Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-19
YALE AND PENNSYLV wanna ARE
BIG CONTENDERS IN THE EAST
Harvard Beginning to Show
Power-Yale Looks for Little
Trouble Against Brown

New York, Oct. 1S-(P)-Yale and
Pennsylvania stand out today as
leading contenders for the football
championship Of the east. Dart
mouth, titleholder in 1925, tasted
defeat for the first time in almost
three years in the Yale Bowl Satur-
day and the great hidden ball attack
of the Pennsylvanians smashed Chi
cago. invaders from the Western
Conference, q to 0.
Penn has no game scheduled with
Yale or Dartmouth. but Williams,
Illinois, Penn State, Columbia, and
Cornell will test the title aspirations
of the Keystone eleven. Yale, with
a Brown meeting in the offlng, has
Army, Maryland, Princeton and Har-
ward left to try their championship
qualities.
Yale rose to majestic heights in
whipping Dartmouth, IA to Z, by the
very means that had lifted the IT.
dams Of the north to acknowledged
supremacy of the pigskin world.
Crashing line play and bewildering
forward passes that edged out the
victory in the final stages, We're both
former weapons of the Green. Penn
sylvania showed an eleven that out
classed the westerners in every &C.
partment equipped with a deceptive
attack that had Chicago tackling all
backs but the man carrying the ball.
The Ellis have smooth running
Brown eleven just ahead, but with
crippled regulars expected back in
the lineup this week and only slight
| injuries sustained in the Dartmouth
struggle, the Blue looks for little
| %sN iva 10 I, fy1tsf u ~
| opportunitv to develop against Will
| liams with little fear of an upset re-
sulting.
Dartmouth continues its war with
| the Big Three against a Harry ard
team that is showing distinct signs
of form and power after two defeats
in a ragged start. The Crimson in
| downing William and Mary 81 to Z,
displayed a line that could open
| holes, a running attack that was
smooth and finished, and an effective
air attack. Cripples of the suad,
Captain Coady at Tackle, Daley,
guard, and Miller and French, regu-
lar backs, are ready to resi- W. k.
Injured regulars returning to the
Princeton squad will bolster the
Tigers for the Lehigh engagement
after the Navy defeat, q to IS. Cap
tain John Davis will be back at
guard to strengthen a line splintered
and torn by the Middle attack The
| Navy must continue in 'i~h gear to
dispose of . '~~~4a nosed out Satur-
day by PITTSBURGH = one Of tho days
upsets. 10 to 16,
The leading scorer of the east
"Whippet" Carr, of Syracuse, with %
points to his credit, will rage into
| action against the highest scoring
4 team when the Orange meets Penn
State this week. The Nittany Lions
have gathered 165 points in games sc
far, thanks largely to 80 scored
against Susquehanpa in the opening
game.
The Army, after bruising 81 to 9.
| win over Syracuse, can rest a regu.
lar eleven and at the same time de
| velop substitutes, just now tn,
J Cadet weakness, in the coming Bos.
ton University tilt. Cornell, with
an open date on Saturday, can res
after the 24-14 victory over Michigan
State and prime the attack for thu
Columbia game the following week
Columbia, battered 80 to 7 by Obi,
State, has Duke University of NORTH
Carolina as the second Intersections
opponent in two weeks. Duke ha:
shown little in early season games
but reports from. the south indicate
the Carolinians are preparing sur.
prises. Pittsburgh meets Carnegi,
Tech. and West Virginia, conouerors
of Georgetown by a small margin
10 to 10. opposes a bitter rival il
West Virginia Wesleyan.
New York University, jumping tc
the forefront with a smas hing 21 to
win over Tulane. pits a sterling
eleven against Rutgers, beater Sat.
urday by Holy Cross 81 to 0.