The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-10-18
EASTERN ELEVENS
HAVE EASY GAMES
Number of Contests Scarcely
Rise Above the Plane of
Practice Work.
ARMY MEETS THE
HARDEST
Round Robin in Western
Conference Under Way
Fast Battles Expected.

New York. Oct. 1S.--The football
horidon viewed from the standpoint
OF the big university teams Of the
east. il unmarked by a single threat
ening cloud on the morning Of the
weekend games. Almost without cx-
ception the elevens of the leading in
stitutions face teams. the football abil-
ity of which is such that the contests
scarcely rise above the plain of IL
practice match. In one or two cases
minor college teams which, u year ago
caused gridiron upsets meet the same
opponents. but during the past twelve
months have dropped to a mediocre
standard and annot hope to repeat.
the victories of 1912. So
The United states military academy
eleven appears to have drawn the
gate. The upstate collegians have
been playing a fast game since the
season opened with til c%no-score tie
against Cornell. Aainst Amherst and
Hobart h Colgate eleven ran up a
combined score of 6 to 0 and the army
in facing Stevens and Rutgers has not
met a team capable of trfing the SOL
diers out as Colgate may De expected
to do.
Face Weak Teams.
Harvard. Yale, Princeton. Cornell!
and Pennsylvania are all called upon
t oface much weaker teams than the
West Pointers. The Crimson will line
up against Holy Cross which was de-
feated by Yale 10 to 0 in the Ellis sec
ond game Of the season. Princeton
has Syracuse as an opponent and the
the Salt city university eleven has
shown nothing startling in it's three
games to date. Careless handling of
the ball and lac kfo dash has char
acterized the Syracuse play in the
contests this Pennsylvania
will entertain the Brown. university
team, but the Providence comulna-
ton is but a shadow of the eleven
which defeated the Quakers 80 to z
in 1912. Colby defeated Brown 10
day Ursinus held the same team to a
one touchdown victory.
Lehigh will play Yale at New Ha-
e nj judging from the way tho
team held Carlisle to a FL to Z victory
should give the Blue a good battle, al
though the Ellis have apparently gone
back to Yale's first football principles
and are sulreeding reasonably we'll
under h original methods. At Ithaca
Cornell will play 4. Bucknell.o which
scored on Princeton a week ago The
L%ewisburg team is n OF the strong
est of the minor college elevens and
will undoubtedly as an excellent test
to the condition of Cornell under the
coaching of Sharpe. Tn the second
fight of eastern %elevens, the two most
promising games are Lafayette, VS..
S~warthmore and Dartmouth vs.. Will
Jams. Both Lafayette and S%wrthinore
played Pennsylvania on succeeding
Saturdays. being defeated 10 and 20
to 0 respectively. Allowing for the
weeks improvement gained by
Swarthmore before being called UP to
face the Quakers 1t would appear as
though the two teams were about cv-
emily matched. Both Dartmouth and
Williams have defeated Vermont this
season and using this game as a basis
of comparison there appears to be Il
slight advantage in favor Of the Green
Mountain clan. Williams defeated
Vermont 20 to 0 october 4 and Dart
mouth 35 to z on October II. Will
Jams, however. has the advantage Of
having played the strong Harvard
team last saturday mad holding the
Crimson in check until the final quar-
ter of the game Walkers ability to
score via the serial route also is q fac
tor that may determine victory. The
Carlisle Pittsburgh and Navy-Dickin-
son pames promise nothing out of the
ordinary.
In the middle west the conference
colleges round robin schedule is un-
der way and some fast games should
result from today's clashes.