pwww SKTliifWp J, ' 7rjijSf " 4 ' .-'' A. ao EVENING . PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1919 WEST VIRGINIA MOUNTAINEERS' DEW TO DISCOVER MORE THAN BLIND TIGER AT PRINCETON SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OUT OF LIFE KS?v PENN SHOULD SHOW AS ONE OF GREATEST TEAMS OF ALL TIME More Than a Few Observers Believe Red and Blue Has Best Eleven in America J. Predominates Among Heavyiveight Champions IN THE SPOltTUGHT Br QBANTIAND IUCI5 (CopvrlaM. 1019, alt riahta reserved.) Confessions of a Tackling Dummy When ou think that Fata has croaked you Or that Destiny has soaked you, And that Life is full of indigo and iroullfj When you're jolted hard or jaded few 't I. BEATING GREEN ON HOME LOT BIG JOB EVEN FOR COLGA TE Larry Banchart' s Boys Have Real Task Tomorrow, as Dartmouth Has Lost Only Two Games at Hanover in Last 19 Years Undefeated Since 1905 IIj KOKHUT W. 1IAXWEM. port llltor JJ ritliirr IMililto IdsTr Copyriohl. 191J, by Public Ledger Co. TTP IX that little town or llnmnrr, situuted In the New Hampshire hills, will bo played tomorrow nfteruoon the most important football game in the countrj Colgate, conqueror of Cornell, ltronu and Princeton, will meet Dartmouth, another undefeated team, and the lesult will go u long n toward deciding the championship of the V.w-t. Theic are other "big" buttles on the card, like Triuccton and West Virginia, Ponu and l'enn State, Lehigh and Pittsburgh and Lafajctto and Cornell, but this tilt staged up in that one horse town has it ou them like a tent. At this time of the year all of the football tiams nie far advanced, they have completed their prcllmlna.' trniniug, the varsities have been selected and ever thing is In readiness tot nome prctt btilT games. Tor that reason wc must pause fer an instant and note in passing tint Vale is diking ceiy thing In a game with Jlarjlaud State and Harvard is taking a big chance with Springfield Training School. It takis a lot of n"ne to stage games like that so late in the season. However, colleges outside of the cilusie set are occupying the spotlight these days, and Colgate and Dartmouth have the center of the stage. Accord ing to the dope, Colgate should win; but when the old tradition is dragged out, Dartmouth has the edge bj a wide margin. Here is the low-down ou the conflict: Dartmouth is playing ou its own home lot and the. Green eleven is might hard to beat up m Hanover. This is not hcursaj, but can be proved by hc must old dope. In nineteen cars Dartmouth has lost exactly two games. That's a pictt good record for any team. Back in 1001 Amherst put.ovcr an uuexpicted wcloi and in 1!)05 Colgate turned the trick. If the Hamiltonlans win it will be the first defeat suffered by the men of Hunovcr in fourteen seasons. 'VJIIS wonderful iceord is due, of course, to the fact that Dartmouth plays most of its big names aicay fiom home. Just the same, it u very unusual and no one would be gnatly surpnud if Colgate bit the dust. Colgate Was Prepared Early ill Season 'AS WAS said before, Colgate is the favorito in the conflict, but such should not be the case. Dartmouth has an exceptional! strong team and , cannot be counted out until the liual whistle blows. The line is considered the best in the country, and the backlield, with Robertson on the job to boot drop-kicks any place inside the .w-jurd line, w'll cause trouble for any eleven. Colgate has had considerable luck this season. Not that the team is not a good one or nn thing like that, but the "big" opponents have been woefully weak. Cornell is not up to her usual standard, Urowu was plaed early in the season and Princeton has not yet hit her stride. Larry Bankart had his eleven ready three weeks ago and just walked over the others. That game with Princeton, however, gives one food for thought. The Maroon team won by one touchdown, but those who saw the battle say it should have been a tic score. Perhaps Princeton was stronger than was ex pected or Colgate was ovcirated, but whatever it was, the Hamiltonians did not appear so formidable as was expected. Dartmouth, on the other hand, played a very impressive game against Smell in New York and proved beyond question of doubt that the team must be seriously considered. Colgate will not have nn easy time of it, and if It plays like it did last Satuiday it is our guess that Dartmouth will win. At any rate, the game will be a hurd one and a victory for either side will not cause much surprise. J T COLGATE goes up there with an idea that it will have an easy game, look out for one of those well-known hut suite common upsets. fWeu. VJBBBY rVWHAT. DtP) y s. TSTBN . ? K " jDow'T Go 'RoOrsD f-imM.lv Bought ) You M6v ) - You DoMT MGArO N Tbu-img PeoPLe THAT rKeu IS T'CAPPE'TA Tl5TeM WiKA 42r,lid2? pHBY'Pe SoirJ&Tb " Fot Tmat PL ACS- jaJ j-os-r rjfl'Py START, A SCHOOL Venn and Pitt Face Strong Teams FTTHE University of Pennsylvania has a very good team this year and will have a hard tryeut t gainst Penu State. The latter eleven is coached by Hugo Bezdck, manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, and Hugo is a big league coach. Ho has a husky gaig of athletes on his eleven and will give Pcnn a tough