New Britain herald., 1919-10-20

tered. Lafayette held Princeton to d to score and had an easy time Saturday, beating Haverford, Al to 0. The Penn-Lafayette game may prove one of the best of the week.
 But of all of Saturdays great achievements on the gridiron, that of Syracuse in overwhelming Glenn War ner's famous University of Pittsburgh eleven, looms most large and luml- nous. It was the Partners first de- feat since 1914 and the Partners this year are no weddings. Their defeat of West Virginia by a score of 26 to 0 established that fact It was simply the tremendous driving power of the whole Syracuse team that made such a score as 24 to 8 possible against them. Syracuse has reason to rejoice in it's eleven. If anybody were to put forward the proposition that it could meet any team in the east at this tlme with at least an even chance ot VIC tory. there would be few who would be willing to wager any earned or un- earned increment to the contrary.
 It's achievements to date indicate that Syracus has one of the greatest teams in it's football history as well as one of the really great elevens of the present season. The victory over Pittsburgh becomes even more i'm pressve when one realizes that fumb- ling and the incurrence of penalties which seemed to be about the only serious faults revealed by Syracuse, prevented what looked like two more sure touchdowns. As for the Syracuse defense, all the trickiness and skilled maneuering that Warner has been o l,l to in i,,+n a a chance to work out against the Orange forwards. Washington and Jefferson, which was able to defeat the Westminster college eleven by a score of 16 to o, seems to be in for a trimming when it encounters Syra- cuse this week.
 The fact that the Syracuse eleven had defeated the Army on the pre- viOus Saturday by a score of only to 8, should provide encouragement for the supporters of the West Pointers. If the powerful Syracuse eleven could score but one touchdown against the soldiers it is reasonable to argue that the Army is not so weak as had been supposed by many critics. The Navy, which has been a pronounced early season choice for the service game, may have a surprise in store. More over, the Army did not play a bad game at all on Saturday in cOnquering the University of Maine eleven by 6 to O. especially considering that sev- eral of the first string men were out of the West Point lineup. But the Cadets still showed the need of inn provement in power on the attack.
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 Williams, which had held Cornell to a to score the preceding week, continued it's good work when it trounced Columbia by 25 to 0. The game was more closely fought than the score shows, however, the deci- sive factors being that the Massachu- setts men knew more football and had a particularly notable individual star in Captain Boynton. Colum bia fought with an admirable spirit all through the combat and it's support CTS showed an equally fine sentim ent in defeat. That sort of spirit will ac- compiish much in the end. Colum- bia played football that would have prevailed against many a strong op- pOnent on Saturday, and Williams, minus the mighty Boynton, would have had a far closer fight on it's hands.
 New York University lost it's third game of the season, and once more by a low score. Again the strong Amherst team, which humbled Trin- ity Saturday 4S to ', N. Y. U. lost by only ? to 0. Hamilton beat the New Workers by 9 to 0 the following week. and Wesleyan followed last Saturday with a 10 to victory. Once 1 more the local eleven failed to get | the breaks, the Wesleyan touchdown 1 being scored by a lucky sort of play | after what looked like a good chance ! for New York field goal had failed. 1 N. Y. U. plays Rensselaer, Polytechnic 1 here Saturday and has an excellent chance to turn the scales toward the
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 Stevens Institute showed plentiful attac cking ability against the Connect l icut Aggies, it's total of 37 to being | impressive. The engineers have a | fast and heavy team and some good 1 scoring plays. Of the upstate teams l Union used straight football to defeat 1 Hobart by the measure of two touch 1 downs, while Rensselaer, defeated Hamilton in a hard and well fought l game.
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