Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-18

Tragic, indeed, for Purdue WOULD
the day be were Indiana to win.
It would be a double defeat for the
former and remarkable upset
victory for the latter.
Indiana has had a poor season. but
came through last week to beat North
western. Purdue, after its grueling
struggle with Iowa, is not likely to be
as good this week as 1t was last and
stranger things have happened in foot
ball than for Indiana to win. The gen.
eral public viii be pulling hard for
Purdue because almost everybody likes
Of George AIDE.
Two OF the really great games of
the year viii be played Saturday, one
on the Atlantic coast and one ON the
Pacific, Harvard and Yale, Stanford
to see these contests and no stadium
has ever been constructed, nor has one
yet been dreamed, capable Of seating
everybody who would like to get tickets
to watch either Of them.
Harvard and Yale are much stronger
than usual and, while Yale always has
had the reputation for playing rough,
hard foot ball, it is said that this year
those that have watched Harvard play
that effetsness supposedly characteristic
of its immediate neighborhood. Har-
ward has a rough, hard-playing eleven
and seems to be far stronger than usual,
strong enough to engage Yale on just
about even terms.
The Stanford CaIifornia game is the
game of the Pacific Coast. 1t is to that
section what Yale Harvard is to New
England. In Washington even, interest
in the contest is exceptional, especially
among the many California and STAN
ford men here. Perhaps women should
also be added, because all graduates of
the two schools get together for a din
ner and to listen together to a radio
account of the contest. Local graduates
of the two universities, three thousand
and some odd miles from the game,
look forward to their annual get-to-
gether to listen to the play with almost
as much anticipation as other grads
who are close enough to see 1t.
Lehieh and Lafayette are another
pair that fight out an old rivalry this
week. This game to each Of them
means more than all the others they
have played. It is the Harvard
struggle Of that immediate section.
The western Conference winds I'D
its season. OF course, the Indiana
Purdue game Is most important, but In
addition to that Illinois meets Ohio
State, Minnesota plays Wisconsin and
Michigan meets Iowa. All these games
should be just about as well played as
the one which is likely to decide the
championship.
After next Sunday most of the
games to be played are in the Far
to this are the Penn-Cornell game a.
Philadelphia and the Pittsburgh Penn
State game at Pittsburgh ON Thanks
giving. Both these games have il
them all the elements that go with Ion,
rivalries, and graduates of the re:
Spective schools had rather watch thes.
than any others scheduled because the;
have greater interest in them.
Many outstanding rivalries Of this
kind will be fought out In the South.
Virginia and North Carolina, Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and Virginia Mill
tary Institute, Maryland and Johns
Hopkins are the ones In this Anmedi-
ate section due to be settled
Farther South are games between
Vanderbilt and Sewanee, Georgia and
Georgia Tech. Louisiana State and Tu-
versity Of Mississippi, Clemson and Fur
man, Tennessee and Kentucky, and
probably others In which smaller
schools figure.
Out in the Middle West Nebraska and
Iowa State meet in game that is lust
about as old as Middle Western foot
ball, albeit Iowa State has not been a
very worthy opponent of the Corn
huskers the last few years.
Other big games of general interest
vet to be played are the Army-Stanford
at Stanford, Navy-Dartmouth at Phila-
delphia and Army-Notre Dame at New
York. Nothing is lacking in either of
theSe contests as far as general at
Effectiveness is concerned All three
games will fill to capacity the stands
before which they are played.