Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-20
$4,000 EXPERTS
PLAY FOOTBALL
Review of the Season Shows the
Popularity of Gridiron
Sport.
MILLIONS ATTEND GAMES
Analysis of Star Performers of
Country Compiled by Parke
H. Davis.
ny PARKE II. DAVIS,
princeton Member intercollegiate

!ntercollegiate football during the
ssSSsot fail MAS played by 4SG colleges
teams not connected with educational
institutions. but representing athletic
four thousand games were played. and
$4,000 players participated In the
Notwithstanding the distractions OF
war and the impeachment Of tight
m t9segso more ore people than eyer before
estimates placing the number around
100000 persons.
The elimination In attendance. OF
where 10000 people occupied almost
twenty nine miles of seats in the mag
nifcent Yale bowl.
Hard to Select Champions
In the vast network OF schedules
overspreading. this country, 1t is inn
possible to select the various sectional
tent upon the consensus OF local crit
ical opinion; a fair selection of the
visions OF the country is believed to be
as follows:
Enst-Harvard.
Ohio-Ohio State.
Middle West-Illnos.
Missouri valley--Nebraskn
Pacific Northwest washington Uni
South Atlantic-virginia, Washing
Middle South-Tennessee
South-Auburn.
Southeast-Texas.
Il.
Secondary schools-Exeter
High schools--Everette. Mass.
The data Of these various games ex-
cato the return Of the sustained run
Ming attack. characterized by contin-
stnnding, more goals from the field
meTe hiek of than ever before and the
and not from placement.
Viewing the data from an Individual
n an g, 1t may be said that In all de-
OF 1914 surpassea those OF 1918 The
cause OF this pronounced Improvement
the game, which necessarily is advance
ing the standards.
feo an p nc .h feature Of the record
distribution. East, West. North and
South, sharing equally in the laurels,
or tho sport;
arsest ,S scores S1 against All
Roiia. which aeeamuiated sss A points a to
leading exponent OF heavy scoring is
the remarkable eleven of Washington
country passed the 900 mark in their
total scores. These elevens and their
summaries are as follows:
Rolla. $50; opponets. 0. a-lN
washington and Jefferson. 369; oppo-
parimoSt5 s'S sls Sp oppemen;ts ss as.
Washington and Lee, 3ia; opponents.
But hold! Before the large college
teams shake their .plumes let them turn
sneno, eyes sesrd towards the Everett High
was team that wased if a N schedule ee oe
teams Of Niassae husefts ae Go ssT ssheS,
Team af reom New wy York eFsy De
ssa% sSIeass Oak and
total Of scores 500 points to O.
Se en- in scores in single game were
GUS years. another indication that pre DE-
tense is improving. and that large
tan MS, are not seeking to make records
teams which passed the hundred mark
in one game are as follows
Georgia Tech. 105; Mercer, o.
washington and Jefferson los. Dick
insOn, 0.
st. Louis. 1o4; Blackburn. o.
Not MG.rS Dame, Dame, Ios; Rose Poly. O..
The monarch Of all feats in the run
kick to touchdown. Prior to 1911
forty years of football has produced
only twe enty OF these runs. The
surprising total OF l6. Such has been
me Improvement In halfback play -Four
men must th divide the honor OF having
TO touchdown. since they ali are tied Mt
ninety-hve yards.
Their exploits are represented in tho
'sSsTI ne1s5 Nv VS. e GgambsprlaGHd.
brightly vs.. Susquehanna
Ninety-fve yards-Tucker (Pennsyl
Vania) VS.. Swarthmore.
Ninety hve yardS-CiallaRher Chris
tan Brothers) VS.. Ohio Northern.
full Simi ald r to the ffon feat Of executing
an II tplr
through an entire team and touching
a iomgest Two Two men en-, have tied for the
them, II will be noted already has
shared in the prior honor OF the kick
OFF. They are; .
(Sewanee) VS.. Florida
tiam Brothers) VS.. Ohio Northern.
formation, in which the bail was regn
iarly received must be distributed be-
I've the East. the Middle West and
stance The representatives Of these
sections and their achievements in this
i, Ninety yards-G. L. Kirk tMaine) VS..
Ninety Ninety yardsrci. E. Smith tMichigan
Ninety yards-Wllllam Morris (Den-
ver0 vs.. Wyoming.
roa The longest flight by a player after
Was wa. performed by II. w Miller. Of
pittsburgh. who ran seventy yards
d0r touchdown against Dickinson.
me longest flight by a player after In
tercepting an opponents forward pass
Was Was accomplished comp by. Sparks. OF Chi
through the Purdue team. an unfortu
nate but natural catastrophe for an
eleven daring to throw n forward pass
so close to their goal line The f1II
tabulatton OF these two classes OF runs
discloses that half OF the forward
passes OF the year went wrong since
there are more runs from intercepted
PASSES than from completed passes
Runs from recovered fumbies, verv
properiy' We're FEWER In number than In
run OF this character, which also WAS
the longest run OF the year. was the
dash OF ntnety-eight yards by n. Il
Coolidge of Harvard. with n Yale fum.
BILE underneath his arm. 800
Equal In glory with a fulI-field run \
Il ffty-yard goal from the f,eid'
Error to 1915 only four men--P. j.
GSDea, OF Wisconsin,; J. C. Cowling, OF