Syracuse at Brown

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  The Bridgeport evening farmer, Connecticut, November 5, 1917, page 7

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  GRIM GAME OF WAR. TRIPS ARMY TEAM Defeat By Notre Proves Football Only Secondary at West Pont-Syracuse Upsets Brown-Overconf dence of Providence Eleven Forces Robnson’s Squad From Title Glass. The effect of the grim game of war on the game of football was evident at West Point, Saturday, when the Army team bowed in defeat before Notre Dame. The gridiron pastime is a secondary matter with the cadets al Uncle Sam’s service school. The mas. tering of military problems is fore- most in the daily life of the young soldiers who are giving every avail able moment to a more serious game than chasing the pigskin. Football at the academy has taken a back seat. It can not have the attention it has re- ceived in other years. The game is being played this year merely for it’s physical advantages There is neither the time nor the de- sire to perfect winning eleven. The team which fell before Notre Dame is a big, strong eleven, but the lack of practice and the absence of the incen- tive of an annual game with the Navy are evident. The soldiers have not had the extensive coaching they have had in former years. The players are too busy with other things. There is wealth of good football material at West Point this year, which, under normal conditions, would powerful teams the academy ever turned out. The veteran players of the eleven have not been coached to that point which shows them at their best, and the plebes are crude and green. Notre Dame has received the coaching and attention 1t has received in other years and was far ahead of the Army team in development. The uncertainty of the season and cancellation of the Navy game seem to have taken much of the ambition from the Army team. The cadet corps has the enthusiasm and lends the Hup- port which it has given to other eIev- ems at the Point, but the real object for well-developed eleven is miss ing. The soldiers didn’t know az much football as Notre Dame, and the knowledge they had was not utilized to it’s best advantage. It Is no dis credit to the Army team or It’s coaches that it does not come up to the stand ard of other years. in view of the fact that the attention which usually goes to its development is given up to more serious undertakings. NotFe Dame Checks Oliphant The West Point team is a one-1nan | eleven. With a player of Oliphant’s ‘s | 9A OS~~ e%oAAAey AI3 WOoA0 Sc0Ili I0hHOuaDl6 that the cadets could go through an ordinary schedule of games without developing any great amount of team play But. against a team as well drilled and as spirited as Notre Dame the task was too much for one man to shoulder. Few football eieyens have been able to stop Oliphant. but the quick charging line of the West erners was able to stop him but not until he had expended nearly all his strength in a sixty-yard march down the field. Notre Dame, although light in weight, had fast pair of ends in King and Hayes and two we1l-dri1led tackles in Phflbin and Andrews. Mad igan, PhiJbin and King, on the right side of the Westerners’ line, were able to outplay Luce, Pulsifer and Marci, West Points left trio of forwards. West Point was weak at this wing and Allison, the Notre Dame quarter back, was quick to see it. With the No- ire Dame backs aligned in a diagonal formation, they were able to pierce this side of the Army forwards with deadly effect. The game was high tribute to the physical condition of Notre Dame, for G went through the game without making a substitution. A few weeks ago they did the same thing against Nebraska. It is one favorable fea- ture of football this year that substi- tutions are less frequent than in for mer years. The new rule prohibit ing substitutes from rushing into a game with instructions is partly re- sponsible. Another enjoyable fea- ture of football this season is an ab- sence of fumbIing. Players in most of the big games thus far this sea- son have handled the ball cleanly, and the direct passing from the cen- tre is more generally practiced. With splendid material at West Point and the rapid strides that Coach Doble is making with the Navy eleven, the cancellation of the Army Navy game is matter of much regret among the men in both branches of the service. In the last four games the midshipmen have scored BOT points and have not been scored on. Their one defeat was in the second game of the season, when West Vir- ginia won to 0. The Annapolis eleven reached the seasons high scoring mark on Saturday, when it ran up Go pO1nLS on western h0SeTVe I of Cleveland. The hardest game the Navy has to play comes on Satur- day, when Georgetown invades An napolis. Brown Also is Jo1ted. Next to the shock which the Army suffered at the hands of Notre Dame comes the unexpected downfall of Brown before Syracuse. The Provi- dence eleven did not show the az Aggressive fight and drive against the | Salt City team that 1t dtd against l Colgate. After the Colgate triumph l Brown undergraduates were so jub1- | lant that they freely predicted thefI team would go through the season undefeated, as they considered Col gate the hardest opponent on the | schedule. This overconfidence on the part of the undergraduates may have reached the players, for it surel! seemed after its great work agains | Colgate that Robinson’s fighting e1ev I en would be able to beat Syracuse an eleven which was easily beaten b. ! Pittsburgh, 2s to O..

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  The Daily Missoulian, Missoula, Mont., November 5, 1917, page 1

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  Good Football in East. New York. Nov. f.---Iligh class foot ball play marked the majority Of cast ern games on the first Saturday of No. yemher. Chief interest conferred in the out come of the meeting between the army and Notre Dame. Notrc Dame won by n score of I TO .. but only after the hardest kind Of gridiron battle All through the game Notre Dame cx ecuted her plays faster and cleaner than the army and with better jndgment The soldiers, notwithstanding defeat, made n creditable fight in view of handicaps that surrounded their gridiron work this season. Practice in football uniform is possible only once a week and there is q marked scarcity of coaches at West Point this fall. Syracuse stood to straight football in defeating Brown 6 to 0 and the soil tary touchdown marked the margin of advantage between the attack oil the two teams, but not the defense Brown was unable to tear through the Syracuse line the way it did against Colgate week ago and failed | to make a first down by either line plunging or end running. 4 field goal gave Dartmouth victory over Pennsylvania state. Dancing; private lessons. CAN Miss

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  Tulsa daily world, Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.], November 4, 1917, page 13

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  Syracuse Duplicates Feat. PROVIDENCE, r. l., Nov. 3.-Syracuse duplicated its defeat of two years ago by defeating Brown 6 to 0 here this afternoon. The visitors at straight football outplayed the Bruno ians both extensively and defensively.

