Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-11-08

GRID CLAIMANTS REDUCED
1T WAS AWFUL SCATTERING
OF FOOTBALL ASPIRATIONS
Southern Circles Shocked M Decisive
Vanderbilt ScOrc-WOrk of Mnher
Gets High Prnisc.

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Football aspirations were badly
shattered in the Eastern games on
Saturday, aud the field OF sectional
Championship claimants materially re-
duced. Princeton and Washington and
Jefferson bowed before stronger clev-
ems, leaving Cornell. Colgate and
Pittsburgh. chief contenders for the
premier gridiron honors Of the East.
Chief interest centcred OH the IIar-
ward -Princeton contest. and tho fact
that the Crimson defeated the Tigers
cannot be catalogucd among tho SEN
sntions of the pigskin season. Har-
ward won because ii played better foot
ball. both from an individual and team
standpoint.
Harvard's eleven is far from being
the smooth machine that carried the
Crimson to victory in 1914. but Oh Sat
urday il was superior to the Nassau
combination. There was Il marked i'm
provemcnt in the play Of the Tigers
however. as compared TO their game
OF year ago. and plenty Of evidence
that Speedy" Rush will lift Prince
ton football to IL high plane If given
time to lag more than the foundation
foi "a winning system.
Against the better drilled and more
versatile Harvard squad. the Orange
and Black showed flashes of the high
est type Of modern football. but lacked
The sustained power to carry the ball
across the Crimson line.
Although Yale played a better all
around game against Brown than the
ELS have developed In previous con-
tests this fall it was not equal to
defeating the Providence team, and it
would appear that both Princeton and
Harvard. which must be faced during
the next two weeks, are much superior
to the Blue.
The forward pass that Washington
anc Jefferson used so successfully to
defeat Yale, failed TO mystify Pitts
burph. and Glenn Warmers pupils
eliminated their opponents from the
race for tho first place Hridiron honors.
Pennsyichnia and Dartmouth played
Il MP and tuck game I'm which honors
we're about even. The Green finally
emerged victor although the Quaker
team showed TO better advantage tt3n
heretofore this season Much the same
situation prevailed at Annapolis. where
the Navy defeated Buckneli. The Mid
dies gave their coaches some slight
encouragement by playing stronger
football but the weakness OF their
opponents made II doubtful IL this i'm
provcment was as marked as IL ap-
peared.
The East and West broke even on
the interscctiona1 games OF the day
Arbor and Notre Dame won from the
Army At West Point. The Soldiers and
the Western players were evenly
matched and victory was in doubt UNI
I'll the closing minutes OF the contest
La the other contests oh'enstern fields
the results were on par with the
play on the big gridirons.
SOUTHERN FOOTBALL CIRCLES
GET A REAL SHOCK
southern football circles received a
shock in the size OF Nirginia's score
agains, Vanderbilt. The Commodores'
offensive. in Southern circles, had come
TO he regarded as welI-niGh irresisti-
BILE: the defensive well-nigh impreg-
nabie. and there were few. even among
Virginia supporters. who would pre-
net Virginia victory by go large n
score Many indeed though, Wander
o'!ns chances 10 win were excellent
The work of Mayer. Virginia's left
half. in carrying the ball combined
with magnificent Interference by the
Virginia ends. backs and tackles, and
me Niror with which the Charlottes-
v'llc forward rammed tho Vanderbilt
defense, was such that little less than
q stonewail could have stopped them.
Vanderbilt. for the first time this
season sprung q drop-kicker In Cody,
who plays riEhttackle. In the first
period he booted the ball from the
forty -two-yard line for field goal
and the only score for Vanderbilt until
In the final period. when Curry. the
Commodorcs' brilliant quarter back. re-
covered Virginia tumble and raced
almost the length of the field for a
touchdown.
Georgia Tech. in winning from Ala
pama in Atlanta. did nothing unusual
beyond the size OF the score. The Ala
bamaians usually give Tech hard
contest, and the latter had been primcd
10 retrieve the 1914 defeat
Alabama succeeded only in kicking
Nanderfraafs punts averaging oftv
yards. fifteen yards better than those
OF Tech
Auburn ran up score OF 45 to o
against Mercer. This gamcwas largely
TO Keep the Plainsmen in shane for the
Vanderbilt contest next Saturday.
The Nanderbilt-Auburn contest. al
Birmingham. and the Georgia Georgia
Iech contest. in Atlanta next Satur-
DAY now are the centers Of interest.
whether Vanderbilt Will he able TO
give Auburn the fight expected after
Two hard games in as many weeks is
nroblematical. The Georgia Georgia
iech game Is chiefly of local interest
IN Georgia. although If Tech comes
1nrouGn victorious and Auburn defeats
vanderbilt, the championship of that
part OF Inc ). !. a. A. territory would
ne decided I'm Atlanta Thankspivin"
Day. "'s'Ht"s
HARVARD NOT MUssED UP