New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-10-08
navy HAS YET To
SCORE IN GAME
Bill Inelam's Early Season Pre-.
dictoa Is All AVry

New York. Oct. s ReIt would
seem as though the Navy goat" Is
not too hard to get.
4 few weeks ago. Bill Ingram. in
a moment OF weakness. broke down
and confessed the Naval Academy
never again would have . weak
football team and that the Mid
shipmen. henc.forth and forever
more. would be an eternal obstacle
In the path Of aspirants to national
championship honors.
Since then several things have oc-
Cured to Alake Navy Bill's'' pre-
diction look bit bad. The foot
ball season Ia two weeks old and Bill
still is waiting for his first victory.
AZ q matter Of fact the boys who
eventually will 60 down to the sea
In ships still have their first official
points to score.
First little Davis and Elkins came
along and sank the Midshipmen in
several fathOms OF water. As though
that were not bad enough. Boston
College. with Quarterback Weston in
the leading role. added a couple of
fathoms to the dose. winning s to 0
last Saturday. Weston galloped rs
yards for a touchdown and the only
points of the game, in the first
period.
These two Navy defeats, coupled
with the trouncing Notre Dame
took from Wisconsin, have taken
most Of the edge off the battle of
Midshipmen and Irish at Soldiers
Field. Chicago, next Saturday. What
ever happens. national champion
ship scarcely Is likely to hinge on
the outcome.
Still finding their breathing some
what difficult Army Cadets plan
more or less OF a holiday when they
again take the field. Providence is
the next foe and the Cadets are
hoping to find the going compare
lively easy. Another raising
battle like the one they were forced
to go through to down Southern
Methodist. IA to Is, would reduce
"Bif' Jones' boys to nervous wrecks.
Safely through their initial warm
up battles Harvard, Yale and
Princeton tackle southern opposition
next. At Cambridge, Harvard en-
tcrtains North Carolina, overwhelm-
ingly defeated by Washington and
Lee on Saturday. Georgia, which
gave Yale its only setback last sea-
son comes north with what appears
TO be another great team to meet
the Blues. Princeton. with a power
full and high scoring squad, takes on
Virginia with few dualms, The
southerners were beaten, ~ to 10,
ny South Carolina in their last start.
After their weekend experience
at Nashville. Colgate. it might be
thought. would be satisfied to leave
the south strictly alone. But the
.up-staters. smarting under their
1877 beating by Vanderbilt. hope to
take revenge upon Virginia Poly
Institute which smashed Hampden-
Sidney for 1927 loss on Saturday.
tiampden-S Sidney. incidentally, liz the
next opponent GLOOMY Gil" Dobie's
improved Cornell squad will tackle.
Two unbeaten teams clash in New
York when New York University
and Fordham get together. Pitts
burgh. co-champions with Yale last
year. and uhbeaten and unsecured on
70 far this year. gets thorough
test from West Virginia. conquerors
of the Haskell India MS last Saturday
but conquered by Davis and Elkins
In the first game Of the season.
Lafayette and Georgetown, leading
the east In scoring with 1874 and 119
points respectively. should have no
trouble adding to their totals. Herb
McCracken's Leopards take on
George Washington and Georgetown
meets Lebanon Valley.
Brown concludes the intersectional
slate with a battle against Dayton.
Penn State. troubled to beat
Gettysburg. may get surprise from
Bucknell. but the rest of the casts
hig-time teams face comparatively
safe opposition.