New-York tribune., 1921-11-12
Unbeaten Navy
And Penn State
Teams i'm Clash
Darsmoutn-Penn. Columbia-
Ohio Univ, ". Y. u. .-Rut-
gers Meet ON Local Fields
BY Ray Mccarthy


Tradition mellowed by more than a
score of annual hard-fought gridiron
struggles, together with the great NUM-
bers Of alumni and pretty girls that
are always in attendance, will serve
to attract the biggest crowd that ever
watched contest between these rivals
of old.
The issue itself promises TO be
thriller, inasmuch as both Yale and
Princeton are first class elevens this
year, capable of putting on aagood
exhibition OF football. and because
both are evenly matched. But for
slam bang. knockdown, riotous, rat
thing combat none this afternoon will
excel the grapple between the Navy
and Penn State. which will be held at
Franklin Field, Philadelphia.
Game of Prime Importance
This tussle Is of prime Importance.
Neither the Navy nor Penn State has
been beaten, and each has encountered
the best in the East. The Penn State
warriors have been cantering through
one Of the toughest schedules that any
IuOOGIu 1OOLBdii IUdCNlHc ever naCt q
list that included, besides Lebanon VAL
ley and Gettysburg. North Carolina
State. Lehigh, Harvard and Georgia
Tech and which winds up with the
Navy. Pittsburgh and Washington Uni
vcrsity, at Seattle.
That is w3at you call regular foot
ball schedule. And yet in spite of
it's severity and it's strenuousness,
State to date has had only one close
call, that with Harvard. The Penn
ssylvanians, starting sluggishly. al
the jump. And then after overtakine
Harvard Penn State allowed Che home
team to tie in the last few minutes cf
| play
TIE Navy has done exceptionally
we'll this season. its most notable ac-
complishment being a victory over
Princeton. But the middies have
waged no snch campaign as have Hugh
Bezdek's fighting outft.
! However, many are favoring the An
napoiis students to win to-day because
it has a veteran team of versatile stars
who play rugged, rough game Of foot
ball. BY rough we mean hard, not
dirty. No good football eleven resorts
70 unfair tactics. 1t doesn't have 20.
Those persons who count on a Naval
victory also figure the defense of the
Annapolis students will offset the swift,
pummel!ing offense Of the Pennsylva-
mans.
That all remains to be seen. And
as far as rugged, rough, rushing at
tack goes, the Navy has nothing on
Penn State, an eleven whose best asset
is fighting. When rushing the bali
those fellows kick in with full force
The backs go in hard and high. twist
ing, squirming, driving and with knees
, high. The defense that stops that bat
.erlng ram has its afternoons work
cut out for it.
the victor, net only because it has a
better running attack but because it
can work the forward passing game
more effectively and more accurately
than the middies. Perhaps Foiwell's
players have a good forward passing
game, for few can teach il better than
he can. But to date the Navy has not
displayed much in this respect.
/ Contest at Polo Grounds
Several good games will be played
right here in town. Old Penn and
Dartmouth will put on their little show
the Green against the Red and Blue
The Philadelphia students have been
riding rocky road of late and the lane
ahead doesn't seem TO be any smoother
II Is likely that the boys from tha hills
OF old New Hampshire, unless their
defeat by Cornell has crushed them en-
tirely, will celebrate a come back at
the expense of Penn to-day. The
Dartmouth students have had two
weeks now to work out the sore spots
inflicted by the "Big Red" eleven.
Columbia will have chance TO get
back in the good graces Of its friends
to-day whenait meets Ohio University
The Westerners haven't a champion
ship crew, but they are counted on,
nevertheless. to put up good fight.
New York University is playing Rut-
gers at Ohio Field in what should be
good game. The Violet has been en-
| joying one of the best seasons it ever
had. and although the New Brunswick
students have been taking a beating
regularly each Saturday, it was largely
because it was meeting first class op-
ponents. The Scarlet will have q
chance at least against the University
Heights eleven.
Fordham is down in Allentown, Pa
playing the Muhlenberg team. Muhl-
enberg at week was able to get Ia
to 13 victory over Lehigh, which il
considers an accomplishment and for
which it will be rewarded with new
gymnasium.
Anxious to Beat Pitt
A contest which ranks among the stel
lar performances Of the day is that be-
tween Washington and Jefferson anc
Pittsburgh. The Presidents have beer
working each season with one purpose
only in view-tc beat Glenn Warmers
team. That done it will retire salts
fed for this year. The hopes Of ths
Washington students are at top peal
as usual before this conficS but. W.
feel they will again be disappointed.
Harvard meets Brown in its annua
struggle in the Stadium this afte ernoor
and, regard ess of the absence Of sev
eral regulars who will probably b.
sent to New Haven, The Crims~ -
should get the decision. The Army I'll
get plenty OF opposition from Villa
nova, but should manage to win by
coupe Of touchdowns, while Corne
: will have "a chance to test it's defenc,
against the forward passing game whel
. it meets Springfield.
! AnotHer real struggle that will b
. one of the best to-day is that between
, Georgia Tech and Georgetown. in At
lanta. If Georgetown is as good as
= is reputed it ought to defeat tn
: Golden Tornado by couple of touch
! downs.