Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-17

n N many SecUlOIS IOOL Dali rival
ries of long standing are to be
fought out this Saturday.
From the Yale-Harvard game,
at Cambridge, to that between
Stanford and California, at Palo
Alto, teams will meet in climax
struggles for them, which mean
the whole season.
Up in New England the battle
between the Crimson and the Blue
holds the center of the foot ball
stage. Harvard has an undefeated
season behind it, and, if it can
win from Yale, will have achieved
the greatest gridiron success it
has enjoyed in years. An unde-
feated, united season, with a vic
tory over Yale, should fill the
Crimson cup to the overlooking.
Undoubtedly, Harvard has the best
foot ball team it has turned out in
many years, probably since the
Haughton regime Not only is the
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times, but it has added to these grid
iron virtues the gem of consistency
Yale has a good foot ball team, and
probably fairly close to an even chance
to win, but it hardly should be given
an even pre-game break. OF course,
Yale will have less of psychological
burden to carry, as it has been de-
feated and also tied, and consequently
has everything to gain and nothing
to lose, leaving out of consideration
the very natural blueness that always
comes to Vale from a defeat by Har-
ward.
1t may be that this great rivalry will
break down whatever advantage Har-
ward may have and place the two teams
on the field on just as even basis
as two teams ever can be in foot ball
Harvard has not shown the wild scor-
ing power possessed by Yale, but at
the same time it has played in such
a way as to indicate that defenSively
It Is much stronger. Dartmouth, for
instance; got 80 points against Yale
but could not score against Harvard.
This most assuredly is much too wide
o comparison but 1t does afford GER
tain light on the comparative ability
of two teams to keep their goals in
violate.
This should be one of the greatest
of all the great games in which the
Crimson.
nUT at Palo Alto the size of the
~ crowd that watches the Stanford
and California teams do battle
will be limited only by the accommoda-
tions to care for 1t. Here in Washing
ton. 5000 miles away or Whereabouts,
Stanford and California alumni are to
gather at a banquet, the chief attrac-
ton of which will be the radio broad
cast of the foot ball game.
That California stanford contest Is
TO the Pacific Coast what the Yale
Harvard game is to New England,
with the same color, enthusiasm and
spiritual revival of interest in campus
activities.
7 EHIGH and Lafayette offer to their
~ alumni the same kind of a con-
test. These schools are hardly a
stones throw apart, yet have been |
meeting for many years in rivalry
that, while bitter in the extreme, still
is friendly.
The victor in this game will have a
successful year, while the only consola-
ton for the loser is the hope for better |
results next season.
TIP in the Western part of Maryland
~ is to be played a game that has
back of it years of rivalry and to
each school means everything, although |
to the outside public it means little |
That is the meeting between Western |
Maryland and Mount st. Mary's. These
colleges have for many years been meet |
ing to settle their gridiron feud, al
though recently Western Maryland has
had much the better of the situation.
The South settles most of its ancient
rivalries on Thanksgiving day, but two
or three are listed Saturday. Duke and |
North Carolina, for instance, in a game
at Durham hook-up in a contest which
means everything to Duke and, under
present conditions, not far from every
thing to North Carolina.
0UT in the Middle West the big games
~ are between Minnesota and Mich
igan and Indiana and Purdue.
Years ago some trainer on either the
Minnesota or Michigan team carried
away with him jug used as water
bottle by the other school and since
that time that jug has been an en-
blem of victory for one of these two
elevens. No other game of the season
carries with it for these two schools
the desires and hopes that their annual
meeting carries.
Purdue and Indiana are rivals in
everything and they have opinions of
each other that carry with them little
in the way of praise. Indiana, the
State university, regards Purdue, the
State college of agriculture and me-
chanical arts, as just lacking, while
Purdue is inclined to look upon Indiana
as representative of an effete existence
not highly regarded by real he-men.
So on the foot ball field, the two
schools see exemplified their natural
rivalry IN all things, and in no other
game or athletic contest of any kind,
is partisan interest more intense, withal
that alumni of each school actually re-
CARDS the ether as a fine schccl
The NebraSka-Iowa State game has
been played for many years, and even
back around 1900 was the center of
interest for both institutions In the
old days Nebraska used to look upon
its game with AmeS as the high spot of
its season. and probably about the only
thing that Ames would rather do than
win over Nebraska would be to sink the
University of Iowa under tidal wave.
The same kind of rivalry exists between
Iowa State. or AmeS, as it's Familiarity
called in that section. anC the Univer-
sity of Iowa that exists III Indiana be-
tween Purdue and Indiana.