New-York tribune., 1920-11-19
Several Great
Battles Remain
To Be Staged
Aside From Games To-mor-
row There Are Many Foot
ball Struggles on Card
By Ray Mccarthy

Although the football season is very
much on the wane now-with the last
act about to begin--there is still some
great treats of q wonderful season left.
Of course there will be a score of good
things for the fans to see to morrow,
including the Yale Harvard classic, TIE
Brown-Dartm nth struggle, the Penn
Columbia reunion, the Lchigh-L Lafayette
annual grdiron debate and the Syra-
cuse-Colgate brush upstate
But aside from these there will be
another crop of games following along
which will not only give tee enthusi-
asts chance to keep on edge for an
other fortnight or SO, but which will fur
nish q bEilliant anti climax to what
has probably been the best season in
history. considered from every angle.
There is, for example, the Army-Navy
grapple week from tomorrow at the
Polo Grounds, which will present the
usual flne spectacle, such as only these
two service academies can present, but
which will also exhibit this fall nifty
football contest. Both the cadets and
the middies have better elevens than
they had last year, have shown to bet
ter advantage and appear to be more
evenly matched than they were a year
ago.
On Thanksgiving Day the Penn Cor
nell annual at Philadelphia, the Penn
state Pittsburgh issue ct Pittsburgh.
which this year promises to be one of
the greatest battles in history: the
West Virginia. Washington and JefFer-
SON meeting at Washington and the
Detroit Rutgers game at Detroit will
give followers of the game plenty of
opportunities to enjoy the day in other
ways than by chewing turkey
And this isn't all. On Saturday. No.
vember ~, besides the Army-Navy 20,
there will be little passage of arms
between Georgetown and Boston Col
'ege, at Boston, q tuss.e that gives
promise of developing into a regular
old-fashionad struggle. On that same
day Dartmouth will help Washington
University open its new stadium at Sc
attic, in little playlet on the check
cred greensward.
Cross and Boston College will meet in
what is always "dog- eat-dog" battle,
and which this year will be anything
out game Of ping-pong. That little
erapple Will repay any and everybody
who attend in the hope of seeing a
good, hard game of football. It NAV
be-. too. that we may see Penn State
and Notre Dame stage post-season
exhibition here in New York. So don't
tuck the pennies and the binoculars
away just yet.
There have been hundreds of great
football players, but tie greats. as far
as coaches are concerned, can be tabu-
lated on the corner of ones cuff When
anybody starts speaking of halfbac,is-
the names of Thorpe, Mahan. Heston.
Coy and others, come to mind. Star
enos and ilnemen are named by the
score. But the names of successful
coaches-you can count them over and
over-on one hand or thereabouts.
Among those whose success has been
nothing short of phenomenal is little
Bob Zuppke, the idol of all illinois
men and the headliner in the Middle
West: For the last eight wears
Zuppke has turned out teams that
have more than held their own against
all Western Conference opponents. On
Gach 9;, and every member Of the Big Ten
Illinois has the edge.
When Zuppke was student at Wis
consin he reported to the coach each
of his four years-and won a berth-on
the scrubs. That was as far az he
ever got. His weight was against him.
They could not use little fellows except
on the scrubs. But Zunpke stuck and
came out at tne end OF four years with
his Uranium brim full of football
knowledge which he proceeded to put
into rood use. On the other hand not
one great football player has developed
into great coach.
They tell us, people who know Zuppke
intims tely, he is great believer in
psychology and that he can tell by o
mans facial expression whether or not
he will make good gridiron performer.
Dhdouotediy there is something in this
But we know several stars who look
little like football players and who
have ranked with the best.
There is little Charley Way. of Penn
state, for instance. He looks no more
like gridiron hero than Kid Gleason
OF the White Sox looks like a molly-