Show Grid Picture Grid Picture In East EastAll EastAll EastAll All Garbled This Tills is another of a series dealing with prospects for Intercollegiate intercollegiate inter Inter- collegiate football football- this fall By Harold Claassen NEW YORK June 14 UP You UPI You cant can't get a clear picture of the 1943 eastern football situation unless you can work a slide rule numbered with multiple and various naval insignia such as V 12 plus a sparse combination of army and marine emblems Although the first blocking and tac tackling ding still is more than three months away the season already has las developed more inconsistencies than Jian a Hitler speech To mention a few Harvard has dropped the sport but Yale a sister member of the BI Bier Three has arranged a game 10 program program and is seeking two more Rutgers which helped Princeton introduce the sport to the United States in 1869 is doubtful if f it will vill have a team this season but Tiger officials have just selected select select- ed a new coach and are determined to go ahead No Ride Problem Because a majority of the eastern eastern east east- ern cnn schools are in densely populated ed areas transportation problems shouldn't create the same havoc as in other districts but the travel situation is one of the reasons Georgetown wont won't have have have- a team for forthe forthe forthe the first time in 45 years This is the area that houses the United States military naval and coast guard academies and all three have announced that they will put teams on the field although although al- al though hough Coach Earl Blaik of West WestPoint WestPoint WestPoint Point says that big beefy teams are out and alert swift machines averaging pounds a man will willbe willbe wille be e the new order Not only will Army and Navy compete but there already is agitation tion ion that their annual collision hidden in the middies' middies tiny stadium last ast fall as a travel deterrent be I returned to Philadelphia this sea- sea son on son I. I Others who assert they will field I teams earns include Columbia Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pitts- Pitts burgh Carnegie Tech Cornell Colgate Colgate Colgate Col Col- gate Brown Holy Cross Penn Penn enn State Connecticut Trinity Bowdoin Dartmouth and Maine Virtually all are planning to use sailors sent to them for special training raining Princeton being fortunate in n having its 1943 elect captain-elect George Kinniry housed on its own grounds as a naval student Clark is definite that fiat Pittsburgh is going to play Who wins nobody cares Our job jobs is s making the boys physically fit He le expects or so candidates for or the team And I dont don't care whether they've ever seen a football football foot- foot ball all before or not Two Tivo Doubtful Both Boston college and Fordam Fordham Fordham Ford- Ford ham am who customarily open fall practice practice by studying itineraries to he the the various bowl games are on the doubtful list The Eagles may conent con- con content content tent ent themselves with an informal brand of the sport but Fordham has as not renewed the contract under which Earl Walsh labored a year ago go and the Ram prospects are bleak leak although Charlie Pierce and Benny Babula of the 1942 club probably will be available Others on the doubtful list are Manhattan Washington Jefferson Jefferon Jefferson Jeffer- Jeffer son on Syracuse Tufts Boston university university uni- uni and Amherst Boston college col- col loge lege ege and Boston university both have ave lost coaches to the services and replacements have not been announced A majority of these schools have been een taken over in part by the army for specialist courses although al al- though Manhattan works under the le additional handicap of not having haying hav- hav ing ng classes for its freshmen until late ate September Among those who have dropped out ut for the duration are Duquesne a potent force in eastern circles for formost almost most a decade Williams Lafayette Lafayette Lafay- Lafay ette tte Wesleyan V Vermont e r m o 0 n t and Massachusetts State As in other districts intersectional Intersectional ional struggles have been snipped from rom eastern programs although such uch standouts as Notre Army-Notre Dame and Notre Navy-Notre Dame re re- re main Columbia and Penn however step out of the Ivy league when Harvard quit and created vacancies in both schedules They simply Imply agreed to a home-and-home home erics the first game at Philadelphia Phila- Phila elphia delphia on October 2 and the sec sec- second Ond nd in New York on October 23 C- C |