Evening star., 1914-11-08

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foot ball possibilities than this one
Notre Dame is the steadier. and Car
Isle is the more brilliant. although thus
far this year far below the average OF
the Indian teams of the past. Notre
! Dame has never met any team quite
like Carlisle. and Carlisle. although
outweighed in the backfeld. has had in
former years plenty of experience in
being outweighed by opponents. and
yet handling the situation satisfacto-
rily Harvard plays Brown at Cam
brldge-always an interesting game
but the odds strongly favoring Har-
ward Brown was completely shot to
pieces by Cornell in New York, and
drubbing
Amherst takes her turn at meeting
Williams at Amherst, the series thus
Iar seeming to run alternatel-'. with
strong game against Princeton. Co
lumbus has good game in Ohio State
vs.. Oberlin, and Syracuse has one in
which intense rivalry always prevails
IN syracuse VS.. Colgate Both teams
are good this year. and it should be a
great contest. with some odds on the
Iormer Penn meets Dartmouth at
Philadelphia. and the Quaker crowds
should get plenty Of thrills from this
contest. They certainly were fur
|
prooab bly, was one of the best games to
watch OF any played throughout the
! season. Ihe score was: Pennsylvania
u: dartmouth. "a. 1t ought to be
I doubt very much if any such scoring g
will be done by either side. In the
m1ddie west Nebraska plays Kansas at
I.incoin. northwestern plays Purdue at
Evanston and Illinois plays Chicago at
Irbana. game of great Importance.
Washington- Jefferson plays West Vir-
ginia Wesleyan at Wheeling. and
should win decisively. A good game is
furnished at Pittsburgh between Pitts
bursh and Carnegie Tech. The Uniyer-
sity of the South plays Tennessee At
cnattanooga. The University of North
carolina plays Wake Forest at Raleigh
arkansas plays Mississippi at Little
n,aYs haek. co1a Lhe University of Colorado
lane plays Mississippi A. and NJ. At
Asrlcultural College. Out on the On. at
the university of Idaho meets tbe Ore.
son Aggies at Corvallis. Washington
state meets Whitman at Spokane.
And it should be borne in mind that
there are some very interesting ones
went yyens a1,hnss TO De settled in the south and
tions have been tried out in eas+ and
west and north and south matches this
season the eastern and northern teams
n1ss But sSmfwhaf foos hat the til s better of it.
same. and the deveionment of te.n me
OF smaller caliber in these two SEE
.iohs' namely, west and south. is rora
rh 51an surprising: In the middle west
ainra so ana Illinois have been goin 2:
game minnesota was hard nut To IL -
win by score of to 0. ana was dao
; leated by Illinois a week later. Cb;-
Iaeo ofd better against the stronp
Purdue team and won bv :. Soosa os as
u to 0. but could only get a tic a 80, "
iater with Wisconsin, Nebraska sbon,eS
up surprisingly well against the M
san Asgies "a team that Yost's eleven
winrinir win iaau w VOTE IN defeating to % by
,.a w,,,ahlhg out "a to 0. while Notre Dams
although badly defeated by YaIe n,,a.
Wneimed South Dakota, SO to VII,
iihnois met Northwestern at E,,nston
me fm SIZE OF the score was surprisine
.h1noss sh,,3I winning by 33 to o, but If
sHoulo De remembered that the nety
coach1ng staff at Northwestern b,s -, y
oIiy year and should produce hattan
results another season.
IN me south, Texas has gone on in its
accustomed powerful stride and H.
feated Oklahoma. 80 to av.n ,'na II, de-
thiahoma was fancied as OF ,,nus,,ai
Strength this year. The JrnivarsitY -
rsihia evidently profited by its north :
Ssntad sn .rip. 1or at Charlottesville it de-
"a to orsia ~ to o. and Vanderbilt
20 4; tennessee was too nnuarfnI
,of Ala pa!na at Knoxville. winning ~,
10 y, while Auburn, at Birmjn yb, NJ
showed Donahue's good work as ''''.' -
1oach 20 py beating Mississippi A and NJ
~ 10 U. The end of October SOU ~.
team coming in for !. con,sst new new
gave the Jacksonville people ,nncI, ~
interest. when Florida met g., ~
there. The Sewanee men. with ..~.a.a.. :.
.ApeIiehce and knowledge, were ,hJe
10 oeieat FLORIDA 81 to 0, but the lessnn
was good one and the Florid, TSso
i ers VIII profit by It. Columbia s,r- .
interesting game between south c.raA i
@ ma ana Newbury College of 13 to n
,lilo pn',, louisiana University. at Baton
rouge, had very nearly as ey.itin,, ~
cohtes III defeating Jefferson ~ - q
Ne" orleans saw Tulane run ~, o.
prodiGlous score of 81 over Centanpr,.
anu ooium ola. Missouri, saw a close
| contest between Ames ana ,it.'l''s'
which resulted In the former yrinn,a'
| q to O. winning.
oHe OIL the points of greatest inter
es ,h w connection with the development
" tne opens style foot ball here is ~
brinring enrough this means of
a. ,aaairs that real international con-
sest oetWeen Canada and the I-nitaa
o.a'es viii be possible. The two games
other TN th,, SO ,, nearly approaching each
apl,It9 OIL this. Not. OF course tbie
pa' next season, 1915, I firmly
DeieNe team could be raised from the
VI tfe United States that wifi,
leasohabie compromises between the
Two sets of rules, would be abl, to
play most interesting match win a
representative Canadian team. Further
tnis would bring about the considera
tion of adopting such rules in hoth
countries as would make the game a
common one. Then we should have
year aiter year, All-American and All
canadian teams contesting for Anal
championships, besides probably plenty
OF other games going along in border
| towns. Already the backf1eld men of
canadian teams and the backf1eld men
! or our college teams could play ON
either side of the border as far as the
general principles of the game are
concerned. 1t is only a matter of set
Ting the question of scrimmage and
| interference.
! While western foot ball received an
other Jolt in the defeat of Michigan nv
| Harvard. no one could help giving
credit to the Ann Arbor team, and par
tlcularly to one half-back named Maui
besch. for putting up a fine exhibition
and keeping the rival score to a single
I touchdown
| In the aftermath of the game there
were many Harvard partisans as well
as all the Michigan visitors, wonder
! ing what would have happened with
both teams at their best: with the
Michigan cripples, Hughitt and Splawn.
| in good physical shape, and with Pen,
| mock and Mahan in the Harvard line
| up.
Had Splawn been in shape to have
| Maulbetsch, Michigan would certainly v
| not have beeO ScOrelaca huf m tI,n