The Washington herald., 1919-11-03
EASTERN TITLE
YET UNDECIDED
Dartmouth Has First Class
Bid for Football
Honors.

Enter Dartmouth-with . nrst-class
bid for the Eastern honors.
The Hanover collegians. unable to
push Colgate on the gridiron throne.
took the next best thing and squeezed
themselves into . seat beside the
Hamilton team in the leading car OF
the race.
II was a terrific struggle waged up
there in the New Hampshire noun
tains. A final kick In the last quarter
gave dartmouth a tying touchdown
and erased It's name from the list OF
Bankharrs victims which the bat
tered New Workers. had already scrib-
bled down.
IL wasn't a surprise. The dope
s,ers had agreed that 1T was a toss
UP!
Those who feed on the unexpected
had a meal furnished to them. how
ever. by Penn State and West Vir-
sinia-
fire that burned up the hopes Of the
u
Championship rating. Cndefeated and
In proud possession OF the record OF
the leading scoring team OF the East.
Pennsylvania had ready in type the
obituary Of the Penn Staters. Hugo
BeZdek's team Just reversed the
names in the black bordered box and
put the Quaker following in a tranc-
that will last for days
West Virginia had a glorious time
indutgiTIg in' the popular season
paStime Of making things miserable
for the Tigers. A Princeton defeat
can't be called a full-hedged surprise
but score of - to q was not ex-
pected from the West virginians
LehIxA Tumhi-d Over.
Prominent on the lis; OF the day :
victims was another previously unde-
feated team that had been sneakin.
up IN the front ranks-Lehigh Uni
Versity. Glenn Warmers Pittsburgh
PanLhers operated the guiIlotine that
behcaded the hope of the Bethlehem
team.
Two runs by Tom Davies. one OF
nifty yards and the Otker Of forty
yards enabled Pittsburgh to down Le-
high by IA 10 0. LehiGh had several
chances to score. twice from drop
kicks, but the wet ball prevented ac-
curacy. one chance was spoiled when
Eddie Booth was caught roughing a
Pitt player.
Wesleyan stopped Williams IL to o.
Three dropkicks by Booth and a
touchdown by Harmon spelled defeat
for the purple. Wesleyan's goal line
has not been crossed once this season
and Booths performance today gives
him seven drop kicks for goal for the
same period
Yale disposed OF Maryland State by
Il to on a muddy field. There was
little fumbling by either team. al
though the drizzling rain made the
ball extremely slippery. The Mary
lsndeTs proved very weak at all
points and Yale had little trouble
scoring four touchdowns and one fieid
goal Tim Callahan was kept out Of
the game on account of the conditions
Of the field. his place being taken by
Calvin up to the final quarter when
an entirely new team was sent in.
Lafayette made runa way of the
same with Cornell winning by q to =.
The EastOn boys outrushed and out
played the Ithacans. especially in the
second half Three runs by Weldon,
fullback for Lsfay ette. we're the chief
factors in Cornelrs defeat although
The Lafayette backfield working be-
hind shift plays often proved ire
sistible for the weakened Ithaca team.
The experiment Of putting substitutes
in against Tufts nearly cost the army
a game. \ series OF fumbIes by the
subs and three long runs by Tufts
men gave the collegians score OF
Il in the first period This threw n
fv,N- ~. Nl,
headlineTs were rushed into the
breach with the result that Tufts was
beaten q to 13
Navy Comes TO Front.
The Navy took a well contested game
from West Virginia Wesleyan by 20
to 6 The Middies did all their scoring
in the first half. The visitors broke
the ice when Fisher. their captain.
took the ball on q tumble and ran
seventy yards for a touchdown. but
missed the goal. The Navy line was
impenetrable for the Methodists.
Roper's vaunted new offensive was
OF no avail for the PrincetOnians- in
their game with West Virginia and
the latter won . to 0. Rodgers, the
West Virginia captain. was a tower
OF strength and made several spec
taculsr runs. He was hurt in the Sec
ond period. but continued playing un-
tile he collapsed in the second period
and was replaced by Nell. but returned
to the game in the fourth period. The
Princetonians were outplayed at every
point.
Syracuse outclassed Brown and
scored 13-to-0 victory. Brown was
on the defensive most of the time.
making first down only twice and then
mainly through penalties imposed on
the Syracusians for offside play and
holding. The game was mostly a kick
ing contest. Williams. the colored left
end of the Brown team, was one of