Evening star., 1928-10-15
FAILURE Of NAVY
SHOCKS GRID FANS
Goes ScoreIess in Dropping
Three Games-MiChigan
Also ION Rocks"
BY ALAN ]. GOULD.
r. Associated Press Sports Editor.

CHICAGO, October 15.-With \ a
startling succession of upsets already in
its wake, although the season is only
a few weeks old, the 1923 college grid
iron campaign seems certain to witness
a record turnover
The ranks of the ordinarily mighty
have been unusually hard hit in the
October onslaught. Any gridiron Rip
Van Wrinkle who snooZed off only a
month ago would be amazed to wake
up at this early stage of the game and
find such stalwarts as the Navy and
Michigan yet to win single contest,
with Pittsburgh, Penn State, the Texas
Aggies, Notre Dame and Stamford also
among the ranks of the beaten clan.
Navy Is POintlesS
The Navy, which has not scored a
point in three successive games against
Davis and ElkinS, Boston College and
Notre Dame, will make desperate at
tempt to check its losing streak against
Duke University this Saturday. But the
Mldshipmen, If they are to turn back
the Southerners, must put together a
much smoother working attack than
they exhibited to the gaze of a record
crowd of 10000 at Soldier Field Sat-
urday in dropping TO decision to
Notre Dame.
Michigan, experiencing the most dis
astrouS start any Wolverine eleven has
known under the guidance of Coach
'Hurry-up' Yost. faces Ohio State this
week without much solace in sight.
This is the last season for the Buck
eyes under the coaching of Jack Wilce
and they are to atone for the 21-0
setback administered by Michigan last
year. To judge from the way they beat
Northwestern Saturday, 100, they
probably will do So
Notre Dame regained some prestige
by defeating the Navy, following its
walloping at the hands of Wisconsin,
but the Hoosiers have not yet acquired
the usual polish of Rockne coached
elevenS. They have another battle on
their hands this week. playing Georgia
Tech at Atlanta, but it will behoove the
Southerners to watch out for the
shifty ball-carrying efforts of Chevigny
and Niemiec. as well as a pair of re-
serves named Colerick and Carideo, who
played major roles in beating the Navy
here.
The intersectional tangle has an
other bright spot in the clash of SYRIA
cuse and Nebraska, two unbeaten and
powerful outfits, at Lincoln, while Col
gate roams westward to encounter
Michigan State.
In the East. Army's strong eleven,
after easily dispoSing of Providence,
moves down East to resume rivalry
with Harvard that was left off 1S years
| ago. The Crimson, after somewhat
| impressive victories over Springfield
and North Carolina, figures to give the
Cadets real battle.
Yale Should Win.
Yale is not likely to have much diff
Guilty beating Brown, but Lafayette finds
a., IAI I1rvD Trfni
surprised by trimming Penn State Sat-
urday.
The big game in the Far West this
week brings together California and
Southern California in the big arena at
Berkeley. 1t should provide a few
thrills, to judge from the way the
Golden Bears beat Washington State
Saturday, while the Trojans were pol
ishing off st. Mary's
The big Ten" chase is still wide
open. despite the setbacks received by
Michigan, Northwestern and Chicago.
Ohio State, staging a comeback, must
hurdle Michigan to stay in the run
ming this week Wisconsin. Minnesota,
Iowa and Illinois are in the unbeaten
class but the Illini face rugged test
against Indiana which took its f1rst
Michigan scalp last week.
The Kansas JayhawkerS, after being
tied by Washington, move against the
Kansas Aggies this week as Missouri
and Iowa State. two other members OF
the new Missouri Valley Big Six, also
clash.
The Southern spotlight aside from
the Georgia Tech-Notre Dame event,
turns on Alabamas attempt to move
along at the expense of Tennessee and
Vanderbilt's drive against Tulane after
two noteworthy intersectional triumphs.
The Centenary gentlemen" with the
scalp of the famous Texas Aggtes at
their belts, have their tomahawks out
for another Southwestern Conference