Evening star., 1912-11-18
ONLY THREE BIG
GAMES remain
Yale Harvard, Cornell : Penn
and Army-Navy Contests
to Be Played.
INTEREST CENTERS IN
YALE AND HARVARD
Contest Between Those Teams
Likely to Decide the
Championship.
BY n. G. BYRD.

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end. There are only three more contests
of much Importance remaining to b,
played In the east. The real season will
close Thursday week. Thanksgiving day
but there will be one more game played
after that. .-.
The three games in which general in
terest cehters which. have yet to tax,
place are those between Yale and Har
ward. Pennsylvania and Cornell and thu
Army and Navy. Yale meets Harvard
this week. Saturday: Pennsylvania viii
play Cornell Thanksgiving day. and the
Army and Navy will get together a
Franklin Field the Saturday following
Thanksgiving.
The greatest amount of interest center:
in each of those contests. especially ir
the two between Yale and Harvard and
Army and Navy. One because the cham
rionship is likely to be decided, the other
because 1T has always been SO. The
Penn-Cornell meeting will also be of con.
Germ, but will hardly partake Of the
popularity of the two others
There is little doubt that either Yale
or Harvard will have the foot ball cham
piorship to its credit after their game,
provided a tie score is not the result OF
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to win from the Dark Blue just about
eliminates 1t from further consideration
as championship possibility. Had ii
won from Yale II might have stood some
show of being ranked on almost an even
basis with the other two elevens which
are in the front. but now it hardly ap-
pears possible that it will be accorded
better than second or third place In the
rating.
II Harvard can win. and its chances
1~S% To-, 1<~,.1 -l,t~ y
will not be the least question about
which school will be accorded the title.
On the other hand. if Yale finishes in the
lead. il will be given the honor. because
il will be held that it had not reached
the highest point of its development al
the time 1t met Princeton and that it was
holding back then until II met the strong
er eaeven.
The Penn-Cornell contest is always of a
great deal of interest because of the in
tense rivalry between the two schools
and because il is about the only game
between the larger institutions in the east
or Thanksgiving day.
This year the contest between the two
schools will be watched with even greater
interest. especially by the critics. because
Of the new system which has been insti-
tuted at Ithaca. The Cornell eleven has
been building its team all season to-
ward the final game with Penn. with the
sole idea that If il could win the final
than atone for its previous failures.
The Army and Navy game always is
The big attraction OF the year among the
two branches of the service. The follow
crs of the two institutions make. 1T the one
contest which they bend every effort to
see. and the general interest in the
game Is such that it is always impossible
TO accommodate the great number OF per-
sore who desire to attend.
For a man who has not played in the
l;ue in long while. the work of Dave
White in the Virginia game is worthy OF
iot of consideration. Despite tho fact
that he had rot played in the line In the
last three years, White did some mighty
credffable work against the Orange and
Blue. Time after time he broke through
ard downed the runner for a loss. He
played as capable a defensive game az
did any other man in. either OF the two
ines on the defense. unless it be that
Carter, the Virginia guard. was of more
value to his team.
Johns Hopkins has gone through the
foot ball season so far and has yet II
win game. The Baltimore school hal
had one OF the worst seasons In its his
tory. notwithstanding that it began very
auspiciously by holding the Navy to
1-to-3 score. 1t has lost to each of tn
other state elevens 1t has played. st
Johns, Western Maryland and the Mary
land Agricultural College defeating it b.
fair margins.
week TO meet the Hopkins aggregation
and II also Is figuring that + will ge
away with q victory. Whether or not
will is question. but there is little doub
that IL will put up mighty close contes
with the Black and Blue, even though
falls to secure q victory.
The Maryland AggieS are scheduled {
meet the Western Maryland eleven thi
week. The Farmers are liable to be Vi
against pretty stiff proposition. the up
state team having trounced Catholic Uni
yersity by 40 to u.
Georgetown's eleven is resting toda
after its victory OF Saturday. The Blu
snd Gray won. but after all Is said an
done il must be admitted that it was luck
TO get away with It az it did. The vi.
Si-ia eleven had the better margin Q
flay from the start with the exceptio
nf the brilliant individual efforts of Cos
ielo at certain times. GEORGETOWN wa
oyerconfident There is little uuestio
about that and that is one OF the rea
sons why II failed to get away with III
game more easily than was the case
Let any foot ball team go into a gam
feeling that IL has only tobepresent I
WIN ana let II De against an eleven whic
is keyed up to do its best and II will b
lucky to get away with victory.
An alumnus OF Georgetown G. p We,
ner. Is out with The suggestion that
game be arranged between Georgetow
and Vanderbilt to decide the title for til
south. He explains that as matters stan
row. neither the Blue and Gray nor IN
Vanderbilt eleven will be able to clail
the honor. The method suggested Of e.
tablishing which is the better team Is thu
post-season contest be arranged b
tween the two institutions. Such q gan
would prove a big drawing care, ar
would probably be welcomed by the st,
dents and supporters OF both schools,
Is said.
That boy Todd Of Virginia is so sma
that one wonders where he gets Il
physical ability to withstand the wallol
he gets In foot ball. Several times
was smashed on the ground by son
1SO-pound Georgetown man Saturday, b
he would get up grab the ball and d
again.
Todd and Gooch were practically Il
only ground gamers Virginia had. ar
both are slightly-built lads. There IS II
tie about either which suggests husk
nesx.
Carters work at guard for Virginia VI
All-South Atlantic team. He was Il
mainstay Of the center Of the line az
his work was prominent at all times
vfrxfnia deserves the greatest anlot,,
Of credit imaginable. 1t came here beats
before II started, according to the pr
vious form. and when tho contest ",