Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-10-15 | Page 3 | Big Teams Fail to Startle

BIC TEAMS FAIL TO 10 ST STARTLE ARTlE Harvard Only Eleven of Chesty Big Three to Hang Up Score of Proportion Proportion Pro Pro- portion Tufts Surprises By H. H C. C HAMILTON United Press Staff Correspondent itt EW YORK Oct 14 I By By only the narrowest narrowest nar nar- d. d of cramped margins did the big teams of the thea a East uphold their colors on the gridIron grid grid- Iron this week Of the chesty big three H Harvard a r v a r d dalone alone hung up a score of any i The Crimson eleven d defeated e f eat e d North Carolina 21 to 0 0 a team which Princeton downed a week ago by a larger count At Princeton th the Tigers met and defeated defeated defeated de de- de- de Tufts the powerful Boston team which put a nick In Harvard But Old Nassau squeezed through only In the thelast thelast thelast last two minutes of play A phenomenal dr drOp p kick by Dave brought In the score booted the oval squarely between the Tufts Tuft's posts from the 45 yard line for the only three points of the game just game Just before th the final whistle Yale gave out advance notice that she feared Lehigh and the latter team proved it if had a tIght fight to respect when it held the Blue eleven to a score of 12 to 0 O. Yale Tale was never In any real danger of be being be- be ing scored on on but In view of ot her showing against Virginia Yale Yala might have been expected to score at least one more tO touchdown dO The most t important Important of ot the Eastern games was the Tufts The Tigers played the best game gam of the two but that wasn't much Late In Jn the game frame the Tigers forced the ball bail past the fifty- fifty yard mark marc and held It there during the last quarter Then kicked his goal Early Eary In the contest Princeton's fumbling was atrocious and Tufts gummed up Its own plays badly The Boston eleven was tearing at Princeton with a wide open formation most of the time throwing a a. mass play into the TIgers only occasionally These open formations which worked so well a at Cambridge were simply ripped open by Princeton mainly because Tufts was no not starting them right Then Tufts quit qui the trick plays and got down to brass tacks and a few attempts at forward forward forward for for- ward passes Princeton tried smashing driving tactics that at times swept the visiting eleven off its feet but Tufts al always always always al- al ways braced when there was real occasion occa occa- slon sion for it and Princeton's superior f punting tre kept th tM the ball In the middle o othe of the field At one time Princeton's back field men I fumbled three punts in anc and the ball was recovered by Tufts I kick was one to make Charlie Brickley turn green with envy H He booted it from the yard 45 line and 1 it it sailed like fe a bullet right over the crossbar crossbar cross cross- bar about three feet teet to the good About the only thing left for Princeton to gloat over was the crowd It was one of or the largest crowds that ever saw an early season football game at Princeton It was estimated that persons were In il the stands As was expected Navy fell feU a victim I to the heavy and powerful Pittsburg eleven but It was by a close score 20 to 19 The Army did better defeating Holy Cross 17 11 to 0 O. Cornell triumphed over Williams 42 to 0 O.