The Washington times., 1924-11-24
BUCK NELL
WIN Bis
UPSET
Football Dope Being Dashed
Down to End Of
Season
BY LOUIS A. poUGHER.

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Down to the very end Of this
glorious football campaign of 1924
& come the upsets, the SCATTERING
of championship dreams. Buck
nell's unexpected triumph over
Rutgers provided the big upset of
the past week, while Lehigh's
dream of an unbeaten season went
into the mists of March Field,
home of the Lafayette Leopards.
For the Middle to conquer the
Army and Cornell to smash
through Pennsylvania would just
about keep up the average of the
past three or four weeks.
Rutgers victories over Cornell
and Lafayette foreshadowed a more
or less easy win from Bucknell.
The Jerseymen were supposed to
have one of the strongest combina.
tons in the country, though La.
fayette was admittedly much
weakened by its tussle with the
Quakers. However. few believed
Bucknell, in spite of it's victory at
Annapolis, capable of doing more
than put up stiff opposition against
Rutgers. Instead. Uncle Charlie
Moran's eleven from Lewisburg
Pa, won, and Rutgers entire sea-
son has fallen into the sewer.
Leh1gh was unbeaten. 1t had
tied the fierce Princeton Tiger.
Lafayette was expected to be a
strong opponent. but Lehigh was
confident Of winning. But La
fayette gathered itself for one final
glorious combat and defeated its
ancient rival, thus running one
more wonderful season.
Georgetown did the expected in
winning from LOyOIa, rs to 0, at
New Orleans. The Crescent City
eleven has had poor season.
Coach Little must have gTinned,
though for his team showed signs
OF developing an offensive worthy
OF the name. The HiIItODDers
should have strong team in
1925.
Yale's remarkable showing in the
muddy lakes of the Yale Bowl gives
Tad Jones' eleven a high ranking
among Eastern elevens. Dart
mouth and West Point, with ties,
are generally bracketed with the
Ellis, the three being quite the most
powerful teams in the East.
Just what Yale might nave done
on dry field at Cambridge a year
earlier will never be known. So
with Yale,s 1924 eleven. The power
to carry the ball without a halt
eighty yards through wind water,
and gumbo mud argues for truly
miraculous ability.
In scoring nineteen points against
Harvard, Yale did better than any
Blue eleven since 1902, when FIar.
ward was beaten, % to O. Indeed
only five Yale teams have bettered
the score of Lovejoy's team against
the Crimson.
In 1883 Yale won, % to 2, and
the next year, AZ to 0. In 1886 Yale
triumphed,' 20 to 4. All through
the 90s the scores were small, and
1t was not till 1900 that Yale won
by the wide margin of % to 0, Cor
don Browns Yale team being about
the best in all Yale history.
In 1902 Yale defeated Harvard.
70 to 0, and in all the wears
since no Ell Eleven has euualed
the score made by Bill Kline and
DuclIy Pond in the mud and
water last Saturday, the closest
being the 16-tO-O count i'm 1908.
Forty-three games of football
have been played ~ these two old
rivals. Yales victory Saturday was
its twenty-third. Harvard has won
fifteen and five have been tied.
Up to 1908. when the late Percy
Haughton changed that standing
bridge, Yale had won nineteen
+ games to six for the Crimson.
Huaghton changed that standing
considerably. The last fifteen sea.
sons have seen nine Harvard vic
tories to six for Yale, with Har-
ward scoring 1874 points to so for
Old Eli
Harvard's most fruitful years
were between 1912 and 1915, and
Yale has yet to equal those scores.
In 1912 Harvard won, 20 to O; in
1918, Is to 5: in 1914, SO to 0. and
in 1915, Al to 0. That 1915 score
was surpassed only by Yale's 4S-to-
0 victory, back in 1884.
On Thursday Pennsylvania, as