The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-30
VANDY PROVES ID BE MOST POWERFUL
 SCORING MACHINE
Commodores Lead Every Football Team in Country in Rolling Up Score.
 Wisconsin Second

New York. October 29,-The present ample Of the aIl-round improvement made by the average college eleven ill playing strength and gridiron strategy. A decade ago 1t was an extraordinary event when the minor varsity team scored upon it's big university rival Today the eleven which can show d clean slate al the seasons half-way mark is rarity. The radical changes made in the rules during the past few years is responsible, to some extent for this increase in scoring power, but the fact remains that the smaller col 'lege combination is no longer unfamil- lar with the full possibilities of foot ball
 In a lis' of more than 100 institutions less than doncn have gone through the season to date without being scored upon, and when this number is re- strIeted to those colleges which year m and year out m4ke a high class and consistent otball showing, the num- Der can be counted upon the fingers of one hand. In tic east and middle west 'Nf. 'N' eii'S nave llltl OpPOHtntS Cd pable of crossing their goal line or goal bar The select trio with clean states is composed of Vanderbilt, Col gate and Washinton and Lee. Wiscon- sin and Syracuse have escaped with but one field goal registered against them, but the others are far from be- ing so fortunate
 Among the elevens which have tasted the bitterness of defeat are Yale. Har- yard, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Dart mouth, Virginia, Army. Navy. Brown, Syracuse and Rutgers. A peculiar angle of the situation is that the group of undefeated teams includes many rep resenting colleges which were seldom heard from in the football of d few years ago. Among these same teams will be found the conquerors of the big var sity elevens which until recently ran h-shod over the little fellows in the so-called practice games preliminary to the championship contests.
 A careful study of the records of 10 years ago will show that at this period Of the season the leading university teams of the east and middle west were. as a rule, unscored upon an dhad run up totals that ranged all the way from lVo to zVo points. AL the mldSeaSOn mark of 1905 Pennsylvania and Cornell were the only big elevens which had been scored upon. Five years later the progress of the minor college team was shown by occasional scoring against their big rivals, with rare defeat as promise of greater reversals to come.
 While the gridiron leaders are still to be found among those colleges which have been making football history for many years, their margin of superiority is being cut down each season. The top point scores are no longer restricted to a few big eastern and western universities as was the case five or ten years ago. Van derbilt leads today with Wisconsin and Colgate close at the heels of the south erners, while Harvard. Yale, Princeton. Pennsylvania. Army, Navy, Chicago and other institutions with long and famous gridiron history are under or just over the Hotpoint mark
 The following tabulaton shows the number of games played, won and lost up to Saturday. october 23, together with the points scored by and against the more successful elevens of the season to date:
 Opponents