Evening star., 1935-03-21
SINGLE TR|UMPHS
MAY BRING FAME
1884 Adds More Schools to
List to clay For"-YaIe
on Spot in East.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

n YEW YORK, March 21.-A new
M set of targets for ambitious or
vengeful foot ball elevens ap-
pears on the intercollegiate
horizon as major foot ball universities
swing into Spring practice.
Yale, Minnesota, Alabama, Pitts
burgh, Navy, Stanford-theSe are the
outfits that every rival is overly anx-
ious to take next Fall, simply because
of their successful gridiron enterprises
last Fall.
The set-up changes every year. But
conditions never vary. A group always
exists and the incentive to gun for
them is heightened by the fact that a
successful quest means a satisfactory
season, irrespective of what may hap
pen to the iconoclastic outfit at the
hands of other elevenS.
Army Guns for Yale.
TAKE Yale as an example. Beaten
in 1884 by Columbia, Army and
Georgia. she prevailed over
Princeton and so through the over
throw of the powerful and versatile
Tigers received credit for a glamorous
season. Navy defeated Columbia
Rose Bowl winner in l934-Army and
Notre Dame, so what loyal Navy man
cared about the crushing defeat by
Pittsburgh? And so it goes.
Notre Dame having been mentioned
above, it is but Just to say that how
ever objectives may change year after
wear, the South Bend team is always
to be found among the group to be
shot at. no matter what happened &c
1t the previous Fall Thus unusually
and phenomenally enduring is Irish
prestige. Southern California is an
other hardy annual target. So is
Michigan. But. aside from this trio
the shining marks annually are SUBJ
ject to change.
In the East Yale's present enjoy
ment of this distinction is marked by
q feeling among forthcoming ad-
Versaries which strikes us as unusual
~ poignant Army looks forward
to October with a certain edged zest
which, in view of political shifts and
maneuverIngs at New Haven this
Winter, is not difficult to understand.
Dartmouth, it seems. was made rest
i've by certain verbal repercussions of
her game against the Els last Fall
and Princeton's mood even thus early
is overweight as she recalls her
dolorous participation in the prize
winning upset of 1884.
Gophers Strong Again.
Minnesota, losing some valuable
V men. will have to look alive in
many directions but advices
from Minneapolis lead this writer to
believe that the Gophers, thanks to
sturdy replacement material, will take
a lot of beating from any rival next
Autumn. Same for the Navy, which
is revealing some splendid yearling
material in practice now in progress
at Annapolis
Alabama loses Dixie Howell and
other good men and so may not be
quite as strong as last year; none
the less prospects are she will be
sufficiently good to weather her
schedule. Now if she, or Tulane, had
North Carolina State on the 1888
schedule, either team would have
greater cause for worry than existing
Autumn commitments would seem to
provide. Hunk Anderson, according
to all accounts. is ready to shoot the
works at State this year, after more
than i2 months of intensive prepara-
ton.
Pittsburgh loses some sterling for
wards and Jock Sutherland says they
cannot be replaced-not, at least in
time for the hungry onset of Navy
Army, Nebraska and other ardent
outfits next Fall.
Stanford is well equipped to uphold
her recently regained supremacy on
the West Coast, but Southern Cali
fornia is eager for redemption and
does not lack the means therefor.