The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-03

Brunswick team, prompt choice of plays, accurate handling of the ball, and a talent for following the ball which is essential to every good foot ball machine. Rutgers, however, had a defeat against her from Syracuse, while tie game which was badly beaten by West Virginia Wesleyan. The best showing of Rutgers was made against the Newport Naval Re- serve eleven made up of former col lege stars.
 Gilmour Dobie coached the Navy, and, like Rutgers, this eleven showed greater unity and team play than most of the seasons teams. While both Rutgers and the Navy had un- usual technical execution, neither had chance to test its reserve power after it had reached the high point of it's development. The Army team had an abundance of good material this season, but suffered from lack of coaching and lack of time for prac- tice. The Army's only defeat came against Notre Dame, while the Navy's only setback came in the West Vir- ginia game.
 Syracuse should be classed along with Penn, for aside from the deci- sive defeat by Pittsburgh, Syracuse had a good season, defeating Brown, | Colgate, Rutgers, the Michigan Ag 1 gies, and Nebraska.
 The earliest upset of the season
 came when Georgia Tech gave Penn
 Al to 0 defeat After that the sur-
 prises came thick and fast. Brown | 5afo Co1o In
 feated Cornell. Williams went 1 through one of the most successful
 sceasons that institution ever enjoyed,
 winning all the games on the sched- l .u1e- except the Wesleyan contest, which resulted in a tie. Brown, Col
 gate, and Dartmouth had an in-and- | out season, all these teams lacking sustained power. < West Virginia,
 Washington and Jefferson, George | town, Fordham, and Penn State all
 met with surprising reverses, and in | fact there were very few teams this
 season whose records were not marred
 by unforeseen defeat. The most un- fortunate of the wartime teams was
 Cornell, which had the worst season
 of Dr. Sharpe's regime.
 All the teams this season were
 weakened by enlistments, / although some of them suffered more than
 others. In disorganized season
 such as the one just closed, there
 would be no more desire to designate
 this or that team as a champion, than there was in tennis or golf, when the
 ranks of these two sports were
 thinned out by the demands of war
 The leading e1evens in the South
 and West were clearly defined. Geor- gia Tech had perhaps the greatest
 eleven in the country and it is unfor-
 tunate that the Yellow Jackets could
 not have had this organization at 2
 time when they could have met some of the best of the Eastern teams. Ohio State was the best of the Western teams, but its showinf against Auburn. as compared witt the showing of Georgia against the same team, places the Golden Tornadc far in the van.
 \ The one encouraging feature of tht : past football season was that tht
 game was played more extensivel, than ever before It thrived in tht army camps and attracted more me1 into helpful competitive action on tn, gridiron than the most optimisti football men ever hoped for Tn, army and navy camps developed ) many teams but the lack of time fo necessary practice prevented any O them from reaching high point O 7 development