals scored on Pennsylvania and Dartmouth detract from the of- fensiye results of these teams. In four games Pennsylvania has totalled 50 points against opponents, while the Green has rolled up S1 to five con tests. Cornell's defeat by Pennsylva- mia State, to :, on Saturday, was a big setback for the Ithacans, while bringing to wider notice their oppon- ents' record of 93 points and clean goal.
 Brown expects to beat Pennsylvania next Saturday. There is no getting away from the fact that with eight of the eleven men in the lineup who beat Yale last year there may be more truth than fiction in the report. This
  ing the Providence boys have made in their preliminary games.
 The New Englanders have won easy victories in each game, making their best showing on Saturday, when they defeated the fast Bowdoin eleven by 33 points to 0. Strackling was again the hero of the day.
 Pennsylvania's coaches will spend the entire week endeavoRing to cor rect the faults that appeared in the Villanova game Saturday. Fisher seems a fixture at end, but Marshall s place at halfback is not so secure as he must learn to follow his interfer- eence better and to back up the line more safely.
 Penn's interference on Saturday was very good and Coach Smith hopes by perfecting this to give Mercer a chance to make some goodly runs, ev- en against such tackiers as Sprackling and Crowther.
 "A DnINAT c RE IT