New-York tribune., 1921-10-24
Pitts's Victory
Over Syracuse
Big Surprise
Warmers Team Back i'm
Running for Top Hon
ors; Changes Certain
BY Ray Mccarthy

overwhelming victory Of the Pittsburgh
Panthers over the slashing Syracuse
eleven by score Of a5 to 0. Chicago's
triumph at Princeton. Georgetown's rout
Of Holy Cross and Dartmouth's easy VIC
tory over Columbia we're all surprises;
the Westerners' win in the jungle espe-
cially was an upset. but none of these
created the sensation the slaughter OF
the Orange did.
Syracuse, we'll coached eleven, con-
tanning several stars, has been travelling
easily and rapidly along the champion
ship route. From its showing in these
previous games many-the majority OF
fans, probably-had picked the Orange
to win Saturday. But Pittsburgh, which
has again struck it's stride, rushed right
through to the top rank on Saturday
and probably will remain there for the
remainder Of the season.
Many Changes Certain
The Navy, Yale, Harvard, Penn State
Dartmouth, Cornell, Lafayette, have not
as yet lost game, but none of these are
greater than Pittsburgh. Next Satur-
day two or more of the above named
teams are sure to suffer defeat, and be-
fore the season ends it is likely that
all but one or two will be among those
defeated. And Pitt probably will be
right there with that championship con-
tender running right at it's heels.
This great victory of the Panthers
not only put them back in the running
for top honors, but proved once mare
that Glenn Warner is one Of the best
is not the cleverest, coaches in the busi-
ness. Teams may come and teams may
go, but the machines that Warner turns
cut every year go on forever.
Did anybody ever hear Of him having
systems, but "Old Pops" keeps pace
with the parade, as it always has done
Many will wonder how it was, If Pitt
Is SO good, 1t was beaten by Lafayette
The explanation is simple. Lafayette
has bear OF team this year, and on
the day it played against the Panthers
Pitt was in somewhat of crippled
condition, with it's captain and wonder
full back, Tommy Davies, on the injured
list. Davies got into that game, but
only for a short time.
AS was expected, those games be-
tween Harvard and Penn State and
Yale and the Army were knock outs.
Penn State, whether it has football
team or not, will always put up battle.
And generally 1t has the crew to put on
the right kind of game too. Some people
will say 1t was Harvard luck again
which enabled the Crimson to pull out
tie game at the last minute. The
same thing was said of Dartmouth two
years ago when the Green won several
close games. But we maintain that a
team which makes habit of getting
lucky breaks must get some of the
credit.
No; the trouble with Harvard Is that
it has become so used to winning or
rather it Is so long since it suffered
defeat, 1t probably wouldn't know how
to act under such circumstances. Ger
tainly 1t looked as if the Cambridge
students were in for beating on Sat-
urday; but the fact remains they
weren't downed, and now we look for
them to do better than get tie with
Princeton.
Tigers Due to Brace
The Tigers made poor showing
against the hard-hitting Chicago
eleven, and will have to brace consid-
erably If 1t intends to win from it's
chief rivals, Yale and Harvard. Foot
ball also is one Of those games in
which you never can tell what may
happen. At the beginning Of the sea-
son, with a splendid array Of veteran
players, including Lourie, Keck and
Garrity, three real stars, the Prince
tonians were counting on season Of
nothing but victories and possible
championship.
Right now. 1t would appear, the
Tigers will be fortunate in not suffer-
ing complete disaster. Of course,
Lourie's absence Saturday made big
difference, particularly on offense; but
his presence would not have bolstered
the line, which was 80 badly outplayed
by the Chicagoans.
Columbia supporters were figuring
on close game with artmouth, and
many actually believed the Blue and
However, Dartmouth, in spite Of q
rather mediocer showing this fall, is
nobody's door-mat, and will give any Of
them real struggle.
Jim Robertson, captain of the Dart
mouth eleven, is nearly team in him.
self. With him in the lineup the Green
will be well fortified to hold its own.
Columbia, although it came through
nicely against NJ Y. u, still has long
way to travel before it is able to take
rank with the top-notchers. But the
locals are making progress all the time,
and that is something.
Ithacans Show Real Worth
Cornell's decisive victory over Colgate
ought to convince even the most skepti-
cal that the Big Red team will not crum-
BILE this fall. The real worth Of the
Ithacans will be shown next week when
it tackles Dartmouth at Ithaca. The
Comedians this year have the best
chance they have had in years Of beat
ing both Dartmouth and Penn. It looks
as II they should come through.
Georgia Tech, which visits this city
this week for game with Penn State
galloped over the weary Rutgers eleven
at Atlanta. The color of the Golden
Tornado is as bright as ever. It prom.
ises to create real sensation here.
The defeat of the strong Holy Cross
eleven speaks we'll for Georgetown. Will.
liams's defeat by Middebury was some.
thing Of surprise, as was the score
less tie of Brown and Springfield. Le-
high, which is plugging hard in prepa-
ration for its annual conflict with the
speedy Lafayette team, lost a hard.
fought issue with Washington and JEFF
ferson.
Penn syfate Welcomes Team
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