The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-29
SYRACUSE WINS 1. FEOM COL UMBIA ON MUDDY FIELD
Blue and White Yields to Orange After Arduous Fight.

Syracuse, N. Y, Nov. 29.---Columbia made game and plucky stand against the heavier and more power ful Syracuse eleven on the Archbold 1 Stadium gridiron here yesterday af- 1 ternoon and yielded to the Orange, only after a bitter fight, by a score of i 20 to 0. The field was deep in mud.
 Rain fell in gusty squalls all through the game and chill, b1Ji"g wln~
 blew from the northeast, mag con
 ditions almost as bad as could be inn
 agined for good, clean football.
 Syracuse, with an eleven whose for
 ward line outweighed the Columbia front rank by close to 20 pounds to the man and whose backs were al-
 most as much heavier than their ri
 vals, scored one touchdown by rush ing, one touchdown on a forward
 pass, two goals from touchdown, and
 two goals from placement to beat the
 New York team.
 The first touchdown came within five minutes of the beginning of the
 game when Barsha took the ball over for the Orange after a steady march of 75 yards down the field. Ackley kicked the goal. In the second pe-
 riod, after the Columbia line had
 given @ splendid exhibition of its de-
 fensive powers Ackley, seeing that
 his team could not batter down the
 resistance, fell back to his 25-yaCd
 line and kicked a goal from place ment, Then, in the third period, un- der conditions that were practically
 identical to those prevailing in the
 second session, Ackley scored once more on a goal from placement from
 OoFunbias 25-yard mark.
 Toward the close O. this same pe- rtod Syracuse once again brought the ball to CoF1rnbia's 11-yard line, and after two smashes at the line had , failed to gain on inch, chanced a for
 ward pass, from Barsha to schwar-
 Fer, which fell into the latter's out
 stretched arms behind the goal line
 for a touchdown. Ackley, who had 7 kicked the first goal from touchdown, | made his average 1000 by booting the
 ball over fer the final point of the |. game.
 5 Defensively CoIumlbia's game got l better as the battle progressed, and the reason was not hard to find. The 7 Syracuse forwards played uniformly } high and the New Workers got under = them, and in this way offset to a large
 degree their inferior weight. This was f the more surprising in view of the fact that in the heavy playing field
 the Syracuse men were conceded to l have the better of it.
 2 Certainly the Syracuse backs were }. able to hold their feet much better S than their opponents. Robb, Cana n pery, and Shaw were especially badly . handicapped by this fact, and ii e seemed that they simply could not gel e started without skidding and sliding D all over creation. The Syracuse back !, field, led by Barsha and Erwig, bptf V former New York City schooEhoy a stars, and ably assisted by Ackley f who Is a rare, good quarter back. were f Herman, heavy plunging back, were
 not bothered nearly as much as the
 higher running and higher charging
 Columbia backs. Robb and Canaper1 1 were the bright particular stars of tht p Blue and White back field.
 In attack Syracuse used a simple l. array of plays winch without excep 1T array of plays which without excep 1f the orthodox hne-smashing game de [, veloped by O'Neil. The forward pas Il was used only as q last resort and no n as a play relied upon to advance tn l. ball. There was no denying the mas or sive strength of the Salt City men m however, for they rattIed off a tota
 of 14 fipst downs as against Colum as bia's two.
 'e Syracuse made most of these frs 7r downs in two sustained rushes. On III Il, In the first period which yielded III touchdown after six first downs haI u been gained in a row, and the oth., .I in the second period when five frs H te downs in a row put the Orange in position to score its first goal fror the field.
 "a Colunnbia's attack got going in tn ;u final quarter and the Blue and Whit ,s was battling hard in Syracuse terri @a @ tory all through the closing sess.nr !. A touchdown was in sight. hut ther :" "" was not time left to neg0+iata if