New-York tribune., 1922-09-17

The intercollegiate football season
viii get under way Saturday after
noon, when about score of colleges
clash on the gridiron for the seasons
openers. If things go according to
Hoyle, every team listed above that
goes visiting this coming week end will
return to it's own stronghold with the
short end of the score. For Bates.
bonaventure, Hobart, Colby, Albright
and Geneva are not to be compared
with the elevens that they will oppose
in the first act of the show
Last year the best that Bates could
do against the Ellis was to hold them
to four touchdowns, while they them
selves went scoreless. This year it will
be a real slaughter, for Tad Jones's
players are almost all veterans.
The backfield of the Eli aggregation
Will. with hardly any doubt, be rated
the greatest quartet behind the rtsh
line in this neck of the woods. DESPITE
the loss Of Mae" Aldrch, last years
captain, who Is field coach at the New
haven institution this fall. AS for
yale, 1T will be a veritable stone wall
Tor the only two men on the line of de-
1ense missing are Nat Guernsey and
AL Into, and there is a wealth of ma
terlai to replace the twain.
Whl!e Penn State, rated the greatest
team In the East last year, will not be
as powerful again because some players
have been graduated and four others
nave gone to Colgate, where Dick Har-
low, Hugo Bezdek's rieht-hand man
last year, is now coach, yet St. Bona
venture will prove no stumbling block
81. Bonaventure has not been on the
Nlttany Lions card for the last four
or five years. A year ago the Saints
opener was with the high scoring
Cornell eleven, which bowled over it's
puny antagonist to the tune of al to 0.
Syracuse University, which also as
pres to the championship honors, will
play hobart, as weak an opponent as
Penn State will face. Chick" Meehan
invited candidates at Frenchman's
Island, Oneida Lake. on September 1,
with nothing to brood over. The up
state mentor has surplus material for
every position eXcept guard, and he is
smoothing that place over very we'll.
Washington and Jefferson, last years
undefeated team which went to the
western coast to play the University
OF California eleven at Pasadena Janu-
airy and held the Pacific Coast cham
plons to scoreless tie, will hardly
',eN'S any lioupiS thAlUR inc measure OF
the Geneva outfit
Although few reports have come
from Washington, Pa, this fall, it is
understood that about seventy-five can
didates are already at work, and that
they are, for the most part, experienced
men. By the way, football fans in
Gotham are in for treat, for the
Presidents have a little account to
settle with Lafayette. also undefeated
last fall, at the Polo Grounds. This
fracas and the Syracuse-Pen State
battle are the two high spots that will
be settled in the shadow of Coogan's
Bluff this fall.
Springfield Y. NJ. c. A. College, an in
stitution that had an erratc and incon-
sistent eleven year ago, will have the
pleasure of battering down Colby. This
Massachusetts, outfit had the distinc-
ton of being the team that held Cornell
to its lowest score. While the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Co.
lumbia, Colgate, Rochester and St
Bonaventura were beaten by the Itha-
cans by scores ranging from 81 to Z to
110 to 0, the Springfield team held the
upstate juggernaut to two lonely
touchdowns for i to tally. The
week before the Y. Nj. C. AS had lost
to Detroit 81 to and the following
Saturday they lost to Fordham by
| 4 to a.