The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-19
LITTLE TO CHOOSE
BETWEEN HARVARD,
TIGERS AND YALE
What Small Difference There
Is on GridirOn FavOrs the
Princeton Eleven.
COLGATE GOAL LINE
NOT YET CROSSED
~ WILLIAM n. HANNA.

ny ne ~
Tho Colgate team. oppressor OF the
Army. has made 101 points in three
games and has not been scored on in
n 6f the three. Princeton has been
scored on. but only by a field goal. which
10 the only way s~yracuse's goal line has
been crossed. The Syracuse point record
n 1873, Princeton's Is 66-3. Cornell II
q wholesale point maker. with a recon-
for four games of 1876. Dartnouth's
recon- is l27--7. Rutgers 1910. War
nsrs formidable Pittsburg eleven, which
win 60 through It's PAGES in Philadelphia
nsxt Saturday and Is acting as II It was
fully as strong as n band in the
country. has a record for three games Of
iS4-l2. The Harvard points are SIS
and Yale's 63-16.
They've all been scored on but Col
Rte. The sixteen points against Yale
tDcsude only n touchdown. which =
bStter Than Harvard's defence has done.
The Crimson defence has permitted two.
10 far as the scores by and against are
Concerned. there Is but little Difference
ofIAnsively or d~efensively among Har-
vNrd. Yale In Princeton. with what
difference there is being In favor Of
Princeton on defence and Harvard on
offence. All three have met ono or more
stxong opponents.
Tho eleven Of Exeter. as usual. II
beating everything that gets in its way.
The Dartmouth freshmen, Yale frehmen
and Worcester Academy have been
drubbed and Exeter has made Al points
to opponents none. Tad Jones has had
little but success sSice he took hold Of
Exeter squads.
Among the profundities OF football,
which are beyond us. Is this matter Of
g~eneralship by a quarterback. II he's
near tho other sides goal line and the
phy no selects doesn't go II seems that
hd0 g~eneralship Is bad-he chose the
wronG play. There was a right play
n he'd only known enough to use it.
That the other sid might have stopped
any kind Of a play at that particular
N Is a thought not worthy OF o n
eideration. No. sir. bad generalship was
at fault. So far rs We are able to make
on, bad generalship consists largely of
arranging games with teams "a are
stronger than yours.
In the list OF football officials there
bu = nj SdSAA III d. ~ ltCdi liutb-
Q but on Sunday morning there were
Thousands OF him officiating in the public
prints.
Coach Ready Of Lehish said after the
Yale game that he never saw better ma
tsrtal than there Is AT New Haven. but
he wasn't convinced that the most was
being made Of 1t.
Dadmun, the former Tufts player
now playing for Harvard. Is one of the
best performers in the Crimson's varsity
line.
Whatever the reasons of the Yale
coaches for keeping Legore out of the
earlier games they doubtless were good
reAsons Probably the coaches knew
what they We're doing better than OK
cited outsiders.
Brown made a timely brace in beating
Williams, SO to y. after a tie with Trim
i,y and a defeat by Amherst. Blueness
has given way to cheerfulness and hopes
for the eleven have jumped 100 per cent.
Williams 40 doubt was weak compared
to Trinity and Amherst, but the Bruno
mans played with pep and spirit In the
Williams game which had been absent.
1t was that more thar the size of the
<Ss0 "hhNA
Hesitation, time wasted in deciding on
q route aff,icts the general run OF back
field men who have Just caught a punt.
The Harvard Cornell game ought to
prove an exception. Mahan and Barrett
are nnshed performers at coming back
Instantly and on the jump.
Unions string of football victories
stretched ~unbrokenly across eleven games
before New York University snapped 1t on
Saturday. The eleven straight included
these contests st. Lawrence, 10
Hobart. ID; Wesleyan. 10; Stevens.
49,: Worcester Tech. 30; Rensse-
laer Poly, 80; y. Y. u, 80; Hamil-
ton. 26-7 (the foregoing games In 1910
and this year: st. Lawrence. 60
williams. 10; Fordham, 60.
IA Is q question: says a Bostonian,
WHISTLER We shall see again such Il
splendid punting duel as Mahan and
Thurman INDUCED In" Well. briggs of
Princeton is likely to let folks know
That he's around.
Note that "Bracher. Rutgers 1876
pound hanback,, gained the most yard
age" Maybe he did the most runnage
ralman probably did the most puntage,
with all hands sharing In the tacklage.
The Wards, Federal League baseball
nagnates VI Brooklyn. have IL scheme.
The Wards, be it known. put In an cleo
trio lighting equipment at Washington
Park. their baseball plant, TO promote
aight baseball there. Now they want
aight football. They have made an Of
Ter to the elevens Of New York Univer-
div and EOrdham To rOme fopather sOna
lne night at Washington ark. The
natter, involving considerable Of a de.
,arture IN gridiron affairs, has been sub
nitted to the management OF the teams
named. Among other things necessary
10 bring about such a contest would bt
faculty sanction. and II permission t.
play IN Brooklyn couldn't be obtained tn
baseball people say they would be will.
Ing to install their lighting system al
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