Haskell at West Virginia

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 10, 1928, page 32 (results column)

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  YALE PITT FACING TESTING BATTLES Teams Held Best in East in 1927 Face Georgia and West Virginia. . NEW YORK, october 10.-Pittsburgh and Yale. generally rated at the top of the Eastern foot ball heap last year. will have difficulties in the chase for national honors next Saturday Each team was beaten once last season. although Pitt waited until after the regular season had closed to lose by a single point to Stanford on the Pacific Coast. Yale, on the other hand, met defeat early in the campaign at the hands of rugged, powerful brilliant Georgia eleven, 14–⁠10. Georgia comes North to do battle with the Ellis again this Saturday, and Pitt, hardly up to its standard of last year when need all its resources, it would seem, to take care of West Virginia Nal Stevens has the material for a great team at New Haven, but the question just now is whether it has been developed to the point where a foe as sturdy as Georgia cannot only be met but defeated The Southerners demonstrated great scoring power in their overwhelming defeat of Mercer last Saturday, while Yale’s 27–⁠0 VIC tory over Maine was not to impress Sive. But there’s this to consider: Yale knows what to expect this year. The Bulldogs have been caught once, and if they’re caught again, it will not be because they did not have chance to get set. Pitt and West Virginia battles are classics in western Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia These two, with Washington and Jefferson and Carnegie Tech, form the Big Four” of that foot ball section. The Panthers, after a mediocre start against Thiel, snapped into it against Bethany and rolled up So points. West Virginia bowed to its first foe, that mighty atom” Davis and Elkins, TO, but swept aside West Virginia Wesleyan, 1910, and the Haskell Indians, 28–⁠7. Keefer, West Virginia’s big fullback, is the man Pitt must watch. He’s scored five touchdowns SO far, and the season is young. New York Has Big Game. New York offers it’s own struggle between unbeaten Fordham and equally unbeaten New York University for a place in the list of closely matched, hard-fought games. Yale’s traditional rivals also meet Southern opposition, Princeton taking on Virginia, while Harvard is doing its best to entertain North Carolina. The battles between Colgate and Virginia Poly, Cornell and Hampden-Sidney and Dayton Brown complete the intersectional schedule in the East for Saturday. Boston College steals march on the field by meeting Duke at Boston Friday, Columbus day. Her lineup shifted about, Navy travels to Chicago to meet Notre Dame. Most of the other major elevens will tackle minor opposition, designed to put them on edge for the bigger tests to come. Nays varsity foot ball team may recover from its first two defeats, but it will never look the same. Only three of Bill Migrants original first string line hold their places. and the backfield has been shifted just as drasticaIly. It’s a good thing for Syracuse the Nebraska game is not to be played until a week from Saturday The fresh men. using Nebraska formations, scored thrice on the varsity yesterday. There’s couple of Ticknors on Harwards varsity now Bill Ticknor has been promoted to first-string guard position and played beside his younger brother, Ben, first-string center. Jess Hawley’S devised a new scheme to keep his Dartmouth backs behind the proper interference. His varsity appeAred with white circles painted on the seats of their pants. and the guards with black ones on theirs. 1t helps the ball CARRIES to find their interference going through the line.

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West Virginia leads 1–⁠0 in their only meeting.