The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-15
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Harvard Plays Virginia, Yale's
COnquerOr, Tomorrow.
Result of Game Being Eagerly
Watched i'm East.
From Everywhere.

New York, Oct. 15.-The schedule
makers for 1915 were kind to the
dopesters. Through a kindly kink
in the 1915 playing chart, it will be
possible tomorrow night to form an
idea of how Yale and Harvard COM
pare for their annual gridiron tussle.
The big Crimson eleven gets the acid
test when it lines up against the Uni
versity of Virginia team, which two
weeks ago sprung the surprise of the
present season by defeating Yale on
her own field, 10 to 0. By the COM
parative score route, the football world
after tomorrow's battle at Cambridge.
1t isn't often that chance to get a
line on the big fellows comes so early
in the season.
About all that can be said about the
game is that Percy Haughton has a
battle on his hands that is many de-
grees removed from a tea party. In
Thurman, Virginia probably has as
good a kicker as there is in the game
this year, and he defeated Yale prac-
tcally Single-handed. Virginia's vic
tory wasn't a fluke-it was earned a
fact of which Haughton is probably
fully aware. That he will throw his
full strength into the breach goes
without saying
Much at Stake.
Virginia has a lot to fight for. Vic
tories over Yale and Harvard-the
peers of the collegiate kingdom-in a
school to an enviable position in the
athletic world.
Yale meets Springfield tomorrow
The Massachusetts, institution general
ly has team of huskies. but the Blue
should win in rather easy style. Since
the Virginia defeat Frank Hinkey has
given the Eli eleven one of the biggest
Shaking-up in YaleS football history
and the result of the jostling will be
watched with much concern by Yale
partisans.
Princeton should run up an over
WheIming score against Lafayette. The
Pennsylvania boys aren't so strong
this year as in other years, and should
be meat for the Tigers.
There is strong suspicion that the
Navy is in for a drubbing at the hands
OF Pennsylvania tomorrow. The Mid
dies were showed up in rather bad
nght by Georgetown a few weeks ago.
Cornell, Dartmouth and the Army
should have comparatively easy games
with Bucknell, Vermont and Colgate,
respectively.
Games in West
In the west, three conference games
are on docket, which alone are enough
to insure day of classic football en-
tertalnment- Chicago undoubtedly
VIII administer her annual drubbing
TO Indiana 1t isn't an event for Chi
cago to lick Indiana any more-it's
a hablt and there is no reason to ex-
pect any upset this year. Indiana has
changed her style of play in the last
two years with the coming of Clarence
Childs, a Yale man, but from press
dispatches she doesn't compare favor
ably with Stages aggregation.
The Wisconsfn-Purdue game should
be a pretty battle, and the Badgers
should win. Purdue has been held to
a TT tie with little Wabash this sea-
son, which doesn't give her much
prestige in conference ranks
Minnesota, favored in some quarters
to capture the Big Nine title reneges
on her conference sisters and tackles
South Dakota
Coach Hawley's Iowa team plays
northwestern, Michigan meets Case.
Missouri takes on Oklahoma and Ne
braska lines up against Washburn-
rounding out an attractive schedule
for mid-October.