New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-20
Ex-CoAege Men Give Class
To Training Camp Eleuens
Service Teams Almost lnvari-
ably Have Played F Football
of Superior Quality
By Louis Lee Arms

ing camps has been almost without eS-
ception of a superior quality. The
strongest eleven along the Atlantic
seaboard, II not in the entire country,
has been developed at Newport il the
scores Of Cupid Blacks eleven may be
taken as a true bill.
The Ambulance team at Allentown
upon which Mike Murphy IT., son OF
the famous Pennsylvania trainer, is a
star. Is another corking service eleven.
AT Camp Dix they have the Hunting
ton brothers, Anderson, West and the
Wilson brothers. This eleven would go
far in any company.
Camp Meade, the Charleston Navy
Yard, the League Island Marines, Camp
Custer, Fort Niagara, Camp Grant,
Camp Sherman, Camp Lee, Camp
Dodge and ether cantonments have =
plethora OF football talent Ben Derr,
one of the greatest line smasheis Penn
ever developed, is at Camp Dodge;
Shiveriek, OF Cornell, WIG almost sin
gle handed defeated Harvard several
years ago, after Barrett had been
knocked out, is at Camp Grant; Cos
tello, q star at Georgetown recently, is
directing play at Camp Custer; Talbot,
MARITIME, GoebeI and Scovil. former
Yale stars, are at Camp Sherman.
Just the Game for Army
Football is the srmy's kind Of Q
game. 1t depends upon physical con-
tact and force. 1t is fortunate that
20 many ex-collegiate stars are in the
camps, for they give class to the game
played and are capable of instructing
players not so experienced in the art
Of gridiron combat
When the Newport Naval Reserves
meet Foster Sanford's Rutgers team
next Saturday at Ebbets Field. Brook
iyn, the players will wear numbers.
Up 10 this time the young tars have
not observed this custom, but Captain
Black has given ear TO a request fro n
Coach Sanford that the play be made
clearer for the spectator. A large
score board also will chronicle the
progress OF the conflict.
This should be one Of the best
games played in the metropolitan dis
.rict this season. The Newport eleven
olready has defeated Brown and tire
Yale Informal team, and Rutgers, be-
yond peradveuture, Is one Of the fast
est college teams in the United
States. Charlie Barrett, the former
Cornell star, has been the big point
maker for the Reserves
Il is certain that the Western Cor
ference will resent any intimation that
Eastern football is superior TO that OF
the West because Michigan lost 70
Penn. Michigan is not a member ~
the "Big Ten" and does not meet Ohio
State, Chicago, Wisconsin, Minnesota
or Illinois. the teams that are usually
the class Of the Western body. The
Ohio State eleven, with Harley, ALL
American halfbsck, and Stincheomb,
has won the big Ten title, and is
generally considered TO have a greater
balance, versatility and team identity
than the Wolverines
This season, for an informal one,
certainly has been rich in surprises.
In view OF Dartmouth's woful show
ing against Tufts, the wonder grows
that the Hanoverians were able to de-
feat West Virginia, 7 TO 2. Especially
since last Saturday the Mountsineers
ran over Sol Metzger's Wash-Jeff ag.
gregation, to 0, after the Presidents
had played an astonishingly good
game against Pitt, the accepted East
ern champion.
At any rate, Cornell and Carlisle
may reflect that winning this season
means less than il ever did. Carlisle
meets Penn Saturday. Last Saturday
the Indians lost TO Georgia Tech by
the score Of IS to 0. II Penn wishes TO
prove that her IL TO defeat by Tech
early in the season was a mistake she
has merely 70 score 300 or 400 points
on Lol the poor Indian.
The height Of football satire would
be to place a member of the Yale, Har-
ward or Princeton Informal" elcvens
upon a 1917 All-American football
team.
The card AZ the Polo Grounds next
Saturday will be a game between foot
ball elevens Of Camp Upton and Camp
Devens. The game will be preceded By
a military drill BY the drafted men
from Yaphank, L. l. Frank Click. who
IS coaching the Camp Upton eleven, has
has machine going in good shape and
they expect 70 make the sturdy eleven
from Camp Dcvens hustle.