The Washington times., 1922-11-14
CHICAGO TEAM
Up ACk|NST|T
ON SCHEDULE
Windy City Eleven Faces
Toughest Lot Of Three
Unbeaten Machines.
BY CHARLES f. BRICKLEY,
(Former All-American Star at Har-
ward and the Most Famous
Football Player of the
Last Decade.)


Last Decade.)
copyright. 1879. by Cosmopolitan News
Service.)
NEW YORK, Nov. 14.-Victory
or defeat in football often hangs
on a slight detail such as the care
full arrangement of a schedule thai
allows the successful team to take
on its rivals in natural Sequence.
In the Western conference, for eX-
ample, there are three mdefeated
teams at the present writing,
namely Michigan, c icago and
Iowa. or the three, Chicago has
by far the toughest road to travel
to the end Of TIE season.
Having disposed of Ohio State
last Saturday. the Maroon now
must overcome Illinois and Wiscon.
sin In successive weeks to preserve
its clean record. Michigan also
must hurdle Wisconsin next Sat.
urday, hut the Wolverine will go
into the game with the adVan age
or two-weeks' rest. Iowa draws
The easiest assignment in meeting
Ohio State and Northwestern in its
remaining games.
Chicago's plight reminds me of
that of Yale and Princeton in the
permanent arrangement of big
three schedules. Here. Harvard
enjoys an undoubted advantage
over the other two in that it can
rest two weeks between each big
game. while Yale and Princeton
are forced to accept their big three
meetings on successive Saturdays.
The fact that Yale and Harvard
wish to end their respective season.
with this annual feature precludes
any other arrangement, although II
Yale wished to force a showdown
It might insist on meeting Prince
ton before Harvard did and thus
get the benefit of the two weeks
interval between games. Even then.
Princeton would gain nothing.
The effect of the arrangement
upon the present situation is ap-
parent. Having beaten Harvard
last Saturday. Princeton may not
be able to come back against
Yale a few days hence with the
same dash and speed 1t showed
on the former occasion. The Tig-
er couldn't do this last year.
Yale, on the other hand will enter
the Princeton game with an eye on
the Harvard meeting a week later.
1t may not wish to show all il
knows, and beyond that fact, is th'
possibility that some of It's stars
may be injured to such an extent
as to impair their effectiveness
against Harvard, if not keep them
out of that game altogether.
Even If they escape injury, two
gruelfng contests, such as these
will be, on successive Saturdays.
takes more out of n player than is
visible to the outsider.
we'll remember what happened
TO me in my first year on the Har-
ward varsity That was in 1912
when our schedule called for us to
play Dartmouth and Princeton in
order Before the Dartmouth game,
I weighed 1S0 pounds of hard. well
conditioned flesh.
No trace OF superfluous tissue
was on nv body, yet after the
game, which was one OF the most
des- crate ! ever engaged i'm. my
weight was exactly 169 pounds.
had had eleven ~Ounds OF real
tissue squeezed right out Of my
system I'm less than two hours.
Those eleven pounds were a real
loss to me. For three days. ! was
like an old man, weak and tired, and
did little but rest and try to feed
MP. However. in spite of all efforts,
I could gain back only five of the
lost pounds before the Princeton
game. The upshot of the thing was
that five minutes before the final
whistle, they carried me off, feet
first and absolutely out.
Tomorrow Mr.. Brickley will dis.
~,oc fha rney-ifo Of tho pripratnn apd
Yale teams. which will meet in their
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