The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-09
Saturday To Be Red Letter Day For Big Contests
By wEsTBROOK PEGLER Leased Wire To The Age-HeraId)

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 NEW YORK. Nov. S.-From the roll ing start in September the leading and trailing football teams of the east have now swept irresistibly or faltered bravely to the beginning of the end of their swift careers.
 Football concentrates more action and braver sport into the few nasty weeks of autumn than any other sort of out door glory-chasing in all this sport-impassioned land. Only two dates remain on which there will be general action all along the line, in the eastern zone.
 Thereafter there will be sporadic battling on scattered sectors on Sat urday, November 24, and again on Thanksgiving. which falls on Novem- Der 29. But the subsistence sets in, in this rart of the country at least, on the evening of the seventeenth. which is just little more than a week removed from the present date according to all the better calendars
 Saturday then, and Saturday week. are the outstanding dates of wide spread ruction east of the mountains.
 The imminent engagements in the eastern theatre are Harvard and Princeton in the center of the Jersey homicide belt; Maryland at the Yale Bowl in New Haven; Lafayette at PhiladelphiR: Georgia Tech at Penn State; Dartmouth at Boston against Brown of Providence, and Cornell, one of the crushing irresistibles, in New York, against Columbia team which is learning that football renaissance is tough business and full of discouragements.
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 Pittsburg Plays Grove City.
 The Pittsburg team, beaten in four out of six games thus far, will try its erring boot on a Joe McCann school, Grove City college, which calls at Pittsburg Saturday afternoon em- boldened ty Pittsburg's dismal record. Pitt had still to meet Washington Jefferson and Penn State and the soft diet of an obscure team may be exactly what is needed to give the Partners a delayed start.
 Syracuse plays Boston at Syracuse, the Army will extend the hospitality of the post to the Arkansas Aggies, the Navy meets St. Xavier at Anna polls. and Washington-Je efferson also goes in for something that had a soft appearance, being dated with Waynes- burg a. Washington, Pa.
 In most of last Saturdays games the eastern teams adhered reliSiouSly to the advance information, the main surprises occurring in the size of the scores that Yale amassed against the Army, and Cornell against Dart mouth.
 But college athletes are sledom faithful to what is known as the dope and therefore Harvard, advancing on Princeton with little glory in the bag gage of the team, should be no worse than an even choice if one were thinking of risking the rent. On form Princeton must be selected to win, but the big three teams have al- ways made sport of the form.
 Harvard, beaten once and tied once spiritual force in both the Princeton and Yale games. Princeton was knock -kneeds- selling platter at the start of 1922 and came along to beat Chicago, Yale and Harvard. Coach Stagg of Chicago, an old Yale man who speaks whereof he knows once said that in some games the players play with a force drawn entirely from the spiritual side of their na- lures. from their determination. rather than from the physical heart and muscles. Let that stand as the explanation of otherwise inexplicabIe reversals in the big three games.
 Yale. awaiting the summons to meet Princeton in the first of the big three games on her Scneuulee on week hence. will meet in the team from Maryland force of young men who defeated Pennsylvania earlier in the season. Yale, having swept along without defeat. takes on broad shouldered appearance in the big three, and should win from Mary land.
 fCornells visit to Columbia can not be regarded IS anything but let-up for Cornell and a serious lesson for Columbia. The New York school is still in it's first year of real coaching under Percy Hau hton and will be content to score on Cornell and to keep the red teams tall! down in