South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-24
NEW STYLE CAME
CLOSES BIC CAP
Larger Colleges Do Not Pro-
duCe Faster Teams Than
Smaller Under More Open
Playing Methods of Football.
BY FRANK Q. MENkE.

NEW YORK oct. - As the foot
bail season advances it becomes more
and more apparent that the new
style Of game now in force has closed
the gap that once divided the big and
The little colleges, and placed the
smaller colleges in "a position where
they can furnish a real battle. with
chance for victory against their
heavier foes.
The dope" has been upset with
much frequency SO far during the
football season. and more upsets are
coming. The new style of football
has revolutiOnized the game Tt has
transformed football from an open
and-shut proposition that the heavier
team viii beat the wes ker one. 10
same Of uncertainty. II has made
hcft and Drawn almost ell and has
increased three-fold the value OF
brains and speed.
Example l. Given.
The University of Pittsburgh team
stands out just now as a shining ex-
ample Of the radical change the new
style game has wrought The Pitts
burgh university never had a real
football ranking until last year when
IL began using the new style game
with great success. This year il is
using IL with wonderful results. If
the Pittsburgh institution keep up
the pace they have maintained to
date they will be in position. at the
end of the season. To dispute the
claim of Harvard. Yale. Princeton or
Dartmouth OF any other eleven for
the football championship OF the east
The Pittsburgh outfit tackled Cor
nell in the first game Of the season
and beat the Ithacans TO 3. They
triumphed p to 10 over the heavy
and fast Westminster team on the
following Saturday on oct. 10 they
surprised the football world by
smashing the powerful defense Of the
navy eleven. scoring two touchdowns
and winning IS 10 6. They followed
up this fe>t with a 10 to victory
over Carlisle last week. And. the
hest part Of il the eleven seems to
have just now struck its stride.
Harvard Near Defeat
Washington and jefferson. a col
leEe that mas only about One-siXth as
many pupils 90 draw from as has
Harvard. tackled the crimson eleven
ON oct. o and the crimson team was
mighty lucky TO gain "a 10 TO 2 vic
tory Tufts. another small college
played Harvard to- standstill i'm the
first stages Of last Saturdays game.
and it was only superior weight and
endurance that Harvard was able to
nose out a 13 10 victory
The light Lehigh eleven held the
powerful Yale eleven scoreless for
three periods when the teams FLASHED
or oct 10.
Syracuse with "a much lighter team
than Princeton. and less expert
enced team. used the new style Of
play against the Tigers ON Oct 10
and Princeton was lucky TO win out
10 10 T.
Rutgers. a college that has to draw
It's football men from am enrolment
of only "a few hundred. is an adept at
the new style game Rutgers has
shown how the new style game has
benefited the small colleges In 9TH
er years Princeton and the other big
college elevens that played against
RNtgers simply swamped the light
eleven from New Brunswick. y. J.
hut il was different this year. Rut-
gers held Princeton To a l. To vic
tory and held the powerful army
eleven TO 3 TO victory
May Expect shocks
And SO, from the things that have
come TO pass i'm football way So
carly i'm the season, we may sit back
and prepare ourselves for a few more
shocks before the final whistle sounds
that will cause the curtain 10 fan on
the 1914 football season.
The football spotlight viii Ee
focused oftenest today upon the three
'big games: Michigan VS.. Syr, cuse
e Syracuse. r. y, Dartmouth vs..
Princeton at Princeton. and Cornell