The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-01
EVEN POLLARD
CANNOT DEFEAT
COLGATE TEAM

Providence, Dec. browns rosy
dream of the football championship
of the East was waited into oblivion
at Andrews Field yesterday after
noon when spunky Colgate submerg-
ed thep roud conquerors OF Harvard
and Yale in a puddle of mud by a
score Of 28 to 0.
It is hard to explain just what was
the matter with the Brown players.
Maybe their heads were dazed with
, air castles of championships and
with anticipated All-Eastern and ALL
American glory. Anyway Colgate.
full Of fight and football, just lifted
! them up at the very start and threw
them around Andrews Field so UNI
tremendously that they were
/ stunned. Colgate outcharged the
{ famed Brown line, she riddled it with
holes big enough to haul a coal truck
through, she wheeled merrily around
fthe ends and gave Brown a lesson in
football she will not soon forget.
Brown is the disappointment of the
syear's eliminating days, and Colgate,
Especially considering the size of the
college comes pretty near to being
the sensation of the season. When
Colgate invaded the West and
trimmed Illinois, football folks were
surprised; when she tore the giant
Syracuse eleven to ribbons football
folks marveled, but when this same
Colgate bunch ripped Brown to tat
tiers football folks threw up their
hands in utter amazement.
1t was hard, bruising, old fashioned
football that wrecked Browns hopes.
Hubbell, Spencer and Clio, the Col
gate backs, were damned through
the line with such force that in the
third period Brown was being bowled
over in the mud like a. lot of tenpins,
while Colgate was rushing arrogaptly
down the field at q rate of 10 yards
a clip. With each charge triumphant
Colgater ubbed it in worse.
The greatest shock to Brown was
the thorough and complete suppress
ing of Fritz Pollard, Browns negro
half back, who has struck terror into
every team he. has faced. Pollard
was subdued. Never had chance
did he get to Sromp away clear and
bring forth the lusty shouts which
were all ready and waiting to greet
stars every move so closely that when
ever he carried the ball there were
half "a dozen pairs of strong arms
ready to grasp him and bury him be-
meath pile of steaming, mud-daubed
PLAYERS.
even though Colgate did crush out
all of Pollard's chances to gallop his
way to glory, they could not get him
out Of the way on the defense. As,
Pollard has starred on the attack all
season, 30 he starred yesterday after
noon on the defense. He was the one
man in the Brown team who was able
to tumble the overwhelming Colgate
rush. Playing On the secondary de-
Tense, Pollard rushed in headlong
and often dumped the Colgate run
ners after they had successfully.
shaken off the other Brown tacklers.
Cofgate's warriors tried in vain to
box him up as they did the others.
but the elusive negro outguessed
them and wriggled his way through
to spill romping opposition.
Colgate's never ceasing assault on
the Brown line Melted four touch
downs, one in each period, and four
times did the trusty toe Of West boot
the heavy waterlooged ball over the
crossbar for additional point. Browns
men were helpless in the hands OF
the New York state players, who toy
ed with them much as a cat toys with
a ball of string. On every rush the
Brown line was completely smother
ed, and upon the few occasions when
the local athletes had the ball their
formations were rudely Jared and
shattered before they were we'll
started. Colgate's eleven was drilled.
like regiment Of soldiers and
throughout the game played with
unity and crushing agressiveness,
in the face of which Brown made
but a poor showing.