Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-11

FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
MAKERS SLDESTEP SOFT GAMES
FOR BIG TEAMS IN EARL Y SEASON
BY ROBERT w. MAXWELL
soesss Editor Hvsnins Public Ledger

HERE has been lot Of modern stun pulled In football
this year. which shows that the game Is improving
With age. However outside Of the new plays and i'm
proved Defense there Is feature which apparently
been overlooked, and that Is the football schedules.
schedule makers also getting modern.
q In the olden days the so-called big teams took
hings in September and October scheduled games
with the smaller colleges for practice purposes only
ynted the teams to the important contests in November
On very rare occasions a small college would score q
scuehdown and cause sensation. On occasions
@s team would be defeated and the whole world would
he stunned. Remember when Tufts beat Harvard and
Ursinus beat Penn?
Now It is different. 1t seems that every game is a
Wig game and II a team slides through the season
Without defeat II is very unusual. college with
enrolment Of 5000 students play but eleven
time, just the institution with enrolment
Of 100. The game has opened up considerably bulk and
beef do not count and have been suppaned BY skill
speed. Early in the season a small college team has
big advantage q larger one 1t has chance
perfect team work because the limited number Of candi
dates makes 1t possible for the coach select his varsity
che first week At Yale Harvard, Princeton, Pitt and
ne Others the first team is picked until November.
= Therefore the schedule makers forgot the past and
arranged games along modern lines. Every game
considered hard and in the harder the
better.
Pittsburgh is a good example. That team has waded
through Of the toughest schedules arranged and
thus far has been successful West Virginia, Syracuse
Georgia Tech, Lafayette and Pennsylvania have been
nlayed, and Saturday Washington and Jefferson will
ee entertained. That makes six hard games In
After w. and J. comes Penn State That game will be
ghe hardest Of all
Princeton played Swarthrnore, Washington and Lee,
he Navy, West Virginia. Harvard and Yale. Penn
1aced Bucknell, Swarhmore Lafayette Virginia NJ. l..
Penn State Pittsburgh and Dartmouth successive Sat-
Vrdays. West Virginia had but game this
epn, and that was with George Washington University
~ -
! MO LONGER do 700 Aear the old cry about
~ scheduling too ma"y hord comes. Coaches say
! II IS easier to 90 through tough schedule thar
I soft one. The harder the better.
Introducing University of Detroit
% EPORTS from the West indicate that the University
OF Detroit has Of the best teams in that section
and claiming It Is the best in the country Last
Sesr Detroit surprised followers Of yrdron dope by beat
tag Georgetown and Holy Cross This year Tufts
beaten by overwhelming and the other games
have resulted in victories.
The Ford city aggregation has weight, speed and
perience, and unless Il falls victim to overconhdence
shey say will through the schedule with clean slate
Detroit is coached by Jimmy Duffy formerly Of Col
gate and is assisted by Jim "Bngo' Brown, another
Colgate man. who played on one Of Larry Bsnkharts
strong teams. The diminutve Duffy has developed
system Of attack and defense founded on the Frank