The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-19
Saturday Was A
 Red Letter Day For Big Upsets

NEW YORK, Nov. 1S.-tBy the As sociated Press. )-As contributor of upsets the penultimate Saturday of the current grldiron season stands alone, unexcelled, unap- preached by any of the many unset ting days of the 1923 campaign.
 Out of clear sky came the Col gate tempest which swept twice across the hitherto inviolate Syracuse goal line and wrecked the hitherto victorious Syracuse record with a 16- tor defeat.
 Out of the same calm came the Pittsburg tornado which left the hitherto undefeated Washington and Jefferson team the flattened recipient of a 13-to-6 trouncing.
 Nor was football fandom at all pre- pared for Browns 20-to-7 defeat or Harvard; Columbia's 21-to-0 slaugh- ter of New York university; Penn States 21-to-0 vitcory over Pennsyl- vania; nor the one-sidedness of Yale 5 21-to-0 trouncing of Princeton.
 Yale was the general favorite in this last named engagement, and a Yale victory was expected, but vic torious margin of 27 points, a margin greater than all but one in the 50 years of le-Princeton football rela tions, exceeded by many points the forecasts of the most daring of foot ball experts.
 Three Left Undefented.
 The Syracuse and Pittsburg occur rences served to reduce the list Of undefeated eastern elevens to three Cornell, Yale and West Virginia
 IO,-s,, ton, Cornelps 52-to-0 triumph over Johns Hopkins and West Virginias 4S-to-0 defeat of St. Louis all were so impressive that favoring any one of the three above the others is a task few football writers seem in clined to venture.
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 To many of the observers at the Yale Princeton engagement the work of the Tiger eleven was a bitter dis appointment. Tales of special prepa- rations made by Princeton for the Yale zane, and remembrances of the Tigers old penchant for rising to un- expected heights in it's game wiSl Yale, led to belief Coach Roper's men would force the Ellis to their limit.
 Yale's victory stamped the team as one of the greatest in Yale history. while the Tiger defeat ended for Princeton the sorriest season since Coach Roper took charge of Prince ton football.
 The Colgate Syracuse game was one in which alertness and skill en- abled the under dog to triumph. W. tS J. Falls.
 Washington and Jefferson had visions of an easy victory over Pitts burg when early in the game a blocked punt was recovered and car ried to a Washington and Jefferson touchdown. That happening, how ever, seemed to arouse the Panthers as never before this season. One pretty march ended in field goal; another, aided by a penalty to the Presidents resulted in touchdown. and late Tn the game a second field goal was added to Pittsburg's total.
 To what extent Browns victory over Harvard was due to the ab senee of regulars from the Crimson lineup is not known, but those who witnessed the contest seen. to agree cient strength on Saturday to have won from the best team Harvard could have put on.
 Too much Harry Wilson is the re- port on Pennsylvania's downfall. The Penn State bacllfield ace proved the outstanding figure of the contest de- spite the number of Red and Blue athletes who were assigned to checn his progress.
 Too much Walter Koppisch was the cause of New York university's g defeat for the Columbia captain, each time through an exhibition of great broken field running, tore through or around the New York university team for all their touchdowns.