Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-10-19

Except on the gridiron New Years day.
When the latter must taste defeat.
Just who will deliver the punish
ment this year to the eastern cham
pions cannot be guessed for few
weeks yet The invitation to Pasadena
New Years Day to decide whether
Pc coast or the older colleges pro-
duces the best brand of football. is
more of an invitation to guessworlS
than when the first such game was
staged, away back before the war. 1t
used TO be that some kind of estimate
could be made from year to year on
the respective merits of the teams in
the same conference. But we have to
start all over again since the war
Knocked the whole pigskin world in
side out.
For venture, say that the Univer-
| sity OF California has the honor. There
| are more students at Berkeley than
at any other school in the big West,
and indeed California ranks close to
the top in total attendance of any
| college in the country. That supplies
| wealth of material FOR Andy Smith
Washington is working hard to build
Z fighting machine, and by the time
she has played two or three games Of
| a tough schedule, the critics may per-
init her to hope for the championship.
+! Leland Stanford is back in the game
this year. but nobody will admit as
| yet that they can play the real Amer
I lean football there, after being we'd
ded to Rugby so long.
| Tn the East first choice Is with
| Princeton, because that university
came nearer to keeping up its regular
play during the war than any Of the
others. Bill Roper Is head coach. and
he is said to have first class candi-
date for each position on the team.
Yale has Dr. Brides. its old line
coach of 1916, back again. Though not
as well supplied with veteran players
as Princeton. the Ellis have several
stars and some new candidates that
are showing up well in the early
games DIR. Brides is specializing on
the line work. Jack Gates is coaching
the ends, and two or three other in
structors are on the staff under Dr..
| Albert Fl. Sharpe. chief mentor. But
most of all the New Haven team Is de-
pending upon the spirit Of Howard
Jones. the coach who built their great
machine of 1915 and taught new kind
Of tactics, which proved effective even
against Harvard that year.
| Harvard also has a new head coach
in Robert T. Fisher. who was captain
of the Crimson in 1911. He has for
midable staff of assistants, no less
| than 10. ALI are Harvard graduates
and former mountains of strength. At
to material, there are two or three
veterans who have not left the game.
others who served on elevens in the
army, and some prep school stars.
| Harvard has also the spirit Of for
| mer genius to depend upon. Percy
Haughton, producer of her victorious
teams in the first half of the last de-
cade, gave Harvard its traditionally eff
fective punting and hidden ball at
tacks, and all thes coaches know how
machines are built up to use such tao
tics.
There are two other possibilities in
the East, not taken seriously as
championship contenders, of course,
but still possibilities. One is Pittsburg
and the other Pennsylvania State coll
lege. Glenn Warner is coach at Pitts
burg and Hugo Bezdek at Penn State.
Warmers chances are due to the fact
that his was the only eastern team that
put up really first-class brand of
| football during the last two years.
when the war had put the kibosh on
the other schools. He won over Georgia
Tech last year by a score of SO to 0
and leaped into fame. The first game
of the present season Pittsburg took
from Geneva by the same score. Pitts
burg has a schedule which embraces
Syracuse, West Virginia. Washington
and jefferson, the University of Penn
sylvania and Penn State. and II War
ner can keep his gait and tear through
all of those there is no doubt he can
make a race for the eastern champion
ship.
Pennsylvania State gets into the
reckoning on the strength Of its coach.
Hugo Bezdek. who was il charge Of
the University of Oregon when that
aggrega ton defeated the University of
Pennsylvania at Pasadens January l.
1917.