The Washington herald., 1921-11-28
CALIFORNIA AND
IOWAALONE HOLD
CRIDIRON TITLES
Championships in Eas t
And South Subject
For Debate.
By GRANTLAND RICE.

By GRANTLAND RICE.
NEW YORK. Nov. 2s.-The foot
ball curtain is down for the year
with California supreme along the
Pacific slope and with Iowa ruling
king of the Middle West. For the
East and South the championship
goes to the loudest voice and the
most impassioned debaters. where
lung power carries the deciding
vote.
So far as one can gather such
widely scattered evidence, both
California and Iowa with Notre
Dame. are a bit stronger than
anything the East can show but
this also is merely matter of
opinion. The testimony leans in
that direction. and that at least is
something to consider. Centre and
Georgia Tech hold the whip hand
over the South. with Vanderbilt
and Georgia well to the front with
two strong, hard fighting machines
TangIe I'm East.
The East. however, is the great
debating ground of the country
with the heaviest snarl and tangle
to unravel.
Cornell, Lafayette. Penn State
and W. & j. all unbeaten, each
steps forward with vocal claim
upon the purple toga.
OF these four Penn State took on
the hardest schedule and so be-
came involved in two drawn
matches with Harvard and Pitt that
seemed to have left certain
scratches upon her blazing escutch-
con.
Yet we doubt very much that
any machine in the East could have
beaten Penn State at its best
Which is also nothing but opinion
Lafayette. one of the best. still
has certain eligibility charges to
answer before her claim can come
in for proper attention. There has
been much muttering and murmur-
ing concerning Lafayette stars and
| certain hints have been openly
made without any rebuttal up to
date.
There is no doubt to be cast upon
the fine power OF the Cornell team,
which ran roughshod over every
thing in sight.
| X
! machine lifts Cornell back beneath
| the old spotlight, despite a schedule
that was not as strong as IL should
have been to complete a certain test
Fair Ranking Impossible.
| This is why We insist that no one
can make a fair. just. accurate
team-ranking in the East-ranking
that means anything at all.
Cornell. for example. faced st.
Bonaventura, Rochester. Western
Reserve, Colgate. Dartmouth, CO.
lumbia. Springfield, and Penn.
Penn State tackled Lebanon Val
ley, Gettysburg, Carolina State. Le-
high. Harvard, Georgia Tech. Cab
negie. Tech. Navy and Pittsburgh.
! In such wide disparity of sched-
ules, how can anyone arrive at a
conclusion that is worth a mark
. word?
This is taking no credit from Cor
nelrs big, slashing team. No ma
Tchine is going to beat Pennsylvania
Al 10 o in the mud without a world
OF striking force back of its drive
Next to the four teams in dispute
comes the Navy with a cluster oil
well drilled talent, stronger look.
by rather tidy edge.
/. The Navy had a great line. two
good ends. and at least four first
class backs. The Nays place il
the football armament is extremel,
; high. The stun was there, and i
was all well handled and well drilled
for a man-power attack.
Ranking Harvard, Yale an,
Princeton is merely making a three
cornered guess. Yale's downfall
against Harvard was a sturnin,
blow.
word here regarding Princeton:
The photograph referred to las,
week that showed holding upon Gill
roy's winning run against Harvard
was incorrectly labeled.
There was holding on the play. but
it wasn't the Gilroy play as this
halfback numbered 10. is shown
sprawling upon the ground. This
lifts any faint of illegality from the
winning run and ends a widespread
discussion upon this point in Prince
toms favor.
East's Best Backs.
The best backs in the East were
owen, of Harvard: Killinger. nj
Penn State; Aldrich, of Yale; Kaw
of Cornell. and Barchet, of the Navy
Many stars, such as French. OF
West Point; Davies, of Pittsburgh
Robertson. of Dartmouth; Lourie and
Clarity, of Princeton. were injured
too often to be near their best
The best field general of the year
was Charley Buell.. of Harvard, q
cool, clear-headed thinking machine
who even went SO far against Penn
; State when desperate measures were
needed as to dvise a new play OF
the field. Buell. worked out this
play with Churchill. told Churchill
: where to be and scored the tyinl
i touchdown with his pass.
! Against Yale, after his long rur
when he lay for several minutes ap.