The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-11-05

team was not keyed up for as great a scrap as against Colgate. It fail ed to figure on the effect of that Pittsburgh defeat. Syracuse showed symptoms of running wild by running up 6S- points on Tufts a week before but Brown figured that this was due to Tufts weakness rather than Syra- cuse's strength. AS 8 matter of fact Syracuse has been improving every day, and when it reached Providence it was playing a smashing game. The Brown line, which showed such fine charging ability against Colgate, fail ed against the heavier Syracuse play CTS. The defeat suuelched Browns chances for high ranking this season. and its chances against Dartmouth later in the season do not look so bright
 f Last season Foster Sanford, who coaches Rutgers, said that he consid- cred Rodgers, the West Virginia full back. one of the best football players in the country. After the way Rodgers turned Rutgers victory into a 7 to z tie at New runswick Saturday, there Is no reason to believe that Sanfords' opinion will change. It was mainly through the individual work of Rod gers that West Virginia was able to come back and tie the score after Rutgers had outplayed the noun taineers earlier in the game.
 The Rutgers line. which has shown itself formidable, failed to hold in a crucial moment in the third quarter, and it gave way before Whitehall was able to get away punt. West Vir- ginia blocked the kick, and that open ed the way to a touchdown. It was the second time that the mountaineers have tied the Rutgers eleven.
 Dortmouth Proves Position.
 Dartmouth displayed that never say-die spirit against Penn State in the first meeting of these. eleyens. which took place at Hanover Satur- day. It isn't the first time that Dart mouth has shown that 1t has the necessary reserve strength to over- come great handicaps. Although Dartmouth's margin of victory was narrow, the result showed that Coach Spears has an eleven which is strong est in adversity. This victory for the Greer will attract more than unusual attention to the battle between Dart mouth and Pennsylvania at Boston on Saturday.
 Penn has picked up a lot of confi- dence as a result of. its fine showing against Pittsburgh, and it showed en- couraging improvement in the Lafay- cite game. The Eastern eleven, how ever, is not up to the usual Lafayette standard, as Rutgers had no trouble defeating Lafayette 33 to 2. On the face of the records this season. the Penn-Dartmouth clash should furnish close, hard-fought battle.
 The prospects for a close game be- tween Penn and Cornell, in their an nual Thanksgiving Day engagement. grow brighter in spite of the big Red team's poor showing early in the sea- son. Against Carnegie Tech on Sat urday the IEhacans showed more real football than in any engagement thus far and there is every indication that Dr. Sharpe has his charges started toward better things.
 Pittsburgh made the encounter with Westminster a practice season for the second and third string players. The first string men are being saved for Washington & Jefferson next week The w. & J. forces got peek at the Warner forces. in Pittsburgh Satur- day, while Sol Metzger was up at West Point to see Notre Dame, as his eleven mas d udtS W1lll lAi0 tSCSSOA AAOA @s later on. The Pitt-W. & J. tilt on Sat urday is attracting much attention, for Metzger's eleven is expected to give the Partners stiff opposition.
 The reputation which Georgia Tech has been making for itself in the South grows with leaps and bounds and, although no one expected that Vanderbilt would have a chance against the Golden Tornado, it was one of the surprises of the day when the Conmodores dropped off the field after taking the worst beating ever ex- perienced by Vanderbilt eleven. Strupper and Guyon of the Yellow Jackets ran wild, especially in chas- ing back punts. The score was g. to 0, whichc an be taken that Vanderbilt must have weak eleven.
 The South is already lauding Tech to the skies and ranks it as the strong est eleven fin the country. This II rather safe position to take as there will be no way to prove definitely tc whom that, honor belongs.
 Wesleyan put up stubborn battle against Williams by holding Cornelfs conquerors to a to tie. Boynton Williams, and while he couldn't win, his individual work went a long way in saving Williams from defeat.
 Cupid Blacks Newport Naval elev- en proved as strong as predicted against the Maine Artillery in the Yale bowl. The Newport sailors look | like hard proposition for any team to beat with Black, Barrett of Cornell, Eiwood and Gerrish of Dartmouth and Schlacter, the All-America gusra from Syracuse.
 Columbia had one of it's worst days | against Amherst, and Coach Metcal1 will put in much of his time this week 1 trying to eliminate the attack of fum- | bling which has seized his players. KUPCHIK CHESS WINNER