The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-22
CORNELL-PENN, YALE-HARVARD
 HARD TO GUESS
Big Red and Crimson Are Favored; Harmon After
 Grange Record
BY JOE WILLIAMS


 New York, Nov. 22.-Due to a series of circumstances, both con- ventional and cataclysrnic, the Cor nell-P Pennsylvania football game be- comes the big thing, the big stuff, the big everything in eastern foot ball tomorrow.
 This should probably be the story of the Yale Harvard football game as the big eastern game of the year, because when it ceases to be the big story something very vital drops out of intercollegiate football. It's thing called tradition, and very sacred thing.
 We were going to write that it is much more sacred thing than the third term but we happened to re- member we are all for national unity. A week ago more than 50,OO0 people saw Yale and Princeton play. Tomorrow that many and more will see Yale and Harvard play. They will be the kind of people who like to see Yale and Harvard play. And more power to them. That will be football at its best, ordinary teams, beaten teams, non-ranking teams, but Yale and Harvard teams. We may be awfully sophmoric but we still think it means something to be on 8 Yale team that beats Harvard team or vice versa. And you want to ask us why? Well we'll try to tell you simply in our own simple way. We think college foot ball in America stems from Yale, Harvard and Princeton, and when we say that we mean the finer qual- ities of football. Also we think if college football is to live, there must be respect of what the Big Three of football stand for, which seems to be not how many games you win but how many you try to win in the proper way.
 StandOut
 But so much for that. We were talking about Cornell ell-Pennsylvania, The circumstances which make this standout game are known to all. Cornell, undefeated for two years, lost a photo finish, and deservedly to a so-so Dartmouth team. At the | same time Pennsylvania kicked a l very fair Army team all over the lot. | The score was 48-0. But wasn't this | the same Army team that almost 1 beat Notre Dame? That's one of the things that makes this Cornell-P Penn cylvania game guess. It makes you wonder how good Pennsylvania is.
 As a so-called expert what are you going to say about it? You haven't seen Pennsylvania but you have seen Cornell and you have already gone on record as saying Cornell is the best team you have seen all season. You are going to stick with that aren't you? If you don't you are somewhat silly.
 There is much discussion going around as to how the Cornell boys, | most of whom are seniors, which | means they will be playing their last game, will react to the Dartmouth | incident. Will they be down or will they be up? It's just guess and we think it's very interesting guess. | Yours, of course, is just as good as ours. Do you mind if we guess they are going to be plenty up and that | they are going to win from here to | there? In short, we have notion they are going to make good all the things we have been writing about | them all season-that they are one of the great teams of football.
 A lot of things are going to hap pen in football tomorrow& It's go- ing to be the last day for a number of great college stars. Let's take Tommy Harmon of Michigan, for instance. We suppose you would call him the player of the year. Certain ly he is the most publicized. Every body seems to know about him.
 Swan Song
 We'll, Harmon will be playing his last game of college football to- morrow. He will be playing against Ohio State. You have to be familiar with this situation to know what it really means. It's a minor world war "AAOAA 4sAANAA46 4AACCto A11O 0bdUC. It's the Yale Harvard game of the middle west. What makes this situ- ation doubly interesting is that Har- mon is on the verge of an enviable record. If he can score two touch- downs against Ohio State he stands out above Red Grange. This will mean that he not only tied but went ahead of the famous Illinois red head in scoring touchdowns for three years of colleg eplay. Grange got 31 touchoowns, and became famous in his sector as result. It will be in- teresting, if not important to see if Harmon, the back of the year, can score twice against Ohio State, a good defensive team, tomorrow. And don't think for a moment that Ohio State won't be out to stop him. Al number of things depend on their stopping him, one of which may very easily be a certain cOach'S ioh