Evening journal., 1914-12-01
USING SUBSTITUTES
HURT Bic COLLEGES
Second String Men Fail to
Make Creditable
Showing
YALE PLAYED TEAM
OF HALF REGULARS


Those large colleges that do not
wish to wear blots on their escutch-
cons for posterity to gaze on must
discontinue the practice of putting
substitute team into the field when
they meet the so-called smaller col
leges."
Harvard will go down in the 1914
records as being held to a 90 tie by
the very poor Brown eleven of this
season. It's true that the team that
was held 10 the tie was the second
Harvard eleven. But there will be moth
ing in the records TO show that il
was the second eleven that played in
that game. The records will show
Harvard, o; Brown, 0;-and nothing
more.
Yale showed team made up of half
regulars and half substitutes against
Brown and Brown came mighty close
70 beating Yale. Princeton. unbeaten
and united up 10 that time. withdrew
most of its regulars for the Williams
game, and Williams played Princeton
TO II tie.
It may be a good stunt for the big
colleges to save their star men by
keeping them out Of the game against
the little colleges but it's a mighty
dangerous one. There's no telling
just what will happen I'm football way
henceforth with the new game in full
operation.
The little colleges" demonstrated
this season that through the use of
the new game they are just about as
good as the big colleges, and the big
colleges that wish TO keep their re-
cords unmarried by defeat or ties will
send their best team into action every
| Saturday, whether the game is
/ against the small eleven or a big
eleven.
The western footballers are among
those who are included in the list of
the 1914 upsets.
Last year out Of three intersec-
tional starts, Michigan beat Pennsyl-
vania, Syracuse and Cornell. Out OF
two starts, Notre Dame beat the Army
4 and Pennsylvania State.
But it was different this year. Notr'
/ Dame tackled Yale and the Army
and Notre Dame was beaten to pull
on both occasions. Michigan battleC
\ Harvard. Syracuse, Cornell and Penn
j sylvania. And only once-when pit
ted against Pennsylvania-did the
Michiganders emerge unbeaten.
In other words, the West played
the East five times last year and five
times did the West win. This year
the West played the East six times
and only once did the West come oui
on top, which is something of a diff.
ference. There are tricks in every
trade--even in that of footballing, as
the following will show.
One of the guards Of the Stevens
eleven, which was playing against
New York University. was ruled Ou
of the game on account of roughness
That was in the second period. At thl
beginning of the third period a maI
was sent from the Stevens sidelin'
to replace the guard who had re
placed the one who was chased from
the game on account of slugging.
The substitutes face was coverel
with tape. He limped as he ran. Al
in all he was a pitiful looking sigh
as he made for his place in the Stew
ems line, but a wonderful chang
came, as soon as he got into the line
He played like a man who had neve
known a sick day in his life. He wa
the liveliest player on the field.
After the game was over it was dis
covered that the ban1aged limpini
substitute was none other than tn
regular who had been ordered out o
the game in the second period an
who had donned the tape as a rus
to get back into the fracas.
New Hampshire State college. whicl
closed its season a week ago. won tn
BOBBY championship of the world. TIL
New Hampshire State played eigh
! games during the season-and
didn't win one. The nearest it cam
to victory was in its last game whei
it played a 90 tie game with RhOd
Island college.
During the season a total of %
points were scored against Ney
Hampshire State and that college wa
able to score only 3 points I'm il
eight games. II got two points on
safety against Worcester Polytechni
and more points on a field goa
against Boston college.