Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-30

which swept through the gridiron ga- nut rom SuperlatiVe to mediocre and was intersperSed with thrills, marked the weekend games wherever eastern eleVenS competed. Not in many years hes single day developed such re- markable series of contests. Veteran followers of the sport cannot recall an afternoon when spectacular fea- lures were so frequent.
 Not all the play, however, can be classified as approaching football per- lection. Almost without exception the competing elevens showed that an other two or three weeks will be re- Quired to put the teams on edge for the games which mark the climax of the season. In some cases the winning teams were victorious through the play Of the combinations as whole, while in others individual brilliancy of one or two players or a lucky break in the game was the margin between victory and defeat Still an other development of the days play was the demonstration that no team, however big or powerfully can hope to win from 8 rival of reasonable strength with an attack based entire ly upon old school methods of advanc- ing the ball. In a broad view of Sat urday's contests it will be seen that almost without exception the team which showed an attack equally di- vided between line plunging and skirt ing, coupled with perfected over head defense, was the one which emerged the victor-
 The outcome of the majority of the games was forecast with more than ordinary accuracy but in several cases competing elevens failed to play up to form expected or the reputation gained in preceding contests. This was true of Cornell. which went down before Harvard by surprisingly one sided score.
 Outclassed in individual and ma chine play. Cornell was never in a po- sition to threaten Harvard seriously notwithstanding the fact that the Crimson combination is far from the apex of it's development. Although Cornell players were bigger and heaV fer, the Cambridge first and second string men worked with individual dash and team harmony which was completely lacking in the Ithaca eleven.
 Harvard's aggressiveness and gen. eralship appeared to take all the snap and strategy out of the visitors early in the game The longer the contest continued, the worse the Red and White played. The Cornell eleven did not appear to have any settled plan of campaign; was slow and uncertain in running off it's playa. and the hand ling of the ball was little short of atrocious. The Crimson, on the other hand, while still crude. showed an 
 the making and a possible worthy ri val for Princeton and Yale later in the season.
 Next to the Harvard Cornell game chief interest centered in the play of Princeton and Yale While both teams of the Tigers was not by any means as convincing as that of the Ellis. Princeton managed to win from Dart mouth by the margin of four points, but it was due to the proWess of an individual player as has frequently been the case in the past. As a team, the Hanover eleven was the better The Tiger offenSe and defense were far from what must be developed if Princeton is to win from it's New Ha- ven and Cambridge rivals.
 Yale showed continued gradual i'm provement under the coaching of Tad Jones. In defeating Washington and Jefferson decisively the Blue made marked progress. for the Pennsylvan- ian combination is a football machine hard to hold in check. It is conceded to be one of the most expert in the country in the use of the forward pass and Harvard will not with interest that Yale, while holding the visitors to two touchdowns in this aerial at tack, piled up more than double tSat score with an offense that embraced both the running and overhead meth ods of advancing the ball.
 The gridiron juggernaut built up at the University of Pittsburgh rolled over Pennsylvania without being seri- ously threatened at any time. The Quakers were unable to cope with the speed and all-round superiority of the anthers although showing a fighting spirit that promises much for the flu ture.
 Both the army and navy teams found little difficulty in disposing of Villa Nova and Georgia, respectively, their opponents being hardly in the same gridiron class with the soldiers and sailors. Brown took the strong Rutgers eleven into camp in impress sive fashion with a whirlwind attack which swept the husky New Bruns wick machine off it's feet. The vic tory proved to be costly one. how ever, owing to the number of players injured. Co1gate's weight and speed proved too much for the Springfield Training school team, but again the forward pass was brought into play by the losers and a score thus run up which lessened the sting of defeat.