The Washington times., 1922-11-06


II Harvard happens to be victor
ious, II will be Bob Fishers rrs'
triumph over the Tigers since sue
/ ceeding Percy Haughton as Har
wards coach. Hitherto the best ne
| has had has been tie. Last year
| with Ralph Gilroy and Hank Charity
working like a machine, Princeton
| vanquished Harvard.
Both Harvard and Princeton re
main among the few undefeated
| elevens in the East. or the Big
| Three they only have yet to lose q
game. Yale having been humbled by
| Iowa.
/ OF the more powerful Eastern
elevens Cornell, West Virginia
| Army. w. and j., Harvard, ant
Princeton alone remain undefeated
| while Washington and Lee tied West
| Virginia and Carnegie' Tech did the
same with w. and j.
| LAFAYETTE, Penn State and Penn.
sylyania fell by the wayside last
week, Joining such elevens as Dart
mouth, Syracuse, Lehigh, Brown,
Rutgers, Navy, Bucknell and
Georgetown.
Pennsylvania triumphant cheer,
following the defeat of the Navy die
| not last long. 1t is well the students
4 held their great parade through the
| streets of Philadelphia when they
did Otherwise II might never have
happened
| Just as the Quaker victory ovel
the Navy was unexpected, so wa,
| the defeat by Ken Scott's Alabama
| eleven stunning to the Red anC
| Blue. Whatever hopes the Quaker:
| entertained of claiming an Eastern
title have now faded. 1t is realizee
that only by great effort can Pitts
| burgh and Cornell be humbled.
| Just where West Point stands il
relation 20 other Eastern teams o.
class should be shown by Saturday.
clash with Notre Dame. Tn,
| Hoosiers. with practically greer
eleven. are undefeated and 40 littl,
did they think of the prowess o.
! Georgia Tech that second.tean
backfield started the game n
| Atlanta.
The Army tied Yale. no NEAR
feat. but II II can tie or defeat Notr,
Dame. Navy adherents will begir
shivering at once. In that cas-,
West Point will probably he a hea,,
| favorite for the annual service con
test at Philadelphia the Saturday be
fore Thanksgiving.
Georgetown seems doomed to a
fourth successive defeat by Georgia
Tech mt Atlanta next Saturday.
Against Holy Cross the HiIltOppers
looked dead ON their feet and men.
tally sluggish behind the line. Not
even that valiant line can make
up for such deficiencies.
Here is one palpable reason fo
Georgetown's failure this year: Jacl
Flavin, the one high-class back. wa
thrown 10 the ground by two Hol!
Cross forwards and severely shaker
up, yet he was used on two success
sive attempts to run around left en-,
before he could shake the dizziness
from his brain. Such generalshil
as that deserves no further com
ment.
Coach Exendine's system of foot
ball, which Is the old Glenn Warne
game taught Exendine while play
ing with the famous Carlisle In
dians demands speed and deception
in the backfield, coupled with for
wards who can move around fas
enough to get into the sweeping in
reference.
There is hardly Georgetown bacl
this season who Is not sufferin
from weak knees or hips or ankles
Thus the required speed is absen
from the offense. The linemen, play
ing valiantly enough on defense, ar
of small use in furthering the al
tack because of their sluggishness.
Adding these things together, Il !
possible to see why the entire Exen
dine structure has fallen to tn
ground. Right now we would sa.
that the Blue and Gray will be for
tunate to win more than one NOR
game this year. Not in many sea
sons have the Hilltoppers faced a
disastrous campaign.
y The NeidlIrger brothers, of East
Orange. N. D.. were very mulch In