Evening star., 1914-10-12
BY II. c. BYRD.

Several of the big university foot ball
teams are scheduled to play games
again this week, in which they are
very likely to have difficulty in win
ning Yale is to go against Notre
Dame, a team which will come east
with the certain intention Of taking
back with 1t a victory over the Dark
Blue; Pennsylvania Is mighty apt TO
find the Navy team too much or
proposition for it. and Princeton Is not
going to have an easy time with La
fayette. Another of the big elevens OF
last year that Is pretty apt TO go
down before a smaller opponent 10 Car
Isle; with the great 1913 aggregation
Pittsburgh proved the victor, and now
that the Indians are weak they ought
not to be nearly as formidable.
Cornell and Harvard are the big uni
versity elevens that are likely to have
things more or less easy The Crimson
should win from Tufts by a big mar
gin, and the Ithacans ought not to
experience much trouble In disposing
of Bucknell
1t is an absolute certainty, though,
that Yale is in for the hardest early
season game it has had in some time.
The Dark Blue will find Notre Dame
very strong and exceptionally skilled
in the use of the open style Of play.
Notre Dame is the school that sent
team last year to meet the Army, and
which walked away with the Soldiers
in the easiest kind OF manner fnat
contest resulted in the Army using the
forward pass frequently against the
Navy.
Yale finished the first half of the
game of last week with Lehigh three
points behind. and II was only oy
magnificent squirt in the last few min
utes that it managed to exc out vic
tory. That Yale Is in for the hardest
struggle of any of the big elevens
seems certain. Here is what Notre
| Dame graduate has to say Of the mid
I die western eleven:
Don't think for minute that our
| team is suffering from any exaggerated
| either, that our team is coming east for
| the sole purpose of giving Yale good
| practice game. We have high hopes
| of beating Yale. else we would have
| confined our practice to the west. They
I tell me the team looks pretty good,
| too, although We have lost one Or two
| men that are missed.
south Atlantic supremacy is to take
| place in Richmond Saturday between
4 Washington and Lee and Georgetown
The Blue and Gray and the Generals.
as the Lexington team is known, should
| put up a brilliant battle. There is lit
tie doubt that the two elevens are
| among the very strongest in the south;
| and that they will battle desperately
| for the lead in the race for the title
| goes without saying. Washington and
Lee has met defeat at the hands OF
| Georgetown in the last two contests In
| which the two have played. but the
| former is said to be very strong this
| season.
| Georgetown will put forth every en-
| deavor to get the long end of the score
The Blue and Gray Is to play only two
mt
in this section, and that it will do its
very best to win those is certain. The
only claim to honors that Georgetown
can especially hope for this season Is
| the south Atlantic championship, and
If it wins from both Washington and
Lee and North Carolina Agricultural
land Mechanical College it's claims Will
be as good or better than any OF the
others.
That the loss of Brickley is going &c
AFFECT Harvard's chances in the big
games is certain. While 1t is possipis
that the Crimson captain may get oacH
into the line-up before the end OF the
season. it will not be possible to depenG
upon him much as otherwise wouio
be the case. An operation for appenoi:
citis heals rapidly II a man is IN goot
condition. but much stamina Is lost ane
cannot be readily regained. Brickieys
work has been brilliant from every
standpoint. His drop-kicking in itseil
has been factor of great consequence
and the fact that he has always beer
a capable man to drive for steady gains
through an opponents line has MADE
him doubly valuable. Brickley proDa
bly, is the greatet all-round backneie
man In the country, and is worth more
to a team than any other. The absenc.
IF such a player from the lineup o.
an eleven is so to be noted in ciost
game that 1t Is mighty apt to be tn<
decisive factor in either Of the con-
TESTS against Yale and PrfnC9tOn.
The Engineers and Vigilants Won tht
games in which they figured yesterday
1 The former defeated the Retna NOR