Evening star., 1932-10-21
SATURDAY FIGURED
DAY Of SURPRISES
Biu Teams With Hard Games
Last Week Must Fight
Against Reaction.
BY LOU LITTLE.

Foot Ball Coach, Columbia University.
n IEW YORK, October 21.-
nj Leading Eastern teams
v which reached the heights
last week will be on the
spot Saturday. The time of the
season when players and coaches
must guard against physical and
mental reactions is here. The
most certain forecast on any Sat-
urday henceforth will be that
surprises may be expected.
The Army-Yale battle is a case In
point. Even on a day that finds Har-
ward meeting its first real testing of the
season against Dartmouth, Princeton
fighting for its first major victory under
Coach Fritz Crisler and N. Y. U. play
ing Colgate, the battle between the
Army Mule and the Yale Bulldog tops
the list in foot ball interest. That is
true despite the fact that both were
beaten last Saturday.
Army's task Is to patch up injuries
suffered in clean but brulsing battle
with Pitt last week and to attempt to
reach something like the high mental
pitch which carried the Cadets so close
to victory.
INJURIES to such men as Lincoln,
i Armstrong, Jablonsky and one or
two of the backs will present Maj.
Ralph SaSse with trouble enough. But
even more difficult, believe, will be the
Job OF bringing the Cadets up again SO
soon after their first great effort of the
season.
Yale, though, is one of Army's keen
est traditional rivals and you may be
sure that Army is not Understanding
the potential power Of the Ellis, nor
overlooking the fact that one of these
days Yale will suddenly click to create
Q very large disturbance at some ones
expense The victim conceivably might
be Army this week.
The Eli line has not yet hit its
form. but no team with such backs
as Crowley, Sullivan. Levering. Lassi-
ter Parker and others can be any
thing but dangerous. Army, of course,
still must rate as the favorjte.
look for one Of the fine battles
Of the year in the Harvard-Dartmouth
game. I believe we shall see one OF
the Easts very strongest teams swing
ing through its first real test in the
Crimson jersies of Harvard.
HARVARD is a soundly taught out
i i fit with a backfield that is heavier
and probably a more powerful
unit than last years, despite the loss
of such good men as Wood, White and
Schereschewsky. Orchard Is cne OF
the good backs of any year, Wells, at
Quarter Is an improvement in some
respects on Wood and there is a new
back named Grady of whom much may
be expected.
Barring injuries which might cut
into the supply of reserve material,
Harvard should do well, not only this
Saturday, but through the remainder
of a hard schedule.
Navy Is one of those teams which
may never be safely counted out, but
1t seems to me that Princeton is due
to crash through to its first major
victory of the Crisler regime.
We Of Columbia know that the Tigers
we're a really strong team two weeks
ago That seemed to be true again
last week against Cornell, despite two
or three offensive lapses which are un-
likely to recur as the new system be-
comes better established.
THE Tigers are big, their tackles
i are good, the spirit is keen and
backs Of the Kadlic-James-John-
Gton-Bales type carry about every kind
Of offensive threat. More than that,
they are being given a chance to go
this year.
Navy will be no easy target for any
team, but 1t is a fact that the Mid