New Britain herald., 1927-10-29
HALF MILLION FANS TO SEE
 EASTERN GRID GAMES TODAY
Yale-Dartmouth Leads With 75,OO0 With Navy and Penn Drawing About 10000 Next - Fully 450OO Expected to See Harvard and Indiana PIay-Trin- ity Plays at Wesleyan

New York, Oct. % R-Stellar football attractions. few, of them bearing on mythical national honors and others involving rivals of years standing today combined as q mag net to draw approximately a half million persons to eastern gridirons. Az indicated by the advance sale of seats the prospect was: at New Ha- ven, Conn: Yale vs. Dartmouth, l5.o0o: Philadelphia, Navy vs. Penn, 1000: at Itahac, N. Y, Cornell vs. Columbia, 30,00o; at Harvard Sta dium; Harvard vs. Indiana, 45,OOU. Scores of other games, among them Princeton vs. William and Mary at Palmer stadium, and Colgate vs. New York University at the Yankee Stadium, swelled the attendance fig ures to around 50O,000.
 The Yale Dartmouth contest headlines the weeks attractions in the east Coach Jesse Hawley's Hanover lads are trying once again for their first football victory over the Ellis.
 The very best Dartmouth has been able to get against Yale on the foot ball field is one tie score. Now, with team that has been heralded as the equal of the great 1925 combina- ton, faWley hopes 10 stem the tide. The Dartmouth thrust will be made against what is regarded as one of 1ale's very best lines.
 The game with Indiana Is Har- wards intersectional tilt. The Hoos1ers came east with a team of no stars but fairly strong team, nevertheless. Coach Pat Pages hus- kics obtained 14-l4 tie with the strong Minnesota eleven and that, more than anything else, makes them slight favorites.
 Penn, defeated in it's last two starts. meets in the Navy a team that has lost only one game. that 10 Notre Dame. Consequently, the Middies were accorded the edge of the more or less crippled Quakers.
 <N'IiS loN''d icl q StIll IlSII 1TOn Rucknell, the team that humbled Penn State, 13-7. and tied "Ro" Nc Millan's unbeaten Geneva college eleven. Any result hardly could be classed as surprise unless the win ner rolled up q large score.
 Princeton was not expecting more than ordinary opposition from Will liam and Mary and Coach Bill Roper planned to use his players sparingly with the Ohio State game coming mp next week.
 Cornell lined up against a much heavier Columbia team with tho nv- perts at sea regarding a chcic-. Coach Gilmour Dobios team was considered q little faster but 'hero was some doubt whether thc Itha- der bat'nrnG.
 New York University hoped 10 maintain it's clean slate against Col gate: Boston College was trying to beat it's former coach, Mai Frank W. Cavanaugh. now at F'ordham and Syracuse was at Lincoln for the game with Nebraska.
 Other important games on today's schedule include West Virginia ys. Carnegie Tech at Morgantown; Penn State vs. Lafayette at State College, Pa: Brown vs. Temple at Provl- dence: Georgetown Ns. Waynesburr at Washington: Holy Cross vs. Rut- gers at Worcester: Washington and Jefferson vs. Thiel at Washington. Pa: Pittsburgh vs. Allegheny at Pittsburgh: Amherst vs. Massachu setts Aggies at Amherst: Wesleyan vs. Trinity at Middletown and Row doin vs. Bates at Brunswick, Me. READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS
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