New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-17
Soggy Field May Aid
Yale in Repulsing
NOtre Dame.
TUFTS MAY WORRY
HARVARD ELEVEN
Battle Royal Expected When
Navy Team Meets Penn
at Philadelphia.

he East and west VIII meet on tne
gridiron to-day. Notre Dame, with
e-sm that has written its name in bold
easrscters across the pages Of foot
vail history. will face Yale at New
Haven. This will be the first Of the
important intersectional games to be
played this season. and the entire col
lege world awaits the outcome with
keeneSt interest.
The weather has played a strong
card for Yale. The game will doubt
less be played on a soggy. water
soaked field. and the speed OF the West
erners will be greatly reduced With
a wet, slippery ball and a slow field
underfoot. the game may develop INTO
p line plunging contest, where close
formations and bucks off tackle will re
place the dazzling open play which has
won favor with the later day football
fans.
But Notre Dame is not to be pitied
Jesse c. Harper. one time star of the
University Of Chicago. has built up
well rounded team. which can depend
on It's forceful, cohesive running at
tack TO make a good showing Last
year Notre Dame startled the football
world in defeating West Point by
score OF 35 TO 13 after a wonderful
display Of new football and forward
passing.
This season powerful running at
- has been added to last years open
aar Harper has assembled a ma
re Of the smashing type. In the
games played thus far Notre Dame
ins scored 16l points. In the frs;
game Alma College was smothered b.
a score of SO to 0. while on October 10
Rose POLY" went down to the tune o:
1O5 20 0.
Yale. in three games, has scored 100
points less than Notre Dame. Maine
was beaten 20 to 0. Virginia 21 10 and
Lehigh 20 TO 8. Marches down the field
have become traditional at New Haven.
end on a wet field Frank Hinkey's men
will surely give a good account OF
themselves.
With several substitutes in the line
M. Harvard will take the field against .
Tufts at the Stadium. There was time
when this game would have been re- F
garded as a light workout Tor the .
Crimson. but Harvard men now look .
forward TO a hard struggle. The Med /
ford bows are not 10 be looked down .
upon this season. They have gone
along. winning their games IN most
convincing style. and they believe that /
victory over the big Cambridge team I
is not beyond the realms Of possibility /
Nor is this spirit unwarrantcd. Tufts .
has played three games thus Tar and
has scored 1856 points TO Is for its OPP
moments. In the opening game New
Hampshire State was buried under an
avalanche OF. touchdowns. and the iinal
score rested at IS TO O. Then came
Bates. Bates lost to Harvard by a /
score of ~ to 0, and believed that
Tufts would prove only medium to :
smooth its RULED feathers. Those
feathers still require smoothing, Ior
Tufts won by score OF 81 to 4 Coloy
was next to meet defeat to the tune OF
40 to IA.
football precedent has been estab--
lisbed at the United States Naval
Academy. and the enthusiasts OF the
immediate district viii benent: ne
Navy. for the first time in the history
of football at the academy, except when
the Army was met, will play away IRON
home This afternoon Annapolis VIII
face Pennsylvania on Franklin flelu'
and battle royal is expected
The Princeton Tiger awaits the COM
ing of Lafayette with mingled feelings
According TO reports, and results oo-
tanned on the gridiron bear out the
stories. all is not as it should be III
Old Nassau. The team has played I'M
certain football against both Rutgers
and Syracuse, and has not yet tound
itself The attack is uncertain ana
lacks the punch, and the scrub mas nao
not overmuch trouble in penetrating
the varsity defence. No great prog
ress has been made with the forward
mass. Lafayette, on the other hand'
showed surprising power against '"e
Quakers. oor-
The Army will entertain the maroon
clad bows from Colgate on the Ylalhs:
Last wear the teams played Z TO o
came. West Point winning IN the last
second of play. Colgate. flushed with
victories over Cornell and the Massa-
chusetts Agricultural College, is conil-
dent of victory.
Cornell. bending her energies to pre-
rare for the battle with Brown on the
Polo Grounds one week from to-day
win try out some new formations and
niavs against Bucknell, and is the IA
Vorite with those who have watched
the teams work. Dartmouth viii meet
Vermont with every prospect OF VIC
tory. but the disorganized Carlisle
Indians will be sorely pressed TO pre-
vent a massacre when they meet the
powerfnl Pittsburgh eleven.
The appetite of the local enthusiasts
will be satisfied by games between
Union and Stevens at Castle POM
Field. Hoboken; New York University
and Haverford at Ohio Field, anc