battle. State was defeated by Dartmouth two weeks ago, bU has im proved considerably sine! then. Penn, however, has the best eleven in years and will not be tuken by surprise. Bob Folwell has the plaers working together and is not worrying over the outcome. Pitt will not have an easy time of it against Lehigh. The Panthers, after going through four seasons without being defeated by a college team, were smeared by Syracuse, but came back strong against Georgia Tech last Saturday. Lehigh, however, will be a different proposition. Tom Keady has a well-coached team and, playing on the home grounds and before a homo crowd, there will be plenty of action. Pittsburgh is not so strong as in previous years. The players arc not there and the only thing that gets them by is the coaching of Glenn Warner. Here is one case where the coach virtually makes the tcr.m. Warner has worked hard with his men, learned the things they can do and coached them along the lines of least resistance. Ilis backfield is not in the best of shape, and that is the strongest part of bis team. LEEIGJI teat Rutgers early in the season and is confident of hand ing the same treatment to l'ittsburgh. Still, you never can tell, in football. No Soft Game for Princeton NO MATTER what happens, you must hand it to Princeton thin year. Bill Itopcr started the season with only one letter man on his squad, developed an entirely new team and played the hardest schedule of any of the so-called "Big Three." Tomorrow he mingles with the powerful aggregation from West Virginia, and there will be something doing. The Mountaineers arc strong this year, despite the 26-to-0 defeat handed out by Pitt. They arc every bit as good as Princeton, the players have been together longer and are more advanced in team play. This is the big game" on West Virginia's schedule, while Princeton must be careful and take no chances with tho Harvard game only one week away. JTor that reason the Southerners will have a big advantage. They can try everything they have, use up all of the players if necessary and take fchances, while Princeton must be careful for the game on November 8. Rogers is one of the best backfield men in the country and will surprise the crowd at Princeton. He docs everything punt, run the ends, buck the line, throw the forward pass and back up the line on the defense, and will be Tery much in evidence. IF PRJNOETON wins this game she need have no fear of the re- maining batths. Harvard Already Preparing for the Tiger "IT71TH only tomorrow's Springfield gamo between them and the Princeton ? battle, the Crimson players are already hard at work for their annual tilt -frith the Tiger, The Harvard coaches who saw Princeton play Colgate are ot jtha opinion that the Tiger offense is very weak as far as straight football is poacerned, and with this idea in their minds, they have been giving the-Crim-on Ions and thorough drills in the art of breaking up the Princeton forward WEST VIRGINIA TEAM HERE TO POLISH UP ROUGH EDGES Team WorJcs Out on Frank lin Field Preparing for Old Nassau Battle Tomor row at Princeton PL A YERS ARE IN SHAPE By SPICK HALL "VTEST VIRGINIA'S Tiger-hungry squad of footballers arrived in Philadelphia this morning. They were scheduled to take their final workout for tomorrow's tilt with Princeton on Franklin Field this afternoon by special invitation of the Pcnn team, which was booked to do its finishing for Penu State at naverford. The West Virginians hnd their last hard tussel yesterday afternoon on the .home turf at Morgantown. Tho team is not in the best of shape, according to rumor, but. of course, this h old stuff. An eleven these days is always on tho verge of physical collapse just before the big game. The star performers are crippled and general depression radiates from the gridirons camps. Strong Kiev en But when the whistle blows for the opening kick-off-in Palmer Stadium up at Princeton tomorrow, West Virginia will have a powerful aggregation in the field against the Orange and Black. Princeton again hns been working all week behind barred gates, but it is known that there has been a lot of im provement even over the good form they displayed against .Colgate last Sat urday. All that the Tigers want to morrow is to get the decision over West Virginia. They are not attempting to rivul Pennsvlvania In piling up a record count. Their object is to beat Harvard and Yale. Other things don't count. With this end In view it is likely that Coach Roper will use a lot of second string material against West Virginia to save his big offensivo and defensive cogs for the Crimson and the Blue. Roper gave the Tiger varsity n heavy daj's work, but the usual Bcrimmags was lac&ing irom mc untiuuuu a 4.. cedure. After a long signal drill the varsity and the scrubs lined up for kicking practice. WIttmer punted for the var sity and Joe Scheerer handled ' the lea"ther for the scrubs. Scheerer's punt ing was an agreeable surprise to the coaches. He displayed the best spirals seen at Princeton this fall and out punted Wittmer on cverv exchange, al though the varsity fullback was not below his usual form. ; Trevor Hogg, captain and star of the 1016 team, arrived and instructed