Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-23
FORWARD PASS FIGURES
 STRONG IN SCORING
Saturdays Play Reveals the Division
 of Aggressive Teams.

| New York, Oct. 22.-Eastern varsity football teams came through the week l end games without serious form up- l sets but there were several contests in which the final scores demonstrated strength or weakness not heretofore suspected of the victors or vanquished. The results of Saturdays play brought about a sharp division between those eIeVens Wn1cn romped through weak I opponents without the necessity of sAUWlng more than mediocre orfenSe l and defense and teams which were forced to light for every yard gained 1 or defended.
 In the former group Harvard, Prince | ton, Army, Colgate and Brown were l outstanding examples while Cornell, | Pennsylvania, Georgetown, Navy, | Union and Tufts, although victorious, i found their rivals too formidable for | siackness of play even in the closing | minutes of the games.
 Probably the most surprising feat ure of the days play was the over Whelmlng defeat of Syracuse by the | University of Pittsburgh. The two combinations were thought to be even | ly matched before the game and far above the ordinary in both ability and coaching Apparently, however, the | Syracuse team had sacrificed speed for weight and was well night helpless be- | fore the sprinting attack of Glenn 1 Warmers lighter but perfect football machine.
 Pennsylvania also rose to unexpect- ] ed heights in defeating Penn State in a game in which the Quakers always l held the upper hand and played foot | ball that reflected great credit on the i coaching installed this fall by Bob l Folweu. The addition of Howard Berry, the all-round athlete freshman ! from his severe training in the milit- 1 tary camp on the border was a decided 1 factor in the victory but the eleven as
 a whole showed that Pennsylvania is
 again approaching the powerful type of team that made the Red and Blue 1 feared in past years.
 Both Cornell and the Navy gave eX- hibitions of gameness and strength against opponents which for a time
 threatened to wrest victory from the home teams. Neither eleven showed anything remarkable in the way of either attack or defense for this peri
 cd of the season, but their general Syirit and SteadineSs under a strong
 attack promises much for the future. | Georgetown proved to be gridiron machine too well balanced and smooth
 running for Dartmouth and while the Green fought hard at all times it was unable to check the versatile play of the southerners. Tufts, with it's vic i tory over Harvard as a standard, found the Boston college team also knew the game and was not to be defeated with out a hard struggle, while Union won from Columbia by the scant margin of a field goal after all other attempts to score had failed.
 Princeton and Harvard, on the other hand, were able to dispose of Lafayette and the Massachusetts Aggies re- spectiveIy without the necessity of
 rising much above the plane of a practice game. Neither of the big team opponents was able to press it's rival hard at any time and both Har- ward and Princeton used many substi- tuteS before the contest ended. Sever al plays were used by the large in stitutiOns were excellent ground gain CTS but their effectiveness against more powerful opponents is proble- nautical.
 The victories of Colgate, Brown and the Army must be placed in the same category, since neither Trinity, Rhode Island, nor Williams had an attack or to any extent.
 Considering the play throughout the east as a whole, Saturdays games demonstrated that both the forward pass and the goal from the field are to be permanent factors in the scoring again this season. The was hardly a game of importance in which points were not made through these two forms of aerial attack. In some cases the forward passes were made across goal lines or paved the way for a jun centage of the field goal attempts were turned into scores and it is apaprert that these spectacular methods of garnering points will be seen frequent ly throughout the remainder of the
 gridiron campaign