New-York tribune., 1917-10-30
Wide Interest
InNotreDame
AndArmyCame
One Of Seasons Big Inter
sectional Gridiron Clashes
West Point Saturday
Bv Louis Lee Arms


ons Of the seasons two prominent
.arsectional football games Will o'
,.vsd next Saturday, when tho
- takes on the eleven from tho
Tr;versity Of Notre Dame. If hall
:. nleasant things they are saying
T,be hoosiers in the West are true
he game will be more in'eres'.hs Ing
han the early season play OF 'he
Catholics indicated. -
saturday Notre Dame took a AZ
"A DECISION from South Dakota and
',scuted prodigies of aerial play IN
5oing that. If a game as spectacular
: snlayed against the Army SATURDAY
"cr.sst will be well worth watch
ing. 49,. Aos q wizard
he important art Of passing tne
~ in the person Of Allison ana q
'~~;nous punter in Gipp, both OF 'n'
,,,t6eld Last Saturday Allison eie'-
,,;sed the city Of Notre Dame and 'he
,1ioinine townships by his tall an0
,snev aerial maneuvres, and 1t Is 'ht
,,;,;on Of the college correspondent
:, South Bend that If a gain Is neces'
,srv it is necessary only to let All
son throw the ball. -.
There is plenty Of space to throw II II
~, tho plains Of West Point, but II
~enains as an inexorable fact THAI MI
Allison will necessarily have TO have
.one one to throw the ball to, and so
,,r as West Point is concerned that
/, the catch in it. Forward passing,
lowever deft, is no more than waste
of time and as tame as a modern musi-
esl comedy unless there is some one
ready 10 receive the ball. Mr.. Allison
NAV rest assured that the whole West
Point team will be not only ready but
eratifed 20 accept any Of his forward
tastes, and they will not even insist
hat they be his best.
Three Stars on Team
KILLER, Pearson and a gentleman with
The potential name Of Brandy are some
Of the better known of the army OF
hsekfeld men that Coach Harper il
developing at Notre Dame this season
and against South Dakota last Satur.
day they were almost constantly under
the starlight.
Another putative demon on the Indi
ana eleven is Rydzewski, a husky
young Chicagoan, who has been play
hg highly active game in the vicinity
o. centre.
An intersectional game that already
srouslng comment is that to BIZ
played on Franklin Field, Philadelphia
On November II, between the Univer.
lty of Michigan and Pennsylvania.
According 10 Walter Eckersall, former
Al-American quarterback and critic
iost's team is now playing a quality OF
ball that is reminiscent Of those golden
days when Michigan was thought to bS
Of her game if she scored less then Z
touchdown a minute.
Beat Nebraska Easily
Michigan defeated Nebraska stronl
team-.ast Saturday by the score o
I 20 10 0, and of that victory Eckersal
says:
ut reminded oldtimers of the days
Of Heston and Snow, and stamps the
Wolverines as one of the strongest
teams in the West. Michigan was
by far the better team. II had a
lattar rMapsfua arI Iofan1at~a III
i tie score shows the relative merits
81 the teams.
after the minute interval Michi-
tan went after its opponents with a
vengeance. using weapons Of attack
seldom seen on a football field since
the l0-yard and the forward pass
rules, were put into effect in 1905.
Using short forward passes and con-
eentrated off-tackle drives and line
gunges, the Michigan team made a
tO-yard march TO the Nebraska goal
line
It is evident that Mr.. Fielding II
iost is back 70 his old tricks of pull
uriling the enemys forward line. So
itr as Penn is concerned, this will not
% altogether displeasing. Pittsburgh
played that kind of ball against the
RED and Blue last Saturday, but il
Vas notable fact that while Penn's
i llhe--outweighed seventeen pounds 10
The msn-seemed elastic in midheld
when the Penn goal was threatened the
hght line became adamant.
II Michigan comes East misled. as
| Glenn Warner indubitably was, on the
strength Of the Pennsy forwards, the
rhl!adelphians Will be prepared to fur
hsh royal entertainment TO the dele
CATION from Ann Arbor.
Much ado is made over one-man
tAms as the season progresses, and IL
apparent that there are now in the
East az least, the average number OF
stevens upon which one man dominates
he attack or defence.
Oiphant Of the Army. Berry of Penn,
AsLiren Of Pitt, Robson of Rutgers
NO boynton Of Williams are among
as celebrated individual units this
r.son. Yet, as always, the degree of
Mancy which anv man attains is
arect ratio 70 the brilliance of his
~Apeers. Berry Of Penn, may be the
seSlest OF broken field runners, but
.N Iltt forwards drifting through at
p p.s What chance has he 20 get started
s.ssson's offence and defence is
$50 eHectlve because of the inher-
sa' balance IN Foster Sanford's stylish
ehlne, 0llphant and McLaren must
ave holes 10 drive through or they
y" ont mere mortals.
Jsi VIII be recalled that even Walter
Ia