Evening star., 1912-11-18
THREE MORE GAMES
Of Importance on Gridiron Yet
to Be Played.
PENN'S GREAT REVERSAL
No Team Ever Showed More I'm
proved Form Than Did
Quakers.
PENN'S GREAT REVERSAL
BY EDWARD R. BUSHNELL.


of the 1912 foot ball season. They are
Harvard-Yale, Cornell-Pennsylvania and
Army-Navy. Only one OF them has any
bearing on the intercollegiate champion
ship. That is the Harvard-Yale match at
New Haven November D. 1t Will un-
doubtedly settle the award OF the inter-
collegiate title for this year.
The 'Pennsylvania-Cornell and Army
Navy games this year must rank far
down the scale because of the poor rec
ords which the teams have made. Both
Cornell and Pennsylvania have sunereo
innumerable defeats, all of them AT tne
hands of minor institutions, and about
all their game can do is to determine the
standing of the two teams. The Army
and Navy-particularly the Navy-haVe
likewise been beaten with much ire
auency, and while their game will prob
ably not suffer in ittendance, 1t Will De
less attractive than usual as an exposi-
ton of good foot Vail.
Harvard men make no secret Of their
belief that this war they will beat Yale
They base much of their confidence upon
the possession of a wonderful drop
kicker in Brickley and most enective
backfield. 1t was this combination which
defeated Princeton, and, although three
weeks separate the two games. they
think the same combination can hold the
Blue.
It is hard to find justification for Har-
wards supreme confidence. With the ex-
ception of possessing a better drop ano
place kicker In Brickley than Yale po-
sesses it is hard to see where Harvard
has any decided advantage.
1t may be taken for granted that Yale
will devote special attention to Mr. Brick
lev. That is the punishment always
meted out to any of Yale's opponents who
come to this big game with reputation.
Every man whom Yale can spare from
her ordinary defense will be set to watch
the movements of Brickley. and every
time he endeavors to kick or takes
the ball he will be very closely watched
Likewise. he is sure to be handled WITH
out consideration for his feelings. In
other words. Yale hopes that he will meet
the same fate as Pendelton did two years
ago, when Princeton expected him to
run loose through the whole Yale team.
All that Yale did was to detail two men,
one of them the great Fitzpatrick, to
watch Pendleton. The result was that
whenever this young man took the ball
he was surrounded by fierce tacklers and
in that struggle he lost more ground
than he gained.
Will Watch Wendell.
There is another man on the Harvard
team 10 WHOHi 1dIc VIII OcSolc q SISot
deal of attention. He Is Capt. Wendell.
Yale men know that Wendell is a great
line plunger and they will play for him
just as certainly as they will for Brick
ley These two men are Is per cent Of
Harvard's attack. and II they can be
prevented from gaining it Is certain. to
be Blue victory.
Those who count upon Yale to win this
game have built much Of their confidence
upon the fact that Yale has a wonderful
defense The Ellis realized from the
beginning of the season that the new
rules had shifted the advantage from the
defense to the offense. Consequently they
struction of a close defense able to take
care Of any sort Of an attack The policy
adopted by Coach Howe was similar to
that of the Yale coaches in 1900. That
year the Yale team distinguished itself
by going through the season without per-
mitting a single team to cross its goal line
for a touchdown. Only one other team In
Yale's entire history had ever made
record like this, but the 1909 team went
an opponent get within twenty yards OF
its goal line. This year Yale finished the
Brown game with record similar TO
this, and week ago the Ellis were the
only team whose goal line had not been
crossed.
Yale and Harvard have met every year
since 1875 with the exception Of four.
and 1885, In all that time Harvard has
made pitiabie record against Yale.
OF the thirty-two games played Yale has
won fwenty-one,. and Harvard five, while
six have been tied. An unusual thing in
connection with the tie games Is that