The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-13
SHall. COLLEGE: ELEvENS
 HAVE TOUGH ASSIGNMENT
nIus5 May Big Array Of Stronger Teams During Season.
 Act As Doorrna5 for Larger Rivals on Gridiron.

Boston. Oct. 13-They sneer at the small college football team and call 1t the punching bag for the bis EuyE. but at the end of the season it's Ile little chaps that have been up against the toughest competition, the most disadvanta& &eous mishaps tnd the biggest college teams,
 Take a biE-tirne football outfit send it through 8 Season's grillinE such as a small timer p!uu@es through. and thcre'd he a vail q block long from players. coaches and the student bo3y. Call on Q big col lege team to exert. ltself from start to finish of the season as the small college team mus do, and there's be a players strike. And yet the aver age fan rega-rds the minor eleven the same as he'd regard bunch of raw meat to he fed to the lions
 Some New ' Yorlz football writer Ept the best rise of the season out CT Herman HiuebraU6, athletic di- rector of the Springfield !. Nj. C. A, for clubbing his "N'' team the tra- ditional punching lag for Eastern college elevcns'' Mr. Hiuebrand un- teaches a statement that helps to show the tough assignment a small college outfit is up against in the course of z season. Says he:
 "Springfield must resort to the largest and strongest teams to fill its schedule for even the preliminary games. This years ca~r7" rs me heaviest in the history of the ins1- tuition. containing Dartmouth, Yale, Harvard. West Point. Tufts, HamiI- ton. Holy Cross and the Massachu setts Aggies.
 .rvith such a schedule it is only reaaorab bIe to suppose that Spring field must experience her share of defeats, especially in the early games. However, We have grown out of the punching bag class and feel a keen regret that our work is not recOgniz- ed as being on the high plane upon which We have striven to keep it these many years.
 HiIlebrand has uttered Q complete earfuI His team is this year meet ing a tougher set of opponents than the Princeton eleven, for instance. The Tigers in former years battled Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth in it's three big games of the season. This year it has dropped Dartmouth, that it might ease it's schedule.
 Suppose Princeton were to meet Springfield's opponents this fall taking the Aggies, Hamilton and Holy Cross for it's preliminary games, and then CT3SEiDg aSaInSI 4ale, liar ward Dartmouth, West Point and Tufts for it's bigger games. You can imagine the bleat that the Tiger alumni would make at the burden some scheduIe; and you can imagine what an aIibi the Tigers would have if they met defeat in two or three of it's major gagnes.
 Yet Sprin gfield goes against the biggest teams, not at the end of the season when it has acquired @ good development, but at the outset of autumn, when it's raw spots are still wi thout balm. And what Spring field-in this concrete case-is up against this season, practically all the other small teams are up against in nearly the same measure.
 The small college team is as neces- sary to a complete season of football as soup to a, dinner and acrobats to 9 vaudeville bill. That they in variably meet defeat is not at all to their discredit. If they acquired too much power and made the worm turn, they wouldn't be scheduled for the preliminary games of the big col lege teams.
 You have not only to reason that the little guys frequently lack the high class coaching talent and other facilities that money can buy for the big guns, but you must also figure that the small feIIer is without the wealth of substitute material that the grand teams carry An injury to a first stringer on a minor team may mean that Q raw sub must fill the gap for the remainder of the game.