Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-10-11

HARVARD GRIDIRON SUPREMACY,
AFTER REIGN OF FOUR YEARS,
APPEARS ON VERGE OF SKIDDING
Crimson Already Nipped by Tufts, Hardly Will
Complete Schedule Without Tasting Another
Defeat, as Yale and Princeton Are Stronger
By GRANrLANp RICE

TN THE midst of the world scrice hula.
Il baioo the sporting realm At large has
paid no great attention yet 20 the depres-
sion at Harvard after the TUFTS raid.
TUFTS has fine football machine, Tuft
team to beat. you might say, II you cared to
indulge In any frivolity, but the fact that
even a good Tufts eleven can overthrow
Harvard team is bit eignihcant. Which
is to say that II comes as an carly hint
that after a four-year reign Harvard sn-
premacy Is on the verge OF skiddinE DIT
1915 and 1916
But the big Red team from Ithaca stood
as one OF the great teams Of the year.
one OF the great. " not the greatest And
that was Harvard's only setback.
However. 1915 hardly will have the same
story 20 tell. Harvard already has been
nipped once, and tho season is barely
under way. with the hardest part, II not
the Tuftest part. OF the schedule etiu
beyond. II is hardly likely then that Har-
ward win be able 10 20 the rest OF the way
unbeaten. Princeton will enter the stadium
with one OF the strongest Tiger teams In
many years, and whom Harvard reaches the
Yale bowl late in November. she will find
Blue array out TO avenge four years
The Shifting Tide
II may be possible that Harvard has not
yet reached the shifting tide that each
eleven must know.
Each mans reign In spor, only lasts so
long. At the appointed moment the re-
action sets In and the Jolt lands with a
thud.
Haughton has been the master of his
game for at least four years-ever since
Princeton beat him and Yale tied him, nve
years ago. But as great a coach as Haugh-
ton was and is. II also must be remembered
that for 1915 no Brickleys. Hardwicks or
Mahans are rompinG around In crimson
| harness. There Is good bsckfisld material
| at Harvard, but no one great star to act as
threat and a reality to carry the ball
| and to threaten an attack as protection
| for another baokheld runner. BY next fall
| when Haughton will have had the chance
to develop some OF his young men, he may
have another 1914 or 1915 backfeid, bu,
| he viii have to work twenty,seven hours q
day to erect such combination within the
next month and get ready for Cornell
Princeton and Yale.
The Other Three
These three-Cornell. Princeton and Yal,
| are all set to take a shot at Harvard IL
turn Cornell and Princeton both have hn,
| chances TO win. Yales strength hardly car
be determined now, although the Blue ma
chine is pretty sure to be better than any
Elidom has known for four seasons Il
may be that Harvard can win two of thss,
three games. but decided change will hav,
70 come, for the prospect now is that on,
out of three win be the Crimson limit
Cornell and Princeton both have spec,
and power, enough material to insur
strength. And II Yale continues the eli
she started Saturday Colonel Haughton viii
face one OF the busiest little campaigns h
ever has known
After all, Harvard Is about due for
slump: the wonderful average that she ha
maintained since 1911 hardly could be car
ried on indefinitely. She has earned he
right TO one off year, even II this Off yea
should bring defeat In every big gam,
which Is no part Of a safe gamble.
You may recall the old saying, "As thI
oil world goes roun' and roun some 90 u
and some down"
Harvard has been UP long time a
supremacy exists In sport. her time on tn