Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-07
FOOTBALL TITLE OF EAST
 CLAIMED BY COLGATE.
Bids for Championship Put in by
 Pittsburgh, and Army.

Eastern football champion is engfoSS- ing the attention Of the experts. All the colleges which might voice a valid claim to titular honcrs have been de- feated except the Army. Moving across country a short distance, to Pitts burgn, another claimant for premier honors is met. The University of Pittsburgh, developed by that master builder Glenn Warner, is undefeated in eight gaInes and has scored 25e points against 26 for her opponents. The Army swept through nine games, piling up PEA points against 34 for her rivals.
 Brown. until it encountered the eleven from Colgate or Thangsgiving day, was undefeated and was regarded as the most powerful eleven in the East Rightly so, for any team that had the power and punch, the speed and resourcefulness to beat down the defences of Yale and Harvard on suc- cessive Saturdays was to be reckoned with at all times. Brown was judged not so much in the mere winning of her games, but in the clear cut, de- cislve manner in which they were wo1:. It may be, of course. that the team lost tine razor edge Of condition after the Harvard game. but at it's best it is doubtful if Brown could have beaten Colgate OF Thangsgiving.
 A word of that Colgate team might
 not be arniss at this mo1.e1It Larry Bankhart turned out team that was the last word in football efficiency. It was machine in which each cCmpo- nent part was put to the most exact ing tests before being accepted and assembled With the other parts. The result was an eleven powerful in every department, with a perfect knowledge of football, thoroughly equipped with the attack to- carry it along and the defence to lres1st .he assaults cf any opponent. v
 ct 4i,a Jo of voIa ;. f +1,o only blot on. Colgate's escutchecn. The | answer in everything is the final score, and the Maroon stands a beaten team. but even in defeat it outplayed 1 Yale for the greater part of the game. | The sting has beer taken out of the l loss of that game HOW for if Colgate could not win over the Blue it swamped the team that did. It will 1 take a lot of arguing to convince the | students at the little Hamilton col I lege that the championship docs not rightfully belong there.
 Meeting the issue squarely, there is little fault to be found with the Col I gate student body in hailirg the eleven as the champion. The team that we l saw play Brown on Thanksgiving day probably could have whipped any eleven in the, country, with the possi- l ble exception of Pittsburgh and could 1 have whipped them all quite as ne- l cisively as it whipped Captain Far l nuns men. Anderson, the quarter back. and West, the tackle, are of All l America callbre, while Spencer and | Hubbell compare with any two back: I in the East. Colgate defeated Illinois I among others, and in 3 pleasing man. 1 ner.. too.
 Granting all credit where it is due
 we come to one of the greatest elevens t-PittSburgh. Warmers men have ripped through the season, defeating all corners with an ease and con- | vincing skill that left no room fol doubt, even with the most skeDtical
 The only eleven that pressed tht fortably was the Navy. Then loost
 handling of the bali and palpabIe lacl of condition to last through a hart l game told it's tale and almost cos Pittsburgh the verdict. Following that game, however, Penn, Syracuse Washington and Jefferson and firall, Perm State were smothered.
 e. Pittsburgh had every element t1a makes the champion. The attack wa:
 cyclonic in speed and force, exact il
 every detail of execrtion. It was { pleasure to watch rhe interferenc,
 form and speed on its way The de.
 Hence was rock-ribhed and defiet
 every assault. It mattered not to Pit
 what line Of tack the opposition fol 2 lowed, whether running or aerial, th'
 issue was faced as met, and the resul
 was invaria ble. Pitt is every inch tn,
 champion.
 The Army eleven. which downed al
 corners. and included Notrc Dame, ii
 entitled to high rating, but even witt
 such stars. as Elmer Oliphant ant Gene Vidal in the. lineup the Arm! | team never showed power sufficient t
 enritle it to ranking above Pittsburgh
 or Colgate, which are entitled t
 honors in the order named. Ther
 was world of rugged power in tn
 Army team, but finish and smoothnes | were lacking.
 With Pitt established as the cham
 pion, Colgate secure in seiond place and the Army one step in the rea1 Brown is entitled ito fourth place ol the power shown. and the Blue 0 Yale may wave next in line. Ial owned the power of the Brown team , and bent the knee after a hard battle , but rallied and triumphed owe Princeton and Harvard. wl.ich file 1: it's cup of joy to the brin,. Old El
 clearly established is superiority owe every rival save Brown.
 Harvard, perhaps, is entitled te rat ing one notch behind Yale. Tie Grim
 son dipped it's colors to Tufts, Browl
 and Yale, but stopped Princeton an
 slaughtered Cornell. Penn. by virtu
 of it's showing against Michigan am
 Cornell, and because of the speed dis | pldy6G IHTOuSIt- the clOSlnS SdIHSS O
 an exacting schedule, may take pro cedenee over the highly rated, but in sufficient Princeton team. The Tiger may come next, and then Gecrgetown Georgetown, by the way. has ! record whicn is impressive. It wa defeated only by the Navy. and wa ! one of the teams to defeat Dartmouth The opposition met by Georgetown was of such a nature thot q tru
 mea sure of the Southerners' greatnes
 may not be had by scores. Suffice t say that they were powerful enougl to perform all tasks demanded o , them, except in the case of the Navy . The Western b1gaboo was, put t , rout in the intersectional struggles !, Grant first that Pittsburgh be includ ed in the Eastern group. however Colgate defeated Illinois, Penn an, Cornell aowned Michigan, and tn Army proved too strong for Notr Dame. How we'll our leading tea,k
 would have done against Ohio State |, the conference champion. or Minne
 sota is a matter of conjecture. an must remain one. Sufficient to ea that our EasterA teams did all tha could be asked of them against tn