New-York tribune., 1919-11-22

Matches Nav
Provide Upsets
Western Teams Are Likely
to Surprise Syracuse and
Rutgers This Afternoon
By Ray Mccarthy

lO-udy IOOtDAll matches VIII pfHC-
tically wind up one of the greatest
gridiron seasons in the history of the
sport. The 1919 football campaign has
peen far too short, and it is with re-
ret that followers of the game will
"h t"e exit of probably the most
sensational season of all. While the
- VI contes.s 4or this afternoon is
.ather short compared with previous
aturdays. there is not lacking any
color or the interest Of other week
ends.
The Yale Harvard struggle. of course,
eads the list. Although the result
i'll not have much bearing on the so
called championship, the interest in
this particular game is greater than
ever, and record crowd is expected
in the Harvard Stadium at Cam mbridge.
Two games of particular interest to
New Workers. are the Columbia New
Field and the Rutgers Northwestern
game at Harrison, N. J. While this
inter.ectional match is being fought
out Syracuse will be tackling Indiana
in the West, at Bloomington. A big
crowd is sure 20 journey across the
river to Harrison this afternoon, as,
with the exception of the Notre Dame
Army game played a few weeks ago,
this will be the only chance for East
erners to see Western team in ac-
tion this year.
Northwestern comes here with 81
reputation of having fast and power
full eleven. Due to injuries, its show
ing in the conference this wear was
not go good as tmight have been, nor.
so good as it was expected to be at
the beginning Of the year. However
the Evanston teams victory over In
diana last Saturday in the last few
minutes of play showed that the Purple
has reached it's real gait Practically
all Of the players who have been out
of the game have recuperated and will
be on hand for to-day's tussle.
Rutgers Eleven Improved
Rutgers, Off to a slow start. has come
along rapidly within the last month.
and to-day stands ou. IS d strong team.
able to hold its own with any in the
East. The defense Of the Scarlet is
weil-nigh perfect, as was shown in the
game against Syracuse Since then
Coach Sanford has drilled the New
Brunswick students in offensive tactics.
50 that the Jerseyites are very hopeful
of winning to-dav's match. However.
the NorthwesteIners are counting or
sprlngng surprise by carrying off
the victory
Syracuse is going into the wild and
"ooly country. expecting to add Il
couple OF soaps to its lengthy string.
but lnasmuch as the Westernars will
be playing on their home lot they are
apt to upset the dope, as has been done
so often this season.
Syracuse is rated one of the strong
est teams in the East, but this does
not mean that the Orange will win
easily over its Western opponents.
Indiana and Nebraska will be primed
Tor the Fasteners, whereas, now that
It's important games are over, the Salt
City eleven is apt to let up. This at
least, has been the experience of Penn
and Brown, which teams iourneyed
westward few years ago to meet de-
feat after successful seasons III the
East.
A contest that will be we'll worth
travelling TO see is the annual La
fayette- Lehigh game. which will be
played in South Beth chem, the steel
center of the Lehigh Valley There is
more interest in this game this year
than there has been III the last eight
years, because to-day the two are more
evcnlyS matched than they have been in
nearly decade.
Lafayette Has Chance
During the last eight years Iehigh
has had sort of monopoly of this an
nual meeting, but that is by no means
the case this year. Lafayette has
shown itself q team Of splendid capa-
Dllitles and Of eXceptional possibilities
That these possibilities will be devel-
oped for this particular game is matter
OF fact. "Doc" Sutherland, the former
Pittsburgh star guard has instilied
much Of the Glenn Warner spirit and
into the Maroon eleven this
season, SO that it has mad a most sue
cessful year.
Coach Ready. however. has not been
idle. and will se1d out his usual we'll
drllled. aggressive aggregation Cap
tain Weldon is the man Lehigh must
stop, whereas the Eastonians will be
kept busy watching Rote, Harrington
and Wysocki.
Brown in tack'ing New Hamnshi~e
viii have no soft snap. and this is an
other game which may go the reverse
of expectations.
The big games in he West, outside
of the Svracuse-Indiana game. are the
Ohlo-ll'inos game the Chicago WIS
cons.n tussle. the Nctrr Damn- Purdue
clash and the Mich gan Nj nnesota
struggle. Notre Dame has yet TO meet
de+eat. but is stacking up against
tough customer this a ternoon.
Stevens expects to brig its season
"a close without defeat t. dav meet
ing Worcester Tech. And WASHINGTON