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Show EASTERN TEAMS WIND UP TODAY Penn Meets Cornell; Syracuse Syra-cuse Will Tackle Nebraska Ne-braska Cornhuskers. (Chicago Tribune Special.) CHICAGO, Nov. 26. The Thanksgiving day program of football games in the east will include a number of more than usual Importance. Notwithstanding the fact that last Saturday's Sat-urday's contests completed the schedules of many of the major teams, including Harvard, Yale, Lehigh, Lafayette. Stevens, Stev-ens, Rutgers and New Y'ork university, while Princeton, Colgate, Dartmouth, Amherst. Am-herst. Williams and Wesleyan finished the week before, six engagements of more than passing interest, which promise to be unusually hard fought, will feature the card on Thursday.. There will be the meetings of Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania and Cornell; Pittsburg and Penn State; West Virginia and Washington and Jefferson; Georgetown and Centre, and Brown and Columbia. Syracuse will meet Nebraska. The curtain of the 1319 season will ring down on Saturday with the playing of the Army and Navy game In New York, in many respects the most picturesque of klL Perm Is Favorite. Cornell and Pennsylvania have met twenty-five times since 1893. the Red and Blue being triumphant In twenty to the Cornelians' four, one scoreless tie occurring occur-ring in 1906. The Pen.nsylvanians' record during the Current season has been much the more brilliant of the two and the red and blue Is a strong favorite, although the Itha-cans' Itha-cans' work during the last ten days is reported re-ported to have shown considerable improvement. im-provement. The Pittsburg-Penn State affair will in a measure decide the ci-ampionship of the state of Pennsylvania, inasmuch as Pittsburg Pitts-burg has defeated Lehigh, Washington gnd Jefferson and Carnegie Tech, while Penn State has downed Pennsylvania and Lehigh. Each met with but one defeat, the former by Syracuse, the latter by Dartmouth. Washington and Jefferson, whose 7-6 defeat by Pittsburg Is the only blemish on their record for the year and among whose victims is Syracuse, will tackle West Virginia, Vir-ginia, conquerors of Princeton but losers to Pittsburg and Center college. Battle for Georgetown. Much Interest is attached to the meeting meet-ing of Georgetown and Centre college at Georgetown. The little Danville Institution Institu-tion after an early-season victory over Indiana In-diana suddenly came Into the limelight when It outplayed West Virginia 14-6. At present It holds the season's scoring record rec-ord of 40S points to lu opponents' 16. Georgetown, In a season of ups and downs, won from the Navy and lost to Georgia Tech. 27-0. then furnished another an-other triangular deadlock ' bv winning from Washington and Lee. 27-6, after the latter had defeated, the Golden Cyclone, 3-0. If Centre can decisively defeat Georgetown George-town its claim to being one of the most powerful combinations of the year will be materially strengthened. Syracuse, after her setback last Saturday Satur-day at the hands of Indiana, will continue her barnstorming tour, taking on tho Cornhuskers from the University of Nebraska Ne-braska in one of the season's few Inter-sectional Inter-sectional games. |