Evening star., 1932-11-23

B only nLtlng tnat one OF loot
balls biggest games, set for to-
morrow, should be played in the
section that first helped to make
Thanksgiving famous. There may have
been more exciting Thanksgiving days
when Pilgrim descendants had to tackle
turkeys and block Indians at the same
time, but they never caused so much
talk as this coming meeting between
Colgate and Brown at Providence on
Thursday.
You must know by now how heavy
the odds are against any one teams
running a seasons blockade without
getting beaten or tied.
Yet here are two teams which reach
their closing game under these happy
stars Of fortune, and as result there
will be 10000 present at Providence,
with an additional 100000 more than
anxious to get ticket and see Just what
happens when two unbeatable teams
meet.
Something Is bound to bend, If not to
break, under such conditions, and no
one seems to have much of an idea as
to the closing chapter in one of foot
balls most romantic narratives.
- 4bOWN . OIL CAlbbA 40 UCbGGE k1lOWU
- than Colgate's. Brown has beaten
Yale, Harvard, Holy Cross and Co
lumbia-and Brown dealt each Of these
teams its first defeat, which is some
thing not to be overlooked.
Colgate has played no such schedule.
Which Andy Kerr has explained quite
simply. Schedules" he said, "are made
up well ahead OF any season. When we
arranged to meet N. Y. u, Penn State
Lafayette, Syracuse and Brown that
looked to be a good seasons work.
think, at that, Lafayette is much
stronger than her team looked to be
against us. Syracuse, also is nobody's
set-up. know we haven't been so we'll
tested as Brown has been, but I don't
think that will make any great differ
ence in this next game"
This statement was made In combat
ing the argument that Brown, having
been under heavier fire, would be bet
ter equipped for game where the
nerve strain is sure to be tremendous.
Brown has had to battle its way
through series Of hard fights and close
calls where GOODNESS and courage, as
well as skill. were needed down the
stretch.
Yet both teams are so well equipped
with veterans, with dependable athletes,
that no mental crash on either side is
expected
Brown has Chase and Buonanno to
run her attack. and Colgate has Soleau
and Smith to keep backfield and for
wards on top Of the Job.
The quarterback joust between Soleau
and Chase will be one OF the leading
features of/the day. So will the line
breaking between Gammino and Rowe.
The season may have shown stronger
teams than these two, but has shown
no teams better balanced along both
front lines and backfield posts.
"ONE trouble with foot ball." II. L.
~ D. writes, sis a season drawn
out in too many cases from late
September to New Year day. The con-
centration on one sport that foot ball
demands, the heavy physical and the
heavy mental pressure, should never be
carried past the last Saturday in No
ven1ber That was the old order. Today
see q continued December schedule
and there will, of course, be the annual
Rose Bowl contest"
This long season touches only q few
universities. The Western Conference
season, permitting only seven games for
each team, Is already over. Harvard,
Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Dart
mouth are through. Brown, Colgate,
Pennsylvania, Cornell and many other
leading Eastern teams ring down the