Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-01

Michigan are passed. Space prevents placing the names of other college elevents below this couplet.
 When Cornell defeated Harvard 70 to 0 and continued to win all of he4 season in history. The record made by the team places 1t way up in front and no doubt many of our critics WfH slip Doctor Sharpe's men the gridiron title. There is only one objection to this. The University of Pfttsburgh E also has gone through. the season with a clean slate and also completed ona of the best years in the history of the Western school Pittsburgh is entitled to place be- side Cornell on the top rung of the ladder. Warmers team defeated the Navy, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Wash-i ington and Jeffereson Carnegie Tech. and Penn State. and whfIeaPe was 1 the only near-big Eastern team played, the record looks as good as that of Cornell. The victory over Penn State on Thanksgiving day and the triumph over Washington and Jefferson show | ed that the eleven was of high standard and can be compared with the team from Ithaca, N. Y.
 It seems strange to stick Harvard in third place, but when one looks over the game played by the Crimson team this fall nothing else can be done. Only one good game was played and that was against Princeton. The men i from Cambridge showed some gdod football in that contest and sprang one of the many surprises by scoring a victory But Yale did the same l thing a week later and the public be- gan to sit up and take notice. Then came the Yale-IIarvard game, which reculted in q funeral for the hopes of l Old Eli and a demonstration of what one good team can do to a poor one. l This fl to score made by Harvard boosted the Crimson sstock.s but the team really had an easy time of 1t, and the battle can be compared with that fought with. Springfield Y. N. c. A.
 Had Yale been stronger. on Novern- Der 20, or an opponent of equal strength sent against Harvard in the nnal contest, the team probably would have received more recognition But Yale was no match, and the only req son that more points were not scored was because Harvard players got tir- ed crossing the goal line. The Grim son met an equal foe in Cornell and lost. Therefore Cornell has the bet- ter team. [
 Princeton started out with a rush Ono joke intended) and walloped the strong Rutgers eleven In the second game on the schedule. It was the first big triumph of the year, and the Tiger adherents boldly predicted that the team would win the championship.
 
 duced his new system and it was a huge success. Then came Syracuse, one of the strongest teams in the East, and Princeton-won by the score of to 0. Lafayette, Dartmouth and Williams fell by the wayside buried under mass of touchdowns and field goals, and when the Harvard matinee was called the .Jungleers were unanl- tmously selected to get first money. II The loss of the game was a sur | al 1ar ra ArrL core, to the work begun by Harvard, the season ended with as much gloom as there was joy at the start. How ever. Princeton had a better team than Yale and is entitled to a higher ranking. The Eli victory probably would not happen again in thousafd Fl years under the same conditions, so Princeton is placed one notch below Il Harvard. . T Penn State had wonderful team and showed up we'll despite the 9f change in the coaching system and the installation of new coach. Dick Harlow deserves lots of credit for his work this fall. and can be classed with the best coaches in the country His team won from Lehigh, Lafay : cite and Penn, and lost to Harvard after one of the hardest games ever staged in the stadium. The teams were eventfy matched, and Fa to 70 score should have resulted. Pitt won the game on Thanksgiving day, but ths Smoketown folks had such a good team that it was no disgrace. =
 Washington and Lee comes next, and although the only game played in the North resulted fin defeat, tho Southerners showed that they could play football and give any team run for their money. CornelIs scored the first victory over this team in two years, and had to overcome a lead of, 21 points to do it. Johnny Barrett, one of the best halfbacks have ever seen was the offensive strength Of the. eleven, and Ted Shultz, the All Amerian tackle, did most Of the work on the line. Walter Elcock, the old Dartmouth star, was head coach of the team and was assisted by Raftery and Jiggs Donahue.
 Virginia's victory over Yale placed the team in the limelight, and two weeks later Harvard had a hard time in winning 10 to o. This was the only defeat suffered by the team this year.
 Bob Folwell took two old players and built up a new team around them at Washington and Jeffereson,and fin-s ished the season with only one defeat Pitt winning by the score of 19 to 0. It was a remarkable feat, and Fol- wells reputation as a coach did not suffer. Brown and Dartmouth had poor teams and lost many games. l | Yale gets place No. 13 on the list. and fell so low because so many Iteams defeated her. It was the most disastrous season in Old Ellis history, and even Thorn Shevlin, with his Mir- lnesota shift and applied psychology, could not drag the team out of the mud Perhaps something will happen next year and the team will get out ment.