The Washington times., 1931-11-21
ELI-CR|MSON
HOLDS EAST
INTEREST
BY EDDIE CASEY
Former All-America Halfback and Now
Head Football Coach at Harvard

Former AlI-America Halfback and Now
Head Football Coach at Harvard
CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 21.-Three
football games are outstanding
on today's schedule, which for
the most of the country's teams
marks the end of the long trail
which started early in Septen1-
ber.
Harvard and Yale are to play
at Cambridge and Southern Cali
fornia and Notre Dame at South
Bend. Stanford and California
will meet on the Pacific Coast.
Here in the East there will be
high interest in the fiftieth game
played between the Crimson and
the Blue elevens.
Harvard Record Better
Harvard has the better mathe-
matical record of the rivals. and
by that I mean that the differ
ence of a point here and there
has brought Capt Barry Woods
team to the eve of the Yale
game, undefeated and united.
Wood has been responsible to q
great extent for the previous sue
ceSSeS of his team. He is a won.
derful boy, an exceptional cap
tain, great passer, sure drop
kicker and to my mind an out
standing quarterback.
Yale has been defeated once,
that by Georgia in an early sea-
son game. Since then Yale has
tied Army and Dartmouth. The
team goes to its Harvard game
we'll rested. It has veteran ends,
good line and good line replace
ments and a flock of good backs.
1t is not for me to predict who
will win this game. I know that
Harvard expects to meet the
strongest team it has faced this
year.
Two of Best
The Notre Dame and Southern
California game will bring to-
gether two of the country's out
standing teams. Notre Dame has
been tied by Northwestern, but is
undefeated. Southern California
in early season was defeated by
st. Mary's.
Notre Dame has lost its good
fullback, George Melinkovich,
which would be something any
other coach but a Notre Dame
coach probably would worry
about. Football history has
an amazing ability to send we'll
groomed substitutes in for star
regulars in sach cases. Often
times these substitutes play away
beyond expectations.
There seems no way in which
to compare the teams. My ad-
miration for Notre Dame football,
and the ability of Notre Dame
teams to pull games out Of the
fire, prompts the feeling that
Hunk Anderson's team will win.
On the other hand, Southern Cali.
fornia must have an exceptional
| team.
Ancient Coast Battle
Out on the coast that Stanford
California game looms as one IT
the best of the year. Stanford
has been beaten only by Southern
California. California, coached
by Bill ingram, and schooled from
the beginning of the season IN
sound fundamentals, has made
rapid progress. 1t is likely that
this game will be close one.
Aside from those games, there
are other scattered contests which
have tremendous sectional in
terest. Tulane, which with Ten
nessee ranks, as representative OF
the best of Southern football, will
play Sewanee and does not expect
| to have much difficulty maintain.
ing it's perfect record. Georgia
which was undefeated until 1t
struck Tulane week ago will play
Alabama Poly and should back on
to the victory path.
The Southern Methodist team
which is undefeated in the
southwest section, comes north
to meet Navy. Navy has not been
as strong as in some recent
seasons and Southern Methodist
may repeat its victory of a year
ago.
Predicts Close Game
In the western conference
Michigan plays Minnesota,
Indiana meets. Purdue and
Chicago faces Wisconsin. The
Michigan-Minnesota game prob
ably will be a close one.
Michigan would seem to have
slight edge. Wisconsin carries
more punch than Chicago and
should win. Indiana's great 7.6
game against Northwestern, the
latter winning, after a previously
spotty record throws a shadow
across its game with Purdue.
Indiana has the edge.