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CRIMSON TAKES ON
THE NASSAU CLAN
Game Between Harvard aa6 Prince.
ton 0vershadows All Other
Eastern Battles.
WILL BE SPECTACULAR COMBAT

WILL BE SPECTACULAR COMBAT
NEW YORK, Nov. 5-The annual con-
test between Princeton and Harvard to-
morrow overshadows all other gridiron
struggles OF the day in the east. Dart
mouth and Pennsylvania viii meet in
Boston, Brown will invade New Haven,
Notre Dame will be the Ar1ny's opponent
at West Point and Bucknell will play the
Navy Washington and jefferson faces
Pittsburgh, while Cornell tackles Michi-
gan at Ann Arbor
With the playing of these games the
complicated foot ball situation in this
section will be cleared to some extent
and the eastern championship claimants
reduced In number.
The defeat OF Harvard by Princeton
would leave the Tigers on a par with
Cornell and Colgate. while should the
Crimson triumph over the Tigers. the
Nassau eleven will be brought down to
the plane of Harvard, Yale, Pennsyl-
wanna, Dartmouth and other strong teams
which have suffered one or more set
backs during the season of 1915. The
same applies to tho Washington and JEFF
ferson-Pittsburgh contest for neither
eleven has been defeated and both have
over big institution teams
VIII BE Spectacular Struggle.
The battle between Harvard and Prince
ton in the Palmer memorial stadium
promises to be one of the most spectacu-
lar struggles of the season. The Orange
and Black is expected to prove a far
stronger opponent for the Crimson than
was the case q year ago, when the Cam
bridge clan won easily by score of 20
to o. The early games of the Harvard
schedule have shown that the team is not
as formidable as was the case twelve
months ago, while Princeton's forge to
the front has been uninterrupted to date.
The edge in playing form and a1l-around
strength appears to be with the Tigers,
for they developed team and individual
power both on attack and defense early
in the season. With Harvard the situa-
ton has been quite the reverse. Coach
Haughton has not had the wealth of ma
terial to work with that he did year
ago and the eleven has been slow to find
itself. With the exception of the defeat
by Cornell, team OF exceptional ability
and speed, Harvard has made about as
good a showing as 1t did up TO this time
in 1914. Yet 1t is remembered that once
the Crimson swung into its gait it over
Dc to 0.
One of Great Possibilities.
Whether this seasons Harvard eleven
has the ability and power to finish out
the schedule In the impressive manner
the team did a year ago is question
open to argument. The fact remains,
however. that Harvard will face Prince
ton with a combination containing the
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Tense. Individually and collectively, the
Crimson team is one of great possibilities.
1t has shown flashes of almost irresistible
offense and defense and should it settle
down early in the game and play to the
limit OF its powers. victory for Princeton
is by no means assured.
Princeton has uncovered defense when
occasion demanded which was almost i'm
pregnable and an offense sufficiently
strong to penetrate its opponents line.
1t is doubtful II the attack is as pow
erful and piercing as Harvards, but this
defect appears to be offset by better
defense. The Tigers chief point of
weakness has been slow play by the
ends and unless there is a decided i'm
provement at the wing tops. the sprinting
and lodging ability OF Captain Mahan
may more than overcome the superior
punting Of Driggs
About Evenly Matched.
The Harvard leader is one OF the most
dangerous broken field runners in the
East and If the turf is dry tomorrow he
will give the Princeton wing men all
kinds of trouble. In field goal kicking
Mahan and Tibbot appear to be about
evenly matched and this serial feature of
the battle should be one OF the features
of the contest.
Chief interest in the Yale-Brown game
will center in the showing made by the
Blue after a week OF coaching under
Shevlin. The Providence team, despite
defeats at the hands OF Amherst and
Syracuse. is a hard-playing combination
and should give the eleventh-hour shift
I at New Haven ample opportunity to dem
onstrate it's effectiveness.
Notre Dame will be represented at
West Point by an eleven on a par with
those which it has sent 70 face the
cadets during the last two years. Ex-
cept for the 20 to 10 defeat at the hands
Of Nebraska, its slate is clean and the
middle western team should give the
soldiers hard fight for the game honrs.
Bucknell which faces the Navy does not
appear TO be so formidable, having won
only one game out OF seven to date.
The Principal Games.
The principal games OF the east to
morrow, together with the 1914 scores
where the same institutions met a year
ago. are as follows:
Harvard at Princeton, ~ 70 0
Pennsylvania against Dartmouth at
= SostOn. 10 Al.
Brown At Yale. 6 to IA
NOtre Dame az Army, 70 20
Bucknell at Navy tdid not meet
NashinEton and jefferson at iftts-
ourgh IS TO a
Williams ~ Wesleyan 40 20 T.
Amherst at Springfield T. $ 0 20 N
Carlisle az Holy CrNss, 70 o
Swarthmare az Lafayette tdid not
meet.