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  New Britain herald, Connecticut, October 6, 1919, page 8

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  MAJOR ELEVENS HARD PRESSED IN LAST SATURDAYS GAME Smaller College Teams Show Strength in All Depart ments-Interesting port Shown By Large Crowds E everywhere. Football, that grand old game of surprises, did not keep us long in waiting this fall before bobbing up with the unexpected. Not that any of the big teams were beaten Satur- day, in what was practically the first week of the season, but that many of the major elevens found the sled ding terribly rough. Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Dartmouth, Brown, Syracuse and Columb bia. all had their hands full Saturday, while the scores made by Princeton, Pitts burgh and Colgate were not altogeth- CT satisfying to their coaching staffs. Colgate alone was scored on, but that is of little moment since the Maroon line was filled with second and third string men when the score came, just at the games end. While Columbia was not scored against neither did the Blue and White score, being held to a tie by the U. S. S. Arizona. Of all the big teams Pennsylvania was the only one to accumulate a formidable count Saturday, but the Quakers practical ly were playing a prep school eleven Pennsylvania Military college. The final figure was 54 to 0. The hard tussles that the little fellows gave their bigger brothers is, in many instances, a reflection not of a lack of strength among the big colleges but of unusual power on the part of the smaller teams. In the general melee of this big year of re- vival, the little fellows have kept pace wonderfully we’ll in the acquisi- tion of sturdy material. Ellis and Tigers Attract Attention. The appearance of Yale and Princeton in their first varsity games since 1916 attracted the lions share of attention Saturday. Yale never did, even in it’s most palmy days, have a, tendency to roll up large scores in it’s practice games but aside from this there was a marked weakness in the Blue attack in the 1 20 to victory over Spring gfield The | Massachusetts team twice took the 1 ball from the Blue on downs when l Yale seemed certain to register. An | other time Yale fumbled on the very | brink of the goal. On two other occasions Yale was l forced to abandon the running game 1 and to call on Braden and Murphy l to boot the ball over the bar; and this they did with peasing ease. As l might be expected in the first game | Yale was reluctant to attempt any thing beyond a straight, running l game. The Eli defence was all that Dr. Sharpe could wish for. While Spring fields attack would, have been prac- tically negligible against any sort o1 defence, the heavy Yale team was continually on top of the play. Spring field was unable to score a first dowr until late in the last period when the l Blue had many substitutes in the 1 lineup. Dr. Sharpe used practically

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Pennsylvania leads 3–⁠0 in three meetings.