Evening star., 1933-10-30
TIE T|LTS FEATURE
LIST ON SEAB0ARD
Eight Teams Still in Race
for Highest Gridiron
HonorS in Section.
BY ANDREW KERR,

Head Foot Ball Coach, Colgate University
T 7 AMILTON, N. Y, october 80.
r. In last Saturdays pro-
i i gram of Eastern foot ball,
which was studded with
sparkling engagements, one of
the features was the number of
Scoreless ties or ties of one touch
down apiece. These ties elimi-
mated from the list of unbeaten
and united teams Colgate, Car
negie, Dartmouth, Davis -Elkins
and Grove City. But for the for
tunate break of a blocked kick,
the Fordham Alabama game
might have resulted in a no-score
stalemate.
AS a rule scoreless ties usually are
rather drab affairs in which the de-
fense overpowers the offense. This was
not the case In the Colgate-Lafayette
encounter. It was a very interesting
game, despite the fact that there were
no points scored. The Red Raiders Of
Colgate registered 10 first downs, gained
260 yards and completed IS forward
passes, two Of which were followed by
brilliant lateral passes. The amount of
yardage that Colgate gained should have
produced some points, but the break
came. The Lafayette team played a
hard charging. smart defense, featuring
exceptionally fine tackling.
The East made a very commendable
showing In tntersectional tilts. Pitts
burgh maintained the prestige Of East
ern foot ball by handing Notre Dame
its second successive defeat by a team
from the city of Pittsburgh, a section
that plays as fine foot ball as Is played
any place. The West gained an inter-
sectional victory over the East. when
Michigan State defeated Syracuse, 27-3.
The size of this score was very great
surprise and hardly measures accurately
the relative merits Of the two teams.
Uphold Prestige Of East.
EORDHAM and Princeton upheld
the East against the South in de-
feating Alabama and Washington
and Lee, respectively, by very close
scores. Washington and Lee surprised
by their splendid performance Of prac-
tically outplaying the Princeton eleven.
The Tigers evidently reacted mentally
from their fine showing against Colum-
bia last week. Old man psychology
plays very important part in every
Saturdays foot ball program and the
mental attitude Of players accounts for
a lot of upsets.
Georgia saved the South from .
clean sweep at the hands Of Eastern
teams by defeating New York Uni
versity. In these intersectional battles
between East and South the South
erners gave additional evidence that
there is no better foot ball played any
where than south of the Mason and
The E&tS list Of unbeaten and un.
tied teams as q result Of Saturdays
games is curtailed considerably. Du-
ans ansns ,1eetah pesa 1ead tn bssSsd n91y GISss
major teams. Which one, If any of
these, will continue united and un-
beaten?
There still Is a small group that has
not been beaten, but which has been
tied. 1t includes Carnegie. Colgate
and Dartmouth.
The Army made a splendid showing
against Yale. The Cadets record to
date gives evidence that they are just
as strong as they have been the past
five years.
Holy Cross showed versatility in
beating q Brown team that looked po-
tentially strong and which will be very
tough for subsequent opponents. The
vard-Dartmouth game was very
close and came out about as predicted.
The Dartmouth boys made q strong
rally in the last few minutes Of the
game to snatch q victory from Harvard.
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