New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-10-15
COACHES facing
DIFFICULT TASKS
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to Win Future Cana

Chicago. Oct. IL R-With =
startling succession Of upsets already
in it, wake. although tbs season II
only few weeks old. the 1898 col
leEe gridiron campaign seams certain
to witness \ record turnover.
The ranks Of the ordinarily mighty
have been unusually hard hit In the
October onslaught. Any gridiron
Rip Van Wrinkle who snoossd on
only . month ago would be amased
to wake UP at this early stage of the
game and md such stalwarts az
Navy and Michigan vet to win .
single contest. with Pittsburgh,
Penn State. the Texas Asgies, Metre
Dame and Stanford also among the
ranks of the beaten clan.
The Navy. which has not scored
q point In three successive games
against Davis and Elkins, Boston
College and Notre Dame. will make
q desperate attempt to check its los
ing streak against Duke university
next Saturday, but the Nidshipmen,
II they are to turn back the South
erners, must put together q much
smoother working attack than they
exhibited to the gaze Of q record
crowd of 10000 at Soldier field
Saturday in dropping 10 decision
to Notre Dame.
Michigan. experiencing the most
disastrous start any Wolverine
eleven has known under the guild
ance of Coach "Hurry-Up" Yost.
faces Ohio State this week without
much solace in sight. This is the
last season for the Buckeyes under
the coaching of Jack Wilce and they
are to atone for the 2l-0 setback adj
ministered by Michigan last year. To
judge from the way they beat
Northwestern Saturday 1870, they
probably will do 10.
Notre Dame regained some
prestige by defeating Navy. follow
ing its walloping at the hands Of
Wisconsin. but the Hoosiers have not
yet acquired the usual polish OF
~levens. They have
another battle on their hands this
week, playing George Tech at At
lanta. and 1t will behoove the
Southerners to watch out or the
shifty ball-carrying efforts of Che
yigney and Niemiec. a. well as
pair of reserves named Colerick and
Carideo, who played major roles In
beating the Navy here.
TSho {,f TO haa an.
other bright spot In the clash Of
Syracuse and Nebraska, two unbeat-
en- and powerful OUTFITS. at Lincoln.
Colgate roams westward to encount-
er Michigan State.
In the east. Army,s strong eleven.
after easily disposing Of Providence,
moves down east to resume a rivalry
with Harvard that was left of Is
years ago. The Crimson, after some-
what impressive victories over
Springfield and North Carolina. fig-
ures to give the Cadets 2 real battle.
Yale il not likely to have much
difficulty beating Brown. but Lafay-
cite finds its path in,peded by Buck
nell, which created surprise by
trimming Penn state Saturday.
The top-liner game in the far west
this week brings together California
and Southern California In the big
arena at Berkeley.
The Big Ten" chase IL still wide
open despite the setbacks received
by Michigan. Northwestern and Chi
cago. Ohio State. staging a come
back, must hurdle Michigan to stay
in the running this week. Wiscon-
sin, Minnesota. Iowa and Illinois
are in the unbeaten class but the
1llini face a rugged test against In
diana, which took its first Michigan
scalp last week. ;;
The Kansas Jayhawkers, after be-
ing tied by Washington, move
against the Kansas Aggies this week
as Missouri and Iowa State. two
other members of the new Missouri
valley tBig Six" also CLASH.
The southern spotlight, aside from
the Georgia Tech-Notre Dame event
on Alabama's attempt to move along
at the expense Of Tennessee and
vanderbilt's drive against Tulane
after two noteworthy intersectionat
triumphs. The Centenary gentle
men," with the scalp OF the famous
Texas Aggies at their belts. have
their tomahawk out for another
couthorr Conference team BAYLOR.