New-York tribune., 1921-10-10
Navy's Eleven
And Syracuse
Ia Title Chase
! Two Teams Take Place in
B attle for Champion
ship After Fine Showing
By Ray Mccarthy

Two teams took their places we'll UP
in the line of the aspirants for the
mythical football championship on
Saturday. They were Syracuse and the
Navy. They have shown steady and
conspicuous improvement since the
start of the season, and on Saturday
defeated their opponents impressively
and decisively. Both of these elevens
look like the goods right at this par
ticular date
The Navy will get a real test next
Saturday, when it tackles Princeton at
Annapolis. This game Will be ter
rife struggle. Princeton, Of course. is
still very much of a contender for ton
honors in this great collegiate game.
and if it overtfrows the middies it will
have advanced long way toward the
coveted goal
But the Tigers viii have to do better
tnan they have done against Swarta-
more or Colgate to beat the Navy.
win their lineup Of star veterans it
was expected they would have no din
Guilty beating all opponents except
thelr chief rivals with ease. PERHAPS
the Nassau students have been holding.
PACK and are planning to unleash their
real attack against the Navy. How
ever using only straight football they
should have won from the above named
opponents more easily.
Indiana Shows Up Poorly
Harvard defeated Indiana on Sat;,v-
day not so much because of its abjIitv
but because of Indiana's surprising in
efficiency and weaknesses. The West
erners, it was reported before the
game, had an aggressive. canable
eleven: They didn't show it, Tho
showed lack of football knowledge
and were quite outplayed bv the Cam
bridge students.
ale did satisfactory work in defeat
ing North Carolina Univers;tv al-
though this Southern team was NO real
test for the Blue. 1t is generally =
ii2ht crew, and not as GOOD as MANY Of
the others in that section.
North Carolina State. for instance
always turns out much better outfit.
or or mas zone so IN recent years Penn
state rocked this team on Saturday
winning by a score of 35 to 0. That
state team is coming rapidly, and it
begins to appear as if Bezdek had de-
veioped another all-star lineup. State
Will play Harvard on October %. and
that game will tell Just how good
either Of these teams are
pennsylvania, which started like a
wild boar in running over Delaware.
80 to 0, has Gradually subsided, and on
Saturday had the hardest kind Of going
beating little Gettysburg, to O. That
telly does not speak any too well for
the Red and Blue. Scores don't mean
nuch, but one can learn considerable
from the way in which they are made
Blue and White Improves
Columbia partly atoaed for its dis
graceful showing against Amherst by
downing Wesleyan Saturday IA to 8
Wesleyan is considers Dly better than
its rival, Or at least is just at present
and in defeating the Middletown stu
dents the locals showed they have i'm
proved great deal within the past
week. Ali followers of the Blue and
White are hoping the eleven will CON
tinue in the same stride.
Pittsburgh, with 4 fine display Of
gameness, came through a hard ordeal
with West Virginia, winning by 2l to
Ia That game showed the Panthers
possess all the qualities Of cham
pionship team. incidentally West Vir-
ginian apparently has an all-American an
possibility in George Hill, its fulback
From all accounts he is a frst-clas IS
back. A few more performances, such
as he showed Saturday, will entitle
rim to consideration for any all-star
team
The Army, Cornell, Dartmouth and
Washington and Jefferson won their
games in an impressive manner. Ford
ham had d hard time of it disposng
of Catholic University, which was to
be expected, and New Yorl. University
, satisfied its followers by making a
! GOOD showing arainst Brown