Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-23
BOTH ARE BLESSED
WITH FINE SQUADS
QuakerS Said to Have Best
Material Ever Seen on
Franklin Field.
BY H. C. BYRD.

IA HAs ~ - NOs
T HARVARD and Penn are expect
- ing to have outstanding
elevens this Fall, according to
people in close touch with
gridiron affairs at each university. The
Crimson, with almost the same squad
in uniform that defeated Yale last No
vember, and the Quakers, with what
one Penn alumnus described as the
best material that had ever been on
Franklin Field, are bending their ener-
gies toward whipping these squads in
shape for opening games October 4
and for the big games they are to play
later.
One foot ball coach familiar with
the situation at Harvard, says:
That Harvard team-I believe it
vii be one of the best outfits in the
country, and I certainly look for it TO
take an outstanding position in the
East. II Yale does not want to get
whipped again, then it had better
watch pretty closely its development;
because Harvard has the stun to clean
up almost any opponent. There is
nothing OF lollypop nature about that
Crimson aggregation, as Yale probably
found out last Fall. And 1t is almost
the same eleven that Yale Is due to
face this year."
A Penn alumnus, also q foot ball
coach, spoke Of his alma mater thus !:
I'll miss my guess If Penn does not
come through with a great eleven. 1t
has the greatest array of material I've
ever seen on Franklin Field, and about
as good material as anybody ever saw
anywhere in the same year in the same
school. 1t has couple of backs who
are real wonders, and other good backs
besides. Watch Penn, is my advice,
II you want to see great team"
Both Penn and Harvard have sched-
uleS in which they will meet several
strong opponents. Penn opens with
Swarthmore october and Virginia
october II, then meets on consecutive
week ends, and on Thanksgiving, Wis
consin, Lehigh, Kansas, Notre Dame,
Georgia Tech, Cornell and Navy. The
Harvard eleven faces Vermont in its
first contest october 4 and Springfield
in its second, October II, but then
meets consecutively Army, Dartmouth,
William and Mary, Michigan, Holy
Cross and Yale.
Considering the games Harvard and
Penn play, 1t probably will go Ill with
both OF them If they do not have strong
teams. Such elevens as Wisconsin,
Notre Dame, Kansas, Cornell and Navy
Cross, Michigan and Yale for Harvard,
form lists Of opponents usually strong
enough to test the mettle Of any team.
Less probably has been said this Fall
OF Yale's foot ball squad than In many
years, which probably is a good indica-
ton that Yale has in the making q team
that will be In keeping with the best
Yale gridiron tradition. Yale has o
good deal to remember from its last
season which does not afford 1t much
satisfaction.
In the first place, in its second and
third games it meets Maryland and
Georgia, and the best it could get out
of the Maryland game was tie, while
it lost to Georgia. Then at the end of
the year it was whipped by Harvard.
which, above all other things, is an end
not to be wished by anybody who wears
blue.
AS a matter of fact, Yale has q lot
of fine backs and plenty of good line
men and 1t probably will have q mighty
good foot ball team.
One school that may show q lot more
strength this year than generally is ex-
pected Is Cornell. The Ithacans gave
signs last season of coming to life in a
gridiron way, having, it is said, for the
first time in years some good material
And, with good material, Gil Dobie will
get just about as much out of 1t as
any other coach. Cornell alumni would
not look askance at a winning season,
not by any means. Cornell plays an
easier schedule than most of the big
schools, its only games that might be
classed as hard being with Princeton,
Columbia, Dartmouth and Penn.
Pittsburgh, Penn State and Syracuse