Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-13

tainty of the game as played at diff
ferent times by the same team against
changing opponents. What a team
does against one rival is an indication
of what to look for when she meets
another, but there is no definite way
to figure what may happen.
one, in that it played it's best game in
the last ten minutes of the final con-
test. Perhaps one ought to except
the Dartmouth game, which 1t won
Harvard at time when Harvard was
only barely beating other opponents.
1t lost to Yale IA to 10. but was coming
fast at the end.
game throughout the season, and when
it met Washington and Jefferson in
New York the Saturday after Thanks
giving. although defeated. it put up q
hard fight, and delighted a crowd of
spectators numbering some ten thou
sand.
Dartmouth suspiciously, and up to
the time of her Princeton game. was
| in the early season had not yet
worked out the proper scheme of
Igeneralship for the team as it stood.
The Princeton game proved this, for
while Dartmouth made far more run
ming gains than Princeton, it found it
self in the last period badly behind.
1t gained. but not enough to averet de-
feat. losing finally 16 to 13. although
in the last few minutes its forward
passing game was going well and it
had chance to win. After that game
1t played the best foot bau of It's sea-
son, defeating Amherst 80 to 0 and
Tufts-a team which had held Harvard
to a 13-to-6 score-no less than 6S to 0,
simply swapping Penn 4S to 0 and
Syracuse 40 to 0. The defensive work
OF the Dartmouth team, with the ex-
ception of the Princeton game, has
been a model, for it's opponents have
only been able to score twenty-five
points. sixteen of which were scored
by Princeton.
Michigan played an in-and-out game
| through the season. Its first game of
Importance was the Vanderbilt one,
which it won % to 3. It then had a
very close match with the Michigan
Aggies. only winning 3 to 0. 1t was
then defeated in succession hy Syra
cuse and Harvard, but won another of
It's east and western matches. defeat
ing Penn "a to 8. and then. after secur-
ing a lead on Cornell Of thirteen points,
the big red team overwhelmed t. run
hing up twenty points, while Michigan
was unable to score further.
Washington and Jefferson had one
or the best seasons in its history, just
barely losing to Harvard by score
had close call, however, with Pitts
burgh, winning 13 to 10, and another
close game with Georgetown, IA to 6.
Cornell. although starting of badly
with defeats by both Pittsburgh and Col
gate, started on a winning streak, play
ing better and better foot ball and de-
ieatine IN succession. by decisive scores,
me Indians. Bucknell, Brown, Holy
cross, Franklin and Marshall, Mich
lgan and Penn, although in the last
game the weakness of defense to the
forward pass came near being its I'M
doing.
Lehigh had a good team. After de-
feating the Indians, u to 6. it was
! beaten by Yale, 20 to 3. and had
close-scoring game with Carnegie, only
winning out, "a to 20, but thereafter
IT came along well, defeating Penn
state. 20 to Z, and winding up against
| ITS old rivals, Lafayette, by a victory
of II to Z.
| The Army played a fairly consistent
game. defeating Rutgers. 10 to o; Col
gate. p to Z. and Notre Dame. which
wound up the season by defeating the
Navy decisively. and showed a strong
line and good forward pass
Brown, after tie game with Am
defeated. u to o, which. at that time,
looked bad for Brown, but Cornells
| further record showed that the team
from Ithaca was exceptionally strong
Brown then barely beat out Vermont.
but played a good game against Yale,
losing, IA to 8, and then a tie game
with Harvard. neither side being able
to score. 1t wound up by defeating
the Indians. 20 to IA.
| Colgate. after defeating Cornell, 7
to 8. lost to the Army. 81 to 7, and
then ran up against Yale at the top
| of the latter's passing game and was
defeated, 40 to T. Later it played a
good game against Syracuse, neither
side being able to score.
! Tufts should be mentioned for it's
| work early in the season, when it de-
feated Colby. 40 to IA, a team that
afterward scored 81 points on the
Navy Harvard only barely defeated
| it, 10 to s. but Rutgers won, 16 to Z,
Then it met Dartmouth and fell vic
tins to no less than IS to 0.
| Washington and Lee did well, al
though the teams it played were not
as well known as the opponents of the
other colleges. 1t defeated Georgetown.
however, IS to 0: Virginia Polytechnic,
IL to 6; Swarthmore, 10 to o, and West
| Virginia. to 6.
The Navy had some hard shedding.
losing to Pittsburgh, 10 to s. and hav-
\ ing to come from behind against Colby
in a riot of scoring, the Navy finally
| winning, 81 to Fl. When 1t met the
Army its line was completely out
played, and the muffing of punts in Its
,ackfield obliterated any chance 1t had.
Pittsburgh opened the season by de-
eating Cornell and followed this up
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