Evening star., 1916-10-13
BY n. G. BYRD.


season are to be played tomorrow. AT
least one contest partakes of an inter
/ sectional nature and several are to be
played between teams which should put
up fine struggles. Four local elevens
ere to take the field. though only two
of the combats are likely to develop
much In tho way of real competition
Tho game in which the greatest gen
eral interest is centered is that be-
tween Princeton and Tufts. The VIC
tory of the latter over Harvard last
!! week was not a fiuke, being achieved
by a powerful. we'll drilled aggresa-
tion Of veterans. Tufts has team
strong enough to give the best hard
struggle, and that it will prove difficult
for the Tigers seems to be certa inty.
Tufts Is not likely to win from the
New Jersey institution, notwithstand- o.
ling its fine showing against the Grim
son. Princeton now has more capapie 1's
com bin alton than Harvard and probably
Tufts will not play quite so well TO-
morrow as 4. did week ago. Such 2
game as that put up against HarSaru
by Tufts REQUIRED weeks OF "a dene,0R y Wi,I
Indeed be strange II there is not some
reIaxation in the work Of the Medford
SQUAD this week.
It would be a splend1d thins .oa
TUFTS IL it could attain victory over the
| Crimson and Tigers in the same season.
However, that is more easily said than
done. because indications are that
Princeton has an eleven that no tearn
will defeat without afford;ng greater
onnosition than Tufts is likely to. fol
lowing as hard a contest as that Oh last
Saturday.
Yale meets Lehigh. and, Judging by
| what the South Bethlehem team mas
been accomplishing. it is not going TO
prove an easy task Tor fale 10 VIII wiz.
| Yale seems to be out with the strongest
! combination it has had In many sea
! sons. but Lehigh also is turning out
| formidable aggregation. The decisive
win of the Pennsylvanians over Al
bright last week, more than oo polnts
being made, establishes them as strong
Il contenders in any contest in which
they appear. Incidentally, the game
will prove the first real test for the new
system now holding sway at New
Haven.
| swarthmore, while it probably will
not win from the University OF PENN
/ sylvania, looms up as a much more IN
teresting team than before its victory
over LAFAYETTE a week ago tomorrow.
4 Also the manner in which the Little
i Quakers" defeated the Easton eleven
/ created a great deal more respect for
them in the minds of the Red ana Blue
| Colgate University goes out to
| urbana, ILL.,, to meet the University OF
Illinois in what will be something OF
an intersectional battle. Colgate, II 1t
| PLAYS up to the standard of some OF
its games in the last two or three
years. ought not to experience much
trouble in putting up hne COMBAT
and that is said. notwithstanding the
excellent eleven developed by Zuppke.
Last Saturday Illinois won from the
II University of Kansas by 80 to 0.
After it's decisive victory over the
i North Carolina A. and NJ. College last
week Davidson looms up as a much
better opponent for Georgia Tech in
the game to be played at Atlanta:
II Davidson took the measure OF A. and
il NJ by 16 to 0, and A. and NJ. usually
Il has been represented by one of the
i most capable elevens in the south. The
| University of Georgia should not en- :
counter any more opposition Wnen IL
4 faces the University of Florida At
Athens than it desires to give it the
needed practice for Its game with the
University of Virginia October II. Both
| the big teams in Georgia should win
/ their contests.
i Wayne Hart's Clemson College team
meets the University Of Tennessee at
| Clemson. Tennessee was one OF the two
teams defeated by Clemson year ago,
| The Virginia Polytechnic Institute goes
out to Charleston. w. Va, to meet the
West Virginia University. 1t is not TO
be expected that the Virginians will
prove strong enough to obtain victory
| over the Morgantown institution. as the
| latter apparently has one of the best
elevens ever put out by secondary. col
llege Not much is known SO far Of the
real worth of the Virginia Polytechnic
team.
The Naval Academy will have its hands
full when it meets the University of
Pittsburgh AS matter Of fact, the
Sailors can consider themselves extremely
lucky II they escape without a beating.
victory for the Navy over such an aggre-
CATION as that which represents Pitts
| burgh would indeed be surprise. I'm
faster and use their hands more they will
be ripped to pieces" to use the pro-
verbal phrase. by Pittsburgh's powerful
backs. incidentally, the Navy has had
two hard battles already this week. and
there is possibility that the men may
be somewhat relaxed. II Pittsburgh does
not win by more than two touchdowns
Navy can consider that 1t has done well:
| IL Pittsburgh is defeated or held to a tie
score, the Navy can look upon the game
as a distinct triumph.
! While the Navy is facing Pittsburgh.
the Army will have no mean opponent
in Holy Cross. The Worcester col
legians, while they lost to Princeton
| are strong enough to make good teams
| get a move on" to beat them. Holy
Cross is seldom weak and this year
| does not seem to be an exception to
| the general run Of it's strong elevens
1t seems that the Army must play
without the services of one of its most
| versatile backs.
Cornell plays Williams. but is not
likely to find much trouble in winning
The Ithacans give indications OF haV-
ing another mighty good team, and
that despite the loss of Barrett, the
most brilliant player in the backheld
last year and the greatest ground
| gamer as an individual in the east.
There cannot be a whole lot of con
fdence at the University OF Chicago In
regard to the game with Indiana. Las,
week Chicago had practice contes'
with Carelton College. an institution
seldom heard of around here. and chi
cago emerged from the fray with
total of no points to its credit, while
/. the hitherto unheard of team had sew.
. , en-. Chicago undoubtedly was caughl
: | mapping, but even so, the defeat mus'
have been quite a rude jolt.
Georgetown and Catholic, University
!; | both scheduled to play on their nome
l. fields, have weak teams to face 1h'
s former is to have Eastern College fol
!. it's opponent and the latter Randolph
: Macon. Eastern College has done notn.
/, ing so far this season in the way o.
| playing games and Randolph MacoT