Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-11-01
NEW HIGH MARK ON GRID
SATURDAYS RESULTS WERE
RECORD FOR UPSETS
EiE Colleges of East Nee. Defeat
MI Varieties az FootbnII In
southland.

SouShiunH.
The results or Saturdays gaines fur
nishcs Il ne" high record for upscts.
even in the sensational season Of 1918.
The day Witnessed the defeat OF Yale.
fennsy lvania. Army. Navy and Penn.
State in the East. together with many
surprises in results ami scores in the
West.
he urSets we're not entirely con
iitrG to the defeats of colleges which
~ past years have been the autocrats
Of ,he lime scored arenas. Harvard,
detected a wccl: ago by Cornell. rail-
lied and won from Penn. State in a
mdnutr that indicated that the Grim
aon is not cn:ii ely out of the running
for Eastern t-rid!ron honors Harvac,l's
game against the conuueroIs of Penn
Sylvauia showed that the Cambridge
claI Possesses material for team
likely 40 give Princeton II terrific bat
tie next Saturday.
Ihle's showing against Colgate was
little short OF pitiful from the stand
TIE. Eli team. was almost helpless be-
fo:" tie splendid attack and defense
UI Colgate. When forced to face Il
modern overhead of sprcad-across- the
field attack. Yale was absolutely
/ Wcrless to check the advance OF the
ball and aside from some brilliant in
diNidual playing by Scovillc and Will
son. the Ellis had nothing worthy Of
mention In the form Of an attack.
Nothing short of a football miracle
lg IL tln i,,.n Ia, ..t,
~ justify It's being given an even
chance against either Princeton or
Harvard.
There was nothing unexpected about
the victories Of Princeton and Cornell
over Williams and Virginia Polyterh-
mic. respectfully. The Tigers. although
weakened by the absence OF several OF
their best players. who were doing
scout duty at New Havcn and Cam
bridge. had little difficulty in defeat
inr Williams. while Virginia Poly af-
forde'i little more than practice for
he powerful Ithaca team.
In sharp contrast TO cornclrs vic
tory was the defeat of Pennsylvania
by Lafayette. The latter team. al
ready vanquishcd by Washington and
jefferson and Princeton. took advln-
aye of the Quuker's errors and won
a deserved, IL rather unexpected vic
tory. The Quakers. like Yale. appear
TO have much latent strength. but lack
Skill and strategy.
NEITHER ARMY NOR NAVY
SHOWED TO ADVANTAGE
Neither tho Army nor Navy showed
10 advantage. both losing by the small
margin OF two or three points. The
Villa Nova eleven depended almost en-
tircly upon aerial attack to defeat the
Soldiers. Nays defeat by the North
Carolina Aggics was less impressive
ana clean cut. both teams scoring n
majority of their points because OF
errors by their opponents.
All varieties of football We're tried
on Southern gridirons on Saturday
with the old-stylc game having The
best OF the argument Auburn. rely
ing almost solely on the line bucking
game, conquered Georgia. which used
the open style. Vanderbilt with line
riunges beat Tennessee. Georgia Tech.
varying the old with the new,
tciumDhcd over North Carolina. Ala
nama's straight football tactics bcsted
Scwancc.
The forward pass however, saved IA
number of teams from being held
sccrcless. Washington and Lee. playinc
Indiana at Indianapolis. tied the score
through judiciouS use of the over head
game. Sewanee scored a touchdown
or passes
Saturdays results eliminated at least
two teams for the Southern champion
ship. leaving Auburn. Vanderbilt ard
Georgia Tech in the running. with Ali-
burn and Vanderbilt apparently hav-
ing the edge on Tech III defensive
playing. Vanderbilt. ON comparative
scores. seems TO have the best offensive
team in the South. having scored 800
points without its opponents scoring
while Auburn as last year. has been
winning by small scores, but keepin g
their goal line Uucrosscd. The demon
stratiOn Of defensive work given by
the l'lainsmcn in the Georgia game
Saturday. when they held five times
inside their ten yard line. once the
onr-yHrd line, was such as TO lead to
the belief ihat the Vanderbilt forwards
have their work cut out for them if
they expect 10 win tho annual gave on
November Is.
Georgia Tech h"S been scored on
several times. hut has vet to meet a
team which could stop Fielder Spence
aud Johnston consistently Alabama
in winning from Scwance scored its
first victory in eighteen trials with
hat college. The contest uncovered
sstar in Nandcrgraaf. who. besides
scoring u touchdown and kicking two
GOALS. scored three times with kicks
from placement.
Viz ginin had an caSr contest with
Virginia Military Institute the only
affair uncovered being the fact tEat
Thurman still can he counted on to
score on drop kicks. Virginia meet.
Vanderbilt al charlottesville next sat
urday.