The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-11-27
BROWN MUST WIN FROM
COLGATE TO SECURE TITLE
Pennsylvania Cornell and Pittsburgh-Penn State
Other Big Battles for Thursday.

New York. Nov. 27-The' football
season will be brought to close on
next Thursday, with the usual holiday
games, and the enthusiasts will have
to pick and choose for themselves
out of the many struggles which
promise to provide thrills.
Brown, wearing the laurels won In
successive battles against Yale and
Harvard, will face the maroon-clad
host of Colgate at Providence. Penn
sylvania and Cornell, those time-hon-
ored rivals, will come to grips on
Franklin field, and the Fur is certain
to fly. The unbeaten team of Pitts
burgh University will oppose Penn
State on Forbes Field, In Pittsburgh.
These are the games which Stand out
most prominently on the programme.
Local enthusiasts will not suffer, for
Rutgers and Washington and Jeffer-
son will meet on the Polo Grounds,
while Fordham and Villanova fight
1t out at Fordham Field
Chief interest centres in the meet
ing of Colgate and Brown, with all
difference due the Cornell-Penn game
lions of intercollegiate football. If
Brown manages to defeat the sturdy
eleven that Larry Bankhart has built
up for Colgate, she will have clear
title to the Eastern championship. If,
on the other hand, Colgate should
triumph, Pittsburgh will have the
best claim, providing Warmers men
defeat Penn State.
All indications point to victory for
Brown. The Providence team show
ed the temper of it's mettle in riding
rough shod over Yale, and then fol-
lowing through with a victory over
Harvard second team. The fact that
Brown beat the Crimson's second
string has robbed the victory of much
Of it's lustre. We have the word Of
man who won his letter at Harvard,
however, that there is little difference
between team A, which faced Yale
Saturday, and team B, which struck
it's colors to the fierce ASA ults of the
dusky Fritz Pollard and his cohorts.
The fame of Fritz Pollard has been
sung in the highest key and justly so.
He is one of the outstanding stars of
the year. His individual value can
not be overestimated, but he is sur
rounded by men who are almost his
equal, and SO the combination is in
deed powerful. Jenail, Hillhouse and
Purdy are backs Of the real type,
while Captain Farnum, Devitalis and
Weeks, the right end, are powers an
the line.
Colgate has been beaten only by
Yale, and those who saw the game
will attest the power Of the Maroon
team. Ror the greater part Of the
contest the Blue was outplayed, but
the combination of Neville and Lee
Gore was too powerful to be with
stood, and a touchdown, the result
Of a forward pass, brought woe to Col
gate.
Anderson, Hubbell anad Spencer are
powerful backfield men, and they
will undoubtedly give good account
of themselves on Thursday, while
Paul Castellanos, the left end who
starred against Syracuse, may be the
man who will stop Pollard.
Cornell and Penn have both been
defeated thsi season. Harvard took
care of Cornell in most decisive style,
while the mighty Pittsburgh eleven
ran rings around Penn and walloped
her to the tune of 20 to 0. Those de-
feats were not without their lessons
The faults brought to light were cor
rected, the elevens rallied and have