The Washington herald., 1916-11-22
Talk of Post-Season Games
To Decide Gridiron Titles
Brown May Play Pittsburgh
for Championship Of
the East.
By JOHN A. DUeAN.

Big game Saturday for the football
championship Of the United States at
the Polo Grounds, New York City; Brown
University, of Providence. W. Pittsburgh
University. Of Pittsburgh. Why can't this
game be played and settle all dispute on
the football championship of the East,
II not Of the country
OF course, followers of Haughton-Jones
combinations that meet in the Yale bowl
at New Haven Saturday will be battling
for their own little three-cornered cham
pionship Of the so-termed big Three,
but not one gridiron expert down East
will have nerve enough this season TO
credit this game for the championship OF
the East
Only In one section of the country Is
II possible to decide the championship,
and this big issue Will be decided Satur-
day when Northwestern University plays
Ohio State for the title in the big nine
conference.
big muddle, as both Georgetown and
washington and Lee have clean claims
to the title, each having equally as good
a record as the other.
In the Southern section the University
of Tennessee at Knoxville, and the
Georgia Tech School Of Atlanta, have
claims on the honors, while out on the
coast the University of Washington is
still undefeated, this being the thirteenth
year for these gridironers to maintain
this clean record.
II has been learned that a determined
effort Is being made to arrange a post
season football game between Brown and
Pittsburgh to decide the Eastern cham
pionship. The fact that the authorities
at Pittsburgh have announced that the
schedule OF the team will positively end
. with the playing Of the Pennsylvania
State game on Thanksgiving Day has
not deferred several men Of recognized
influence from going ahead with this at
tempt to arrange such a game.
However, the chances Of their efforts
being crowned with success are nightly
slim. 1t Is doubtful whether the au-
thorities at either institution would sane
tion such an event. While the game
would undoubtedly be arranged in a spirit
Of sportsmanship only it Is believed that
the. powers would frown upon 1t, con-
tending that it sayored too much of COM
mercialism. There can be no question
that 1t would be q big attraction, and
were IL arranged for the Saturday fol-
lowing Thanksgiving Day, to be played
at the Polo Ground, 1t is a foregone con-
clusion that the Brush Stadium would
be crowded to capacity and thousands
would have to be denied admission.
II
Pittsburgh were willing that their repre-
sentative teams should meet In a game
which undoubtedly would decide the
Eastern football championship so little
time remains that 1t Is doubtful whether
all Of the arrangements could be COM
pleted. However, this obstacle might
be overcome. but there Is little reason to
believe that Pittsburgh will change its
announced attitude regarding post-season
fOnfhan fhfa
should officially sanction the effort to
try to arrange the game.
suggestions have been made to the au-
thOrities at Georgetown to have the Hill
toppers and Washington and Lee meet IN a
post-season game either IN this city
Norfolk or Richmond to settle the dis
pute for the South Atlantic title,
Georgetown is in favor of the game
being played, but prefers to have II
played in either Of the out-of-town cities
while Washington and Lee. although not
over-anxious to play. prefers to come to
Washington. This will never materialize,
as the authorities at Georgetown will not
take n chance on the big guarantee that
the Generals would demand, as the
local football fans have not given the
Hilltoppers the right kind of support this
season.
Now that Georgia Tech has made a
sweep of its opponents so far this sea-
son. and that little opposition Is expected
from Auburn on Turkey Day. the experts
In the far South are talking of a post
season game on Saturday, December 2.
between Georgia Tech and Tennessee.
1t is understood that Tennessee is in
favor of playing this contest but desires
that the game be played in Knoxville.
The Tech followers want the game play
ed in Atlanta, and this is the only hitch
that is holding up the playing of this
contest. The authorities of these schools
will meet at Atlanta today to decide the
issue. and there Is no doubt that the
game will be played.