The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-04
Colgate and Navy Figured
in Big Football UpSetS
Maroons Scoreess Tie With Susquehanna Darkens It's
Outlook Midshpmen Lost to North Carolina
State Because Veterans Have Not Reported
by DANIEL.

I
son is proving quite as eventful as the
I 1919 campaign. In the wake OF Har-
wards close call against Holy Cross and
I the defeat of Rutgers by Ursinus. which
featured the opening doings on the grid
/ iron, came the upsetting of the Navy
: by North Carolina State, Colgates score
! less draw with Susquehanna and Penn
| sylvania's tight tussle with Bueknell to
J stand out as the surprises of last Sat-
urdays results.
! Without doubt the major jolt suffered
! by what enormously is termed form was
! the failure of the Colgate eleven. Re-
ports from Hamilton tried to prepare the
football world for this surprise. but the
: football world would not believe that an
eleven which held position among the
! best in the East last season had fallen
! so low that 1t really feared a team OF
| the class of Susquehanna. Colgate has
! lost most of It's veterans, among them
| Clio, who was half the team last sea-
! son; West one of the greatest tackles
4 we get have seen. and Anderson, the SEM
| sational quarterback 1t also has lost
| Larry Bankhart. who has been suppressed
ed in the position of head coach by Ellery
Huntington. Jr., once an All America
quarterback and for several years as
sistant to Bankhart.
| 1t is apparent that Colgate has struck
| the low tide of it's football fortunes. 1t
does that once in every four or five
years, but II does not stay down any
more than the tide stays down. 1t will
! taken a season. and the Maroon will be
back there fighting with the best. But
| for this year we may not expect much
| from Colgate.
Navy Regulars Out.
The Navy's defeat by North Carolina
! State was n sumner not only to the fol-
| lowers of football in general but to the
J Navy as well-that in spite of the fact
! that Annapolis realized that 1t was fac
| ing a hard proposition with many of its
veteran linemen still to be heard from.
| The Navy, which is being coached by
| Bob Folwell, who was coach at Penn
| sylvania for several seasons. did the
best 1t could with green material. When
I its Olympic oarsmen come back there
will be a different story to tell.
| At the same time. there is no getting
! away from the fact that for the first
| time. as far as we can remember, the
| Midshipmen have got away with a de-
| feat-a result which tells in the season 8
| record and sometimes on the morale Of q
| team. But fighting in the face of adj
1 versity should prove the Navy's mettle.
] The closest which the Annapolis crew
came to beating on opening day In
other seasons was a scoreless tie with
! Georgetown some years ago.
| Pennsylvania's hard battle with Buck
4 nell may have surprised the football
world In general, but II was no sumner
| for close students of the game. Buck
| nell proved n mighty tough proposition
| for some of our best elevens-Syracuse
| among them--in 1919. and 1t took the
! field this season with almost all of Its
\ veterans back. In consequence 1t be-
came practically certain that Penn would
get 4 hot scrap. And II certainly did.
| II It had not been for Bucknell fun
| BILE, and a forward pass from Straus to
| Thomas. John Heisman's team would
! have been held to scoreless draw.
! The Penn squad showed that 1t was
capable OF playing good. hard and
| plucky football--that It was resourceful
and had the traditional Pennsylvania
penchant for variety. 1t has not begun
to round into form. When it does II
pro-, ,ses to be capable eleven.
Among the Big Three.
| Among the Big Three last Saturdays
! games proved quite satisfactory. How
ever we do not know just how much
| satisfaction the various coaches got out
| of the days doines. Yale won over Car
negle Tech by "A to 0, Princeton defeated
Swarthmore by II to 6 and Harvard
trounced Maine by II to 0. or the three,
Princeton had by all odds the toughest
| opponent-a fact which should be given
| due consideration in the review of the
Big Three as a separate company.
! Yale showed that it has the markings
! 30 n
I Yale backs were not any too fast or de-
| termined when they hit the line. The
velA tackllng which looked so bad at
1 this stage last year, again showed short
I comings. and as was the case last Oc-
/ tober the Ellis were poor in covering
punts. But averaging things UP they
! did well for an opening contest
The defence was up to the mark and
/ the men showed a commendable nose for
| the ball In general way the offence
was fairly satisfactory, but often II
sagge1 and too often II slowed down. 1t
was evident that Tad Jones's big prob
! lem has 10 do with the ends. We do not
| know II Jack Gates again Is helping to
coach the ends, but II he Is there his
work did not show out as well as It did
| In other years. In Octobers 1912 no
matter what the weaknesses of the Yale
eleven. II could not be said that the ends
were not up to snuff for that stage of
| the season. And they managed TO do
pretty well all the way through But
| this fall Jones is forced to provide two
now wing men. and he Is trying to fill
the places mainly with converted tackles.
wealth of Good Backs.
That Yale is going to have a fast.
shifty and mighty dangerous backfield IL
certain for in Kempton Murphy and
Aldrich II has a trio who stand far
! above the average both individually and
| as a set webb, Neville. Herman. Sturm,
! Peterson and Kelly make another great
set ~ backs. We would advise football
| followers to watch this man Kelly. He
, is the back who was the star at Rut-
! gers two years ago and we expect him
to be In there starring again before the
1 season gets much older.
! a word about this man Herman, who
I hit hts line a bit too softly last Satur-
! dnv. hut Is going to prove n surer man
3 than Braden. Herman got HIS training
at Rome IN W High School and was
regarded az one OF the greatest scho-
lastlc football players in central New
York. Then he went TO big prep
school in Pennsylvania and from there
to Syracuse. He has had enough ex-
perience to form fine foundation
! Princeton wanted to do better than
two touchdowns and a field goal against
Swarthmore, and II hated to see the op-