New Britain herald., 1917-11-26
RUTGERS VICTORY
 ADDS TO PRESTIGE
One More Upset to Dope When
 Blacks Team Fails


 x prtses unparalleled in the history of tho game. Under ordinary condi- Iions gridiron critics expect the "dope" to be upheld for a percentage of about $50, but this campaign has been averaging probably no better than $50 in the major contests. This is due largely to the unsettled condi- ton of the sport, the general loss of veterans and the uneven development or green material Rockies who played like veritable tyros one Satur- day have come back the next week with dazzling exhibition worthy of the stars of a stellar year.
 New York football followers last saturday got a chance to see what most of them were pleased to call a big upset, but which in reality was only a natural consequence. Rut- gers. with team of youngsters, not only defeated Cupid Blacks All Americans from the Newport Naval Reserve force, but thoroughly out played the older and more experi- enced men every minute of the battle
 Having beaten Brown by 35 to 0, Harvard IA to and divers other good teams by big scores, Blacks eleven was expected by most football fol- lowers to tear the Rutgers team asun- < der. Whatever tearing there was went 10 the credit of the collegians They made Black and Schlachter the other All-American guard, look like school boys. They stopped Chuck Barrett, Gerrish, Gardiner and Hite, outgen- efalled and outwitted the naval play CTS and displayed enough power both on attack and defence to warrant placing Rutgers among the select few Of the season.
 AubIrn's Great Feat.
 In the national consideration Of football the most vital result on Sat urday was the scoreless tie between Ohio State and Auburn at Mont gomery, Ala. Fresh from winning the Western Conference champion ship for the second year and by Vest ern critics rated the greatest eleven In the country, Ohio State was ex- pected to wade right through the Southern Engineers. Auburn had been defeated by Davidson by 21 to z. and Davidson in turn had been whipped by Georgia Tech by S2 to 10 and by the Navy by 27 to 6.
 once more the dope" got a severe jolt. In individual honors Chick liar Icy, Ohio States All-American back, was held better than even by Monk Ducotte, the Auburn back, who not only played a remarkable running and smashing game but toutkicked Harley and nullified Ohio States su- periority on attack.
 The game once more emphasized the fact-for to us it Is one of the few tablished truths of the season. that Georgia Tech has the greatest eleven in all the country. Georgia Techs position with regard to the best in the East already has been made plain by its victories over Penn Al to o, and the Carlisle Indians, 98 to 0. Just how it ranks in compari- son with Ohio State in a great meas ure will be indicated on Thursday, whom Tech plays Auburn.
 Feather in Sanford's Cap.
 Every one of the Rutgers lads was star in that triumph. Those who had held that, while Foster Sanford, the Rutgers coach. was a wonder for attack, but at the expense of defense, got enough evidence to make them change their impression of the old Yale stars coaching efficiency. The Rutgers line played almost as we'll as tho Colgate line of last year.
 The game once more proved that eleven fighting lads playing with some . definite purpose behind their battle, backed by love of their college and jealousy of their record, invariably will defeat a set of stars playing foot ball for the mere playing thereof
 Browns victory over Dartmouth by 13 to was in line with the expected. but 1t had been thought that after the crushing defeat by Tufts, Dartmouth would be even easier for the Bears. AS in other defeats this season, notably that by Pennsylvania, Dart mouth late in the game opened up a forward passing game that might have given the contest a different com plexion had it been flashed earlier. Brown scores were made possible by fumbles by Sid Holbrook and Me Donough. so the triumph, though sat lsfying enough after eleven years of Inaction against Dartmouth, was not quite, as brilliant as it might have been.
 West Virginia Upset.
 A form reversal just as surprising as the Ohio State-Auburn affair was the ! defeat of West Virginia by West Vir- ! ginia Wesleyan by 20 to 0. The Wes- \ leyan eleven, with Calac, the old In dian star, in a leading role, had beer pointing for that game for local su- premacy and took the battered Wes Nirginians by surprise West Virginia had held Pitt to IA to 9, had helC Rutgers to a tie at 7 all, and hac beaten the Navy by to 0, while the Wesleyans had been beaten by PenI State and Washington and Jefferson.
 A line on how Penn would have stacked up against Georgia Tech now had their proposed return engagement gone through, was obtained in Penn game with the Carlisle Indians. With out the services of some of the star who had played against Georgia Tecl the week before, when Tech won b. eS to 0, the Indians gave Penn 8 hart