The New York herald., 1922-11-06

OOWeu 10 f1drVdTu ana NeTUOHt.
In arriving at our conclusion as to
the proud position of the Big Three
we are guided to q large extent by
that football Munchausen-Old Com
parative Scores-an inveterate liar but
an interesting liar withal. Just how
far that shameless romancer, c. s..
can carry us astray was shown again
on Saturday, when Alabama defeated
Pennsylvania. Alabama had done
nothing better than tie Sewanee-and
Sewanee had been trounced in easy
style by Penn. 81 to 0. However, if
we are to amuse ourselves with the
interesting question OF sectional SUI
premacy we will have to go by Com
parative Scores a good deal.
The Big Three grew in football stature
through the Washington and Jefferson
victory over Lafayette, because Car
negie Tech had held the Presidents to a
tie, to Z. After that battle w. and j.
players declared the wearers Of the
plaid were about as tough combina-
tion as they had faced In several years.
That same Carnegie team which held
Yale, 13 to 0.
The Big Three gained in prestige,
again through Yale, when the Ellis de-
reated Brown last Saturday, 20 to 0.
The Bears had held Syracuse to n score
less tie-and Syracuse had fought to a
similar deadlock with Penn State. The
Syracuse victory over Nebraska helped
no little too. The Princeton success
against Chicago, Harvard's victory over
Centre and Yale's tie with the Army all
entered into the building up of the
Big Three position. The lone blot on
the H.-Y.-P. escutcheon is the Iowa VIC
tory over the Ellis, which perhaps could
not be duplicated If they were to meet
again on Saturday.
The Cornell eleven continued it's
march of triumph against Columbia and
piled UP 56 points without being both
cred much. Eight touchdowns, twenty
first downs, hundreds of yards gained,
all contributed toward the biggest score
ever made by the 1thacans against the
Blue and White. Cornelrs second best
total against Columbia was Al to Z,
made last year. Columbia went to the
shores OF Cayuga hoping to lose by no
more than three touchdowns, and came
back wrecked
Columbia men must go back all the
way to 1905 In the modern era to find
a beating approaching that suffered on
Saturday. Seventeen years ago Yale de-
feated Columbia SO to O. To find a
Columbia defeat worse than that OF Sat-
urday Columbia must turn back the
pages of its football history to 1890.
when Princeton won by S5 to 0. The
second worst defeat of the Blue and
White was recorded in 1889. when Yale
won by 81 to 0.
Ellis Much Improved.
While It was easy to note great i'm
provement In the Yale team--for against
powerful Brown eleven the Blue played
better football than IL did against the
Army-last Saturdays games presented
no further evidence as to the condition
OF Harvard and Princeton. The Ellis
were able to let loose and get In some
hard knocks with all their regulars ex-
cept O'Hearn. but the Crimson and the
Tigers, who are to meet on Saturday,
had to keep a lot of first string men
out of their lineups and had to conserve
their forces.
Harvard apparently did well enough
against Florida. but the Alligators were
far below the class of the best Southern
teams seen in this section and too slow
90 make any kind of contest. AS a re-
suit the game, In so far as use as an in
dex to development OF the Harvard team.
Is next TO worthless. The Crimson
eleven which beat Dartmouth was not
quite as efficient as the one which
scored so impressively over Centre. Just
how much the Crimson has improved
will not be known until Saturday at
Cambridge.
Princeton's tussle with Swarthmore
was keen enough, but Il meant nothing.
Bill Roper kept nearly all of his regu-
lars out OF the game and as a result
critics who made the trip to Nassau
TO get line on the team which had
done so nobly at Chicago saw nothing
but a fairly interesting football game
between two outfits which had no bear
Ing on any situation whatsoever. Those
who were keen for measuring the de-
gree OF Improvement OF the Tigers since
the game with Colgate still are keen.
They were not able to do any measuring.
Army and Navy Even.
The Army. which played splendid
Football against Yale. kept right on its
march with an overwhelming success
against st. Bonaventure. The Nayy's
startling comeback against Penn State
frightened up the service situation and
discounted the superior position assumed
py Nne west IOlHterS after their tie with
the Ellis and the Mdshlpmen's astonish-
Ing setback by Pennsylvania.
As for Penn--in again, out again.
Finnegan--the most erratic eleven tho
Red and Blue ever has had---it fell from
grace again. II scheduled Alabama
merely for a tuning up process before
the big game with Pittsburgh next Sat-
urday and the southern team outfourht
and outplayed the overconhdent pupils
OF Heisman. John will have to try some
more of that psychology on Saturday.
Pittsburgh played impressive football in
swamping Geneva.
Behind the Syracuse victory over
Nebraska and the Penn defeat the
biggest upset OF the day was George
towns failure against Holy Cross. which
practically eliminated the Washington
team from the Eastern Catholic college
championship fight. Boston College re-
tnained In the battle by beating Villa
Aova, but the Is TO victory was not
Impressive. Fordham showed greatly
Improved form even though IL was
Beaten by Springfield. IL to 0.
Dartmouth's defeat by Cornell on
saturday. already forecast loomed as
= stronger probability when the Ham,
-Nrians could do no better than 10 to
-xainst Boston University. The Hub
eleven ie no weak one by eny means.