The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-24
ER BOUT AT B. A. C. TONIGHT ---
Eastern cams
 HaUe Hard Time In Big Battles

New York, october 2S.-The 1921 football season bit It's stride In Satur- days games and was marked in the east by record crowds for mid-oc tober contests and hard struggles for | the big three, Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Bill Ropers Tigers pre- sented a weak defense and a poor of- fensive against Alonzo Stagg's Uni- versity of Chicago eleven and lost to 0. It was the first time in east ern football history that an opposing team from the west had triumphed over one of the big three.
 In the Yale bowl, with some TO ,00O or more spectators looking on. the Bulldog found a tough proposition in the army eleven, but by a well exc cuted attack turned back the Cadets 1t to z. The first three quarters Of this game was all Yale and the Army failed to impress, but in the final period, with French in the Army backfield, it was different story and Yale was compelled to fight hard to hold it's lead.
 Harvard to Come Back Harvard, against Penn State, fur nished the first of the seasons real gridiron thrills and stood off defeat In the last quarter. Bezdeks plung- ing, tricky organization held the Crimson to q 2i21 tie and was work Ing toward a victory when the final whistle sounded. There was another large crowd at this game. Harvard's narrow escapes have been many this season and while the eleven as a whole shows signs of becoming bet ter as the season wears on. there is some anxiety in the Crimson camp with the doughty Centre college eleven of Kentucky to be entertained next Saturday.
 Pittsburg surprised Syracuse by it's dashing offensive and won, 35 to 0, and Cornell ran true to the dope againsc Colgate. winning 31 to '. University of Pennsylvania got re- venge for it's 1920 defeat by Virginia Military institute by score of 2l7. Washington and Jefferson won from Lehigh, 14 to and Swarthmore was in 7-7 tie with Franklin and Mar shall. Georgetown trod Holy Cross under foot for an easy victory, 2s to 2. The naval academy eleven was idle.
 Chicago used a straight plunging attack against the Tigers. Three bat tering fullhacks were sent into the game by Stagg and one after an~ other they rammed the Tiger limo. making total of IS first downs Princeton made only three first downs. The Chicagoans first score came late in the second quarter. They wroked the ball from their own 40- yard line to the Tiger 25-yard marker without once losing possession, and following penalty inflicted on Princeton, Romney, tho Maroon guar ter, dropped back to the 15-yard mark and kicked 8 goal. The Chi cago touchdown was scored in the last quarter and the way for it was paved by another Princeton penalty.
 Played Tie Before
 Years ago Penn State and Harvard played a 1913 tie, but that game was listless affair compared to that of Saturday. Harvard had made two touchdowns before Bezdek's eleven awakened and started shifting. plunging attack that was not to be denied They tied the score and in the final quarter were ahead for a brief spell. but the Crimson, by sheer determination, tied 1t again. Penn State was steadily marching toward the Harvard goal for a victory when the game ended.
 Aerial tactics were widely em- ployed in the Yale-Army game and while the Cadets completed moro passes and gained more ground on them, those of Yale came when near the Army goal and accounted for their touchdowns. French, though crippled, played at the height of his form and enabled the Cadets to score their only touchdown.