Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-28
HOT BATTLES upon
EASTERN GRIDIR0NS
Contest Between Crimson and
Cornell Will Be Feature
Of Today.
QUAKERs FACE PITTSBURGH

New York, Oct. 27.-The frs
month Of eastern varsity foot bal
will end tomorrow with the playing
of several games that will have ar
important bearing upon the fina
ranking of the elevens for the 1915
season. Some of the combination.
appear to be so evenly matched that
victory or defeat will hang upon
breaks of the play,
The contest between Cornell and
Harvard will be the feature game Of
the day. The Crimson fully appreci-
atcs the size of the task that con-
fronts its players.
The clean cut victory Of the Ithaca
eleven left Harvard badly stunned
twelve months ago, but Cambridge is
prepared for the hardest kind OF a
match tomorrow and will have no
excuses to offer should Cornell re-
peat its triumph. The Ithacans will
send into the Harvard standium one
of the strongest elevens that has car
ried the Red and White in some years
and one that should force Harvard
to play its best foot ball The re-
turn Of Percy Haughton to the posi-
ton Of head coach, has raised Grim
son hopes, but it is admitted that the
teams are evenly matched.
Face Formidable Foes.
Princeton, Yale and Pennsylvania,
like Harvard, all face formidable foes
and the outcome Of their contests
depends upon clean handling Of the
ball and the speed and accuracy of
plays. Dartmouth, although defeated
in Georgetown week ago, is pow
erful combination, likely to play
harder with the memory Of the upset
fresh in mind. But with the Harvard
and Yale games few weeks away.
The HigeTs cannot afford to expose
the full measure OF their defense. AS
a result, Princeton probably will play
kicking game and depend to some
extent for a break to give them a
low score victory, if they are to win
at all.
Pennsylvania faces a most formid-
able adversary in the University of
Pittsburgh, and If Howard Berry, the
star Of the Quaker eleven, is in form,
the contest should be a thriller.
Yale hopes to check the victorious
career of Washington and Jefferson
at New Haven where, for the last
two seasons, the visitors from Penn
sylvania have triumphed over the
Blue A third defeat at the hands
OF Washington and Jefferson would
be hard blow for the Ellis, for no
so-called small college team has ever
defeated Yale three years running.
The invaders undoubtedly will give
the Yale eleven terrific battle.
Two Intersectional Games.
The day will also be marked BY
two intersectional games Of more
than ordinary Importance. In both
cases eastern teams will journey to
the middle west to meet opponents
Of that section. The heavy Syracuse
combination will play Michigan at
Ann Arbor, and Michigan should
hold the edge over the Orange. The
other game will bring together Tufts,
the conqucrer OF Harvard, and Indi-
ana. In this contest the eastern
eleven appears to have the advantage,
but if defeated, after playing in the
form shown at Cambridge, the In
diana team will be entitled to rank
high among the foot ball teams of
the country.
The schedules also bring together
a number Of other elevens, which
promise TO be very evenly matched.
Rutgers and Brown, with excellent
records to date, should furnish fast,
high class foot ball and the same is
true Of the games in which the Army
and Navy appear; the Wesleyan-Am-
herst. Georgetown-Albright and Col
gate Springfield contests.