The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-12-01
GRID SEASON
ENDS AMID
UPSETS
BY EDDIE CASEY

BOSTON, Dec. lone OF
footballs greatest seasons is ended
save for a few scattered games.
Southern California still must
play Washington and Georgia,
Navy and Penn and Army and
Navy have engagements ahead Of
them.
Tulane, with a perfect record,
looks ahead to washington State,
and Tennessee will play New
York University. There will be
other games. too, for the bene-
fit of the unemployed, such as
the round robin among Dart
mouth, Yale, Brown and Holy
Cross Saturday, and a similar
round robin on December 9
among Princeton, Cornell, Penn
sylvania and Columbia at New
York. But so far as the season
proper is concerned it ended
Saturday when Stanford, Army
and Yale wrote brilliant pages
into the history of the 1881 grid
iron campaign.
Expected
Army's feat in defeating Notre
Dame was a tremendous achieve
ment for a fine Army team and
was not entirely unexpected,
though on paper it was an upset.
Army was due to have such a
day. Army potentially has been
a great team all season. I always
will consider that the Army team
which played Harvard at West
Point in october was one of the
best Cadet elevens I ever have
seen.
If this season has shown moth
ing else, it has proved that no
football team can expect to go
through a season Saturday after
Saturday functioning in high
speed manner.
No team illustrates the fact
that greatness often is obscured
by failure to click or appreciate
power, so much as Stanford.
Glenn Warner brought his team
to the Harvard Stadium on Satur-
day with defeats of 40 by
Southern California and Go by
California tagged on it's record.
And yet Stanford, beating Dart
mouth 32-6, had all the char
acteristics of a wonder team.
Not Own Opinion
I am not basing observations
of Stanford alone on my own
opinions, but on the opinions also
of leading coaches of the East.
Stanford, from the time Ernie
Caddell on a simple reverse ran
70 yards for a touchdown on the
second play of the game, had
everything. Probably it was that
first touchdown that started the
Pacific Coast team rolling. IN
Dartmouth was not so
mentally alert as it has been in
other games. But the fact is
that Stanford, not because of the
score it rolled up, but because of
the general finish of its play,
looked like a team that was abSo-
lutely unbeatable.
When Caddell started to run
wild, Fasteners wondered where
he had been all season. There
was boy who looked the part
of an all.America back, a beauti-
full carrier, with the speed of a
comet. And what a pickup! He
ran for three touchdowns against
Dartmouth and he was threaten
ing to break loose all day. There
was Bill Corbus. a great guard,
and only a sophomore, and Don
Colvin, an outstanding end.
backs from Moffat
down were great running mates
Of Caddell, and Boston is still
talking about the marvellous way
in which Harry Hillman cap
tanned the Stanford team.
Yale Shows Power
There was Yale against Prince.
ton. Now, Princeton had a most
unfortunate season, but it took a
Yale team that could feel its ire
mendouS power all afternoon to
bury the Tigers under any such
score as 51-14. Yale realized that
it could gain ground, and pro-
ceeded to do it. This Yale team
Is good football team, one that
was slow developing but which in
another year should be one of the
outstanding teams of the country.
1t would be folly for me to try
to rate the teams of the country
in this concluding article. On GER
tain days Of this season certain
teams stood out.
Harvard has its day against
Army, Dartmouth against Yale,
Yale against Princeton, Army
against Notre Dame, California
against Stanford, Pitt against
Army, Georgia against Yale, Tu-
lane against Georgia, and so we
could go right down the list of
teams that at some point or other
during the season were good
teams.
UpSets were frequent, showing,
Of course, what sound coaching,
more even distribution of ma
terial and adherence to stricter
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