The Washington times., 1922-11-06
SATURDAY. HAS !
many uPSETss
/. .0Ns sGR|D|RON
w. and J., Alabama. Cornell,
and Syracuse Make 1t Mem
Il orabIe in Football.
Bx .JOSEPH. S. ROGERs.

They eailed.it an ,oif-Saturday y
because the "big three" had easy
opponents. If such is the case
then bread hates butter, fol
Washington and Jefferson, SYRIA
cuse, Alabama, and Cornell sci
precedents that will make Novem'
ber 4 the most memorable in this
seasons gridiron history, or any
season. 49,
Tho Washington and jefferson
Lafayette battle held the spotlight
because neither team had been
beat for three years. and 1t was
the most amazing piece of strategy
by the former that brought mem
q 1913 vicfoEy. With, the score 10
to 49, w, and j. caught Eafayette
flatfooted when the former scored
the point after. touchdown by for-
ward pass instead of the conven'
tionaI place or drop Kick. -
For that play. if nothing else, tne
team coached by Greasy Neale'
Cincinnati outfielder. must go down
as one of the brainiest ever seen
on any t,grhfiron. = Outside Of that
one play{ lafayette and; w. and y:
were about even, sbut a. bit, Of brain
overcaris dry brawn advantage the
Eastontans may have had. t.isd -
sRsrnarIzable, sadroit. strategic
And. .uhexperfed ias was that pre-
Nfier. footballs piay of the season,
II did not 'sthn any more than
GkraGSasS,S victory over Nebraska,
q fhS Corn HuslSers,s adyance mo-
GceS were 30, .glits in their lauda-
tory bent that the average zap
expected IA score iof about so to
in favor of the Westerners.
Syracuse, strong team, but by
no means the best in the East, must
be ,classed as. the biggest DAVID
of the season I'm as much as it
slew a most powerful Goliath" by
q 8.to-6; score. This gives the East
q 2-to-1 advantage. in the hig inter-
sectional games, Princeton having
beaten Chicago and Iowa having
dowfled Yale.
I The Syracuse Nebraska game also
revealed an unusual; play as the
New Workers. were denied a point
they scored after touchdown because
one of their. members was off-side.
It makes II plain that man being
off-sider may easily decide the, out
come of "a game. something that was
virtually impossible under last,
years system of kicking Ia goal
after a touchdown. ..rt&rr. -
Comes Alabama, unheraldsd and
unsung, handing 9.to-7 defeat: TO
the University of Pennsylvania,
which the previous week had mutt
lated the powerful Navy eleven, A
puzzlirig situation. IT was the first
time the Red and Blue had been
beaten this year and at that by an
obscure institution, which is having
m -in.and-out season. 1t looks as
though it would be a good season
for "Davids,t' despite .Center's de-
feat by Harvard. Maybe Lloyd
George, whose first name is David.
will regain the English premiership
he lost after ALL
,..aCoach Heisman, of Pennsyi.
vania. realizes that IL his present
three.yeal-, contract which expires
this year Is to be renewed this
season must be more successful
than the last two have been. With
PENNSYLVANIA State, Pittsburgh
and Cornell staring him in the
face he has a tough assignment.
Tt Is regrettable that Pennsyl-
vania with it's mammoth stadium
and Its. large enrolment cannot
turn. out more successful teams.
There are more reasons than one
and IIefsunait principally could tell
an satia5ins story of obstacle II ne
G6nsn !the high scoring team
Of the, coustry, brought IT'S totai
for ! the season around athe zSV
n,1t$ when the Red overwhelmed
Cdki3Hbia, Sc To o. Everything con-
sidefed, Columbia ,has;!a good team
afS figured to : hpid> eiildob, who
wAe the man expected 20 score, but
thu 4ncanny forward passing which
fssprobably the most accurate ana
pafftttly executed aerial attack we
bapSI been this season, stamps the
Itkacans as far advanced oyer the
@t}fHf4hree' in this important line
offehSe. 1t takes an unusual num-
bSrTsof big gains to run up a
sc3rAe of Sc against any team as
etEpYfk as Columbia and the more
So b6xause high scores are not the
voSxu8 they were a few years ago.
AS expected. Harvard disposed
of Furida and Yale trampled over
BrovSh. Princeton was given a
scaS by Swarthmore but easily
ovef@orne them.
So.a despite the fact that the
"BieThree were not especially In
the Ttime light, comparison of their
recent games and Cornell seems q
bit yISnfair. But IL must be ad-
mitted that Washington ,and Jeffer-
son, alabama and Cornell did
thir1Hs on the gridiron that Yale,
Harvard and Princeton might well
be ptppd OF.