The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-23
Sporting NelUs
FOOTBALL SEASON
RAPIDLY WANING
Tomorrow Ends Season for Most Teams
Brown Dartmouth Contest
Will Stand Out.

NEW YORK, Nov. 23.-The waning
of the eastern college football season
is indicated by the decrease III the
number OF games scheduled for the Il
nal Saturday of the month. Several
OF the more important elevens have
completed their allotment of contests
and others will close the present grid
iron campaign with tomorrow S play.
In few cases teams with Thanksgiv-
ing Day matches will devote Saturday
to practice and all of these cireum-
stances tend to reduce the list of games
as compared with those of preceding
week ends.
While keen intercollege rivalry will
mark almost every contest scheduled,
two games stand ont as promising nigh
class and exciting play III the meet
ing of Brown and Dartmouth and Notre
Dame VS.. Washington and Jefferson
The Army team will also face for
midable opponent in Boston College;
Pennsylvania has an easier task IN
playing the Carlisle Indians, while the
Yale and Princeton freshmen elevens
and several of the cantonment teams
are down for what are expected to be
hard fought gridiron battles.
There does not appear to be any
great advantage for either Dartmouth
or Brown on the eve of their game
which will mark a renewal of the ath-
| letic relations between the two col
| leges. Both teams have had hard sea
| son during which they have PLAYED a
| strong and consistent game, considering
| the handicaps under which football has
been conducted at the two institutions
! this fall. Each eleven has been forced
| to bow to one or more opposing teams
| during the present schedule of games
| but whether in victory or defeat the
| PLAYERS have shown football power and
thorough knowledge of the game
/ which leads TO the conclusion that
\ when they face on the field the com
binations will be evenly matched and
that the result will hinge to 4 great
extent upon the breaks OF the play.
The work of both Notre Dame ant
Washington and Jefferson all season
has stamped them as teams of unusua
strength and the meeting tomorrow
should produce one of the very beS
games of the day. The first eastern
appearance Of the Indiana collegian
resulted in the defeat Of the Army team
at West Point but whether Notre Dam
can duplicate this feat against Wash
ington and Jefferson remains TO b
seen. The work Of the latter eleve
against Pittsburg and West Virginia
while impressive, resulted in defeat an
the playing of a third hard game j
an equal number of weeks is heav
strain upon the physical resources Q
the team especially when the opponent
are Of the calibre Of Pittsburg, Yves
Virginia and Notre Dame.
While the Army will find Boston Co
lege. coached by Charles Brio klev,
combination which will require clos
watching is would appear as thong
the Cadets in their final game Of til
year should emerge victors. The sam
is true of Pennsylvania in its meetiu
with the Carlisle Indians. The Quaker
with the Cornell game less than q wee
away, will not be inclined to tax
chances but even under these cond
tions should be able to hold Carlisl
safe. On the season S record the Yal
freshmen are certain to be favoritt
: over Princeton 5 first year players.