Imperial Valley press., 1914-11-14

Football Forecasts Today
Were Most Indefinite

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nothing else to do but to hand the
championship to the great Washing
ton and Lee eleven. w. & L. doesn't
belong to the Southern Intercollegi-
ate Athletic eleven, but that doesn't
alter the fact that w. e L. has the
greatest eleven ever turned out be-
low he Mason & Dixon line, and an
eleven that well deserves the title of
champion.
W. & l.. has won every one of the
seven games it has played. Not only
that, but w. & L. has scored 29S
points in its seven games-the great
est total scored by any team in the
country so far this season. w. & l.
has been scored on but once in its
seven games. Certainly this showing
of the w. & L. team entities it to all
the laurel leaves they pass. around in
the southern section of the land
Here is a problem for those who
are fond of mathematics:
Washington & Jefferson beat Dick
inson 105 to o. Dickinson beat West
Maryland 40 to 0. Western Maryland
won from Maryland Agriculture Col
lege 80 to 0.
The question is:
If W. & J. played against Maryland
Agricultural College what would be
the score?
Those who submit a correct answer |
to the above may take whirl at this
little quizz:
Wisconsin beat Ohio State 7 to 6.
Illinois beat Ohio State 81 to 0.
What will be the score when Illinois /.
and Wisconsin clash on November
21st?
Amateur Sherlockers may tackle
this mystery:
Dartmouth beat Williams 81 to ,.
Princeton beat Dartmouth 16 to y. I
A week later the Princeton team that /.
beat Dartmouth and the Williams
team that was wallped by Dart |
mouth battled to to tie.
How do you account for this?
The business of officiating at foot !
ball game in these new football days /.
is causing lots of wrinkles to grow
upon the brows of those who pursue
the aforesaid business.
Most of the officials have studied
the new rules so that they know them
backwards, but in nearly every game
some new angle arises-some varia-
ton of one Of the rules-that opens
the question as to whether the play
is legal or illegal. The officials,
whose judgment must be of the snap
variety, are earning their pay.
Yale isn't quite as cheerful con-
cerning its prospects in the Harvard
game on the 21st as it was before
it learned that Charley Brickley was
getting quite proficient as a left
legged booter.
Brickley, owing to his weakened
right side, following an appendicitis
operation, isn't taking chances by
kicking with his right leg. In less
than a weeks practice with his left
boot he averaged seven goals out of
ten trials from inside the % yard
line, and he hoped to increase his
average and the distance before the
Yale game.
Brickley may get into the Yale
game-and he may not. If Harvard
needs his boot and needs it greatly,
Brickley probably will disregard the
doctors orders and jump into the
pastime for the sake of his Alma
Mater. But under no circumstances
will Brickley enter the game for any
other purpose than to kick.
This is what they're saying out
West about Pete Russell, the great
Chicago quarterback:
"Long runs are becoming so COM
mon with him that he'll probably ba
playing fifty yards or no count"
Russell to date has ripped off sew
eral 1uns ever sixty yards and nu-
merous ones that averaged between
thirty-fve and fifty-fve. Hes a Won
der in running back punts and they
call him the "EeP because Of his
ability to slip beyond the grasp Of
the opposing tacklers.
We have moved 100 pianos in sixty
days. Ed Royce Transfer Co.-Adv.