Evening journal., 1912-10-31
SPORTING GOSSIP
And COMMENTS

Most Of she lcadlng football elevens
have only four more games let on
their schedules. while Princeton aud
Dartmouth huve only three each The
preliminary season, SO called is now
over $50 that the games TO come will
be full OF interest Harvard. per-
haps. has the hardest row to hoe. as
the Crimson must face Princeton.
Vanderbilt, Dartmouth and Yale on
succeeding Saturdays Vanderbilt
may have enjoyed easy picking SO far
this season. but the fact remains that
the clovon from Nashville, renn.. has
run up the huge total OF 329 points
i'm i've games. which indi -ates much
power, even If toe opposition has not
been of the strongest II Harvard
wins these four games the right and
title TO the sOcailed championship
viii be unquestioned.
Engagements for some of the otner
teams may be summarized as follows.
Yale win meet Colgate, Brown, Prin-
ceton and Harvard. in the order
named; Princeton will face Harvard,
New York University and Yale;
Dartmouth will take the field against
Amherst Cornell and Harvard; Penn
sylyania will do battle with Ponnsyl-
vania State, Michigan, the Carlisle
Indians and Cornell, Brown viii
tackle Vermont. Yale, Lafayette. Nor
wich and Carlisle. the last-named
game coming on Thanksgiving Day.
while Cornell hopes to redeem tho
poor showing OF the early season in
games with Williams. Dartmouth.
Michigan and Pennsylvania.
George Foster Sanford saw enough
at Princeton ON Saturday to make Rim
drop business for day. at least and
hurry to New Haven yesterday That
his presence on the field inspired the
Yale forwards goes without saying
The Pennsylvania eleven is likely TO
suffer another defeat next Saturday II
there Is anything in football dope. II
will line up against the. strong Penn
sylyania State College team which
ON games played must be ranked with
the best Big Bill liollmbach is
coaching the Penn state eleven.
which, II may be recalled, defeated
Cornell by a score of % TO 6, and also
Washington aud jefferson (Which
held Yale 10 13 to score on Satur-
dayi by 30 TO o. The face OF such
players as Worry. Mauthe. Miller and
Englo. has gone forth in the football
land so that Andy Smith and his men
have reason to be fearful of the ap-
preaching game
The fact that Pennsylvania had a
good chance 10 win the Lafayette
game ON Saturday. but lacked the
! final punch. let some critics 10 OK
press the opinion that the back field,
which looks like one of the best In
the country has been overrmed. and
/ that the weakness does not an lie In
the liuc. This does not follow. but
| Judging By the news from Philadel
phla last night. Andy Smith. the head
coach. feels more and more tho need
of field general as both Marshall
and Minds have failed 10 meet the re-
, ,qurements.
Navy coaches have decided 10 make
another shift in the lineup. and this
time the quarterback position will be
tho position affected Captain Rodes
will be tried m calling out tho signals
! and u Us thought he viii answer the
purpose. The captain has not been
we'll since the season opened. hut Is
getting in shape lie has played full
back and halfback and should prove
more valuable at this position.
] The Army team had no practice
} YESTERDAY Instead the coaches turn
ed loose the powers Of oratory in the
gym and gave tho men long black
/ board talk Tho team came out of the
game with Colg-ts on Saturday in ex-
cellent shape Larkin. who started
IN Deyoro's place at tackle. was hurt
in the first few minutes Of play and
gave way 10 OHara, whose work was
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