Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1914 — REVIEW OF FOOTBALL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

REVIEW OF FOOTBALL

One Upset After Another Startles Followers of Game. -• Victory of Army Over Navy Climax of Season of Gridiron Surprises— How Teams Will Shape Up • for Games This Fait. With the Army beating the Navy at *the Pblo grounds, another surprise for the football season, when the game ended, was registered. The midshipmen, wfth their brilliant record in the early season games, were the favorites, but they were toppled over as Dartmouth was at the Brush stadium when a favorite over the Indians. These two surprises were as startling to many football followers as the showing earlier in the season by Colgate, and the showing the Tigers made against Harvard, which many thought would have au easy time disposing of the Orange and Black. Then came the Co’mell-Pennsylvania ‘flame, in yhich the Ithacans gave the average follower of the sport a jolt when they triumphed over the Quakers, gaining their second victory over the Red and Blue in the long series. The Indians paraded through the season with a good record, and there are some, who claim they are entitled to football honors in the east, but this is the honor Harvard men are claiming for the Crimson. Dartmouth, too, would have been out with a claim to that intangible astern title had the Green beaten the Indians. This was the only Dartmouth defeat of the season. Gridiron dopesters, now that they can get no more surprises for a year in football, are figuring how the big teams shape up next fall. Princeton and Harvard will be better off, so far as veteran material Is concerned,

than Yale. They will lose only three men by graduation In June. Yale, on the other hand, will lose six men in June. Captain Storer, O’Brien and Hitchcock will leave Harvard on graduation day. As these men played on the line, the star Crimson back flqj’d of Brickley, Mahan, Bradlee and Logan will be left intact The graduation of Captain Storer and Hitchcock will leave the two tackle positions vacant, and there are no substitutes who have won their letters in this position. Only three substitutes who have won their “H” will be graduated. Captain Hobey Baker, Phillips and Emmons will be the men lost to Princeton by graduation, and while their loss will be greatly felt by the Tigers the coaches have some good material in the substitutes and from the freshman eleven to fill their places. Harvard may have to shift its line to fill the holes due to the graduation of Storer and Hitchcock, unless this year’s freshman tackles show up well. Yale will lose Captain Ketcham, Pendleton, Marting, Warren, Averyj and Ainsworth, played on the line. MacLeish, Hubbard, Arnold, Brann and Way won their letter this year as substitutes in the line, and the coaches believe that they can be made into a strong set of forwards. Talbot and Carter will be the only regulars left In Blue’s line. The back field will have plenty of material. Ainsworth will be the only man to be graduated, leaving Knowles, Wilson and Guernsey in their old positions. This trio will be reinforced by several strong men from last year’s! team who were unable to play this fall, including Pumpelly and Markle. Wheeler, last year’s quarter back, will be the only substitute back field player to be graduated.

Captain Storer of Harvard.