South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-11-13
GAMES
IN EAST FEATURED
BY KEEN BATTLES
Army-Notre Dame and Tiger
Crimson Battles Outstand-
ing-COrnell Strong.

NEW YORK, Nov. 12.-(By A. P)
-Triumphing over Harvard. o to 8,
in the first Of the annual big three"
gridiron classics after a hard strug-
, gle. Princeton's alert fighting eleven
today had strengthened its claims
TO the mythical championship in
eastern ranks. The Tiger must face
the Yale Bulldog next Saturday in
the final test, but followers of the
team that dashed spectacularly from
behind 70 crush such elevens as Chi
cago and Harvard were confident Of
a browning victory.
While the Harvard Princeton bat
Z tie held the center Of the casts foot
ball stage, keen interest was mani
Tested in several other major games
Chief among these was Cornelrs
smashing victory over Dartm outh,
% TO 0. at the Polo grounds. Lafay-
/ cites decisive defeat Of Rutgers, 36
TO 6, at New Brunswick, y. J., and
| PittsburGs sensational to decision
over Pennsylvania at Philadel phia-
the second straight setback suffered
| by the Quakers in their checkered
| 1922 career and the seventh victory
/ for ne Painters N the last eight
engagements with the Red and
Blue.
Cornell Shows Strength.
Cornells hard driving powerful
eleven establisheddtself firmly among
the casts first flight by outpiaying.
although not outgaining the Green
/
score two weeks ago. And in Capt.
Eddie Kaw. al-American halfback
whose brilliant defensive and often
sive play featured the game. the
Ithacans possess one of the outstand-
ing stars Of the season.
Army and Notre Dame fought
furiously to a scoreless tie at West
Point in the principal intersectiOnal
classic Saturday, a tumble on West
Points four yard line In the last
quarter costing the westerners their
best chance to score, but the east
came off victorious in most OF the
international russell Boston COL
lIege trouncing Baylor. a southern
institution. 33 TO o; Navy overwhelm-
ing St. Xavier's Of Cincinnati, 50 10
o. Washington and jefferson repel-
ling the invasion of Wabash 80 to
6; while West Virginia was victO-
riOus over Indiana. 80 10 o, on the
latter's gridiron. Georgia Tech. at
Atlanta, however. handed q, setback
| to Georgetown. 10 to :. Syracuse
added touch of international
triumph by trimming McGiH univer-
s.ty of Canada, 80 10 o.
Yale Seconds Win Easily.
Yale. using its second and third
elevens against Maryland while the
regulars witnessed the Harvard
Princeton game. romped to a As to
/ 8 victory Pennsylvania State dis
played a return to form in downing
Carnegie Tech, 10 to 0; Brown out
field goals helped Williams defeat
Wesleyan, % to Z, in the other i'm
portant contests on the eastern
schedule
Princeton's triumph. coming on
top of talk from Harvard sources
that the two teams might not meet
next year because of schedule limita-
tions. shattered two Crimson tradi-
tiOns. 1t was the first defeat admin
istered by the Tigers on Harvard's
own field since 1896 and the first
time since the advent of the Haugh-
ton system i'm 1908 that the same
team has beaten the Cambridge
eleven twice i'm succession.
Harvard fumbles paved the way
for both Princeton scores and
"Pinkey' Baker. right tackle who
recovered one that led TO the only
touchdown of the game. ranks today
with such heroes as Sam White and
Ralph Gilroy in the Tiger hall Of
fame The same Baker made Prince
tons other three points from the
field while George Owens toe ac-
counted for Harvard's only scoring
three points i'm the first quarter.
Loose play and frequent penalties
figured much in the contest which
was largely devoid of the spectacular
because of the stone wall character
OF the defensive work of both
elevens