The sun., 1918-11-28
FEAST OF FOOTBALL
THIS TURKEY DAY
Many Important Games Arc
Scheduled - Columbia-Sy-
racuse Battle O Feature.
nr GEORGE n. UNDERWOOD.

Since Princeton and Rutgers met on
Noyen,bpt 6. 1889, in Americas first col
ieslaie football game turkey day always
has hcen a big day ON the gridlron aud
today Is no exception. Thoush for the
first time since 1898 there will be no
annual THANKSGIVING Day tussle between
CORNELL and Pennsylvania. the day will
ma featured by the Columbia Syracuse
mn Columbia was the third American
College to take up the Rugby game. fol-
loving Princeton and Rutgers In 1870,
ION Years ahead Of Yale and Harvard.
The Columbia game will be played In
,hs Archbold stadium In Syracuse.
The local football appetite, however.
will be appeased by several contests,
the annual grldiron duel between Ford
ham and Georgetown on Fordhan Field
heading the card and several important
scholastic and service games completing
the bill.
Uncle Sans Khaki and blue clad war
rlors could not let the day pass without
GENERATING il In fitting football fashion.
and three service games will be staged
IN This vicinity. In the Lewisohn stad-
lum at City College this afternoon the
Armed Guard eleven from the Brooklyn
navy yard will mingle with Camp DIX.
This morning at Travers Island the
strong Pelham Bay n. T. s. eleven will
clash with Fort Slocum. At Oritant
FIeId. near Hackensack. Camp Merritt
viii play the Princeton Paymasters.
Important Games In west.
Out Of town the Pittsburg-Penn State
attraction commands the most atten-
ton. with the Pennsylvaria-D Dartmouth
contest running a close second. In the
middle West the Hotre Dame Nebraska
sans holds the llmelight along with the
Wisconsin vs. Michigan Aggiee enbrog-
In The undefeated Great Lakes N. T.
s eleven will meet Camp Grant. For
the first time In twenty-seven years
there will be no Thanksgiving Day game
between Kansas and Missouri. Influenza
halted II. ,..-.-
Although Syracuse's football stock un-
doubtedly took a slump by the Michigan
setback a few OF the experts deign 10
concede Columbia anything except
reasre fighting chance In this after
moons contest. They point to the fact
that the Orange has pronounced SUI
neriority In heef. speed and football
tricks and fail to see how Columbia can
beat that combination.
lieut.. Robb however. may cause the
dome" OF the football seers to 60 awry.
,Tha former Penn State star IL one OF
the greatest backs OF the game and Syra-
cuse will need a preponderance OF power
both on the line and In the backfield
10 keen him covered. Any eleven that
las a player of Robb's calibre Is dan
gerous.
That. coupled with the fact that Coach
Fred Dawson has done wonders with the
material he has had to work on, gives
Columbia supporters a quiet confidence
that the eleven Is not, going into the
Syracuse stadium Ike lambs led to
slaughter. II the Columbia line can half
way hold its own with the supposedly
heavier. stronger and more skilful Or
ange forwards, Syracuse may be In for
an even more stunning surprise than 1t
recently received at Ann Arbor.
Fordham Depends on Frisch.
The Fordham- Georgetown conflict Is
more or less an open one. The Maroon
eleven is built around Frisch. a halfback
whose capabilities would earn him a po-
sition In the backheld on almost any
eleven. He Is likely to swing the bal
ance in Fordham's favor this afternoon.
though y. Y. L. had little difficulty in
holding the Fordham star in check.
Georgetown apparently has no outstand-
ing player like Frisch. The Georgetown
eleven, like the Fordham team without
Frisch. is a rather mediocre combination.
II was not till midseason that football
was taken up at the Southern institution
and the Blue-Gray only has had two
contests to fit II for the duel with Ford
ham. A fortnight ago Georgetown de-
teated the Charleston Navy Yard eleven.
~ 10 0, but last week ran afoul of the
League Island Navy Yard warriors and
was beaten. 81 to I. League Island.
however. has the scalps of several col
lege elevens dangling TO its belt. The
League Islanders beat Brown. 21 to :.
and Brown snothered Dartmouth,
2S 10 O. -'.- ---
Pennsylvania is favored over Dartmouth
IN their duel on Franklin Field. The
Red and Blue will enter the contest
with a confidence born OF their recent
comeback victory over Swarthmore, that
eleven having had little difficulty beat
ing Pennsylvania earlier ip the season
It Is doubtful II THE Green will have
recovered from It's recent disastrous rout
In the Brown game.
The powerful Pittsburg eleven should
win over Penn State, but not by any
larger score than Rutgers ran up over
Penn State. IS to 8.
Stanford and California will meet at
Berkeley, Cal, for the first time in thir-