The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-05
| ALKING
IT Over
NEW YORK. Nov. 5.
WITH JOE WILLIAMS

IT has been pretty generally agreed
4 that in recent years the football
fellows on the west coast have
dominated the autumnal frenzy.
What with Stanford, California and
8outhern California. in turn, play
z merry hob. If that is the phrase
'th all sorts of opposition. and
rticularly eastern opposition.
There's just possibility that
here may be a different narrative
10 yodel this year. For example,
what was supposed to be third
rate eleven. beat what was pre-
sented as the best team on the Pa
cific slope last Saturday, and when
things like that can happen out
there, there is no telling what the
future will bring, and when.
Several weeks ago California came east
and beat PENNSYLVANIA. IL to :, end when
some Of the eastern bows In the press
box turned on the high poWeredsadjeetlvs,
in commenting on the westerners ski
brethren from way out yonder that they
hadn't seen anything yet
They could understand, Of course.
how team like California would
impress eastern critics who do not
get to see football played as it really
should be played, but after all Cali
fornia was just an ordinary. run
of-mine team, as teams are figured
out there, and it's just too bad you
fellows can't get load Of Southern
California or Stanford.
WELL, things happened since
w that afternoon over at Frank
lin field. I should say they have!
The great Stanford team was beaten
by a presumably greater Southern
California team and, in turn, the
greater Southern California team
has just been beaten by the ordinary
run-of- mine California team, which
sequence of interesting circum-
stances makes somebody an Eskimo
with a pain in the neck.
should like to know what II makes
PennsyIvania, which Is scarcely rated as
one Of the great teams In the east. Indeed
f rune o9dn eastern team. Yet Psnnsyi,
n sou did i1't California Sd scoring one
touchdown while holding the victOrs to
two, or the equivalent thereof.
This might seem that Pennsyl-
vania is better than Stanford, on d
par with Southern California, and
only a touchdown below California.
on the other hand the experts will
name you two or three eastern
teams that figure well above
Pennsylvania
All Of which, Of course, proves nothing
but IL at least provides matter Tor pleas
ant meditations and II has been long
time since the east has been aoie 70
squeeze even much as skinny, under
nourished vestige of pleasure out OF these
football size-ups which involve the TWO
sea ports.
rs AL MarSterS a better football
player than Able Booth? Is the
Dartmouth team. though beaten,
better than Yale? The most con-
venient way to answer the first
question is to say that If MarSterS
is an all-American back so is Booth,
and with emphasis, certainly CAM
see how any expert can name one
without naming the other.
A. TO the second question my answer
would be in favor of Ya:e. For the greater
mart Of the game last Saturday the Blue
line out.charged and out-played the Green
line supposedly one of the great lines
of the east.
Ir most cases you are pretty safe
in handing your vote to the team
whose line does the better work, and
I don't believe many will dispute
that the Yale forwards had a very
definite edge in this one. although
AS the game wore on they began
to give way somewhat under the
strain. =
Haven't seen better down the field worR
bv ends all season than the Yale winSmeh
showed. and time after time the part
mouth reeeiver-not lniteaun1in n ty, tI
Marsters-was dropped In his TRACKS,
= q
TRUE, the breaks went against
Dartmouth, but that is the way
with breaks; they either come to
YOU or go against you. They are as
much a part of the game as the
goal posts. 1t was bad break that
Marsters' tumble had to fly directly
into the arms of Yale man with
a clear field in front of him.
II was likewise n bad break that young
IonKnecker's ill-starred forward pass IN
the closing minutes of play had 10 nnn
the outstretched paws OF the faStest mSh
on the field, Hoot Ellis, \ ten-second man.
AS long as fate sponsors these olIarIe
tricks the Green of Dartmouth VIII never
Nv over the Yale bowl. II hasn't once up
10 now.
incidentally, the statistics OF the
game we're all in favor OF Yale and
Booth. Yale led in first downs, II
to 7: In yards gained rushing. 248
to 100. and in length and return Oh
uurtS. Booth gained 12l yards and
lost seven while Marsters was gain
ing 81 and losing 5. Nor did these
totals include 46-yard run by
Booth. which was ruled out because
of an off-side violation