New Britain herald., 1919-11-24
MANY ELEVENS END
 SEASON OF MIXUPS
Illinois Wins Western Title, But Here, in East, It's Different

leading college elevens of the East l brought their seasons to a conclusion, | with the outcome so far as the selec- l tion of a champion team is concerned, i still as much ever a matter for individual opinion and speculation. It is difficult to remember another sea- son wherein the records of the teams have contained so many puzzling up- sets. Last Saturday offered its sur prises, just as all the preceding ones had.
 For such traditional football foes as Harvard and Yale and Lafayette and Lehigh Saturdays games represented the one supreme goal of the season, and, whatever else may have betided or however the mythical champion ship may be awarded, the Harvard and Lafayette seasons, as they ended last week, are regarded by the sup porters of those teams as unqualified successes.
 At least one championship was de- cided on Saturday, however, when the Western Conference games reached their decisive point in the match between Illinois and Ohio State at Columbus. Coach Zuppks;s Illin- ois eleven, with six victories to its credit and only one game on the debit side gains the laurel leaf beyond ar gument over Captain Chick Harley and his Buckeye outfit, who can claim only three victories to one defeat. It was a narrow margin that decided this particular fray, but those extra ,2 points in the 9-to-7 score rloomed as large, so far as settling the final argu ment was concerned, as half a dozen touchdowns It is as hard to go be- hind the returns in football as in politics. >.
 Fine Array of Football This Week.
 Of the leading Eastern teams, Har- ward, Yale, Rutgers, Lafayette, Le- high, New York University, and Stew ems, among others, completed their seasons Saturday, and previously Col gate, Dartmouth, Amherst, Williams, and Wesleyan had been among those to return the pigskin to the locker for the last time in 1919. But there is still a fine array of arguments to be settled among this weeks remaining games of the season. The .Penn-Cor- nell, Pittsburgh Penn State, Brown Columb bia, Syracuse Nebra ska; West Virginia Washington and Jefferson, and George Center college games constitute as rich <, @ Thanksgiving Day fare as could comfortably be Fdigested by football fans, and then on Saturday will come what is in many. ways the most picturesque gridiron game of them all, wherein the Army and Navy elevens lock horns up at the Polo Grounds. This will be busy final week, for the Georgetown eleven. for, In addition to it's meeting with !. Center college, conuuerors of West Virginia, it will play Cavanaugh's s Boston college aggregation on Satur- day. " ", When Harvard, scored its 10 to 8 triumph over Yale Saturday, complet- ing it's season with a record of eight victories and one tie, for once the dope ran true. Harvard's was a bet ter drilled eleven than Yale's, and more resourceful, just as previous per formances of the season had led one to expect would be the case.
 Yale Neglccts Modern Improvements. Y Yale played well in the old line smashing game, and exhibited plenty , of pluck and fighting spirit, but her coaches did not seem to have appre- ciated the possibilities of the forward pass as a scoring weapon. Some old, timers may not like what they term the basketball element" in modern football, but, none the less, any team t 1t neglects that department, either on attack or defense, places itself un- der a heavy disadvantage.
 Dartmouth was another eleven that had great power in the time rush ing game, but was poorly equipped in aerial tactics, and Dartmouth came cropper in it's final game of the sea- son, though outrushing it's opponent, just as Yale did while outrushing liar yard. %.
 When it is possible for a single for ward pass to nullify a long, hard march down the field by line- tearing tactics, as has happened more than once in important games of the sea- son, it needs no keen observer to make the obvious deduction. The for
 d passing attack, rightly used, has .@' II more games this fall than the straight line-piunging game.
 Is Western Football Better?
 The greatest surprise of Saturdays results was furnished in the defeat of Syracuse at the hands of Indiana. In- diana $ record in the Western Con- ference had not been impressive; it was defeated both times it started. On the other hand, it would be no easy matter to find an Eastern eleven with a record for the season more inn pressive than Syracuse's previous to Saturday. True. 1t had lost to Wash ington and Jefferson. but its conquest of such teams as the Army, Pitts burgh, Brown. Rutgers, and Colgate had seemed to more than counteract the effect of that setback. Indiana, according to all the reports that have come out of Bloomington, clearly out played Syracuse. Yet Indiana was certainly not at the top of the heap among Western elevens. Did Syra- cuse, after playing "one of the hardest schedules of any team in the East enter into a slump, or has Western