Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-06
sYRAcUcE-DARTMoUTH'C GREAT
 BATTLE ON GRIDIRoN
ECstorn GridiroE Had Two Sharp
 ConteCto Saturday

New York, Nov. 5.-Eastern foot ball play of the weekend resolved it. self into two sharply defined groups, one composed of games which deye1- oped into real contests and the other consisting of little more than practice scrlmmages. A survey of Saturdays results places Yale, Army, Pennsyl- vania, Cornell, Dartmouth, Navy and Syracuse in the former classification, while Harvard Princeton, Pittsburgh, Brown and Penn State failed to benefit to any extent by their games.
 In view of the more important grid
 iron battles to come, the coaches count each game as a stepping stone in the achievement of team play and im-
 provement of tactics and strategy.
 In defeating Colgate, Yale derived both football knowedge and conf idence. The team from Hamilton proved to be exceptionally strong and | tested every point of the Ellis offense and defence, incidentally outplaying Yale in the process. The breaks of the game and a remarkable exhibition
 of defensive strength by the New
 riod, swung victory to the side of the l Blue. Colgate, however, uncovered 1 many weaknesses in the Yale play; particularly a lack of sustained at
 tack and showed that much remains to | be accomplished by the coaches be-
 fore the full power of the eleven is
 developed for the Harvard ontest.
 | The defeat of Notre Dame by the Army, in the only intersectional came
 Of the day, was also extremely grat- 1 flying to the Soldiers, especially /. as l they used, almost exclusively inc
 overhead tactics that the Indians in | troduced at West Point so effectively three years ago. The Cadets showed | that they were capable of both the,1ine
 plunking and running game as well as
 the aerial method of advancign the ball i Thir victory over Notre Dame, con- l ceded to be one of the leading ex- | ponents of the forward pass play. | demonstrated that the army is round ing out one of the strongest teams of recent years at West Point. The at
 tack of the westerners proved, how | ever, that the Army has not reached perfection in defence, at least not
 against an eleven of the ealibre of Mo-
 tre Dame. $
 The defeat of the Navy by Washing
 and Lee taken in conjunction with the
 fact that the soldiers had previously ! won from the same team was discon-
 certing to the Middies' adherents. The
 Sailors were outplayed in every de- partment of the game in a manner not
 indicated D ythe score. Had 1t been necessary 1t Is probable
 Washington and Lee could have made | additional touchdowns but the future
 admirals elected to play defensive foot
 ball after their early scoring. In view
 of the wide range of the vctors' play | 1t is likely that the Navy coaches not I ehretofore suspected in the Middies' game.
 1 For all round brilliancy the contest
 between Dartmouth and Syracuse was the outstanding feature of the day. in
 eastern football. Although the Han
 over eleven won, there was plenty of
 grdiron honor for both victor and vanquished. The speed and dash o1 the Dartmouth combination was the
 winning factor by Syracuse never con
 ceded defeat and the final minutes ol the battle were as thrilling and vel