The Washington herald., 1913-11-17
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Final Curtain to Descend on
1913 Gridiron Season
Saturday.
BIG GAME AT CAMBRIDGE
Old Eli and Harvard Elevens to Clash
for Championship in Annual
Classic.
BIG GAME AT CAMBRIDGE
By TOM THORP,

the outlook of the material Tor next
season.
Football heroes who have occupied tie
Iimelight of popular interest during the
mast season will, like true warriors OF
history, find themselves occupying, re-
mote pedestals In the long corridors IL
the Hall of Football Fame The stars
who shoot into the sky Of popularity
with meteoric effect because OF their
sensational playing will find that their
glory is short-lived, that the fall Is al
most as swift as the ascent and that the
heroes of today become only the warriors
OF yesterday.
dant during the past season In respect
TO the strength displayed by many Of the
minor teams will go down in history as
one of the most prominent features OF
the most uncertain season in the history
Of the game.
Luck n Big Factor.
That these factors OF uncertainty will
play an important part in all Of next
Saturdays contests Is what VIII increase
the interest of all followers Of the popu-
lar college game.
Tho East as well as the West is to have
a championship contest on Saturday.
Wisconsin and Chicago, at Chicago, Will
share the spotlight with Harvard and
Yale. at Cambridge. The final outcome
OF each of these contests will have d.
rect bearing on the awarding OF the pre-
mier honors of the season in their respec-
tive sections.
In the annual struggle between
Johnny" Harvard and Elf Yale,
scheduled to be fought in the Cambridge
Stadium, the followers Of the game In
the East will have a battle that should
in every sense of the word prove a
memorable afair.
Bull Dog IL Strong.
The tremendous strength of the Grim
son machine will find in the fighting
Bulldog a worthy opponent and one that
will no doubt prove very troublesome.
The New Haven team to date is more
or less OF uncertain strength. The early
season showing has perplexed the score
or more OF coaches that have hocked
during the last week to her aid. That
Yale will be a greatly improved ma
chine is the prediction of every one who |
has watched the New Haven men in
their final preparations.
The switching of Capt. Ketcham from
guard to end has added considerably |
10 the strength of the team. In Satur- |
davis contest the New Haven leader is |
sure to prove the sensation OF the year. |
at the extremity position. His great
speed in getting down the field under |
kicks is what is going to prove an ad- |
vantage that Haughtons chargers will
have to overcome
At /the other extremity, Avery and |
Brand are players that are far above the
average in ability: they only lack little
Of that dash and fight that characterizes
their leader.
Have Plenty of Speed.
In Capt. Storer, o'Brien, Coolidge and
Dana the Crimson wearers have a quar-
tet that would do justice to ant team.
They possess abundance Of speed, have
good heads, are deadly tackleTs, and in
all-around ability closely rival their op-
ponents.
At the tackle positions the real strug-
gle of the contest is sure to take place.
Talbot, Madden, and Pendleton, the Blue
teams forwards, are of a type a great
ieal similar to Hitchcock, Gilman. and
Curtis, their opponents They are all
last, hard chargers, who go through and
diagnose a play almost as soon as it gets
Inder way.
Strong I'm Center.
In the center of the line the Cambridge
aggregation appears to have a slight ad-
Tantage over their New Haven rivals.
n Cowen, Trumbull. and Pennock, they
rave a trio that bear the earmarks Of
men, With abundance of
experience and weight. they have ac-
Iuired the knack of getting the jump on
he ball, and to date have out-playedl
very man that they have faced. Cald-
veil, Warren, Cooney, and Maunsing are
IL big, husky linemen, but for some rea-
on or other seem to be a tri1e slow to
tart the charge on the ball
T.. .f IaN
crimson team is most apparent. Brick
ey. Hardwick, Mahan. Bradlee, and Lo-
has a squad OF backs that
10 other coach can boast of; in fact .
eldom, II ever before, have backs Of so I
Ugh a class been brought together in
ingle aggregation
Each one Of the players Is a star OF
uch magnitude that any team possessing q
ne of them would be strengthened 25 ]
er cent, and when one considers that I
hey will all be used by one team in the '
anne game little of the true strength $
4 the Crimson aggregation is appre- S
lated. u
Excelling in open field running and
licking ability, Brickley is the man the
'uIldog will fear the most. Against this .
alaxy of stars Wheeler, Cornell,
Knowles, Wilson, Courtney, and Thomp-
On Will Inu lndl luey lnuSl uSNcASP ea
expected form or else the spectators VIII
fitness a total eclipse.
In kicking, Yale in Knowles and Pum-
ely will also find that they will have
D add many pounds of extra efforts to
II OF their boots II they wish TO make
favorable showing against the sensa-
onsl Brickley or consistent Hardwtck-
The generalship of each of the quar-
II backs will play an important. II not
,e deciding. factor in the whole contest.
o date the only thing that keeps the
rimson team from being classed as the
reatest eleven that Cambridge College
as ever turned out is the fact that the
aneralship that is so necessary In d.
citing the maneuvers has been sadly
issing. This lack OF judgment on the
lrt of the quarter back has also been =
Ie great flaw at New Haven. So both
evens have suffered from the same
Iuse, and little advantage is to be had
either machine through the others +,
ck CT a proper head to guide it.
Jacques Eournier threatens to become
restler And we always looked upon 9
m a. an honest youth! u