The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-10-24
By EDWARD BUSHNELL.

| rDor. Inis VIII also De the nrSt o
the 1915 intersectional games II ough
to be a great battle. for both Michigan
and Syracuse are unusually strong thi
year. In the East Syracuse Is credite,
with having the best team In its his
tory. 1t has ridden -rough-shod ovel
everything IL has met, with the singl,
exception Of Princeton. But even tn,
Tigers were unable to cross Syracuse.
goal and won their victory by means OF
Tibbett's drop kick. Syracuse was abb.
to gain a lot OF ground on open-fielt
I running and straight line piunging
The game means a lot to Michigan
! for 1t will be the teams first serious
/ try-out this year. Michigan men have
not forgotten Syracuse's sensational eo-t
! victory over them last year. This they
want to wipe out. but Syracuse will fight
just as hard to maintain her lead The
game will be watched closely by Penn
sylvania and scouts. whose
teams Michigan meets shortly. Eastern
critics have not been able to decide
whether Michigan Is as strong this year
as last year. II Coach Yost has found
suitable successor to the great Hugh
lit for quarter back the Michigan eleven
will be able to take care Of itself. Maui
betsch, that human battering ram. who
butted his way into nearly all the ALL
American elevens in the country, is in
Michigan's back field. and this means
that the Wolverines will be strong on
the attack.
From now on all Of Michigan's games
are against Eastern teams. The VOL
verines are not on the Harvard sched-
ule this fall, but two weeks hence they
meet Cornell at Ann Arbor, and then
for their final championship game they
so to Philadelphia, where they play
pennsylvania year ago Michigan
slaughtered Pennsylvania. but lost a
week later to Cornell. This time Yost's
team meets Pennsylvania and Cornell
In reverse order. Furthermore, Il looks
as though both the Eastern teams would
be much stronger than they were a year
ago, though Cornell was plenty strong
enough. The Pennsylvania team has
hardly struck its normal stride yet and
Michigan will not know what to EXPECT
from the ouakers for at least two
weeks.
Speedy Rush Making Good.
Princeton men are intensely enthusiasts
tic over the showing their football team
has made in its preliminary season. Not
counting the Dartmouth game, which had
Pt been played at this writing, the
Tigers have not given evidence Of SO
much power and speed in years. There is
no reason to believe, either, that Prince
ton has been brought along too fast. As
a matter of fact, the Orange. and Black
started its fall practice later than any of
its big rivals.
Three times this season the experts
have predicted dire things to happen to
Princeton, but each time Rush's men
have come through unscathed. First IL
was Rutgers that was picked to beat
Princeton. but that team, in spite of its
long summer training. was sent home
with 10 to o defeat. Then came SYRIA
cuse. whose eleven last year had out
played Princeton. though the Tigers had
won. This year Princeton was able to
win only by the score of to 0, but the
Tigers had the better of the fight. Then
Lafayette was picked as a trouble maker,
but Princeton drove roughshod over this
eleven.
or course. the two games for which
Princeton is preparing are the Harvard
and Yale matches, the first to be played
at Princeton on November and the Sec
ond at New Haven on November Ii. or
the two, Princeton would prefer this year
to beat Harvard. whose team has thus
far been indicated. Then. too, it is
pretty generally admitted that the team
which can beat Harvard will be the East
ern champion. The Tigers are timing the
development Of their team to have IL at
top form on November 6. II they beat
Harvard the coaches think the enthusf-
asm thus engendered, coupled with Yale's
erratic form, will carry them triumph
antly through another week-Harvard has
a decided advantage over Yale and
Princeton because she plays these two
elevens two weeks apart. Princeton meets
Harvard and Yale on successive Satur-
days, while Yale hat the same tough ar
rangement with Princeton and Harvard.
That was why Yale tried so hard to have
the Harvard-Yale game moved I'D to
Day. II that could be done,
then Harvard would be asked to play
Princeton a week earlier, which would |
give all three teams nearly two weeks be-
tween their championship games.
e. Pennsylvania football team this year
Is either about two weeks behind schedule
in its development or 1t Is considerably
overrated. Without Berry's magnetic
at quarter back the team was
beaten by Pennsylvania State College
two weeks ago. and last week 1t would |
have been beaten by the Navy
had not Berry gotten into the fray in the |
second half. Berry is apparently the only
man in whom the other players have con-
fidence. They know that he Is as sure as
death and taxes in catching punts, and
he is one Of the shiftiest open-field run
ners the ouakers have ever developed.
This year the committee coaching sys-
EN- Is striving to build up a defense able
70 break up line and end plays and fer
ward passes. For the first time this year
he team showed ability to execute this