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  New Britain herald, Connecticut, November 5, 1917, page 8 (results column)

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  BROWN AND CADETS OUT OF RUNNING Saturdays Defeats Removes Their EleVenS From Charmed Circle { ways indicated that this is not what might be called an informal season. or the first time in two years the Army was forced to accept beating, md just when it least expected it, aNotre Dame winning by to 2 Brown, 4Nsh from its triumph over Colgate, a6ered an unlocked for setback from Syracuse by 6 to 0. For Brown it X Nap only the second defeat in two a1A1ons. a The Eastern society of unbeaten Aoy consists of only six members. ss 4tsbnrgh, Dartmouth, Washington n Jefferson. Georgetown, Stevens ssSnd Williams. which has been tied. s14 these Washington and Jefferson is H1No only eleven whose goal line has 2 t been crossed. In fact Sol Metz combination has not yielded a ‘ 11o point in any way, g. feat which believe has not been duplicated by 70Y other eleven in civilized football. M Tn nll this country there are only A WNnteen unbcaten elevens, and quite sNnmber of them have been tied. In o South the list consists of Georgia oCh., Auburn. Alabama, Sewanee nd Tulane. In the middle West the ean slate brigade includes Ohio Ente. Illinois, Chicago and Michigan. x 4he Rocky Mountain division the nlveTRity of Denver holds the lone 3onor. while on the Coast Washing Ss Ana State is the ono undefeated az etaon. < Navy Leading Scorer. When .t comes to scoring points # x,4A palm must be awarded to the Navy, which has gathered 334 and aliowcd only 1.-the Hateful seven .... AL. < record of the midshipmen for the ; y.6ar. West Virginia took the meas Hfe of the Navy by 2 to 0. Second 2 oaltion in scoring goes to Georgia 5 9ech.. which has tailed 322 and 1ven up 13. Ohio State is third with III and ,. Penn State fourth with N4 and 24 and Rutgers fifth with 193 4d 28. Pitt has scored 1892 and aelded IS, to West Virginia and 6 Ito Pennsylvania. g The Army’s defeat by Notre Dame Y forced us to scratch the cadets from the list of really great teams of the @ @leason--beaten or unbeaten. Never eN this stage of the season have we s1een an eleven so unprepared. so < Hrude. so. lamentably lacking in the SRnoRledge of theory or the ability to do. Yet, this estimate of the Army a \ on the cadets. They should glory in that condition. It reflects far more credit on Capt. “Jeff” Reyes squad than if 1t had whipped Notre Dame Z 10 Ia standstill r.. No Excuses for Brown. < Brown presents no excuses for it’s E Z defeat by Syracuse. The latter out 1 played the Bears and thoroughly de- K served its success. The Syracuse for x wards held the Brown line attack in chock and the Syracuse ends smeared tho Brown running game. The Up- x 1taAers were just as strong in the k hkckneld as they were in the line and with . first class general like Chick AeQhan running thinga they gave a 6 splendid exhibition. Since Pitt defeated Syracuse by 20 X to ., the victory of the Orange ‘ap- pears further to emphasize the & otTongth of Glenn Warmers eleven. ssAD . preparation for the game with avAshtngtop and Jefferson next Sat urday Pitt took things easy with Metzger’s players rest ld on Saturday. y Dartmouth had quite a time taking N AhA measure of Penn State. by 10 to state recently was beaten by w. EEA T.. to 0. It was last minute Aye1d goal by substitute that saved ss19Artmouth from a tie. Even Dart mouth men had to confess that there VvAs little to choose between the con- testing elevens, and that in Robb and Way, the quarter, State had two men who outshone anybody on the Green combination. Next Saturday Dart mouth will tackle Penn, which de- feated Lafayette on Saturday by 27 to 0. A Feat by Rutgers. In holding West Virginia to a tie nt 2 to 2. Rutgers retrieved some of the honors it lost in the defeat by Syracuse and established its place among the topnotchers. It was un fortunate that Rutgers took on Syra- cuse so early in the season. but at that, Syracuse probably could repeat E now on 9 lesser scale. Cornell continued it’s improvement and defeated Carnegie Tech, 20 to O.. The Pittsburghers really expected to win Next Saturday the Ithacans will Tnce Michigan and more trouble than ! CoTliell cares for now or any other tiKN6s this season. Columbia did no more and no less than was expected of it and lost to Amherst, IA to 6. It was a poorly played game and a carnival of Guubling. Amherst fell far below < what had been looked for from it. Wesleyan, which had been lucky to ‘ heat New York University and was ss whipped by Stevens, sprang q surprise sA and held Williams to a scoreless tie z Sstevens continued it’s splendid work and ripped Worcester Poly to pieces 3z tp O. Al Mccall has developed d rerflarkable team at Stevens and de- geryNs world of praise. Neither ForUham nor N. Y. ‘. played on Sat urday. They rested for their battles tomorrow with Georgetown and Trim

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Syracuse leads 9–⁠3–⁠3 in 15 meetings, counting the nine since this game.