Evening star., 1914-10-25
BY n. c. BYRD.

The scholastic foot ball champion
ship of the District may be decioeo
Tuesday. Central and Technical are
scheduled to meet in the contest tha1
NAV give one or the other the title,
These two elevens have appeared
stronger than any other. notwithstand-
ing Business fine victory over west
ern and the chances are that one or
the other will get the honor.
Central and Tech are the heaviest
teams in the school series by far. Cen
trail has a backfield that probably Will
average more than that of the Manual
Trainers and the two lines will be OF
nretty much the same strength. as 1ar
as mere physique is concerned. Central
though. everything considered, seems
to have one Of the best chances Tor the
honor that has confronted it since II
won in 1912.
Tech will have much more capable
eleven against Central than faced
Eastern last Tuesday. and it ought TO
give a better account of itself on tine
offensive and defensive. It's Work mas
heen of such a character as TO eseaD
lish it as better than the aVeras a.
every respect, but the Central agsre.
Rest Il has had in a good while. Those
in authority at Central are NOT talklns 3
a great deal, but they do not heSitaee
to saw that they have spienaio op-
portunity. despite the & reITT'nt 5;d not even
play for Tech against Eastern; =,
,Tha game between Tech and Central -
likely to be one Of the most or1laantiy
fought and played contests OF the ne yeart ear
fnot hal, of the whole series is not seen.
Roth teams are well coached. and tneir
tactics should be accordingly interest
| ing.
II would seem that Western and East
ern are eliminated from the series as
| far as championship possibilities are
concerned The Red and a,n.ss Mnite ,n it's
| first attempt in the schedule. ana Eas.. Il,
ern went down before Tech. A deieas IN
the high school foot ball series prae-
tically eliminates the team reesiSTts zee; ~ ~. e.
n1avs that are likely to gain ground IN
anv contest in which it takes part. out
whether it will present STURDY enousn
line to Withstand the onsiaughts oi ene
heavy Central asSresdioh 10
able.
Yale went down to its first defeat OF
the season YESTERDAY. when IA ~ Mas Vas
ferson eleven. The Dark Blue was out
nIayed by the PennTylvanians: and re-
ports seem to indictfe that tne V,cto.
was about the best team that has been
The fact that Yale lost to Washing
ton and Jefferson with practlcaiiy its
best team on the field VIII make the
followers of the Dark Blue look as
kance at Harvard. The Crimson de-
feated Washington and Jefferson by
a margin of one point with two or
three Of the best Of Haughton's men
out of the lineup. which would ap-
pear to indicate that Yale Is going
to have a rough time getting py IN lts
game November 21.
Princeton, although it certainly was
not developed to Its top-notch form.
Tigers undoubtedly played better ball
than in any of their previous con-
tests and showed the effects OF nat
ural development along solid lines.
and splendid judgment has been shown
in having it in just good enough con-
dition to win its games from the So
called secondary elevens. Princeton
seems to be aiming to reach Its zenith
when it faces Harvard and Yale. and
the battle between these elevens this
year is pretty sure to be more spec
tacular and brilliant than in any pre-
vious season.
time getting away with the long end
of the score in its game with the In
dians. In fact. to take the report. 1t
would seem that Penn did not outplay
Warmers aggregation by any big mar
gin. While it was generally thought
that Penn would win by little larger
score, 1t was pointed out some time ago
that the Carlisle eleven always played
its best at Philadelphia, and that that
was the contest for which Warner
would prime 1t. He scenes to have
succeeded in holding to single touch
down a team that probably outweighed
his eleven by a big margin.
Cornell outclassed Brown. For some
reason or other there were some pre-
dictions that Brown would defeat
Cornell. but on what basis cannot be
said. Certainly Brown had not accom-
have entitled one to the opinion that
it was likely to put up very hard
game against the Ithacans. Cornelrs
recent splendid showing against the
Indians and Bucknell was evidence
enough that it was developing rapidly
into powerful eleven.
Incidentally. the predictions made in a
local afternoon paper in regard to the
probable outcome Of the games Of yes
terday follow:
yale to beat Washington and Jeffer-
son by a small margin.
Dartmouth to win from Princeton by
touchdown or single field goal.
Brown to win from Cornell.
Penn to run away from Carlisle.
Harvard to do the same to Penn
State.
Michigan to win from Syracuse"
Here are the results:
Washington and Jefferson beat Yale.
Princeton won from Dartmouth.
Cornell defeated Brown by a big mar
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