San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-14
Camp Sees Tightening Of
Football Race Com
pared to Last Year.
INTEREST SUSTAINED
Occasional Early Upsets
and Strength Of Little
Teams Help.
BY WALTER CAMP.

Copyright by The San Antonio Light.
New York, Oct. ia mid-Octobec
survey of the football situation shows
gridiron struggle much closer, and
with interest lar more sustained, than
was the case last year.
Out on the coast, as is well known,
Andy Smith has lost host of splen
did California veterans. But he still
has a nucleus of good men and assist
ants and his team is showing increas.
ing power Henderson, at Southern
California, has lost one of his great.
est stars, but outside of that most OF
his material is back and. next to Ca
ifornia, he probably has the best pros
pects. STANFORD has one more season
before the arrival of Glenn Warner,
and Kerr is trying hard to make \
showing of his own this year. The Pa
( cific Northwest teamst have not ye;
gotten back to their pre-war standing
In the Middle West. Michigan's
prospects look most attractive, al
though Chicago carries over cool
bunch of men and. with the decima
ton of some of her rivals, has a real.s
fine. opportunity. Ohio State and Iowa
have big jobs on their hands. the lat.
ter particularly in building up a line.
while Wisconsin misses good men in
her bsckfield. Zuppke. too, has his
problems at Illinois. Minnesota is still
building after her change IN coaches.
-, Still Harp on That Upset.
Furman's recent defeat of Virginia
has served only to heighten interest
in the southern section. Several OF the
southern teams are coming north III
the early season but it is doubtful.
il any of them will prove as success
full as did Centre when she came up
and lowered Harvard's colors.
The teams in Pennsylvania and New
York are pretty we'll blessed with good
material. and, while the greatest in
terest probably centers around Percy
Haughton's venture at Columbia.
Syracuse and Cornell ought to have
good years and the Washington and
Observation-Disclosures game in New
York should be real treat. Pitts
burg and Penn State are always ven
tnrcsome with their tough schedules,
and are likely to make trouble Tor
anybody.
The Army and Navy can be better
iudged in early November, but the
Army carries over the better material,
and her carly work has been impress
sive. Pennsylvania is making one more
final effort, with a change Of coachcS.
to turn the tide against Cornell in
the final big Thanksgiving Day game
in Philadelphia. The material as
sembled on Franklin Field for Lou
Young looks reasonably good, especial
" in view of the fact that Dobie's
forward line has been knocked to
pieces by graduation.
. Dartmouth Changes Coaches.
Tn in New England, Dartmouth
has made a change in coaches and
with the Harvard game once more on
the schedule there is more interest
than ever. But Brown is going. to be
a tough customer for them. Boston
College, Holy Cross, Williams. Am
herst and Wesleyan are all at WORT
but much of the edge is taken off
public interest in this section on ac-
count of the Princeton, Harvard and
Yale games. Had Princeton not proved
such an. opportunist team last year
and with the most dismal prospects
come through undefeated and victor
ious. there would be much less worry-
ing in the Harvard and Yale camps
today. But il Roper did it last year,
when Owen was in Harvard's back
field and Jordan in Yale's, why should
he not do il again: 8,
Fisher at Cambridge will not need
TO worry about his line, and the ma.
terial that Harvard has drawn in the
way of brilliant backfield men in the
last decade probably will fill up his
striking artillery. Yale has raft of
good backfield men but none of them
are of the rugged type of Jordan ana
there is hole in the middle of her
line to fill.
I Princeton has lost her most valu-
\ able man in Treat, and good back.
field man in Cleaves, but as she dit
not depend upon stars last year an.
her substitutes seem to be able to ges
in and do the work when called upon,
the Princeton adherents are quite
hopeful.