New Britain herald., 1919-10-13
PROGRESS IS SHOWN ! | BY COLIEGE TEAMS
ale, Harvard and Colgate De-
 VelOping Smooth Machines

With each succeeding Saturday, it is Becoming more difficult to pick the
 lnner3 of the moro prominent games
 the football world. Last Saturdays
 ames among the eastern teams pro
 uced' at least one complete upset and $everal surprises.
 Among the principal surprises was he narrowness of .Princeton'& escape from defeat by Lafayette Lafayette Tn the past has furnished the Orange nd Black With one of the Warmest
 rguments on it's October schedule,
 Ut no Lafayette eleven has come
 iea Ter to victory at Princeton ~than
 hat of thG present season. Probably
 Princeton had expected no such Whirl
 wind attack as that which the Maroon
 leven exhibited from the start to the final whistle of the game. It was as
 Even a contest as could we'll have been
 Staged, and when Ropers charges
 Stopped their opponents by fine eX-s
 hibition of defensive play within foot #bf a touchdown, the relief among
 Princeton supporters must have been tremendous. However, the game could &lardly be called q demonstration Of
 rincetOn'S weakness so much as of Participated strength on the part ot & lafayette. Incidentally, Lafayette and
 Lehigh. which supplied the principal
 Upset of the day by it's smashing de- Feat of Rutgers, should furnish a tidy
 Argument of their own when they
 meet in their annual classic.
 Harvard, playing a more open and Varied game than on preceding Satur7
 Hays, encouraged it's supporters by tho
 smoothness of it's attack by avoid
 lnce of 'fumbling and by it's quicl1ness +So1 T te-i plays. Harvard certainly looks strong his fall. Colby was not able to offer
 such stout resistance as Brown, despite
 Its defeat by Colgate, should be able No present at the end of this week hgainst Harvard, but the Crimson ap- bears to be certain winner next Sat &urday.
 Should Have Prevented Touchdown.
 The Yale eleven also acquitted itself
 comm endably in it's 34 to victory lover North Carolina. But the touch
 1own which the southerners were able
 to score should have been prevented. Mt looked as though the Yale suDst Flutes, Who were in the lineup at the
 moment, forgot their rules. The bali,
 punted by North Carolina, fell among
 the Yale players and PhaTr sra bbed it for the sOuthernerS and raced to d
 touc hdoWn. According to accounts
 From New Haven, the Yale men, for Exciting that they had themselves
 Touched the ball thought that Pharr XEad no right to touch it. In the case X Xof any such doubt as that. the proper tring under any circumstances would < have been to tackle the man With the ! all and let the referee worry about &tho legitimacy of the play afterwards. ] Tn general. however,, Yale played Q 8 splendid game. The New Haven team S is well fortified in all departments and should n4caSure up to thc standard ot some of the strongest Eli elevcns Of the past. The Boston college game ! this week &hOV'd further condition 1t ! for t}le Scvercr tests that will come in
 Novemhor.
 Cornell outpayed Williams most of < the time in their cncnunter at Ithaca, and Williams has powerful team this fall. The margin of victory. a field goal, was slight, but Cornell forced the
 play to Williams territory practically
 all the way. Fhe rival captains, Shiv-
 erick and Boynton, both did good I work, but Cornell seemed to have the
 greater ability to keep the brilliant
 Purple quarter covered than Williams #Shad in the case of Shiverick But ! Shiverick's drop kicking and rushing
 ability would not have been effective
 without the stalWart Cornell line to < protest; which. if one were so inclined, 4 might lead back to the old argument as to whether q strong line or a strong backtield is of the greater value to team. However, one has only to imagine a team with strong line 8 and mediocre backs playing against a q team with good backs and a weak line, to get the answer.
 Little Opposition for Pcnn The University of Pennsylvania I eleven again met an opponent that was unable to give cause for worry Perhaps Swarthmore will be able to furnish better line on Penns req i ability this week. Penn, like Cornell ] has star player in it's captain. Bell seems to be ar exceptionally good field general, and as in Wray, the Red and l Blue team has a remarkable open Held runner. Penn seems to be play ing hard football all the time---harC to a point of roughness, according tC the reports of the gunes in PhiIadel- phia.
 Columbia will do well if it is able tc hold Williams down next Saturday Vermont is no weak sister among tho college eleyens but Columbia did no show enough scoring power agains the Green Mountain eleven Saturda7 to give supporters any too much con fIdenco as to what can be accomplish cd ugainst the stronger Williams team Tho Army and Navy teams contin uod to display the form they had pre- NloUGly exhibited this season, whic1 means. i'll other words, that so far a he carlJ season showing is concerned the Navy is now pronounced faVorit of the two old rivals. However, man things will happen before the 29th O November. The Armys defeat by tn big Syracuse team was not uneHpocte ed