Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-18

like trying to rivet nail in boiled
potato.
A team that strikes it's stride the f1rst
week in October is likely 10 go idiho
the last week in November.
THE VAIL OF THE QUARTER
oh, center fat and big.
How deadly dull you are.
Yen had the starting sig
Oh prithee! where's the ball:
Tie backs have started fast,
My hands extended are.
Oh center, they are past
And prithee, where's the ball?
The other teams come through:
They've made line a sieve.
And at last from you
Confound you, comes the ball.
The middle of October finds strange
condition in the foot ball situation.
The only big team in the east which
carried over frst-clasS eleven OF last
year with a game that, as TAR as IL
went, could be considered Thoroughly
reliable, was Harvard. Princeton had
material that was better in shaping
up than that of the last season. 1aie
was promised a wealth of backf1efd
material, but no line. Dartmouth has
had the confidence of her eleven ana
student body rudely dispelled by the
defeat-rout it might well be called
at the hands of the Indians. Penn had
been annihilated, SO far as confidence
went, by the Cornell victory over her
team Thanksgiving day. and besides
Point had won from Annapolis. but,
as every wise man there knew, tnat
victory had been strategic, and the
Army had been distinctly outclassed
If the Navy learned even the simple
rudiments of defending against the
long forward pass the situation would
be at once reversed. In september,
II he m
that could start out with what was 2
secure basis of superiority and builc
upon that a structure that was sure
to stand. Every other team, either
through the exigencies caused by the
loss of material or because they had
no complete and roundabout game
that would stand a real test, must
turn and face the problem of recon
entire game that they must de.
velop, not merely the building up Of
team. Never before in the history
of the sport has there been sucn an
has been cast to the winds The few
who began upon what was the old
time plugging game have seen a new
light, and are plunging into the pos
sibilities of open play Yale and Prince
ton have taken rugby ideas for the
basis of the game they mean to play
Penn is foundering- Dartmouth is
powerful but over-conservative. The
Army is trying to forget some of it's
weird line work and build enough of
a line attack at least to make it's for
ward passing possible against a team
with a reasonable defense 10 that style
of play The Navy is patching up
some of the holes left in its line, and
at the same endeavoring to perfect it
self as rapidly as possible in good
passing game of it's own. Cornell had
been basking in the sunlight of last
years success. and was rudely aroused
by two successive defeats Carlisle. a
team that had always reveled in the
fact that they could throw a scare"
into any team of white men. merely
by tossing the ball around and crisis
crossing. have just awakened to the
fact that seeing the ball in the hands
of a second man no longer throws the
defense of team into disorder, and
Lehigh administered the lesson sound
" and with telling effect.
Next Saturday. October "a. the best
game of the day and the most interest
ing will be the Penn-Carisle contest al
Philadelphia. Here Brooke's pupils
will take on the willy and aggressive
Indian for the annual contest, which
always results in some Of the most ex-
traordinarily exciting and interesting
features. unequaled by any contest OF