The Washington times., 1931-11-16
GRID TEAMS
NEAR HOME
STRETCH
Rx EDDIE CASEY

Head Football Coach at Harvard)
BOSTON, Nov. l6.-Footbau
teams throughout the country are
nearing the home stretch.
The season has been productive
of some great games, and some
good teams. Tulane and Tenn
essee in the South, Southern
Methodist in the Southwest,
Southern California on the
Pacific Coast, and Notre Dame
and Northwestern in the midwest,
are the outstanding teams in
their sections.
Seldom have there been SO
many good teams in the East.
Though Harvard alone Of the
major teams is undefeated and
united, many other teams have
grand records. That must have
been a superb Pittsburgh team
which defeated Army, $50. The
same should hold of Colgate
which defeated Syracuse, 21.7.
Fordham is undefeated. Dart
mouth is just starting to feel its
power. New York University is
strong, and I expect that Yale
will be ne Of the best teams Of
the year when it meets Harvard
in the stadium on Saturday.
Two Important Games
Two games of major interest
ahead of the football world this
week are the Southern Califor.
nia-Notre Dame game at South
Bend, and the Harvard-Yale
game at Cambridge. Both Notre
Dame and Harvard have some
thing to worry about from their
strong visitors.
Probably the only game of last
week which was regarded as an
upset, and this from a stand
point of outstanding contests,
was the Dartmouth-Cornell game.
Cornell had gone to Hanover un.
defeated, but unfortunately had
not played a schedule of hard
games.
It is my opinion that the Dart
mouth team was made in its
two hard games with Yale and
Harvard on successive Saturdays,
which proved to be a potentially
powerful big green team that 1t
could score and could keep the
other fellow from. scoring. Dart
mouths line was much stronger
against Harvard than it was ex-
pected to be, and it did fine
lob against Cornell,
Extolls Phil O'Connell
Harvard opposed a fine foot.
ball player on Saturday, namely,
Capt. Phil O'Connell, quarterback
of Holy Cross. This boy is good
passer and a good kicker. He
led one of the best Holy Cross
teams that ever has played in
the stadium. Harvard won, 10,
but was forced to play its "a"
team right through to win this
game, even at the risk of injuries
going into the Yale game.
Harvard came through nicely and
expects to be at full strength
against Yale.
Generally the Saturday con-
tests ran true to form, although
the margin Of Pittsburgh's vic.
tory over Army was surprising.
Pitt. beaten by Notre Dame, en-
hances the prestige of Coach
Anderson's team by it's decisive
win over the Army. Northwestern
was expected to do better against
Indiana than win by a point.
Washington and Lees 60 vic
tory over Princeton was not
unexpected, and for the first time
in history a Princeton team will
go into the Yale bowl a week
from Saturday, looking back
upon six straight defeats.
Tulane'S Hopes High
Tulane's POT win over Georgia,
hitherto undefeated, came in a
game between two outstanding
teams. Tulane has played beau
tiful football all season and hopes
to be selected to oppose Southern
California in the Rose Bowl game
at Pasadena. Another undefeated
Southern team is Tennessee,
which, with Gene McEver leading
the way turned back Vanderbilt.
21-7.
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