El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-06
Football and Life Hold So Many Hard Knocks
Most Men Are Kept Busy Absorbing the Shocks
7 TEAMS PLAY
HARD CONTESTS
Army Is Happy Because of
Victory Over Notre Dame;
Yale Defeats Colgate.

New York Nov. 6-Eastern football
play of the week end resolved itself into
two sharply defined groups. one COM
posed Of games which developed into
real contests and the other consisting
OF little more than practice scrim-
images Yale. the Army. Pennsylvania.
Cornell Dartmouth. Navy and SYRIA
cuse are in the former classification.
while Harvard Princeton. Pittsburg.
Brown and Pennsylvania state failed
10 benefit by their games
Yale was particularly fortunate. for
in defeating Colgate. the Blue eleven
derived both football Knowledge ard
confidence The team from Hamilton
proved TO lie exceptionally strong and
contested ever point Of the Els Of
fence and defence.
Army Developing Strong Team.
The defeat of Notre Dame by the
Army in the only iuterSectioual game
Of the day was extremely gratifying TO
the soldiers Their victory over NOtre
Dame. conceded 10 be one of the leading
opponents OF the forward pass play.
demonstrated that the ARMY u round
ing out one Of the strongest teams Of
recent years At West Point.
The defeat Of the Navy by Washing
ton and Lee. taken in conjunction with
the fact that the soldiers had previous
concerning 10 the Middies' adhereuts.
For all round brilliancy. the contest
between Dartmouth and Syracuse was
the outstanding feature OF the day in
eastern football Although the Ham
over eleven won there was plenty OF
sridiron honor for both victor and van
quished-
EIevenS in the Making.
Cornell and Pennsylvania. while they
came through 10 victory against Car
negie Technical and Lafayette. re-
spectively. showed by their play that
they still are elevens in the making.
Little that was new or striking was
uncovered by either Harvard or Prince
ton. IS both Virginia and Bucknell were
too weak TO bring out more than the
routine plays Of their stronger OPP
Ohio vs.. Northwestern.
Chicago. III. Nov 6.-FOOtbau elevens
Of Ohio state and Northwestern uni
verslty. unless meanwhile beaten. viii
fight il out for the 1915 championship
OF the Big Nine at Columbus. o.,
Nov %
Starting the season as dark horses Of
the western conference race these two
teams have caused the biggest upset
western ball has seen in years
Neither was regarded at the start OF the
season as serious contender for the
title.
Northwestern triumph over Indiana.
Ohio states victory over Wisconsin and
the downfall OF Minnesota a 2 the hands
LIMOS were ulSLlncL surprises OF
50 turdayS game Minnesota on past
performances generally. was expected
by critics 10 have a clean sweep 10 the
championship
Northwestern has two more games 10
piay and Ohio State one before these
teams clash in the championship con-
test Ohio faces Indiana next Saturday,
while Northwestern takes on Iowa Pur-
hence
Chicago TrOunces Purdue.
Chicago. following tradition. trounced
Purdue Saturday in a game that had no
bearing on the conference title
Michigan continued its winning
streak piling up 66 10 score over
university of St Louis.
The Michigan Aggies had a scare in
their game with South Dakota It }
looked like South Dakota victory I'M {
til the last three minutes Of play. Hue /
bel booted drop kick between South /
goal, tieing the score ? TO O.