Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-17
GRID SEASON NEARING END
BIG ELEVENS UPSET BY
SUPPOSEDLY WEAK TEAMS
Yale Picked TO Beat Harvard Il
Great Football Classic at
Cambridge.
tspec!al to The Ttmes-Dispatch.,


/ NEW YORK. Nov ls.-Thc mos, pc
cul!ar OF ali football seasons in the
+ East Is drawing rapidly 10 close.
week with monotonous regularity.
/ Football always was 4 hard game 20
dope out winners. This year il has
Seen virtually impossible. Picking
lottery. Even those who were sup
posed 10 know the most about the
chances ot rival teams have found
themselves completely a. sea. Nearly
all the guesses have been wrong.
, Consider some o. the upsets.. IN the
I hrst place, such supposedly strong
+ clevens as Yale and Pittsburgh were
beaten by teams usually considered
( most decidedly their interiors. Boston
/ College i-ounced Yale. and then this
team, which was considered 20 be in
- West Point Next. syracuse, the
conGueror OF Pittsburgh, was beaten
by Washington and Jefferson. and the
latter team in turn lost out TO Pitts
burgh, thus compiicating the situation
more. Princeton was beaten twice in
succession, first by Colgate and then
by West Virginia. Then, just as most
) critics were preparing TO give West
Virginia a rating among the first
teams In the East. the Mountaineers
find themselves beaten by a minor col
lege never heard of outside that State.
In the meantime, Cornell saw its team
/ humiiiated week after week by teams
) that the mana cement had picked out
: Tor practice purposes.
Starts on Down Grade.
, The University of Pennsylvania.
which NJ the end OF October was looked
upon az perhaps the strongest eleven
in the East Started on the down grade
November l, when il lost 10 Penn
, state College, 10 TO O. \ week later
matte games ever seen on the grid
IRON. were beaten by Dartmouth, 20
10 10.
There have been upsc,s in the West,
Among the conference colleges the
University OF Michig gan returned 10
the ranks Of the Big Ten failing
10 maintain The same standing which
was achieved during the first year OF
Is return TO track sports and baseball.
N!ch!San's FIRST upset came IN the
game with Ohio state, which the latter
eleven won. Michigan had set 10
htart Oh winning from Chicago, but
.ast week Stages men, who We're none
too strong themselves, trounccd Mich
| .-an quite easily.
In the East there are four big games
which are attracting much attention
an! Whlch VIII go lonS way toward
nec,dlng how the teams shall be
pay their annual game at Cambridge
next Saturday. On Thanksgiving" Day
trhhysNan!l and Cornell settle their
Er!diron rivalry on Franklin Field.
Hussh and Penn State meet at Pitts
nlfsh IL rc!naTas for the Army and
Navy, as usual 20 wind up the season
II the Polo Grounds. New York
After what has been happening all
over the American college gridiron
inns ial. any man would be fooihardy
10 rich .the winner Of even one of
these contests Anything is likely TO
happen.
Dope Fav"rs Vale Victory.
Concerning the Harvard Yale game
the best judgment. which must be
WIN . rPT wn,t u Is worth favors
one rs ina! Harvard has had 100 easy
= schedule. The other is that Yale
IT,, IHs I Insi pmenomenal progress within
'Hs !ast ;hree weeks. Attention was
cared at. the beginning OF the season
~ ms coinmn 10 the minor college"
81 Hi sGmtdu!e which Harvard played
iuI 'lt lirSt SIX weeks Of the season
: VIM me exception OF the Brown game.
,Ht crimson VAS not extended untii
49, T i,tl., When 1t met Princeton, ANA
- !"cnH 10 escape with a tie AS
- pred!cted, HarVard's easy lis, OF
a'"s9 h'd"c u imposs!bi" for the Grim
sgn 10 he thoroughly tested. tn re-
a. iH" eleven. Whether Harvard h.s
{ IS,n hb!e 10 patch UP these weak spots
: I'm 70 n,it9t Yale. even il this was
G...L ~" possible, the game alon. viii
e i4!e, On the, other hand. has PLAYED
.an or is ft' than Harvard. on
AZ
M'"ES later than Harvard Who's. ,n -.
r :. "" first 10 hcgiu work ms ~
+ ~ '"uhH herself unDreparcd for SO
u .l" +" came a. Hpa-pn College IN. re-,
b 'il ling thai 'ho latter coil.rn ~.
{ ~ TI!aiuB victory Since mar ,ina
80 ~ n""n getting along elowiv
= 'y"iuill history means ar,y,,,i," /.
D. |,ti IA" las undo more nronrrs. =,
t. ~ iaSI wo Neeks than Iinrvard ~
e. i.1fp". N" Vale coach. dld moi .linty
.iS'h 10 bccOr3c excited over ~
q I.E season rev ys-s but ken, nr,,n
IS v''i.b Sy ecu away Al. his business
- co1ctt W"s give Vale i modern
= n pGGn,nE r sHT,ern .ha, would IN Time
e d"'c results IT Yale can beat Har.
q 1%rH. Sh"rre viii have ach,eved 81.
J Penn suffers Rc,rr.e..
lie fnnsy!vhnias rcvcrg,s q, ,ho
u Jih state and Dartmouth nav,
n t,'ta'l\ shaken tho |onfidcnr. -, a.,
il iit.Tr'",u world Ia this years psd ., .nt
e. n."1 cam The eleven ubIch a,,r en-
J. 'p"'r Vas hailed az Va. 49, ~ y" :
""t III IN. iasl found itsnJr ,,I,,, 10 80, 80
,Hhh state anu hcaicn ~ ~,
,n PEG IuSe Of inability 10 MAJ M
-, f't'dfy football. Althouph $500 III
"a ecu great disappoint,uent n ~,
- u"itnl ana UNDERGRADUATE g. q. ~
4, 10 go "a impossible for tho Jth.cnn,
~ i, sNt9 1he lahlea and finish tn, casn,
~ ~ 80 I" c'h]" OF glory Under sinniynr e.
''''"s'"hces Pennsylvania teams Nav