The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-11-02
Usual Surprises in
Football Furnished
Harvard Is Only Con-
sistent Winner-Dart-
mouth Overcornes Col
gate-Corneu Loses

Yesterdays football games fur
nished the usual number of sur
prises. The one consp:cuously con-
! sistent performer was Harvard
. which kept its record for the sea-
son clean by defeating the Spring
field Y, NJ. c. A. team 20 to 0. The
Crimson ran up a score of IA in
the period and added six in the sec-
ond After that the regulars were
taken out to save them for the
Princeton and Yale games and the
second string men were given a
chance. The Harvard goal line
was in danger only once. Spring
! field depended mainly on the for
ward pass. completing "a out of 81
passes. None OF these was good
for any considerable gain. however.
, Dartmouth. after being outplayed
and apparently defeated 10y Colgate.
which had been the favorite in the
betting. came to life in the final
period and tied the score to 7. The
game was played on soggy field
in drilling rain. 'Swede" Younes-
from. right guard. was the bulwark
OF the Dartmouth team. In the
fDas period he blocked kick by
/ Baird. OF Colgate and dashed ten
! yards across the Maroon goal line
! with the ball Robertson kicked
! the goal. Clio ard Laird plunged
J through the green line four times
but each time Youngstrom managed
Z 10 block pupts, one CT these being
the one that enabled the Green to
/ tie the score just before the last
/ blast of the referees whistle The col
lapse OF the press stand in the sec
/ ond quarter caused some excue-
ment among the ten thousand spec
: tatars. but there were no casualties
! Lafayette made a runaway of the
! game with Cornell. winning by 81
! to Q. The Easton boys outrushed
y and outplayed the Ithacans espec-
! tally in the second half Three
runs by Weldon, fullback for La
( fayette. were the chief factors in
/ Cornens defeat although the La
/ fayette. were the chief factors in
/ Cornell's defeat. although the La
/ fayette back field working behind
shift plays often proved Irresistible
/ for the weakened Ithaca team.
! Army Gets Store.
I The experiment of putting sub
stitutes in against Tufts nearly cost
i the Army a game. A series of FUN
! hles by the substitutes and three
long runs by Tufts men gave the
coliegians a score OF 10 in the first
period. This threw scare into the
army camp and the headiiners were
| rushed into the breach with the re-
! suits that Tufts was beaten 81 to IS.
! The Navy took well contested
/ game from West Virginia Wesleyan
by 20 to 6. The middles did all their
81 scoring tr tne FIRST half The visitors
broke the ice when Fisher. their cap
tasn. toak the bali on a tumble and
ran seventy yards for touchdown.
but missed the goal The Navy line
was impenetrable for the Method
lists
Roper's vaunted new offensive was
or no avail for the princetonians in
their game with West Virginia and
the latter won IS to o. Rodgers. the
West virginia captain. was tower
of strength and made several srec-
tacuiar runs, He was hurt in the
second ,ncrt9l ,aud was replaced bv
! Neif. but returned ~ the game In
the fourth period The Princeton
i ians were outplayed at every point
The PENNSYLVANIA eleven NETS its
Hrst defeat of tho season at the
hands Of state college. by score OF
, 10 to 0. A tumble. due to slip
! merry hall, gave state the touchdown
/ traf hroke the 1Hr6-lnck in tho sec
! onS quarter. with their cc,fdenee
restored hv this score. Redek's bows
outpiryed Pen- hv a wide margin In
the second half. tearing holes In the
] line almost at will.
| syr"cuse outclassed Brown and
J scored a Il 70 victory. Brown was
ION he defensive most of the time.
Waking frs. down only twice and
then mainly through pe~altles i'm.
i "9sed on the Svracusans for outside
| MA wand holding, Tho game was
mostly kicking contest. Williams
he coiored left end of the Pro~xn
fean'. WIS one OF the stars OF tho
! came Columbia and Union nlav.d
srore,ess tie in continuous down
nou- OF rain. which made the fe,1
! s"~~v ard treacherous
! The teams were evenly matched
I'D while there were several hrea,.
ihronrhs nv both SIDES. gains vere
never great The wetnass ~ the
/ held made long runs virtually i'm
possible. One re The best was hy
~. of Columbia. who raced -o.~>
| TOR wards down the open field b.
! r"re =" -'nr @owred by wittmer on
! Unions 3o-yard line.
| Val" na-v,,s M.-v,and State
| Yale disnosed Of MARYLAND State
ov 81 10 on n muddy field There
vas little furblin~ by either team.
/ 'lfhough the drizzling rain made the
h"n extremely slippery. The Marv-
landers nroved very weak At sll
points and Yale had little trouble
r"nring four touchdowns and one
field goal Tim Callahan was kapt
| out or the zane IN account Of Tho
coalition ~ the field his rlnra hi, y
! taken by Calvin IN IN ~ a--,
quarter when an entirely new team
was sent y.
TWO rms by Tom Dovies. one nf
fftv yards and the other OF enrtv
wards enabled Pittsburgh to down
! t"h'~h by IA to 0, L.ehirh had cav
oval chances to score, twice fror,
, 1-on kicks by Booth ana a touch :
down bv Harmon spelled defeat for
the purple. Wesleyans goal line has
Mt been crossed once this season
and Booths performances TODAY gives
him seven Trop kicks for goal for the
same period