The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-03
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By wESTBROOK PEGLER (Leased Wire To AEe-HeraId)

NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-In the east ern zone, the college boys who feed on raw bull beef throughout the week and enjoy trouble on Satur- days, will confine their assaults to fellow customers this Saturday, tc the exclusion of southern and west ern teams. This will be the first football day of the season for which the schedule provides no inter-sec- tional game. However, on Tuesday Rutgers, whose Red Jersies at least are animated by a real football team, will try to make election day 8 deplorable occasion for the West Virginia hill people at the Polo Grounds.
 Saturdays games will be a sort of stock taking for the entire east ern region. The comparisons avail able now are very obscure and some regulations, notably Harvard's and the Navy's, have been badly scuffed Yale, which meets the Army at New Haven Saturday afternoon, Is one of the seven prominent teams of the east, which have not been defeated The others are Cornell, with the sea sons high-scoring record to date of { which beat Harvard; Syracuse, Tufts, Washington and Jefferson and Penn State. However, Penn State was tied last week by the same West Virginians who play Rutgers next Tuesday, and Syracuse was almost tied by a very inferior Pittsburg team two weeks ago, barely win ming to 0.
 Harvard is very definitely elinai- mated. Harvard may win the cham pionship of the big three by some series of miraculous reversals, but still Harvard will not be the east ern champion. No team can be that after losing to Dartmouth by the convincing score of Is to 0 and he- ing tied by little Middlebury' 6 to c. Princeton, also, though her team might beat Harvard and Yale in the closing weeks, will not be the cham plon this year, having been beaten severely by Notre Dame and tied last week by the Navy, which pre- Vlously had lost to Penn State.
 Cornell and Dartmouth.
 This week, the big game will be the one between Cornell and Dart mouth, whereby a new Dartmouth stadium at Hanover, N. H., will be consecrated to the sportive practice or trampling ones fellow man Into the mud. CornelPs record thus far IS hardly equal to Dartmouth's. For, although Cornell has run up an az gregate score like an automobile number, three of the secondary teams, which were victims of the big Red team, managed to cross the Cornell goal. These were St. Bona venture and the shaving soap schools, Williams and Colgate.
 Dartmouth has beaten Maine. Nor- wien, Boston university, Vermont and Harvard and the only score against the Green was a safety by Vermont. Since the victory over Harvard, Jesse Hawley, coaching st Hanover, has been trying to teach his team a defense against the off tackle attack for which Cornell is equally noted and respected.
 The old rivalry between LaFavet+e ana Washington and Jefferson is as warm as ever, but. the game in New york Saturday will prove nothing LaF aFayette has been beaten by Pift and tied by Rutgers, so a victory will confer no title on wash-Jeff'
 Yale must beat the Army to re- maln In the fight for the eastern championship. Penn. and Pittshurg are matched at Philadelphia. Prince ton ton meets Swarthmore, beaten bv Penn. Harvard plays Tufts, which won from Middlebury, and Penn State plays Syracuse. another clash Ing Of undefeated teams.