Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-11-23
Nut Yard-on- the Inseine.
Nov. Fl, 1919.

Nut YaTd-On-tno lnSeines
Nov. Fl. 1919.
4 GENTS AND MARRIED MEN:
Just because I picked Hughes to win
In the last presidential election, Will
lard At Toledo, and the Sox IN the
worlds series. my boss says that ia
be the logical guy to pick this years
football champs. Since I'm glutton
for punishment. why here goes.
Football teams, I find, are just ike
boxers and wrestlers because regard
less of whom they beat they are always
z claiming the championship of some
thing or other. Some unknown boxer
will slip the X. O. to some other un-
known pug and what Is the result? He
Immediately claims to be paperweight
champ of Peanut Crossing, Iowa, or
some other dump. A wrestler pins
the shoulders and cement dome of
some other mat infestor to the canvas
and right away he claims the ton
weight championship of Ali Bara Bara,
Hindustan Or, going to football, Po-
hunk college wallops the State school
for the Blind and at once claims the
championship of Cincinnapolis county,
Fennsyltucky.
AS long as football games are played,
bouts are staged to fleece the very
3 gentle public or wrestling matches are
conducted to compete with the cut
trroats, championships will continue
to be claimed.
UNPRECEDENTED SEASON
This season in football. champion
ships will be claimed as never before
because the pigskin game is this year
in its glory. But to pick the champion
IN any section of the good old U. 3. A..
is about as easy as predicting wnen
hon fruit will again sell Tor Two DIS
per twelve In one sense OF the WORD
it is q mighty good thing for football
that things are as they are, because
the dope experts cannot bore us with
their predictions. 1t is impossible Tor
: them to prophesy much. because they
ere bound to be wrong and If they DO
that sort of thing too much they are
sure to lose their jobs.
On the other hand it is bad because
the critics will be writing about this
season with its upsets when our pres
emit college stars are wearing long gray
boards instead of the dark shrubbery
that now infests their upper lips. Truly
this season has been full of upsets ano
TO pick sectional champs is hard task
For example in the East there is nc
such thing as an undisputed champion
III the next football guide Walter Camp
will be unable to place the picture OF
any team Immediately after his own
beth separated from the rest of the
guide by contents" as was possible
in 1914, 1916 and 1916.
METHODS OF JUDGING
To pick a championship team in the
East, depends entirely upon the angle
from which the situation is viewed
The various viewpoints to be consider
ed are: the undefeated team, the team
with the highest percentage in games
won and lost, the team with the bes
offensive record In points scored, ant
"a the team with the best defensive rec.
ord.
The first consideration is the unde
f~Ated team. Harvard has the only un
defeated team at present and If sh,
defeats Yale the laurels are hers. Out
side of Boston (victors over Yale) ant
Princeton, the Crimson has had al
easy season of 1t. Harvard won from
Cclby, "a team not a contender) Brow
(who lost to Yale, Colgate and Syria
cuse by larger scores than they did 4
Harvard), Virginia, Springfield ~
College. and Tufts. And she was tie,
ey Princeton.
Taking II on a percentage basis tn
team with the next best record is sly
racuse, who has seven victories an
one defeat on her record. syracus
won a neat victory over Pitt, blu
Washington and Jefferson came aion
ard upset the championship dope b
slipping the New Workers. 10 to
defeat Had Syracuse won that gam
sfc would have been undisputed cham
pi,n. The Orange also won fror
Amy, Drowh, NuleeIs' buckHeh an
Colgate won five games. lost on
! ard was tied I'm one game. The Hamil
ten team won from Princeton, Brow
and Cornell. but was tied by Dart
Lsouth and then lost to Syracuse. Pitts
burg won five, lost one and had or
tie ga =. hey won from West Vii
ginia, Georgia Tech and Washingto
and Jefferson, but were tied by Pen
ard lost to Syracuse.
DEBIT AND CREDIT TOTALS
Penn State won from Penn and Coz
nell but lost to Dartmouth and spoilt
her chances. Dartmouth won fro
Cornell and Penn State, but was tit
by Colgate and lost to Brown, spoilir
an excellent chance for the title. Ma,
while playing an easy schedule Ill
Harvard, was In line for the first hol
ors until she fell the victim to Georg
town..
The team piling up the highest SEQ
IN points among the Eastern elevel
was Navy with 277, but 121 of the
ware against Colby. Penn Is secoI
with 246, the largest number haviI
been run up against the smaller schoc
early in the season. Harvard was thi
With = total of 15s points, with di
tribution among all Of the season
games fairly equal
Turning to the best defensive teal
Washington and Jefferson would ca
ry off first honors, but for one touc
down being registered against 4
Presidsnts. and that one by Pitt Ha
ward y second in this respect with
80 polnts On bar debit sheet (and the
were scored By Princston) all the 9th
five games being shut outs. So {
though some experts dtsclaim Ha
wards right - . title holder becau
of N eaAy season. yet her offensi
"a deGonstve records entitle her
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