The Washington times., 1915-10-03
BIG ELEVENS GET
. GENERAL SURPRISES
Early Season Gridiron Games
Find Little Fellows Stronger
Than Usual.

There ts reason FOR quiet renection
today among many football coaches.
and while yesterdays gridiron re-
verses so common among the so-calied
big teams might be laid to slippery
fields. many Of the mentors will have
things to say and do to the charges
tomorrow. with Yale beaten. the
Navy humbled.' Harvard scared to
death by being held scoreless for three
periods. Princeton lucking out at the
start of its battle. and Penn hard
pressed for victory. there is little
or no consolation remaining for the
coaches OF the big teams today.
Many good men were held out OF
yesterdays games. 1t Is known that
the smaller colleges booked for the
first season games always point up for
the initial trays with the idea OF
springing genuine surprise. Rain
soaked fields MAJ have had something
to do with reverses yesterday. but In
the main the smaller colleges are to-
day due their large need OF praise
for the stirring fights they put UP yes
terday. and the genuine manner in
which they either disposed Of tho
larger rivals or scared them clean out
OF the pads.
The worse setbacks and most un-
looked for surprises were those eS-
ward took on the MASSACHUSETTS, AZ
gies, always a strong contender. for an
carly season game. The Aggies would
have cotton a scoreless tie OF the con-
test had not Harte. the Crimson end.
Tucked out In grabbing . forward pass
intended for one Of the. Farmers. and
dashed across thirty yards OF mud Tor
a touchdown, from which Rollins
kicked goal.
Yale was beaten. as Is elsewhere de.
scribed. while Penn narrowly escaped
O. defeat at the hands Of the Franklin
srd Marshall team. After romn on
Wednesday In defeating Albright; Penn
f.. players yielded only after series OF
line plunaes and short forward passes
nctted a touchdown and goal Quiglcy
kicked a goal from placement for Penn.
while Nyl!n: F. and M. quarter. ran
team for h touchdown. going sixty-nine
yards. The final score was 10 to D.
Foster Sanford's Rutgers eleven made
Princeton hustle along for l0-to-O win.
and the Tigers were lucky to have Tib-
bott. who ran eighty-fivc yards for n
touchdown In the opening period. and
kicked goal. and then droppcd one over
from tne coward lluP. All tnlS ndDDenCV
at the start OF the game. and after the
upstate lads got going Princeton was
not only checked. but had all II could
do to stop the RUTGERS boys from scor-
ing.
Armv got a deadlock with Holy Cross.
the end OF the game finding both teams
with fourteen points each Forward
passing scored for the New Workers..
while the Army eleven got in behind
tho goal limo n sfraiVht fppthnn
Dartmouth got away nicely to n 3-to-O
score on Maine. while Cornell defeated
oberlin BY "a TO 7; Brown and Trinity
scoreless ties of the afternoon. Buck
nell surprised Syracuse by holding the
Salt City lads to single touchdown.
Pop Warmers Pittsburgh team. which
meets the Navy on Saturday. walloped
Westminster by 80 to 0. Lafayette won
from Ursinus by 13 to 2. while Lchigh
took Carlisle Indians to task for a
14-to-0 score. this being the second game
scoring. Penn State and Muhlenburg
had a 9-to-6 battle. the State team win
ming out.
or particular interest to Washing
tonians was the fact that Jack Gass.
Paul Maeoffin. and Korty Church ran
the Washington and Lee-Virginia Wes-
leyan game yesterday. In which the
Generals impressively opened their sea-
son with a 20-to-0 win. The veteran
w. and L. team allowed the visitors but
two chances to score at Lynchburg. and
those were on forward pass and an
attempt at a drop kick.
Branch Bocock's Virginia Polytechnic
team defeated Randolph Macon by a
e0-to-3 margin. the youngsters getting a
drop kick on the scrub team sent In
toward the last Of the game. The Vir-
ginia Military Institute team defeated
William and Mary by 10 to g. while
South Carolina won from Newberry by
80 to O.