Imperial Valley press., 1914-11-14
(By Frank G. Menke)


whirling into the stretch without
single team in position to claim vi
disputed and uncloudeo cnampionshi,
while, in the west, Chicago and Ill
nois fought it out in Urbana, ILL.,, tc
Gay with the western championshi
hanging in the balance.
Up to the time that the referee
whistle sent the gridiron folks int
action this afternoon, the Army elev
en-, alone of all the big and near-bis
teams in the East, had been unbeatel
and united. The Army had won al
its six games, and won the bulk o.
them in handy fashion. However, tht
Army's schedule this year was not {
hard one. 1t was not pitted against
a real football team outside of Notre
Dame, and the Notre Dame team OF
this year doesn't size up as a first
class eleven.
So the Army cannot make any Sc
rious claims for the title, even if it
wins its remaining games with Maine,
Springfield and the beaten but ever
dangerous Navy eleven.
Some brave but reckless Harvard
folks are making championship claims,
but the claims hardly will be rec
ognized. There's that Is to Is tie
with Pennsylvania State to rise up
and inquire the why's and wherefores
of those claims. Furthermore, Har-
ward isn't going to have a real cincl
with Brown today, and Harvard still
has 70 grapple with those Yale fell
lows.
Should Yale beat Harvard and the
Navy beat the Army-both among
the probabilities-it would gum the
football situation as it never has
been gummed before in the history
of the great college sport. 1t would
leave the East without an unbeaten
team. If both these things happened
the Washington and jefferson aggre-
cation would be in position to make
as strong claim to clouded title as
any other eleven.
w. & j. has beaten Yale. 1t also
whaled number of the minor eley-
ems by big score. Then it beat the
Plttsourg team, which has conquered
Carlisle, the Navy and Cornell. In
addition to this, w. & J. played Har-
ward and lost, 10 to 8, on a fluke.
W. & ]. outplayed Harvard in that
game, but luck was with the Crimson
and the Crimson won out in the last
lew minutes of play.
This claim of w. & Us, however.
is contingent upon W. G. ]. winning
all its remaining games and Harvard
losing to either Yale or Brown.
The Yale-Princeton game in Prince
ton today, which Yale ought to win.
had no bearing on the championship.
If Princeton wins Princeton will have
the 20 to 0 defeat at the hands of
Harvard staring into its Orange and
Black countenance. If Yale wins it
still has Harvard to play and even
If it heats Harvard there's that beat
ing given to Yale by w. G. J. to hush
any Yale claims.
And there you are.
In other years football dope has
been upset in the East, but it never
has been upset as often and as early
as this year. With the big college
games still to be played, there's not
one team among the big elevens in
the East that has a clean record
not one team in position to make a
bid fer the unclouded honors.
That Chicago-Illinois battle at Ur-
bana, H., today promised to be lulu
On past showings the Illinois gang
seemed to have the "edge"-but
what's the ledge" in these edgelese
days? Illinois hasn't been beaten and
it hasn't been tied. Chicago hasn't
heen beaten, but it was tied, to 0,
in the game with Wisconsin.
Further than this, Illinois has made
a better showing, both extensively an6
defensively, than has Chicago against
the same foes, which made Illinois
rooters confident that their eleven
would be returned the winner in the
days battle. But Chicago, which
played wobbly football for about two
weeks, has steadied down again anc
is in fine shape for the fracas which
promises many thrills for the west
ern enthusiasts.