The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-21
Sporting Notes.

DR.. Ben +. Roller has been heard
from. He is to wrestle in Hartford,
Conn, Thursday night His opponent
is to be Fred Pilakoff, clever heavy
weight wrestler.
Whether Yale bulldog courage can
prevail over a smoother offense. masked
plays and more consistent attack gen
orally with n reasonably fair defense
will be known Saturday evening.
The New York Sun is trying to have
a football game between Brown and
Pittsburg pulled off at the close Of the
season. Brown Is considered willing,
but the Pittsburg faculty so far OBJ
ects. 1t would be some game.
1t is said at Yale that the only
change from the lineup in the Prince
ton game will be Smith at quarter in
place of LaRoche against Howard
Smith has recovered from an attack of
tonsilitis and viii start the game, La
Roche later being given his chance.
Bob Dunbar in the Boston Journal
apparently does not feel that Harvard
culture was any too strongly in evil
dence at the Brown game. After ac-
cusing Harvard players of trying to
''get = Pollard, in another paragraph
he writes A regular Harvard cheer
| for Pollard, when the speedy Brown
| back had to be taken out of the game
| Saturday would have been courteous
recognition of a great players worth
and some compensation for the over
| eagerness of play which occasionally
caused the spectators on the Harvard
| side of the field to hiss at their own
men.
Judging from the Burlington papers,
Sunny Plumb must haye PLAYED .
whale of a game for the University Of
| Vermont Saturday against Middlebury
i'll the game which Middlebury won by
a score of TO .. Plumb was played at
fullback. Several times in the accour.
Of the game the Burlington Free Press
refers to gains of five yards by Plumb.
| In one place the account says Yer
mont went at her work with a win aud
| hammered out 90 yards on line plunges
and then Plumb made 10 more all hv
| himself The last play of the game
was a forward pass of 10 yards to
Plumb on the fveyard line Just as the
final whistle blew.
There are few who will beerudeo
Brown q victory over n mighty good
| team, that Of Colgate. Brown has gone
through the season with only three field
goals scored against her. one by Rut
gers and two by Yale. and has won
every game, including those with Yale
Harvard and Rutgers. Her goal line
has not been crossed or very seriously
threatened. Colgate has a cOrking
team and almost as fine a record, but
| II would seem almost too bad to have
season with victories over Yale ani
Harvard smirched by defeat or ever
touchdown III the last game of the
season. Brown has waited and planned
many years to beat both Yale and Har
ward in the same season and the yea
1916 saw the trick turned
Every now and then there hops int,
the limelight Of the football season
some player who has never been hearC
OF before outside of his own especia
circle of comrades. Yale claims TIVE
Of these ard both jumped into promi
nence in the Princeton game. The,
were Chester LaRoehe, substitute
quarterback who was sent III at TIL
last minute because Smith. the frs
string choice, was taken i'll with tonsi
tits, and Fox, an oarsman, ha'
!, only four weeks of football practic
and had never played in game. ii
played wonderful bah at guard and OF
the strength of his work is the choie
; of the coaches to start the game agains
Harvard. LaRoche, while not havinj
quite the "pep' of Smith, handlet
l. the bali clearly and chose his play
well.