Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-05
More Contests of interest Of
fered Than on Any Day
Thus Far This Season.
TIGER-CRIMSON GAME
OF FIRST IMPORTANCE
Pittsburgh-W. & ]. Battle Should Be
Hard Fought-Virginia Meets
Vanderbilt Eleven.
BY n. c. BYRD.

No previous Saturday this season has
offered as much of interest to foot bal
| followers as tomorrow will afford There
are games of great local interest In
each section and several contests which
are attracting national attention. 1t
will certainly be an exacting person
who cannot find something in foot ball
satisfying to his gridiron appetite
OF primary Importance is the con-
f1ict between Princeton and Harvard
So much already has been written OF
this that there is little left to be said
little other than the real inside story
of how the coaches feel, their real
ideas as to the probable result of the
game and whether Harvard has been
potentially strong and needed only the
impetus of a weeks hard work to
place it on nearly as high plane as
last year, but part of this never will
be found out and the other not until
after the contest is played.
Certain it is that the Tigers have a
better opportunity to make themselves
felt in the foot ball world than in a
long while. They are facing Harvard
tomorrow with the surety of an evenly
fought battle, and not as they did a
year ago, when it was almost fore
gone conclusion they would not win.
Instead of disorganized coaching
system, instead of squad more or
less disrupted, Princeton faces it's SUI
preme test with a solid front, present.
ing a confident eleven, determined to
wipe out the poor record of 1914 Har-
ward may defeat Princeton. but if so It
will be only after grueling struggle
and because it has proved better than a
mighty good team. Notwithstanding
Harvard's splendid eleven, which is
better than most people think, if all
signs are true. Princeton's team this
year is built too solidly to crumble or
even bend at the first powerful attack
hurled against it.
AS a matter of fact, the running game
may prove futile for both elevens, and
the contest may develop solely into a
kicking contest, with Mahan pitting his
skill as punter and dropkicker
against briggs as punter and Tib-
bolt as dropkicker A mistake on the
part of either eleven may win: the
failure of one of the quarterbacks to
handle a punt properly: a tumble or a
mistake in Judgment, may be the means
of determining the victor. And let it be
remembered that a Princeton man made
this statement.
Rush has an eleven which seldom
makes an error, and certainly it is one
against which other teams cannot af-
ford to make single mistake"
the year is likely to be that which is
to take place in Pittsburgh between
Washington and Jefferson and the Uni
versity of Pittsburgh. These two teams
represent the summum bonum of sec
ondary school foot ball, if they may
be termed secondary now after their
splendid records of the past few years
Everybody knows that Warner has de-
veloped great team at Pittsburgh, his
sweeping victories over several elevens
of recognized strength attesting to that
Washington and Jefferson's decisive de-
/ feat of Yale, especially at a time when
it seemed that the Presbyterians were
not as strong as last year, is indicative
of Folwelfs ability to tune up his men
to meet a crucial situation. Pittsburgh
seems to have the better record, SO far
but there need be no misgivings in the
minds of the Washington and Jeffer-
son followers as to the chances of their
team putting up a splendid fight.
Up in the New England states there
is great interest in the game between
Dartmouth and Pennsylvania. The
general interest is somewhat lacking
because of 1he defeat of Dartmouth by
Princeton and PENIS poor showing, but
Dartmouth especially has a big fol-
lowing around Boston and the game Is
| sure to be well attended.
Down in the south the main interest
! is centered in the battle at Char
F.. lottesville, between Vanderbilt and Vir-
! ginia. These two teams are the hes,
| in the south, with the exception OF
Georgetown and possibly Washington
and Lee, and the game is attracting
| widespread interest. Probably the
! largest crowd that has ever watched
| a foot ball game at Charlottesville
| will be present when the first whistle
blows Many parties are going to the
Virginia town from Baltimore ant
| Washington, and the occasion is sure
to have quite colorful touch.
| Virginia's record so far this season
| is better than Yanderbilt's. notwith,
standing that the latter's goal line has
| not been crossed. Virginia has mel
much more powerful elevens than the
| Tennessee institution, and has conse.
quentIy been put to more severe tests
| Vanderbilt is not likely to win unless