Evening star., 1912-11-10
GAMES PLAYED
TRUE TO FORM
Hardly a Contest Yesterday
Which Did Not Go as
Was Expected.
DEMONSTRATIONS
RATHER A SURPRISE
Other EIevenS Won According
to What Was Thought
Would Be the Case.
BY II. c. BYRD.

There was hardly a single upset in the
predicted form in the many foot ball
games played in the east yesterday.
There We're not more than two or three
instances when even the score did not
go according to what was expected.
If there was one contest in which the
result was not as expected. 1t was that
in which Lehigh defeated Swarthmore by
a score of 3 to O. 1t was hardly figured
that the South Bethlehem eleven would
be able to get away with the long end of
the tally against the Quaker institution.
especially when the wonderful record of
the latter team was considered.
Lehigh must have played stronger
game of foot ball than it has in any of
the contests in which it has appeared
this season. The Swarthmore team has
made too brilliant a record until this
time to leave any room for believing any
thing other than that Lehigh was either
playing above the standard shown so far
this season or else the Quakers were
paying below their usual form.
The chances are that it was not thought
that Michigan would score as many points
against Pennsylvania as it did. The
Wolverines must have played some Won
derful ball on the offense for awhile yes
terday. The fact that they went into the
by wide margin shows that their at
tack during the early stages of the game
must have been exceptionally fast and
strong.
Despite the Door showing of Pennsyl
vania in the previous contests, after the
defeat of Michigan by Syracuse it was
hardly thought that the western school
would be likely to hand out a beating to
Penn. After the first half it must have
locked very much like such was going to
be the case, though.
Pennsylvania must have come to life
for the first time this season in that sec
ond half. 1t must have played even more
brilliant foot ball in that period of the
contest than did Michigan in the first. 1t
is probable that Michigan came out with
some freak formations which Penn could
not solve in the early part OF the game.
Between halves the Penn men were
probably taught how to break up the
plays, and thus got the opportunity to
use their own offense to good advantage.
Harvard defeated Vanderbilt and Yale
won from Brown by just about the mar
gins that were expected. 1t was not
thought that either the Dark Blue or the
Cambridge school would make any eff
forts to run up big scores on those two
opponents. Yale probably did not want
to uncover anything because . 1t meets
Princeton this week. and Harvard used
many substitute players. and they prob
ably did not do anything other than play
straight foot ball.
1t was figured by some that Vanderbilt
had a cnance to win from Harvard. but it
was never thought that the southern
eleven would do better than make
credtab BILE showing against the weakened
team Harvard would be likely to send
against it. That is just what happened
Brown was not able to do anything
with the wonderful defense of the Yale
eleven. more than has any other
eleven been able to penetrate it this sea-
son The Dark Blue wanted just enough
points to make victory sure without the
chance of losing.
Just as has been said would be the
case by every man connected with foot
ball in the north, Dartmouth gave the
Cornell eleven severe trOuncing in the
contest in which those two schools fig
ured. Dartmouth was more than match
for the Ithaca eleven and outclassed 1t in
every way. Playing according to form
it could not be foreseen that Cornell had
any kind of chance to win from the
Green Mountain eleven.
1t was claimed that Dartmouth played
a much better game against Princeton
than the score would have indicated, and
that it deserved better fate than it re-
ceived at the hands of the Tigers.
1t was hardly thought that Carlisle
would defeat the Army by the margin it
did, but there is little telling what will
happen when those Indians get going.
The Redskins have an eleven which has
an offense inferior to none In the country,
and Notwithstanding the claims of the big
universities could come pretty near to
winning from any foot ball combination
i'm the country. The Army has a splendid
defense eleven. That II held Yale to a
lone touchdown is proof positive of that,
and that the Indians scored so easily
seems to show their offensive power as
rated very highly. In the Army eleven
are an all-Ameriran player and two of the
best ends in the country. yet those ar
lisIe men could not be stopped
Princeton played true to form when it
ran away from the New York University
eleven and won from it by wide margin
Nothing was expected other than that the
Tigers would run up big score on the
Gotham eleven, which they did
Washington and Lee must have sprung
something of surprise on the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute yesterday when it
defeated it by a fair margin. The Lex
ington eleven must have outplayed the
men from Blacksburg from the start
something which Washington and Lee
teams have seldom done The Polytechnic
Institute has generally been classed above
the Washington and Lee elevens in re-
cent years, and that a sweeping victory
should come to the latter this season is
rather a surprise in view of the fact that
the former won from the North Carolina
University decisively two weeks ago
Washington and Lee must be much
stronger than any of the other elevens