South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-05
SAYS HARVARD IS
BEST Of ELEVEN5
Was Not Defeated During Year
and Scored Victories Over
Yale, w. & J. and Michigan.
Yale Ranks Seventh.
BY Frank &. NIenke.

NEW YORK. Dec 3. Answering
numerous requests. we tackled the job
Of ranking the 10 best football teams
in the east. on their 1914 showings.
with the following result:
l. Harvard
2 Washington & jefferson.
& Dartmouth.
e. Army.
g. Pittsburgh.
s. Cornell.
T. Yale
s. Princeton.
o Rutgers
To- Syracuse.
Harvard deserves first ranking be-
cause il was not beaten and scored
victories over Yale. w 4 j.. Princeton
and Michigan
w. & Us showing for the year gives
II second place. a notch ahead of
Dartmouth. The Hanover team, like
w & j. suffered but one beating dur
ing the year. The Hanovarians scored
more points, but W. X ]. by virtue of
it's victory over Yale and its great
showing against Harvard is entitled TO
second place.
Dartmouth played remarkable foot
ball all year. II scored 365 points
against 2 . for its foes. II suffered but
hands OF the Princeton Tigers. In
view Of later day events, il must be
said that Princeton's victory over Dart
mouth was the biggest surprise of the
year. as Princeton in her other big
games showed up poorly, while the
Dartmouth gang played wonderful
football.
Army comes next. 1t played nine
games and won them all. Usually
such an accomplishment would entitle
a team 10 first honOrs. However.
Armys schedule this year has not
been a very hard one. It's foes. with
two exceptions, were easy.
University Of Pittsburgh is given
fifth place. The Pittsburgh boys lost
.Ut one game throughout the year.
Th2t was a Is TO 10 ieat at the
hanoS CT the powerful w. q j. eleven.
Pitt scored victories over Penn State,
which held Harvard TO a tie. over Cor
nell. Navy and Carlisle, as well as
over some OF the minor college teams.
Cornell suffered two defeats this
season in 10 starts. The Cornell ma
chine didn't get under way Until after
Colgate slipped over a knockout
punch. After that defeat Cornell
rushed along like a mill stream and
amassed a record that entities IL to
sixth place in our ranking.
Yale is g1-Sn seventh place. The
Blue machine got two bumps during
the 1914 season, and came close TO
being beaten on at least one other oc-
casiOn.
Princeton gets eighth place. The
Tiger eleven was beaten twice. IL
scored only one real victory during the
seaSon-the victory over Dartmouth.
Princeton didn't have any real scor-
ing power. It's defense was good
enough to enable the team to slip
along unbeaten until il encountered
Harvard Then the defense was
smashed. A week afterward il was
crumpled by Yale.
Ninth place goes 10 Rutgers. The
New Brunswick, n J., college played
good football 1t showed up we'll
against formidable foes.
Syracuse is placed tenth After
Syracuse beat Michigan il looked, for
the moment, as If Syracuse really was
among those present in a football way,
but almost Immediately afterward
Syracuse slumped and in the six games
that followed IL won but two, losing
two others, while two more were
ties.
When il came 10 awarding the boo
by prize for the season just closed, the
award went 10 Carlisle without a dis
senting vote. The Indians played 13
games. They won just four of these
Is. One game was a tie. The other
eight were defeats-and very decisive
defeats, too.