The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-10-27
RAIN CUTS FIGURE
IN TEAM Showing
SATURDAYS GAMES REVEALED
LACK OF OFFENsE STRENGTH
ON PART OF BIG ELEvENs.

NEW YORK, Oct. 2s.--with such
.rying conditions of rain and mud as
prevailed Saturday there was bound
20 be a great deal of the unsatisfactory
in the playing Of The games. The un-
satisfactory feature of Saturdays
with deciding Just how good test
the games were of the normal strength
Of the contending teams. No doubt
he losers and those who otherwise
failed to come : up to expectations,
would like to play the games over
again on fields which were not bound,
as saturdays were, to bring about a
lot Of poor playing.
The conditions didn't prevent Har-
ward from showing clear superiority.
from carrying on its game with more
decisive evidence of strength than any
Of the others.
Strength of Indians
Dartmouth, considering Its formid-
able adversary. came next In this re-
spect. The Pennsylvania Carlisle and
Yale Washington and Jefferson ties
carry the element of strength on the
part of Carlisle and Washington and
Jefferson quite as prominently as they
do any weakness on the part OF Penn
sylvania and Yale. The pith of the
matter seems to be that Yale and
. Pennsylvania went against strong
teams. rather than that the former
were particularly weak.
It wasn't the first, but the second,
time that Yales offense has failed to
produce a score. Back Of the Wash
lngton and Jefferson tie Is tie with
Maine, and the two together emphas-
Ire the need of better offense. One
critic has 1t that about SO per cent
better attack is needed by the Ellis
They have three weeks in which to
get II for Princeton. and four weeks
for Harvard. Whether a relative pro-
portion of ofrense Will be added by
Harvard. Yale and Princeton form
now on is q vital point.
Slow In Offense.
Princeton, like Yale, Is confronted
with the pressing need OF adding a
whole lot of per cent Improvement on
offense. The attack against Dart
mouth was rendered practically moth
ing by the Hanover team, ana the
Tigers on Saturday would have found
Yale's defense fully As good.
II is a trait of the Indians to put
forth their best efforts against Penn
sylvania, hut the previous records of
the two didn't indicate that they
would he as successful in doing so
this year as formerly. Although their
season hadn't been encouraging for
such a performance, but they rallied
to the occasion splendidiy with their
tight team. NirnUTIgh tied tire
ouakcrs. they outpiayed them in act
ual work. and did this come back a
week after being beaten by Pittshurg
The Pittshurg team, by the way.
scored an emphatic victory over Cor
nell and continues to cut a swath Of
conspicuous width. How much viii
Harvard better Pittsburg's fetal OF
twenty points against Corneiig
II the Princeton team has the po-
tential offensive strength of last year,
or the year before, It didn't show II
Saturday. Even in flashes, II hadn't
the speed. precision, or organization.
The Dartmouth forwards did the
more business-like work on the Of
Tense The Dartmouth line. in a ma
jcrity Of positions, did better work
wher their side had the ball than
the Princeton forwards did wher
heir backs had the ball.