Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-10-30
OIL D ME- THODS
Of OFFENSE CAN
NOT WIN ALONE
This Conclusion Drawn From
Showing Made by Eastern
Teams With Perfected 0v-
erhead Attack,

New York, oct. 29.-Football play
which swept through the gridiron
J gamut from superlative 10 mediocre
and was interspersed with thrills
marked the wee-end games wherever
eastern eleyens competed almost with
/ out exception. The competing elevens
showed that another two or three
weeks will be required 70 put the
| teams on edge for the games which
mark the climax Of the season.
Still anOtfTr-- Developments Of the
days play was the demonstration that
no team, however big and powerful
can hope to win from rival of rea-
sonabie 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 ana
skirting. coupled with perfected
overhead offenso, was the one which
emerged the victor
Cornell went down before Harvard
by q surprisingly one-sldcd score.
with one of the biggest and most
powerful teams that has entered the
Cambridge stadium in many seasons,
and with the wagering five 10 four In
their favor, the Ithaca players failed
completely to live up to the cXpeCta-
lions Of their supporters. Harvard's
aggressiveness and generalship APP
peured to take all the snap and STRAIT
egg out of the visitors early in the
game.
Next to the Harvard Cornell game
chief interest conferred i'm the play Of
Princeton and Of Vale and while both
teams came through TO victory the
showing of the Tigers was not by any
means as convincing as that Of the
Ellis. Princeton managed 10 win from
Dartmouth by the margin of four
points, but II was due to the prowess
Of an individual player, as has fire.
Qucntly been the case in the past
In defeating Washington and JEFF
ferson dccisivcly Yale made marked
progress It is conceded to he one Of
the most expert in the country in the
use Of the forward pass Yale while
holding the visitors to two touch
downs in this aerial attack. piled up
more than double that score which an
offcnse that embraced both the run
ming and overhead methods of advauc-
ing the ball.
The gridron juggernaut built up at
the University Of Pittsburgh rolled /
over Pennsylvania without being seri- {
ouslv threatened at any time. The /
Quakcrs were unable TO cope with the
speed and all-around superiority Of I
tho Panthcrs, although showing q
fighting spirit that promises much for +.
the future.
Both the army and navy teams
found little difficulty I'm disposing of
Villa Nova and Georgia, both teams
hardly being in the same class with .
the two former teams,
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
eleven Indiana fell before the
New Englanders. Both games were
thrillers from start TO finish. Michi-
gan showed that it has another squad
Of fighters by turning defeat into vic
tory In the closing minutes of play by
he use Of several of Coach Yost's
sensational open field plays after the
big and powerful Syracuse team had
rolled up what appeared to he a safe
cad
Indiana Just failed to accomplish
4 similar feat against the eleven which
wo weeks ago defeated Harvard and
he easterners were perfectly satisfied
when the final whistle halted Indi-
mas savage rally