Football Notes

Deducting infants in arms, criminals in chancery, European absentees and determined aesthetes from the sum total of U. S. population, statisticians demonstrated that about one in every hundred citizens in the country attended football games on Saturday, Nov. 17.

The largest assemblage sardined its way into the 70,000 or more seats of the Yale bowl at New Haven. Yale developed further phases of the argument that it has the best team in the East by smothering Princeton 27 to 0. A squadron of destroyers behind a line of dreadnoughts, the Yale backs and forwards blew Princeton completely off the water. Excepting a 32-0 drubbing in 1890, it was the most destructive afternoon for Princeton since the teams first fought in 1873. The same day the Yale Freshmen won the so-called "Big Three" championship for the third year in succession, overwhelming Harvard by the hitherto unheard of figure of 59-0.

The Syracuse orange suddenly went sour in their final Eastern game. Colgate 16, Syracuse 7. Eddie Tryon, Colgate halfback, was chiefly responsible. The defeat removed Syracuse from national championship consideration and materially thinned the interest in their final negotiations with Nebraska on the Cornhuskers' Lincoln gridiron.

A performing bear at Soldiers' Field, Cambridge, showed a variety of new tricks to its erstwhile tamer. For the second year in succession Brown defeated Harvard; score: 20-7.

The startling work of Harry Wilson, Penn State halfback, in scoring the three touchdowns which demonstrated State's superiority over Penn, 21-0, placed him in the tiny delegation headed by George Pfann, Cornell, who can virtually count on All-American selection.

Koppisch and Schimititsch swished through New York University for a Columbia victory that meant the metropolitan championship. Three touchdowns by the active Koppisch were amplified one point each by the good toe of Schimititsch. Schopp did well at tackle. Score 21 to 0.

Williams won what purports to be the championship of the "Little Three" (Eastern) by subduing Amherst 23 to 7. Wesleyan is the third of the tiny trio.

A jersey coating of "some sticky substance" (possibly glue), against which no forbidding clause could be found in the rules, prevented the widely heralded Haskell Indians from fumbling. It failed to help them offensively and they were tied by the Quantico Marines at 14-14.

Though outrushed five yards to one, the Phillips Exeter Academy team seized upon their opportunities and held Phillips Andover to a 7-7 tie. The brilliant Andover team was betrayed by poor generalship and underestimation of Exeter's alert determination.