The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-14

vi U4Ic great NUMBER Oh UOD rank
ing teams that started the 1884 sea-
son with such high promise and
hope only bare handful remained
to warrant national recognition at
the end of the campaign. Mime
sofa was the best team in the coun-
try. In the No 3 group came Pitts
burgh, Alabama, Ohio State and
Stanford, with Rice and Colgate
being close up.
GOphers Are Consistent
Alabama and Minnesota went
through the season with clean
states, unbeaten, united. That's a
difficult performance in itself in
these days of circus football STAN
ford didn't lose a game, but was tied
once The only game Pitt lost was
to Minnesota. Ohio State missed a
point after touchdown and was
beaten by Illinois Ohio State was
the only team Colgate failed to beat.
Rice was held even by Louisiana
State and beaten by Texas Chris
tan. But on the whole these teams
set the pace a year ago.
Some of them still are going pref
ty strong. Minnesota, for one. De-
spite the loss Of Pug Lund, Stanley
Kostka and Julie Alfonso, the Co.
pliers were strong enough to take
Nebraska in stride last Week-and
the chances are they won't be
called on to handle a tougher assign
ment all year
Purdue Is Challenge
Right now Purdue shapes up as
the only team liable to challenge the
GOphers march to another unbeat-
en- season. The schedule doesn't
call for meeting with Pittsburgh
this year, as it did year ago, nor
have any arrangements been made
for a date with Ohio State, the
most talked-of team of the year.
Much of the class of the football
map seems to be centered in the
Big Ten in particular and the Mid
die West in general, but even so it
may be difficult to draw clear cut,
convincing line of superiority when
all the returns are in. For eX-
ample Minnesota and Ohio State
do not meet-and at this date the
critics concede they are the class
of the Conference If they play up
to form and win all their Confer
ence games. it's going to be hard to
split them out, as they say at the
track.
East Is Puzzle
Trying to tell where the class OF
the East rests at this precise mo-
ment is sheer guess work. Until and
when later ballots prove otherwise
Pitt must be accepted as the lead
ing power. Princeton doesn't seem
to have as much this year as last
The Tigers Just did outnoSe Penn
two Saturdays ago and they had
plenty of trouble with little Will
lianIs in the more recent test.
The YaleS, on the other hand
seem TO have taken up where they
left off a year ago and are playing
smashing football. They lived up
to all the hallowed traditions of the
fighting Bulldogs by coming from
behind to beat Penn in game that
looked hopelessly lost They handi-
capped themselves by loose and in
discreet handling of the ball in the
early stages of the game, but when
they finally started to click they
moved forward with energy, efn-
cheney and enterprise.
Pigskin PlagiariSm-Who Cares?
The most impressive thing about
the YaleS' performance was the di-
verSity and SmartneSS of their at
tack-Which was shameless in its eX-
ploitation of pirated plays. but en-
gaging in its smoothness Of opera
ton Mr.. Lou Little of Columbia
would have been flattered by the eX-
pert manner in which the YaleS
worked old KF-79-as would the
gridiron genius from whom Mr.. Lit
tie lifted the Rose Bowl play in the
beginning.
The policy of the Yales these days
seems to be. we don't care where
We get the plays, as long as they
work for us" And since this is the
policy OF most football teams the
proper comment would seem to be-
What of it?"
The Yales will get sitter test
this Saturday when they go against
Navy. There is reason to believe
Penn is over-rated. At best, the
QuakerS are early starters. They
bog down after the half Without
attempting to take anything away
from the Yales there is something
markedly wrong with team that
fades after taking a 20-6 lead. The
Middies aren't liable to do anything
like that.