New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-20
Columbia Eleven Tackles
Union-N. Y. u. Team
Will Face Wesleyan
By Louis Lee Arms

maker IS prepared W sef'o ""''
less dainty dish.
Here In Manhattan Columbia faces
Union and New York University takes
on Wesleyan. In addition, there will
be the usual scholastic games, which
mark another milestone in the race for
tho metropolitan championship.
The tacit withdrawal Of Yale, Har-
ward and Princeton from intercollegiate
competition creates q void not so ach-
ing as it might and doubtless will be at
a later date, for the reason that this
early the "Big Three" rarely schedule
games that are mora than warming-up
practice.
-Four Games Of Promise
At least four games are outstanding
In their promise Of spirited rivalry or
their bearing upon the ultimate cham
pionship of the East. The shifty SYRIA
cuse eleven invades the State Of Penn
sylvania TO take on Glen Warmers
crack Pittsburgh University team;
West Virginia is at Hanover. N. H.,
ready to match muscle and brain with
Dartmouth; the always dangerous Col
gate eleven meets Cornell at Ithaca,
and Tufts, it appears, will be target
for what some people believe is poten-
tally the best eleven West Point has
had in years.
Yale students will content them
selves by viewing a game between the
Eli freshmen and Exeter, while the
Harvard eleven that is being developed
on a wartime plane will face team
from the 1O3d Regiment heavy artil-
lery. The Tiger at Princeton is fast
asleep to-day.
Up a. 10th Street and Broadway
this afternoon Columbia expects to step
itself into a victory at the expense OF
Union. The Morningside Heights
eleven has had no more than the usual
difficulty in getting squared away, but
gossip which followed the secret prac-
tice held last night indicated that the
Blue and White machine is in good
running order and may at any time
rumble along in defiance of any speed
limitations.
Columbia STUDENT are elated with the
return of Howard Miller TO his GUS
tomary role of quarterback, and 1t Is
expected to-day that under his facile
guidance the Blue and White machine
will host the curtain on neat drama
of modern football, in which deception
and open play will be featured.
Cochran and Kennedy. the two ends,
have been drilled in snatching forward
passes out of the sky, and up to this
time their fielding average is virtually
unblemished. Houlihan, who has been
sailing his punts crosstown for aston
ishing distances, probably will start at
fullback, and doubtless will give the
Blue and White an advantage in the
important kicking game.
Morningside Eleven Ready
All in all, the Morningside Heights
eleven is ready for whatever strength
there is in Union. The visitors are
heralded to be an eleven with fast backs
and fairly solid line. Their defence
will need to be especially keen at either
extremity of the line il the sweeping
runs and long losses of Columbia are
broken up this afternoon.
At University Heights New York Uni
versity will take on its ancient enemy
Wesleyan, and il Fortune z-ill have the
goodness to Smile the Violet eleven
hopes to avenge its 1915 defeat at the
hands of the Middletown Conn team.
There is a sentimental interest in
this game aside from its attraction as
football. Dick Eustis, who for the last
three years has been coach OF New
York University, is a former star OF
Wesleyan. Two weeks ago Eustis was
accepted in the Signal Corps and is
now attached TO the aviation division
of the United States Army. He hopes
to be present to-day to watch his ex-
proteges whale the upholstering out OF
his former alma mater.
War has cut into the pigskin ranks
Of the Violet this season, and the
eleven which last year packed a stylish
kick" does not at this writing seem so
formidable. The indications are that
Wesleyan has fairly strong team.
West Virginia is certain 70 give Dart
mouth a lot of trouble, and on form
should win from the Hanoverians. Last
season the Mountaineers lost only TO
Pennsy and the Navy and succeeded in
tieing Dartmouth and Rutgers. So far
this season West Virginia has sustained
but one casualty, that at the hands of
Glenn Warmers dashing Pittsburgh
eleven, which won an early season IA
to game from the Morgantown boys.
The Mountsineers came back by de-
feating the Navy, to 0, and the Car
Isle Indians, 81 70 0. The Southerners
will take a lot of beating this after
noon.
Pittsburgh Favorite
Pittsburgh figures TO defeat Syracuse
by comfortable margin. Coach Rey-
holds has a rather green line and an
uncertain backheld, while Warmers men
have already established a valuable
team identity. Syracuse put in a
strenuous week preparing for Pitt. with
no less than half dozen coaches whip
ping the line, the ends and the back
field into shape.
At West Point the railbirds will
watch the work Of Van de Graf, the
former all-Southern star, who is now
eligible for the Army eleven. He made
a noteworthy record as a player and
more particularly as a kicker when
with Alabama. With Oljphant he
should be the individual star of the
service eleven this season, a team, BY
the way, which some critics favor ia
win the Eastern championship, though
the incomplete Of its schedule prob.
ably will leave its ultimate standing a
matter for debate.
Cornell in facing Colgate will have
all that she can conveniently handle
and in some circles. it is believed, more
The returns from Ithaca will be awaited
with interest, as they certainly will
shed light on the position which Col