The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-30
HARVARD Is LEADER
IN FOOTBALL RANKS
w, and J. Comes Next and Army,
by Virtue Of Its Record,
Rates Third.
FIRST TEN ARE SELECTED
nv WILLIAM n. UA>>A.

Tho hardest thing about football except
On ri,v II we'll and to heat a Harvard
team is to rate the eleVcns at the end OF
tho season with some close approach 10
satisfactorincss one can't go deeply into
REASONS lest he ind himself tangled IN a
mesh of them hard to reconcile. lie must
take into consideration n teams record
for the season. what It is capable OF when
~ its best. what certain teams have done
against certain other teams. then recon-
clio these questions "a far as he can
The writer believes the following IL a
fair and reasonable rating or Eastern
teams: T. Harvard ., Washington ana
jefferson. =. Army: :. dartmouth o.
pI,tShurE 6. Yale; :, Princeton y 'of-
neil o. Gchigh: 10, Williams
rhcrc will not he two minds about NO.
Harvard was tho strongest all around
eleven Of the year. had the hest comnlna-
zion Of attack and defence, the pest ARA!
Of mon with football sense ana phFsca'
eliu and team play and in Its hnal game
,avc an exhibition OF point productive
Tnoihall which was not cqualled by any
other team in the country.
Harvard is the only unheaten team OF
she group except the Army. ana though
Washington and jefferson was beaten IL
Was ONLY Ivy the peerless Harvard team,
eurh teams as Yale and l'ittsburg. mad a
bir, class line and haCkiicld, a telling at
tack and VA. we'll supplied with the
wrinkles Of modern football Against liar-
ward. Yale and pittsburg w. ana j. gave
proof Of it's strength, whereas the Army.
whether IL could or could not beat w.
and j.. didn't try out its strength against
Harvard. W and j.. Dartmouth, nale'
Princeton, piitsburg or Cornell.
Still the Army won every game 1t PLAYED
aud was the only one OF the group that
did For that reason II is entitled 10
high place In the ranking Dartmouth
~as beaten Ivy Princeton. but just beaten,
and on the strength OF the facts mat IL
was beaten only once and won all It's other
eames--no tics-its impressive record IN
offence and defence and the power ana
dccisiveness with which ii vanuuished
teams that had done better against other
strong teams 1t is placed fourth Pitts
burg. with W. and j, It's only conqucror,
Che score closer than the w. and J.-fale
score. and eight victories. including one
over Cornell. is placed fifth.
Yale didn't meet Dartmouth. That be-
Ing the case and inasmuch as the Nalen-
SLAMS didn't make as good record In
Games won or in points for or against. the
latter arc placed below Dartmouth despite
the contradiction that Yale beat the team
that beat Dartmouth. However. as PROOF
in the way OF immediate contact that
Yale could beat Dartmouth Is ldChlls, Tue
respective records are a factor to he con-
eidcred in placing these two. Vale is
plaCed over Princeton FOR the combined
reasons OF superiority In the game be-
tween them. a more versatile ana more
prolific scoring repertoire and TWO defeats
20 princetons two defeats and one tie
The 80 points Harvard made against Yale
don't look very good for Yale. but Har-
ward was stronger by 33 per cent. In that
game than in any other.
Maybe Cornell is stronger than either
Yale or Princeton. We don't know. But
Cornell, too. was beaten twice, once by
Colgate and once by Pittsburg, and though
the Ithacans were a much better team
later in the season than when beaten
the fact remains that they lost 10 Col
gate which team was soundly defeated
nv Yale. One could argue that Colgate
takes precedence over Cornell because Of
beating the Comedians hut the latter
were far better team In the second part
than in the early part OF their season
The Ithacans didn't measure strength will
any Of the first SIX teams. Neither did
Jittsburg, and there would he better evil
dence Of their prowess had they done 80
The Lchigh eleven lost only one game
and that to Yale and beat Penn state
which held Harvard to a tie Another
team entitled to come in among the first
ten is Williams. The Willamstown play
ers were beaten only by Dartmouth. anc
they gave Dartmouth the stffest scrsI
the latter had except its game with
Princeton. Further. williams played q
tie with Princeton.
The best football OF the year wa
played ny Harvard. The most interesting
football game of the year was that be
tween Yale and Princeton. AZ a contest 4
was the best big game. There were two
reasons for this: Princeton's coembacl
In the last period which so cut into g
dead of nineteen points as to make thu
result in doubt, and the style OF game
MA we'd by Yale. Yale's touch OF rugby
smartly executed added materially to thu
improvement this year of football as {
spectacle, be what may its effective
,ess as an addition to scoring equipment