The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-10-30
IMPROVE MENT ALL
THROUGH THE BIC
COLLEGE TEAMS
Chief Feature of the Football
Season Thus Far Is General
Advance Made by Smaller
Colleges.

New York, oct. 1.-THE present
football season offers a remarkable
example Of the all-arouud Improve
ment made by the average college
eleven in playing strength and grid
iron strategy. 4 decade x IL was an
extraordinary event when h minor
varsity team scored upon It's big UNI
yersity rival Today the eleven
which Fan snow a clean slate at the
seasons halfway mark is a rarity
The radical changes made m u
rules during the past few years Is re-
sDonsibic, to some extent, for tnis IN
crease In scoring power. but the fact
remains hat the smaller college CON
oinatlon II no longer unfamiliar with
tho fun possibilities Of football.
In "a list of more than me hundred
institutions less than a dozen have
gone through the season to date with
out being scored upon and when TINS
number is restricted TO those colleges
which year In n "a out make a
high class and consistent football
showing. the number Fan be counted
upon the fingers Of one hand. In the
east ana middle west all but three
have met opponents capable of cross-
ing their goal line or goal bar. The
select trio with clear states Is COM
posed Of Vanderbilt, Colgate and
Washington ana Lee. Wisconsin and
Syracuse have escaped with but u
field goal registered against them. but
the others are far from being :" for
tunate
Amoug the olevens which have
tasted the bitterness oI defeat are
Yale. Harvard. Pcnnsylyania, Michi-
gan, Dartmouth, virginia, Army.
Navy. Brown. syracuse and Rutgers
4 peculiar angle of the situation IL
that the gruup of Gndctentcd teams
Includes many representing colleges
which were seldom heard from In tlc
football of "a few years ago. Among
these teams will be found The con
uuerors Of the hip varsity cleyens
which until recently ran rough-shod
over The little fellows i'm the .o-callcd
practice M preliminary TO the
champlonshi ~ contests
\ carcful study ut the records oI
ten years ago will show that AZ this
period ct tho season the LEADING uni-
vorsity teams of the east ana middle
west were. as a rulcn unsecured upon
ana had run up totals thai ranged
all the way from 100 to 200 points.
At the mid-season mark of 1905
Pennsylvania and cornell were tho
only big clryrus which mad been
scored upon Five years later the
progress of the minor college team
was shown Pos occasional scoring
against their hlg rivals, Wit a rare
! defeat Hs 90 promise OF greater reyers-
ais Go come.
While the gridiron leaders are SSH
to oc found among those colleges
which have been making football his
tory Tor many years, their margin oi
superiority BE- being cat down eavt
season The top point scuro0 are ne
| longer restricted to u few bis eastern
and western universities, as was the
ease five or ten years age. Wander
bilt leads today with Wisconsin and
Colgate close at the heels ot the
~southcrncrs, while Harvard Yale
Princeton. Pennsylvania. Army, Nayy
Chicago ana other institutions viii
ouig and famous |gridirou history ar,
under or just owe the hundred puin'
mark.
The following tahulatiun shows The
number OF games played won an,
lost up to saturday october 90.