| Show SMALLER SILLER COLLEGES HAVE MADE MAII GOOD GOODIN SHOWINGS IN 1908 Bigger Teams Have Been Taught to Respect ct the Little Fellows NEW EW YORK Nov 23 With With the annual an nual game amo between the army and aud navy at Philadelphia today the football seaon sea sea- eon on of 1908 is is brou brought bt to a close leaving leaving leav lea I ing the ranking rankins of the t teams am and tho the I selection of the various All All American Amen Ameri can elevens ens to occupy the followers of the sport Perhaps the the- chief thing demonstrated I I by this years year's contests was that the so so- o called caned minor minor colle colleges eg aro are no lon longer er to tobe tobe tobo be bo despised ed The navy y tied Harvard and Brown and held the crimson to a n 6 G to 2 score this fall Dartmouth defeated Princeton Prince Prince- ton while Syracuse and arid West Point hold the men from New K ew Jersey J to a aI nothing to nothing tie and Y Yale Yalo lo was wasI I able to score one touchdown only a against both Syracuse and the army army- I These esc are only a 1 few instances of the strength of the lesser elevens en Another fact brought out is that I C new I new football has bas come como to stay As now played tho game ame is far more open and more int interesting to tho the spectator and less harmful to players Punting Panting field goal kicking kickin and trick plays have bave reached a greater reater development than ever before the forward pass is generally admitted to be bo one oue of the prettiest plays in football It can hardly bard hard ly bo said that the revised game a has baa reached as high a development m iu theT the T west est as in ill the east Michigan l Weakened Michigan which for years had one ODO of the strongest est gridiron t teams iu in the country under the former rules has bas re recently recently recently re- re suffered success successive o defeats by eastern colleges es this year ye-ar bc being D d decisively cis I t i ively ly whipped by both Pennsylvania and S Syracuse e. e Chica Chicago o held beld Cornell to toa toa toa a tie this season but Cornell was lS easily casily defeated by Pennsylvania two weeks later Minnesota took the Indians into camp by a score of 11 to 0 II O. O but Carlisle Carlisle Car Car- lisle had already been beaten 17 Ii to 0 by I Harvard Then the Indians or notoriously notoriously no no- I erratic and were said not to I have pla played ed up to their standard at i Minneapolis Minneapolis- However comparative scores are aro unreliable and many T western e tern I followers of the sport maintain in in the I west that the teams in that section are still the equals of those in the tho east I I The ranking of the teams this year I is always difficult and largely lar ely a 1 matter matter mat mat- ter of personal opinion There Thero can belittle be I little dispute however that the choice of the tho nations nation's best elevens lies between Pennsylvania and Harvard both of which went through the season SC unde unde- Probably most critics will rank as the six leading teams in the cast ex exclusive cx- cx elusive of t the e army limy and navy Harvard Pennsylvania Yale Princeton Dartmouth Dartmouth Dart Dart- mouth Brown and Princeton in the order order ordon or or- der don named In the west there thoro is no question of Chicago's leadership p. p She has bas wo won tI t dv- dv v. v I cr cry game played cd except pt that a against an on eastern college collage e. e Next ext would probably probe I ably come Wisconsin and then Minne sets sota |
