The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-30
ARMY TEAM IN
DAYS BIG TEST
Football Game With Notre
Dame Is the Feature.
PENN FACES DEFEAT
Penn State Favored Over Rival
Tigers Tackle West
Virginia.
BY DANIEL.

parative ease for the Big Three in
football. After the hectic doings of
the last fortnight they are entitled to
an afternoon of freedom from strain.
and this we think they will get to-day.
If there Is threat of any trouble at
all among the truculent trio 1t Is
directed at Princeton, which will meet
West Virginia.
Last week the Mountaineers We're
stunned by Yale, by three touchdowns
TO none, and gave only scattering evil
dences of ability to develop a serious
aroblem for the Tigers. But it may
be that West Virginia will make the
game the medium of it's annual sensa-
ton. Even at that we do not think
that Princeton will be hard pressed
For the. Tigers the contest will be ons
Of revenge. Last October Rodgers and
his supporting cast hurled Princeton
into the slough with a defeat by
% to o.
AS matters turned out that setback
was not the worst thing which could
have happened to Bill Ropers charges,
for they rose out of that defeat a
stronger, a mightier host and came
through with sensational deeds against
Harvard and Yale. But that % to 0
sting still smarts. And West Virginia
is going to the Tigers lair fully
cognizant Of the fact.
Yale had little trouble In gaining
against West Virginia with any KIND OF
football, open, old fashioned and halt
. and half. West Virginia showed couple
of great backs in Beck who was injured
early In the drst period, and Lentz. and
q great lineman in Harrick. The last
named played at right end. but he
showed that he was miscast and since
then has been shifted back to tackle.
where he belongs Beck is a remarkable
runner and may tear away against
Princeton. But he 10 no Rodgers.
Mountaineers Very Heavy.
The West Virginia 'fns is very heavy
it averages about 100 pounds--but 1t
IS not the line which supported Rodgers
last season. Princeton will send against
the Mountaineers a line which gained
lot of valuable experience against the
Navy. and ought to outplay the visiting
forwards. As for the backfeld. the Tigers
will show West Virginia two stars for
it's one, But it should be a mighty inter-
esting game.
Harvard. fresh from its triumph
against Centre College, will take on an
other representative of the South--the
eleven from old Virginia. The team
from Charlottesville played impressive
football against Rutgers, last Saturday,
and showed a fast and resourcefui line,
which Was the main factor in the victory
by to 0. But we do not think that the
Virginia line will present serious opposi-
ton TO the stalwarts on the Harvard
FIRST defence. We do not think that the
Virginia team is much stronger than the
Washington and Lee outfit which was
swept away by Princeton by 50 to 0.
Virginia has defeated Randolph-Ma-
con, 65 to o; William and Mary 20 to
0, and Johns Hopkins, IA to 0. But 1t
was beaten with ease by Virginia Mill
tary Institute. conqueror of Pennsyl-
vania, by 22 to 6. Virginia has had
some success against Yale. 1t defeated
the Blue by 10 TO in 1915. But when
it went up against Harvard that season
the Crimson scored by to 0. There Is
no Thurman on the present Virginia
combination.
Yale Faces Easy Game.
Yale to-day will get bit of breath
ing spell, and Is likely to use most of
It's substitutes against Colgate---once
the mighty Maroon. but now reduced to
the shabby genteel state. In other years
q Yale-Coigate contest meant a terrific
tussle--anybody's game. Twice, In 1913
and 1915, Colgate came through with
victory in truly sensational style. But
hard times have struck the Colgate
camp II has only two veterans it has
been cuffed about by the lowliest of the
lowly, and last Saturday hit the ebb of
its football fortunes with a defeat by
Cornell by AZ to Q.
Yale, on the other hand, is a team
which is coming along in fine shape. 1t
fell below par In the Boston College
game, but rose above II against West
Virginia. IT IL too bad that Colgate Is
not in a position to give Tad Jones's
men real test
For the big games OF. the day one will
have to go outside of the Big Three. For
rcothsr followers In this section the fea-
ture will be the seventh annual meeting
OF the Army and Notre Dame at West
Point. The annual game between Penn
sylvania and Penn state. to be played
ut Philadelphia, will have n more inn
portant bearing on the Eastern titular
situation, but It certainly viii be no
more interesting than the shlndig up at
the Point. The Syracuse-Holy Cross
game at Worcester and the Columbia
williams affair at South Field also will
be watched with great interest
Army-Notrc Dame Problem.
The Army-Notre Dame game is a hard
one 70 dope" out. The Cadets have
shown power. but they have not met
any team which could extend them.
Union. Marshall Middlebury. SPRING
field ard Tufts presented neither attack
nor defence which could bafie Charley
Daly's men. Notre Dame. on the other
hand. has been up against strength and
he's come through with colors flying.
The Hoosiers have beaten Nebra sl<as
powerful eleven by 16 10 and Velpa-
raIso's heavy team by 2s 70 3. Vnlpas
ra'so had held Harvard 10 21 TO 0--ali
points scored in the second half Notre
Dame has n typical Notre Dame tea m
fast not too heavy and strong, with
versatility and stiffness as It's outstand-
ing virtues. II Is reported 10 be expert
with the forward pass. which II brought
TO West Point for its sensational vic
tory in 1919.
Pennsylvania, still stunned by the
astonishing trounclng II got from Vir-
pinia Military Institute is not likely to
come within two touchdowns OF Penn
state. Tho state adhcrents are making
nii sorts of predictions. going so far az
10 look for a triumph modelled after the