Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-19
By Frances Baker.

NEW YORK. oct. 1S.-As the
football season advances. the race
for the Eastern championship is mar
rowing down to three teams. as II
has been for tine past several years.
Harvard. Yale and Princeton. com
posing what is known as the Rig
Three" are drawing near TO the time
when they will match skill with each
other on the gridded field.
OF the three, Harvard looks the
best. as ii did last year, hut at that
Coach Haughton Is far from salts
fed with the results 80 far shown.
The game Of last week. when WI
liams scored field goal on the Grim
son team and managed to hold it TO
a 3 to tie until the fourth period.
showed clearly that Harvard was
lacking in the ground gaining ability
which characterized the team last
year. This week Haughton ordered
strenuous practice in line plunging
and a decided improvement was no
ticed
Charley Brickley can stil be de-
pended upon to pull the team out Of a
bad hole with his marvellous kicking
Eddie Mahau can also boot the ball
and has shown an ability to send
the pigskin a long distance in praC-
tice. Even with good punters,
fast backfield Is necessary to get
down the field under the punts. With
more speeding up OF tho backfield
Harvard should figure strongly when
she meets Yale and Princeton.
Trumbell at center and Pennock
at guard give the Crimson line a
great deal Of strength. The only po-
sltiOn which looks at all doubtful is
quarterback. Uaughton has tried
Bradlee, Freddy and Logan at this
position. OF the trio. Rradlee looks
as II he were tine logical man for
The place. He did good work in the
Williams game. starting In the first
quarter but was later replaced by
Logan.
Yale Started Badly.
At the opening OF the season every
thing seemed to point toward a dis
astrous year for Yale on the grid
iron. The Maine game, in which the
lads from up North held the Ellis
To a sCoreless tie. seemed to indicate
that Yale was out Of the running
Then followed the Lafayette game
Of a week ago. which showed that
the Blue had taken a decided brace
By rolling up a p to o score on La
favette who had held Pennsylvania
Yale came back with a punch.
Knowles, PendletOn and Ketcham
are the strongest men on the Blue
team. This year KetCham has been
taken from center, where he made
the All-AmeriCan team last year, and
moved over to left guard Martyr
has taken Ketcham's old position and
has played 1t in good style. Yale re-
Hest mostly on Knowles for the kick
ing end Of the game. but unless he
improves he will stand but little show
against Brickley, OF Harvard, and
''Hobey" Baker, OF Princeton, the two
best kickers in the game this year.
Bradley STREET. a Star.
Captain "Hobey" Baker and Brad"
STREET are the most consistent
team. "Hobey" made a name for him
self last year and seems TO be just
as good this year. STREET. at fullback
sprang into fame in the Buckneli
game and practically won the game
for the Tigers with his end runs. lie
made the first tally after a 6O-yarl
run on a wet and slippery field He
also ran excellent interference For
HOBBY" Baker when the latter was
carrying the ball. The Tiger team
is fast and should be able to give
Harvard struggle worthy OF the
name when the two meet. Unless
Yale picks up considerably, Princeton
win repeat the performance Of last
year, for at the present time the II
gers have shown much more form
than the Eli boys
However, not all Of the football In
terest is centered in the big Three"
Other Teams Look Good
The Carlisle Indians, Pennsylva-
mia, West Point and Annapolis also
are coming in for their share. Each
Of them, with the possible exception
Of the Navy, has as good a team this
year as last, II not better The In
dams are foes worthy Of anyone's
steel The only way to get at a COM
parison OF these teams with the teams
Of the big Three" is through "A com
parison Of scores made against com
mon foes
Carlisle win play Dartmouth at the
Polo Grounds next month, and Dart
mouth win stack UP against Prince
ton. Pennsylvania meets Dartmouth,
as well az the Indians. The Navy will
meet BuckneIl November s. After