The Omaha morning bee., 1923-11-11
Syracuse Looks
for Hard Contest
With the Huskers
Has Gone Through Season
Without Having Goal
Line Crossed
Once.

Victory over Penn State leaves the
road wide open for high gridiron hon
ors for the Syracuse team this year.
Only Boston, team which has only
won one game this year; Colgate, the
Oranges leading rival, but rather dis
appointing team this year, and Ne
braska, which is having an up-and-
down season-stand between Syria.
cuse and a Perfect season.
Saturdays results both Its own VIC
tory over the undefeated Penn State
eleven and the outcome of the other
games in which the leading teams of
the east took part. served only to put
the Orange on a still higher plane
than at any time this season.
AS far as can be learned the Syra-
cuse team is the only big team in
the United States whose goal line has
not been crossed. A field goal by
Matsu, Japanese quarterback on the
William and Mary eleven. has been
the only score made against Syracuse
this year.
To go through an entire season
without a touchdown being made
against them, is feat always long
ed and hoped for but never attained
at Syracuse university. Neither has
a team been able to finish without
a defeat or tie game. Both these
things are within the realm of pos
sibility this year and therefore the
Orange hopes are running high.
= But the mere talk of championship
hopes has served to spoil many a
good football team, so Meehan will do
his utmost to knock this out of the
the one thing he will now fight
against and he knows how to eradi-
cate it. Many other Orange elevens
have started their season auspicious-
ly only to be met with disaster en-
route from this overconfidence.
However, the present machine Is
different in that it is one of the most
evenly balanced machines in the his
tory of Syracuse athletics. Not one
individual has been responsible for
the showing of the team. 1t has one
of the greatest forward lines in the
country, and Meehan has an array of
backfield men of which any college
would be proud. Early in the season
Chet Bowman loomed up as an indi-
vidual star, but he was injured In
the Pittsburgh battle and has been
laid up ever since. However. he will
he in shape for Boston Saturday
and will also be on hand for the Ne
braska and Colgate affrays.
II either Colgate or Nebraska ex-
pect to stop Syracuse they must first
stop Mcbride and Bowman. The lat
ter, one of the fastest sprinters in
the university. can do the 100 yards
in his football toys close to 10 Sec
onds. He is used in dashes around
the ends. His speciality Is racing the
opposing ends along the chalk marks
parallel with the goal lines, and then,
when he has outdistanced them, skirt
ing the flank and starting off down
the field. Once away II takes several
to stop him, and there are few east
ern players who can take a handicap
| and catch him.
Mcbride is the line bucker de luxe
Alabama, Pittsburgh, Springfield and
Penn State lines were wavered,
cracked and busted wide open under
the onslaughts of this human batter
ing ram. Head down. ball tucked un-
der his arm. he crouches low and hits
the line with terrific force. Two yards
is small gain for him; he generally
averages from four to six. II NebraS
L him ~ xrt1l
do something no other team the
Orange has met this year has been
able to do.