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 NEW YORK, Oct. 29.-Football play which swept through the gridron gamut from superlative to mediocre and was intercepted with thrills marked the week end games wherever eastern eleFens competed.
 Almost without exception, the com petirg elevens showed that another two or three weeks will be required to put the teams on edge for the games which mark the climax of the season.
 Still another development of the days play was the demonstration that nc team. however big and powerful. can hope to win from a rival of req sonable strength with an attack based entirely on the old school methods of advancing the ball. In a broad view of Saturdays contests, it will be seen that almost without exception. the team which showed an attack equally divided between line plunGing and skirting, coupled with a perfected over head defense. was the one which emerged the victor.
 Cornell went down before Harvard by surprisingly one-sided score With one of the biggest and most powerful leans that has entered the Cambridge stadium in many seasons and with the wagering five to four in their favor the Ithaca players failed completely to live up to the expectations of their support. rs.
 Harvard's aggressiveness and gener- alship appeared to take all the snap and strategy out of the visitors early in the game.
 Next to the Harvard Cornell game. chief interest centered in the play of Princeton and of Yale and while both 
 showing of the Tigers was not by any means as convincing as that of the Ellis Princeton managed to win from Dartmouth by the margin of four points, but 1t was due to the prowess of an individual player, as has fre- quently been the case in the past
 In defeating Washington and Jeffer- son decisively Yale made marked pro- gross, for the Pennsylvanian combina- tion plays q game hard to hold in check. It is conceded to he one of the most expert in the country in the use of the forward pass. Yale, while hold ing the visitors to two touchdowns in this aerial attack. piled up more than double that score with an offense that embraced both the running and over head methods of advancing the ball.
 The gridiron juggernaut built up at the University of Pittsburg rolled over Pennsylvania without being seriously threatened at any time The Qdakers were ! able to cope with the speed and all around superiority of the Partners although showing a fighting spirit that promises much for the future.
 Both the Army and Navy teams found little difficulty in disposing of Villa Nova and Georgia, their op- ponents being hardly in the same grid iron class with the soldiers and sailors. Brown took the strong Rutgers eleven into camp in impressive fashion.
 The invasion of the middle west by Syracuse and Tufts resulted in an even break at the end of the days play for, while Michigan won from the Orange eleven. Indiana fell before the New Both games were thrillers from start to finish. Michigan showed that it has another squad of fighters by turning defeat into victory in the closing minutes of play by the use of several of Coach Yost's sensational open field plays after the big and pow erful Syracuse team had rolled up |