The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-11-01
MANY UPSETS
In BIG GAMES
TEAMS EXPECTED TO SHOW FORM
WERE OFF COLON WHILE
OTHERS sHoun
Ehs Were outelassed ana Showing Wa
Ptttful-Coneu Nearly Equaned
seasons Score Record.

NEW YORK. Oct. s1.-The sensa-
tional football season OF 1915 furnishes
soaHs sss sSoss 5Ss Rse' Sv the
which Is crowded the defeat Of Yale,
fennsylvania. Army. Navy and Penn
prises in results and scores Ia the west.
- certainly pushing the pigskin into
Football form was apparently Tossed
over the sideiines at the beginning OF "a
number OF games. while the contending
elevons set out to establish new preced-
ents for gridiron hosts 20 marvel over.
The upsets were not entirely confined
70 the defeats OF colleges which In past
years have been the autOcrats OF the
time honored arenas Harvard. defeat
Cd week ago BY Cornell rallied in
Spar tan fashion and won from Penn
State in a manner that Indicated that
the Crimson Is not entirely out OF the
running for eastern gridiron honors.
ors OF Pennsylvania and other worthy
football rivals was not masterpiece OF
showed shovel that t ne cambridss 'n clan Rut pos :.
sesses the material for a team likely to
give Princeton a tsrrinc battle.
In TACT the Princeton scouts who Wit
messed the game 81 Cambridge were con-
vinced that the Tiger had more 10 fear
will be met week after tho game with
The Crimson. The Ellis showing against
Colgate wGs little short OF pitifu, from
the stanc1otnt CT th- admorers Of ne
Blue. The Yale team. including In its
personnel considerable worthy material
was almost helpless before the splendid
attack and defense OF Colgate. il was
only when the latter comb nation played
the old fashioned line plunRing and end
running game that ire Ellis were able
tlon When forc-E to face "a modern
overhead or spread across-the-neld at
tack. Yale was absolutely powerless 70
diagnose the play or check tho advance
There was nothing Unexpected or
Spectacular about the victories Of
Princeton and Cornell over Williams and
nearly EquAned Record.
Cornell. oy Scoring - points against
her record score OF the season Isads
against Williams. The southerners ar
forced little more than paIs &c. ~ me
powerful Ithaca team. being scored upon
In sharp contrast 20 Cornelrs victory
was the defeat % PennHylvania by La
fayette. The latter team, already van
qulshsd BY washington a Jefferson and
Princeton. took ADVANTAGE Of the Quak-
ers errors, Of judgment and won a de-
Pennsylvania fumbied frequently and
nsed wretched gsneralship at critical
Neither the army nor navy showed "a
advantage. both losing by the
margin of two or three points. The
fireiy upon the aerial form Of attack
20 defeat the soldiers.
clsan Cut vietory
The defeat o. the navy BY the North
carolina AEGles was impressive and
clean cut. both teams funbling the ,,atl
and scoring majority 81 their points
because Of errors BY their opponents.
In other important games Of satur-
day the teams played true 20 nnid-sea-
son form. Dartmouth defeated Amherst
Brown won from Vermont. Syracuse
vanuulshed Michigan 90 Ann Arhor
West virginia Weslsyan whitswashec
Carlisle indians. Rutgers frtumphed
over SprlnRfleld. Wesleyan easily our.
scored worcester r. m. Washington a
Iaffereou ran r0uEht Hhud over Mus
EiuTum. sNarfnmOre was victor lu thu
game against Johns Hopkins Pittsburgh
swami "a Allegheny and Rochester
scored almost ID viii against Stevens