The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-08
PECULIAR FOOTBALL
SEASON CONCLUDED
Three Great Universities Not in the Field
of Intercollegiate Sports But Others
Developed Remarkably Strong
Teams.

| A most peculiar and unusual college
football season came to a close with
the playing of a number of games or
Thanksgiving day and the paraphernalia
of the gridiron has been laid away for
another year or possibly for longer pc.
Rod, depending upon the events of the
next IL months, In the East the season
was marked by the absence OF teams
representing three of the oldest, largest
and most renowned universities of the
section.
Other institutions. although many of
their veteran players were lost to the
eleyens, due to enlistment in various
forms of war service, developed teams
of remarkable strength notwithstanding
this handicap. Another feature was the
appearance of military and naval canton
ment teams, several of which came near.
ar to being llAmerican combinations
| than any eleven ever seen on the grid
iron heretofore. In the Middle West the
colleges adhered to their original sched-
ules and there was far less of the can
collation. of games and makeshift con-
tests that were part of the Atlantic
coast football program.
Viewing the East and the South as
whole, six teams stand out as combina-
tions of remarkable power and ability
when the various handicaps and limita-
tions under which the sport was con-
Quoted, are taken into consideration,
Pittsburg, Georgia Tech, Pennsylvania,
navy, Syracuse and Rutgers while not
all undefeated played football which in
one or more respects entitled them to a
higher classification than that accorded
the majority of the teams of the sec
tion.
The University of Pittsburg eleven
and the team representing Georgia Tech.
went through the season without defeat
but this was no new experience for either
college, as both have had clean states for
the past three years. During this period
the eevens of Georgia Tech. have rolled
up total of l,l29 points against oppo
nents' 81; playing % games of which 20
were won and two tied Pittsburg in
the same three seasons played 20 games
winning all and accommodating total of
TAI points against her opponents 50.
Georgia Tech. holds the honor of amass-
ing the largest number of points during
the 1917 season with 49l while the navy
is second with 442. The sailors eleven
under the coaching of Gil Dobie lost but
one game and ran up heavy scores
against opponents throughout the entire
autumn
Rutgers, although defeated by SYRIA
cuse, and held to a tie by West Virginia, |
proved to be an eleven which improved |
with every game. Its showing against !
the team which came as near to being |
an all-American team as any combna |
ton on the field in years, entities the |
New Brunswick boys to high place of |
honor in the final ranking of the season
Pennsylvania chief claim to distinc-
ton lies in the splendid fighting spirit /
developed among the comparatively !
green and inexperienced Quaker players.
This determination to win against great |
odds proved too much for Michigan,
Dartmouth and Cornell while even Pitts
burg and Georgia Tech. found the Phil
adelphia collegians worthy opponents
Syracuse bowed to Pittsburg alone and
was the best of the eastern representa-
lives in the annual intersectional games
If the year, winning from both Nebraska
ind Michigan Aggies. As an offset to
his Notre Dame won from both the
lrmy and Washington and Jefferson.
Not including several cantonment VS..
College games yet to be played, the scores
If the leading teams of the South and
Cast for the 1917 season are as follows.
Onnonenfs'