the guards and tackles in the practice. Inside Stuff Here is what a man in close touch with West Virginia has to say of to morrow's game: "What will West Virginia do against Princeton? This is the query on cverv tongue at Morgantown, but nobody, not even Coach Mclntiie, has a satisfactory answer. The result of the Pitt game, when everybody felt so cockbure that at least a great showiug would be made, is the thing that deters ever body from answering, Pitt beat a mountaineer team that had been in training almost Hard to Dope" Out Eleven's Strength After Crushing Defeat by Pitt Early in Season BACKFIELD IS STRONG Photo by -While Captain C. W. McGraw, of the Tigers, will lead his toam against West Virginia tomorrow afternoon In tho stadium at Princeton. He be gan the season at tackle, but has been shifted to guard. a month. The mountaineers on the eve of the Pitt gamo were in the best shape, phvsicallv and mentally, that mi West Virginia eleven has ever been for a big game. Yet Pitt won lill to 0 in a game in which Pitt, of course, plaed great football, but in which the big feature was the poor playing of the mountaineers. Coach Saw Tigers "Every follower of the West Virginia I team believes it is n great eleven. TheyJ i believe that fact is going to bo demon -, Btrated at some time during the present season, and many tnlnK tnnt tne I'nnce ton game will be the occasion for the demonstiation. But tho majority of people, including Coach Mclntire, be lieve that Princeton has a decided edge for Saturday. West Virginia has had two easy games, while Princeton, just emerging from the Colgate encounter, will be a real Tiger. "West Virginia's special prepara tion for the Princeton game has been satisfactory. Coach Shclton, who wntched Princeton play Colgate, did not get back till Tuesday. "Rodgers, who is plaviug the greatest football of his career and who is leading placrs of the whole countr.v nt scoring, is going like a house n fire in practice and in the comparatively easy games that the varsity has had both before and after the Pitt struggle. Harrick, Bailey, Ice, Archer and the other line men and ends are likewise in as good shape ns any tiainer could ask of a team at mjdseason. In tho backfield Ilitc at quarter and Hill nt halfback, the two new men injected after the Pitt game to speed up the offense, have shown excellent form and with King and Rodgers make u combination of icki that has never been excelled at West Virginia for allround brillianc.v." The men who made the trip were Captain Rodgers, fullback; King, Hill, Lentz and Dawson, halfbacks; Hite, Neale and Lewis, quarterbacks ; linger, Mills, Martiji and Brooks, ends ; Har rick, Archer and Setron, tackles; Ice, Ka und McCue, guards, and Bailey and Umswcller, centers. English Champ Beats "Gunboat" San Francisco, Oct 31 May McCormick, light beav) u eight champion of England, was given a decision over "Qunboat" Umlth hi a four-round twut hero last night. m m Quality Dalsimer The Talk of the Town The Crackerjack All -Star Show Saturday Night National A. A. Battling Leonard-Bobby Doyle Al.Thompson-Allentown Dundee Harry Carlson-Stanley Hinckle Max Williamson-Battling Murray Joey Fox - Artie Root Reservations at Donaghy'n, 33 S lltti et, No rservatlons held after 8 P. U. 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When your labor finds you weary . With the future dim and dreary And you cniy some one else'a occupation, When your brain begins to throb And you're dead sore on your job, " As a list of others comes in contemplation; Era you think how soft the lis , Of the other fellow is ' Herein note a healthy tip that I am giving I'ou should take your work up gladly And begin to cheering madly Only think of how I have to earn a living t WHY does the J predominate in tho fight game? There was o? U J, Mace, J. Kilrain, J. Sullivan, J. Corbett, J. Jeffries, J. Johnson, J. WHlard and J, Dcmpsey. Every heavyweight champion for the last thlrty-flva or forty years has had J. for his leading Initial with tho exception of FitzslmmonB. In digging up n suitable opponent for Dcmpsey tho first move should be to locate the letter J. DEMPSEY was keen enough to interpolate the winning letter be fore he struck a blow in his first fight. Penn's Test THERE aie more than a few wise observers who belicvo that Pennsylvania has tho best eleven In America. Pcnn now has a great chanco to carry this proof well forward In her next three games when she tackles Penn State, Dartmouth and Pittsburgh in order. Coach Folwell undoubtedly has a brilliant backfield nnd fine ends. He haa an attack of unusual speed nnd power. In fact, unless all Indications slip a num ber of cogs, ho has tho best Penn eleven of many years, ono of those old-tlma Red and Bluo machines that -were not to bo beaten. LEHIQH has held up notably this season, and if it can slip by Pitts burgh on Saturday it must be given serious consideration as one of the star teams of the East. UXXTUXT'S the matter with W'. and J."? writes a W. and J. student, V V cording to Syracuse, there is virtually nothing tho matter with W. J. that the naked eye can detect upon short notice. 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