The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-25
Games To-day Have Vital
Bearing on Football Title
Colgate Is Favore Over Princeton in Premier Contest
While Dartmouth Is Expected to Defeat Cornell
Georgia Tech Plays Pittsburg.

Although the football schedule In the
East to-day calls fon fewer big games
than did that Of last week. the day 8
play should develop at least two highly
interesting contests In the Colgate
Princeton game at Princeton and the
Dartmouth Cornell tilt on the Polo
Grounds. Both Of these games will have
a vital bearing on tina Eastern title.
Despite the fact that the clash on the
Polo Grounds win occupy almost the
undivided attention OF New York follow
ers OF the game. the bout In Palmer
Stadium will rank as the premier con-
test Of the day. Princeton. having
dropped Dartmouth to schedule a less off
flcult encounter. finds Itself entering the
substituted game rated as an almost GER
tain loser. Indeed, the ways OF football
fate are strange.
Bill Roper must Tit a team Of mex
perienced Tigers against machine
which is made Up Of pre-war veterans
and which has swept already through
two hard games without having been
forced to extend itself. II is the I'M
precision OF all critics that Colgate has
much III reserve, and that the Bankart
machine viii never show Its full hand
until It strikes an eleven that can force
a close battle. At present II looks as
though Dartmouth and Syracuse are the
only teams that can threaten the Maroon
seriously.
Maroon IL Favored.
The Maroon team enters the game
against Princeton a Z to 10 favorite. and
many have gone so far as to predict
that Princeton will not show as well
against Bankart's team as Cornell did.
In defeating Brown and Cornell Colgate
has shown q capable forward pass at
tack as we'll as strong running game.
The Princeton defence, unable to pre-
vent the puny Rochester team from max
ing long gains through the Tiger line
can hold little hope of stopping Colgate
And the Princeton attack has shown
nothing to warrant one to believe that
the Tigers can score ON the Hamilton
eleven. For q guess, II looks like Col
gate. about IL to o. .
hastily altered Yale team against
Tufts In the Bowl. Kempton will be
tried out at Quarterback In place OF La
Roche, and Acosta will be transferred
from centre. where he played in the Bos-
ton College game, to tackle.
II was Acosta's two poor passes from
centre that caused the Ellis to score a
safety and to lose the game last Satur-
day. but he was in no way blamed. since
| he made no claim to be centre and
begged not to be placed there. He 10 a
tackle of the first water. however. and
| should show Improvement at his old
/ position. Calvin will.be at centre
stars Out of Game. t.
Braden, Murphy and Tim Callahan
will not be able TO play for some time.
probably not until the Princeton game.
The Blue has been showing wen In prao-
tice during the week. and Tufts ought ia
furnish Just about enough opposition to-
day to AFFORD DR.. Sharpe q good chance
to try out his new team and new forma-
tons. Yale ID fortunats-in having Tufts
and Maryland on the card. This will
AFFORD q good breathing spell before the
final tits with Brown. Princeton and
! Harvard.
! The game between Harvard and Vir-
ginia in Cambridge will draw the atten-
ton Of but few outside of the under
graduates OF the two contesting universe
ties, since the Virginia eleven Is having
the most disappointing season in Its his
tory. The Harvard team will not have
I to uncover anything TO roll up a big
score against the Old Dominion team. SC
IL IL possible that even scouts Of other
colleges may pass the battle Up.
The scrappy ilttie LaIayette team VIII
invade Franklin Field to battle Pennsyi'
yania and good battle ought to result
II il not expected that Lafayette will
push the Red and Blue team TO the limit
10 which Princeton was forced two
weeks ago. but the Easton combination
has displayed enough power this season
10 cause one to believe that The game
will not be one of those 60 to affairs
that have been soscommon on Franklin
Field this fall.
Tech Meets PittsburH.
one of the most interesting Tits In the
/ East to-day will be the battle between
Georgia Tech and Pittsburg in the Smoky
City. The Southern eleven comes to the
East believing that II has a better chance
to beat Pittsburg than II had In s. A
r. C. competition last year. The Atlanta
teams greatest strength. added to Pitts
burgs supposed deterioration this year
makes ii decidedly diff,ouit to pick TIA
winner, but ali things considered. Pitts
burg ought 20 win by q small score
The game IN syr&euss between ~
d.