The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-05

MOST IMPORTANT
GAMES Of SEASON
PLAYED THIS week
TWO BIG CONTESTS SCHEDULED
HAVE BEARING ON CHAMPION.
sHIr-NAVY Is STRONG

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-Two of
the most important football games or
the year are scheduled TO take place
this week. Dartmouth viii meet
Pennsylvania. and Harvard will OBJ
pose Princeton. Both contests will
have direct hearing ON the inter-
collegiate championship.
The Pennsylvania Dartmouth game
Will be battle worth seeing. II Ia
questionable II a contest viii he
staged this season which Will lac more
attractive from the general specta-
tors standpoint than this The
Quakers and the Big Green eleven
have been noted for their fast style
of open play. and there is no system
which SO pieases as that In which
something spectacular is likely to
happen al any time, Penn has been
playing Just such football and SO has
Dartmouth
The backfelds If the two elevens
are fast and well drilled, and flank
ing runs and forward passes nave
been the chief ground gamers #
both Which Of the teams will bs
victorious Is questionable. but II APP
pears that the odds favor Dartmouth.
Penn, though. VIII put forth more
strenuous endeavors than in any Of
it's previous games, because it must
realize that IL Will have 10 win in
order to get a rating with Harvard.
Princeton and Yale. Dartmouth IS
also sure 10 give IT'S best To the play.
II IT. can win from Penn 1t will have
an excellent chance for a place among
the very best elsveRs, and especially
Viii this he true II the Tigers can
win from Yale or Harvard.
The first game among the Big
Three" which seems a more appro-
pirate name TO apply in foot ball now
than the Big Five, Yale. Princeton
and Harvard Is to he played. The
Crimson is to meet the Tigers, and,
though the Mort hern experts are se-
tecting Harvard as a winner with
odds. Princeton is apt to be whole
lot stronger than is expected The
Tigers have II powerful lot of men.
an eleven in which there is a great
deal more strength than has been
shown, and II the coaches get all out
of the team that is In it there may
be big surprise sprung. Harvard
has shown a great deal better form
than Princeton. Of that there is no
doubt, and Judged on 1t there seems
little doubt that IL will win
There seems 10 he q sentiment,
though. prevalent among those who
have watched Princeton play. that
I the coaches have not gotten out uf
Princeton's squad the best there is In
ii. 1t has greater pote initial power
than has been evidenced. ACCORDING
to many and If that be true. it Is
possible to show wonderful improve
ment in week or two
Both these games are certain to he
well played, with at least three teams
having the best football brains Of the
country back Of them. HauEhton
Brooke and Cavanaugh are recog-
nized as among the best coaches. il
not the best themselves and the
PLAYS they show are almost certain
TO be the acme of efforts under pres
ent conditions.
The Georgetown eleven Is starting
on the last lap Of its training for the
! game with Virginia. The West vir-
ginia Wesleyan university eleven Is
not apt TO prove strong enough to
give the Blue and Gray more than a
real stiff workout and the main OBJ
ject of the development Of the eleven
will be to have II in it's best shape
one week from this coming Satur-
day.
Georgetown displayed some good
football in It's game with the Indians
Saturday. The Blue and Gray show
ed an ability at times that was sur
prising It's defense, while not able
10 drive off the powerful attacks Of
the Indians, hraced at times and
broke up more than one play. George
town played about as we'll as could
have been expected and got away with
about as creditable score as was
looked for by ANYBODY who censio-
cred the powerful Indian eleven. and
looked upon the probable outcome
with any degree Of sentiment.
The Navy eleven right now Is un-
doubtediy one of the most powerful
in the country, 1t is questionable IL
II has superior, Its rk has been
so good that Il compares favorahly
with every other aggregation. even
those which represent the big univer-
sites IL Is piling 'tp scores against
the teams IL is pla wing with n con-
! sistency which Is amazing. And the
Middies are doing 1t without anything
that savors Of deceptive play II Is
simply case OF strength. The
greater power OF the Navy team Il in
its line.