Football

Athletes at their training tables began to find fault with things; the little grooves deepened between nostril and upper lip; coaches were conciliatory, recognizing in such indications a touch of overtraining. And on Saturday the melodramatics of football were continued.

The salient feature of the Harvard-Princeton game is not so difficult to find as it is difficult to phrase. Tolerant people might pretend that it was the heady passing of Caulkins, the running of slippery Slagle, or dauntless Dignan, or the doings of an unheard-of Princeton back named Prendergast, who--sent into the game in the last five minutes--carried the ball ten times (almost in succession), and gained 89 yards. But such statements could only be evasions. The salient feature of the Harvard-Princeton game was the doltish performance of the Harvard eleven. Score: Princeton 36, Harvard 0.

A familiar barnyard animal is distinguished by its penchant for pushing about in the mud, but people do not gather by the fifty thousand to see contests among these animals, eleven on a side. The 69,000 rain-drenched individuals who saw Illinois wallow against Chicago might as well have been watching such a game of porcine poke-belly. Britton's toe and a brace of fumbles gave the mud-match to Illinois, 13 to 6.

When the Yale assistant coaches saw four schoolboys who did not weigh 150 pounds apiece, line up as the backfield of a little team from Maryland, they sent in all their substitutes and turned away their faces. At the end of the first half, Maryland had 14 points, Yale 10. Whistles blew, the Yale regulars ran in. Score at the end of the game: Yale 43, Maryland 14.

Oberlander, Dartmouth's battering, loping Swede, led a running attack that tore Cornell apart for a total of 252 yards, with a score of 62 to 13--the worst beating ever given a Cornell team. Said Critic Grantland Rice: "If Dartmouth can carry on its march against Chicago, it will be ranked as one of the greatest teams of the last ten years."

The Navy gave no particular encouragement to its friends by winning from Western Maryland, 27 to 0.

A blocked kick in the last quarter gave Pittsburgh's sloppy team a victory after it had been badly outplayed all afternoon by Washington and Jefferson. Score: Pittsburgh 6, Washington and Jefferson 0. Not many people are conscious, perhaps, that the initials D. & E., ki-yi-ing in the tassel of a cheer, stand for Davis and Elkins, a college in West Virginia. Army Cadets last week heard those initials screeched at them by the supporters of a team which they barely managed to edge out, 14 to 6..

"Red" Edwards of Notre Dame kicked the ball down a marshy field, Captain Gray of Penn State booted it back, and so for the rest of the afternoon they matched their legs while their elevens seesawed to a scoreless tie.