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Show 1920 GREATEST GRIDIRON YEAR e - -- Football Enjoyed Banner Season Sea-son in Every Way. By Vernon Van Ness. Football, the gicatest of American college col-lege sports, ret so many new- marks of ilgh standard during the 1920 season that It Is not easy to classify them all and olck out tho greatest single achievement Of ihe lot. Talien from the angle of Individual effort. ef-fort. We think that the tw-o outstanding figure of the gridiron year were George Glpp. of Notre Dame, and Benny Bovn-tcn. Bovn-tcn. of Williams. At the same time there are so many other real luminaries that It Is no easy task to put them In the foreground. As between Boynton and Glpp. the latter lat-ter stands above hla rival because of a distinctly greater personality and, too. cc.tuse of the success of his eleven Notre Dame did not suffer d.;'ea. for .he year. Death claimed Glpp at the end of the hard campaign, and tho sport world mourns Ids poising, for he was B wonderful player, a courageous one and a credit to athletics. Passing bv the Individual stars for a t.ioment. two other factors that went to make it the greatest of all football sea-ions sea-ions were the teams and their gruelling battles ami the crowds Never before Ln the history of tho collegiate game, covering cov-ering a period of nearly fifty years, did such crowds turn out for the games, big and little, played In practically every section of the country. It is doubtful ".bat even next year, already flg ire.i to be a record beater In sports, will eclipse the crowd figures of 19J0. Princeton on Top In the Fast, through a hard campaign, Princeton attained topmost ranking at the end. passing even Harvard, the only team iho Tigers played and did not defeat. de-feat. Harvard, too. was undefeated, but showed a little less In the stern test the final fight with Yale-than Princeton did agHln-t the same foe. Tho West produced g champion In Ohio State to be more correct Ohio State was returned the Western Conference Confer-ence champion. Notre Home Justly lav claim o tho mid-Western Iltle outside oi" the conference, having won every game In that section and every game played on the entire schedule Georgia Tech wen the Southern championship. cham-pionship. bentlnR In ihe final dgsh f..r the title Centre College. The University of California won the Par Western championship, in every lesser section champions were crowned to the number of two scote. There were any number of formidable elevens In various sections of the coun-try coun-try who failed just a little In gaining a -'larr.pionshlp. Here in the Last Boston I 'nlle-e fl.e llrlur . nmKln.,l,..n e ,1.. Back Bay went through a hard seA-Kon seA-Kon without suffering defeat and In addition ad-dition won every game played Princeton tied Harvard, beat Yale and won eorv gjme outside of the Crimson Crim-son tussle. Harvard won every game hut the tie with the Tigers. Vale was I defeated by Boston College, bv Princeton Prince-ton and bv Harvard. Yale for two years in succession lost lo the same trio of opponents. Grealest Crowds. Beturning to the crowds attracted to games during the year, we find that the Y.ile-Hai vard conflict drew the banner one. M.fjfiO persons attending the game I In the Bowl at New- Haven. This La perhaps the largevt gathering on record for any sportlntr event In this Country. There were .1 1, 000 persons at the Harvard-IVinccton game at Cambridge Cam-bridge and a like number at the Yale- Prlnceton game si Princeton. PQTty-flva thousand persons saw the Arni and Navy elevens clash at the Polo Ground and saw the Navv win the annual service classic. Not all crowds were record ones, yet at practically every . ..iitt In ihe country unusual ot-tend.ir.ee ot-tend.ir.ee was noticed. It would be hard to Hay what the total would be If corn-tiled, corn-tiled, but Ii would reach Into several millions. The greatest of enthuslsern wa eJiown tn tbe traditional battles, such as those i of I hp big three, thus between ihe Weet Or D Conference elevsnS, IhS Arnn and Navy, et cetera. There were several upsets during the year, especially m u,. Bast, yet on the whole the teams played nearly up to prediction. What the Lsst Did. Here is n table falrlv representative of the Last. In which are shown the rocortts made for me ear , Opponent's College Wen. Lost, Tied. Pel-,. . r Harvard a n i oh Princeton u u i lit I'litsbuig a ii 2 1 i 4 1 Pcnn Stats.... 7 ft 2 j 3.1 Army 7 2 . . 1(4 4 7 Navy fl 2 .. nu H IIospn Collesjs. 1; 11 .. 1 , 4.1 I Hriinoulh . . . . 7 2 .. I Up lis Williams ...r. :: . . snj Cornell 2 .. 9ai ; G.uigetown. . r. 4 ., gai is Syraruss H 2 J 201 2( I 'ordhuni. . . . 4 S j I'.J M 1 ala A S lo Ii. Sw anbmore. . . 4 :t 1 in. 1 1 '"lean 1 ft j hi t 1 st llolv 1 'ross. ... 4 2 fij UJ rolunit'la 4 4 H 1 . I'oiuis) h i.ia. .a 4 ii.r 1 . . N. Y. Bnlv... . , 1 1 in ; Tl Lulirvrs I 7 l WaSb. . Jeff. . (5 : 1 "ofi ' Lafaystte a ; 1 s; 47 Btov sm . . 7 11 1 1 i(i ; I .el.'-:. h 2 2 ITS i.l Amhersl ." .1 I III M I trow 11 ft 3 . . 1 111 KJ .'- .r, m i 1 Inl |
