The Washington herald., 1915-10-03
Yale Has Great Chance of
Capturing Cridiron Title
in the East.
DOPE ON THE SCHEDULE

New York. Oct. 2.-There's going to be
u real scramble for the football cham
pionship of the East this year, with Yale
and Princeton ruling as favorites but
with plenty of dark horses in the
forms of Harvard. Pittsburgh, Pennsyl.
vania. w. & J. and Cornell.
Looking along the football horizon lust
now one can discern but little other than
the Blue tint of Yale and Orange and
Black continuation of Princeton, so far
as the big three" is concerned Har-
wards rosy tint of other years seems to
have faded with the passing of Brck!ey
Hardwick, Bradles and others, and the
chances are that Harvard must yield its
hrst-place honors to some other eleven
unless Coach Percy HauShton accom-
plishes the seemingly impossible.
But should Harvard get several wal
lopings it doesn't necessarily follow-as
was the case in other years-that the
championship must go to Yale or Prince
ton. The days when the big three
lorded it over the football world are
past The new rules have given the
smaller colleges a change. and those
smaller" colleges surely will be in the
fight this year
The schedules are so arranged this
year that it would be possible for Pitts
burgh. Pennsylvania. W. & j. or Cornell
the Eastern section of the L. S. A. W. &
]. has a game with Yale. Now suppose
Yale beats Princeton and Harvard
which is possible-and w. & j. beats
Iale-which is also possible-and w. & j.
goes through the season unbeaten. That
gives the championship to W. & j.,
doesn't It?
w. & J. has a game with Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh has a game with Pennsyl-
vania and Pennsylvania has game with
Cornell. If Yale beats Harvard and
then Pittsburgh beats W. & ]. and all
its other foes. Pittsburgh would rule as
king of the football world. II Pennsyl-
vania should beat Pittsburgh it would
be champion-in case all the other things
worked out. And then, if Cornell beats
Pennsylvania. the championship could be
claimed-and justly so-by the Ithacans.
Illinois locks good enough to repeat n
the West. The championship eleven OF
1914 was walloped considerably by gradu-
ations. but Coach Bob Zuppke has eft
a sufficient number of veterans to FORM
the nucleus of a great eleven this year.
Chicago and Minnesota are expected
to give the champions a great battle for
the 1915 conference honors. with Mime
sofa, from the early September angle.
seeming to have slight edge on the
Maroons.
Minnesota. on the other hand. retains
some OF its best men, and some of the
youngsters who have come up from last
years 1914 freshman class look coed
enough right now to jump INTO the regu-
lar lineup and play a game that will
make Minnesota forget some of its stars
of 1914.
Wisconsin is something of a puzzle. 1t,
too, was hit by graduations. but it has
some good men left However. it needs
at least a half dozen first class young
sters to plug up the gaps. The sopho-
more class so far hasn't shown up with
anything that looks any too wonderful:
however. there's a lot of material in the
rough at Wisconsin. and if the coaches
can develop 1t quickly. that Wisconsin
outfit ought to be considered among those
present all year.
The other conference elevens at this
time aren't figured in 4 class with the
Big Four'-Illinois Wisconsin. Minne-
sofa. and ChicaSo-but Purdue or Ohio
State may spring a big surprise before
the-sea son is over.