New Britain herald., 1928-10-31
FANS INTERESTED
 IN GRID BATTLES
Notrt Dame's Invasion of the
 East Among Feature Games

New York. Oct. 3l R-The in, 1 tersectionAl flavor is much more marked in this Saturdays eastern college football schedule than it waa week ago but prospects are that Atlantic seaboard fans will be less 1 interested in these games than in a series of outstanding duels be- tween home -breds.
 l The Princeton Ohio State battle at Columbus and Notre Dame's in- vasion of the east to tackle Penn State at Philadelphia. alone of the intersectional games, appear worthy to hold the same spotlight that will shine on such games as Georgetown New York University: Dartmouth Yale: Syracuse Pittsburgh: Cornell Columbia; Holy Cross Brown. and Lafayette-Washington and Jefferson. Army and Colgate will be at home" to Depauw and Wabash, in- tersectional foes. who on their rec ords at least, appear to rank some notches below their prospective eastern rivals. Pennsylvania. de- spite a so defeat by Navy. should carry too many guns into the west for Chicago, now in the midst Of an extremely unsuccessful season. But eastern eyes will watch with great interest the progress of Princeton's battle against Ohio State one of the Big Tens greatest teams. Notre Dame still holds the public eye despite defeats by Wisconsin and Georgia Tech. Rockne's team is constantly improving and the same holds true of Penn State which battled Syracuse to a tie last week
 New York offers the only struggle of the team between undefeated and united teams-Georgetown and ". ". U. at tho Yankee Stadium. Georgetown has scored 24O points against Mt St. Mary's. susquehan- na. Lebanon Valley. West Virginia Wesleyan and Duke.
 N. Y. U. has scored approximate ly 70 fewer points against stronger opposition that included Niagara. West Virginia Wesleyan. Fordham. Rutgers and Colgate. Comparative scores. based on the West Virginia Wesleyan games. reveal how evenly matched the teams really are. N. Y. U. defeated the West Virginians 26-7, and two weeks later George town turned the trick st to 2. Yale. in advance calculations. hs- ures to win against . Dartmouth team crippled by injuries to Mar sters, Breithut and Wol6. backs. and Booma and swarthout, ends.
 The contest between Cornell and Columbia has the experts perplex- ed trying to pick a winner. Cornell put up . gallant light against Princeton but lost by . held goal. Columbia was beaten by Dartmouth but has shown strength against other opponents.
 Syracuse undoubtedly will be a slight favorite over Pitt at Pitts burgh but the Panthers have for midable team that West Virginia could beat by no more than three points and Carnegie Tech by six. Syracuse's lone defeat was . one point heartbreaker by the powerful Nebraska squad.
 Lafayette figures 10 whip Green and crippled Washington and |rf- ferson team. but this particular rt. valry has always been marked by close. hard-fought battles and the 1928 combat may be no exception. There's another evenly matched struggle in prospect at Providence when Brown entertains Holy Cross. Navy. Harvard and Boston Col lege. among the other leading teams. have scheduled opponents of lesser rank in West Virginia. Lehigh and Manhattan.