Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-21
By EDWARD R. BUSHNELL

The Carlisle Indians ushered in the 1914
football season on Saturday in their usual
vigorous manner when they beat Albright
College by the score of 20 to 0. After hav-
ing had nearly two weeks of cool, bracing
weather for their preliminary practice
! they had to endure a hot. sutry after
! noon for their first game conditions
which were most unsatisfactory for good
football. The Indians score was five
! points less than they made against this
Eame team last year, but the Redmen
| fumbled away an opportunity for another
! touchdown, When these facts are con-
sdered together with the statement that
| the visitors had as much weight as the
| Indians. We know at least that the Indians
| are no weaker than they We're last year.
! The COMING week will sea the first foot
| ball games by all the members Of the
| Big Six" All look to have fairly easy
! opponents for the first games, though
/ Cornell men are living in some trepidation
over the outcome OF Saturdays gam
with the University Of Pittsburgh. Cor
nell will have a warming-up for this con-
test by PLAYING Ursinus on Wednesday,
their only mid-woek game of the 1914 sea-
son. Last year Pittsburgh beat Cornell
by the score Of 2o-7. this game being the
sixth on the Cornell schedule.
A year ago Cornell opened with Ur-
sinus and beat the men from College
Vile. Pa, by the score of 4l-0, and
there is apparently nc reason why Cor
nell shouldn't score a similarly easS
victory this year. But the game with
Pittsburgh threatens to be a contest OF
another character Cornell blames most
II Pittsburghs 90 points last year
upon the prowess Of eX-Captain Wag-
uer a man who was ht for an end posi-
tion on any ALA meriCan team. Pitts
burgh has just as good a team this year,
although Cornell ought TO be even
stronger for this initial game than IN
1913 Pittsburgh is still being coached
hy Joe Duff, the old Princeton and all
American guard, and his friends say
he has lost none Of his cunning Like
wise Pittsburgh has the advantage OF
an early start, and although Cornell
has done more preliminary work this
year than usual, tho Ithacans will hnd
Pittsburgh a tough proposition,
II last years score could be taken as
= criterion the game between Yale and
Maine should be a near championship
affair, because the Maine eleven last
YEAR had the distinction of holding Yale
10 a 90 tie. But it should be said that
Yale played an in and out game last
fall and the brand Of football displayed
against Maine indicated slump more
than unusual strength on Names part,
The Els are never Inundated at the
hands Of a small college twice in sue
cession. and the chances are that they
will strive for a decisive victory at
least
II Is a notable fact that Yale does not
open the season this year with Wesleyan,
which from time immemorial has been the
Ellis initial opponent Blu this year the
Mlddletown collegians decided that the
Yale game, particularly this early did
them more harm than good because they
never had a chance to win and had TO
endure a good deal of battering just TO
AFFORD practice for Yale, Some other
small colleges have awakened to this
Truth, and all the big universities have
had more difficulty this year In sched
uling minor colleges Of sufficient strength
for the preliminary game.
Harvard. Princeton, Dartmouth and
PENNSYLVANIA all have what ought to he
easy games Harvard plays Bates. a
team which the Crimson beat last year
rather easily by the score Of Il 10 0. In
asmuch as Harvard has a veteran team
the chances are that the Crimson can
roll up a score OF whatever magnitude II
desires. though Bates has been known to
make trouble.
The Rutgers eleven, which had the hon
or ~ drawing first blood on the Prince
ton Tigers last year when the score was
II TO 3 in Princeton's favor, plays I'm
1igertown on Saturday. Much OF Rut-
gers 1918 strength was due 10 the posses
sion Of a board Of three coaches, chief OF
whom was George Foster Sanford. the