The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-17
FIVE TEAMS IN EASTERN RACE Penn Leading With 8 Victories And One
 Tie
(By Associated Press.)

NEW YORK, Nov. 16.-With the end of the 1924 eastern football season only two weeks off, the contest for premier sectional honors remains an "open race" Where a year ago the battle had narrowed down to two out standing elevens, Yale and Cornell, the stretch this year finds no fewer that five teams putting forward title claims. Saturdays results, adding further fuel to the blaze of upsets that has marked the seasons path so far, pro- ducing two outstanding features in the decisive victory of Yale over Princeton, blasting the Tigers hopes of "big three." championship while strengthen ing the Blues chances and the score less tie struggle between Pennsylvania and Penn State which toppled the Quakers from their lofty porch as the only eleven neither defeated not tied.
 Penn's record of eight victories, one tie and no defeats still keeps her to the front in the title scramble but the Red and Blue now must share the heights with Dartmouth and Rutgers, each of which has only one tie to mar its record. The big Green outfit, held to even terms only by Yale, closed it's season with a 27-to-14 triumph over Cornell at the Polo Grounds and with other victories over Harvard and Brown to it's credit must be consider ed when final donors are distributed.
 Rutgers Tied
 Rutgers, tied only by Lehigh, added another impressive victory to her list by trouncing New York university, while Yale and Lehigh complete the lists of prominent unbeaten aggrega- tions. Of the two the Ellis have the stronger title claims, with ties against Dartmouth and the Army as the only breaks in a victorious record while the Bethlehem collegians have been held to even terms by Rutgers, Princeton and Holy Cross and managed to beat Villa Nova yestreday by only one touchdown.
 Yale's smashing triumph over Prince ton dispelled with stunning suddenness the myth of invincibility that had sur rouns the Tigers since their overwhelm' ing victory over Harvard the week before. The Blue forces, far more potent on offense and showing a decid- edly more alert and a capable defense gave an impressive exhibition and will be strong favorities next Saturday to win the ''big three" title for the second straight year by defeating Harvard which was blanked yesterday Brown for the Crimsons third defeat of the sea son.
 Princeton Shows Up
 Against Yale, Princeton was a strange contrast to the team that swamped Harvard. Instead of the clocklike pre- cision and all-around effectiveness of their play of the previous Saturday the Tigers were sluggish and played loosely and sadly. Their performance was more on a par with what they had shown against other opponents then Harvard and established in the minds of a majority of critics that their sudden spurt against the Crimson in that final analysis, was simply 8 flash of mOmentary greatness-some' thing not uncommon in athletics-in which an ordinarily mediocre combina tion, aided by superb condition, aroused itself to amazing brilliancy against op position which became demoralized by events Saturday, Williams captured the little three" title for the fourth sue cessive time, by trouncing Amherst while Columbia caused a surprise and earned at least moral victory" by holding the strong Army eleven to g 14-14 tie at West Point. West Vir ginia Rockwell of Michigan, who was gunner up last week, advanced to with ing one point of Grange, making 6 touchdown, field goal and point after touchdown. Ralph Baker of North western, who was giving Grange sucl race earlier in the season for leader ship, failed to improve his point total