Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-10
YALE PITT FACING
TESTING BATTLES
Teams Held Best in East in
1927 Face Georgia and
West Virginia. .
BY HERBERT w. BARKER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, october 10.-Pittsburgh
and Yale. generally rated at the top of
the Eastern foot ball heap last year.
will have difficulties in the chase for
national honors next Saturday
Each team was beaten once last sea-
son. although Pitt waited until after
the regular season had closed to lose
by a single point to Stanford on the
Pacific Coast. Yale, on the other hand,
met defeat early in the campaign at
the hands of rugged, powerful bril-
liant Georgia eleven, 14-10. Georgia
comes North to do battle with the Ellis
again this Saturday, and Pitt, hardly
up to its standard of last year when
need all its resources, it would seem, to
take care of West Virginia
Nal Stevens has the material for a
great team at New Haven, but the
question just now is whether it has
been developed to the point where a
foe as sturdy as Georgia cannot only be
met but defeated The Southerners
demonstrated great scoring power in
their overwhelming defeat of Mercer
last Saturday, while Yale's 27-0 VIC
tory over Maine was not to impress
Sive.
But there's this to consider: Yale
knows what to expect this year. The
Bulldogs have been caught once, and
if they're caught again, it will not be
because they did not have chance to
get set.
Pitt and West Virginia battles are
classics in western Pennsylvania and
northern West Virginia These two,
with Washington and Jefferson and
Carnegie Tech, form the Big Four"
of that foot ball section.
The Panthers, after a mediocre start
against Thiel, snapped into it against
Bethany and rolled up So points. West
Virginia bowed to its first foe, that
mighty atom" Davis and Elkins, TO,
but swept aside West Virginia Wesleyan,
1910, and the Haskell Indians, 28-7.
Keefer, West Virginia's big fullback, is
the man Pitt must watch. He's scored
five touchdowns SO far, and the season
is young.
New York Has Big Game.
New York offers it's own struggle be-
tween unbeaten Fordham and equally
unbeaten New York University for a
place in the list of closely matched,
hard-fought games.
Yale's traditional rivals also meet
Southern opposition, Princeton taking
on Virginia, while Harvard is doing its
best to entertain North Carolina. The
battles between Colgate and Virginia
Poly, Cornell and Hampden-Sidney and
Dayton Brown complete the intersec-
tional schedule in the East for Satur-
day. Boston College steals march on
the field by meeting Duke at Boston
Friday, Columbus day.
Her lineup shifted about, Navy trav-
els to Chicago to meet Notre Dame.
Most of the other major elevens will
tackle minor opposition, designed to
put them on edge for the bigger tests
to come.
Nays varsity foot ball team may
recover from its first two defeats, but
it will never look the same. Only
three of Bill Migrants original first
string line hold their places. and the
backfield has been shifted just as dras-
ticaIly.
It's a good thing for Syracuse the
Nebraska game is not to be played un-
til a week from Saturday The fresh
men. using Nebraska formations, scored
thrice on the varsity yesterday.
There's couple of Ticknors on Har-
wards varsity now Bill Ticknor has
been promoted to first-string guard
position and played beside his younger
brother, Ben, first-string center.
Jess Hawley'S devised a new scheme
to keep his Dartmouth backs behind the
proper interference. His varsity ap-
peAred with white circles painted on
the seats of their pants. and the guards
with black ones on theirs. 1t helps the
ball CARRIES to find their interference
going through the line.