New Britain herald., 1928-11-01
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New York, Nov. Rp-When it comes to picking the winners, most of the big eastern games this week. and not a few of the small ones, have the experts throwing up their hands in despair.
 One of the toughest battles is that between New York university and Georgetown. Neither team has been beaten this season, and both have rmarkable scoring records. The Washington institution leads the country, having rolled up 24o points in five games against seven for Its opponents. N. Y. U. has scored 176 points, of which 91 have been tallied by Ken Strong.
 With a big and powerful line, the N. Y. U. defense has halted every running attack sent against it and forced the enemy into the air to score. On the offense no opponent has been able to stop the fashy strong or his running mates. The same can be said of the speedy Georgetown backs, who have run circles around the opposing teams and divided their 240 points equal ly among them.
 To complicate the already knotty problem, they have had one com mon opponent and both have won by almost equal scores. On strength alone, N. Y. U. appears 10 have slight margin, but on the basis Of the weeks practice reports good bit of this can be shaved off. The Violet regulars have had trouble stopping their set of speedy substi- tute backs who have been testing them with Georgetown formations.
 The meeting between Yale and Dartmouth looks like another stand off unless injuries hamper the Green team. Both have been beaten. Yale by Army and Dartmouth by liar ward, but neither defeat can be charged to any important weakness nor can much be determined about the relative strength of the teams until they settle it on the field.
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 struggle. The Ithacan line looked very good when it held Princeton to | lone field goal last week, but the Cornell backs were unable to carry the ball over the goal line Colum- bias forward wall also has strength while the Lions backtield has put over . touchdown or more against every opponent.
 Pittsburgh, beaten twice. plays Syracuse. which lost by single point to the powerful Nebraska team and then was held to a tie by the supposedly weaker Penn State. Whether last weeks tie can be taken as an indication of weakness on the part Of Syracuse or of increased strength of Penn State will not be decided until Saturday.
 Penn State, which may or may not have risen from the doldrums in the Syracuse game, takes on twice. beaten Notre Dame at Philadelphia in the casts leading intersectional contest. If the usual array of stars were coming from South Bend it would be an easy prediction that Notre Dame would win. but Rock ne's cohorts have been going mo- where this year and there is no solid basis for comparison of the strength or weakness of the two teams.
 The Lafayette Washington and Jefferson game is another that re- mains doubtful for numerous and diverse reasons. Lafayette looked like . world beater until it was tHd by Bucknell and beaten by West Virginia. Since then practice at Eas- ton has been q series of shakenps designed to produce a stronger team this week. W. and J. also is without definite first team as q result of injuries to several of its best play CTS.
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