Swarthmore at Lafayette

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  Newark evening star and Newark advertiser, October 10, 1910, page 11 (results column)

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  Big SCORES SHOULD NOT BE MANY IN The COLLEGE GAMES THIS SEASON Judging from Saturdays Games One May Reach That Conclusion Noticeable Change All AonG the Line in Last Weeks Games-Yale- Holy Cross Score Same as Last Years. bridge collegans have stronger eleven than last year Williams was beaten out by an s to score last year at Cambridge, while the Massachusetts football warriors smothered the same team, 21 to o. on Saturday. Cornell scored 16 points against Oberlin last year, and the latter eleven tailed 6 points in the same game. Neither side scored in their contest last Saturday. The Annapolis Rutgers contest was another example. Last year the Mid dies won, u to 3. Day before yesterday the game ended in a noscore draw West Point bettered her margin of victory two points over Tufts by tally ing “a points. while the Tufts team was held seoreless. Last year Chicago beat Indiana, u 20 0. This year the decision was reversed by 6 to 0 score. Lafayette won 22 to victory over Swarthmore last season, and Saturday the game ended with the score to 0. Perhaps it is the unfamiliarity of the players with the new rules which has caused the tendency to lessen the size of the scores, but, at any rate, it makes the games more interesting by causing the scores to be closer. Yale coaches claim that the officials are not strict enough H. penalizing the players for attacking a man while he is receiving a forward pass or in max ing other breaches of the new rules. They account thus for the accidents that have happened this far at Yale

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Lafayette leads 12–⁠4 in 16 meetings, counting the six since this game.