Evening Star Newspaper, November 17, 1927, Page 38

'YALE STRONG FAVORITE TO OVERCOME HARVARD Early-Season Opponents Make Blue 10-to-3 Choice for 46th Grigiron Engagement With Crimson. Cambridge Eleven Loses Star, EW YORK, November 17 (#).— With final rugged practices over for the season and polish- ing drills alone for_the elevens of Harvard Yale, dopesters settled down today to the favorite of the y-sixth struggle Despite the string of upsets that| the | the meetings of past, Yale was quoted ®s a 10:to-3 favorite to swamp a Har- vard team that has bowed to Purdue, Dartmouth and Pennsylvania, while winning four times this season. And there was little money wagered against Yale, a mighty that has climbed over mouth and Princeton to the top of the Eastern heap after an ecarly-sea- #on defeat by Georgia, While the final week of practice has brought added strength to Yale in the return of the injured—Capt. Webster, guard, and the crack backs, Hoben and Garvey—Harvard probably has lost her outstanding back in Joe Crosby, mce of the lateral passing attack on which will depend most of Harvard's hop! sby went to the infirmar; yesterday with a nose infection just sbout as the Yale trio rejoined the squad for a short drill. | Players and coaches who have op- {posed the two classic rivals hesitate little In giving Yale at least a 10-to-3 edge on the Crimson, | Capt. Bob McPhail of Dartmouth, §s | auoted as “Harvard was rea- | sonab was desperately ard." apt. Randall of Brown, heaten 19 by Yale and 18 to 6 by Harvard, thinks Harvard's lateral passes may cause trouble and perhaps even turn , although a majority of his vers favor Yale to win by an over- whelming margin. Bill Ormshy, Brown end coach, thinks Harvard w not have a chance without a depend. able passer, chief weakness of Crimson offense. Georgetown has been installed a heavy favorite to whip Fordham Sat- urday, while the annual battle of Le- high and Lafayette is considered much of a toss-up. Other major elevens are hardly ex- pected to be pressed in engagements that bring together A and 1 sinus, Navy and Loyola, Syracuse and Niagara, New York U. and Allegheny, Brown and New Hampshire, Rutgers and Swarthmore and Holy Cross and Boston U. the TITLE CLASHES SUNDAY IN CITY FOOT BALL LOOP Games which practically will deter- fine the championship awards in both ®ections of the Capital City Foot Ball Keague are scheduled for this Sunday. Two undefeated teams are scheduled %0 meet for the 135-pound title. Mo- hawk Preps, with a record of 5 wins 4n as many ts, will face Friendship . C., undefeated in 4 starts. Northerns, undefeated leaders in the 150-pound division, will meet Southern Preps, who are tied with Wintons for #econd honors. A win for Southern ill cause a three-cornered tie for the p, provided Wintons bag a over Seat Pleasant. ¥'s schedule and team stand- 130-pound Division. w. intons .. uthern ‘Preps ', eat Pleasant farfeldts t. Stephe oM Wintons vs. Seat Pleasant, at Marsland Park. 3 o'cloc] Preps, at Wash- t Dhens, at Mount er, 3 o'clock. 135-pound Division. ohawk Preps riendship A. C. ational Preps ercury Juniors ees B 4 rations will be made to meet Southern Preps. Seat Pleasant gridders will drill to- morrow night at 7 o'clock on Mary- land Park Fleld to prepare for the clash with Wintons. The latter team is also scheduled to drill tonight at o'clock on Virginia avenue play- grounds . NOTRE DAME PLANS TO BUILD A STADIUM By the Associated Pres SOUTH BEND, Ind., November 17, Toi|—A stadium, seating 50,000 persons 7 and costing $800,000, is to be built at the University of Notre Dame. A committee to handle the financing has been appointed and consists of the following men: President M. J. Walsh, former President J. A. Burns and Frank E. Hering of Notre Dame and Edward N. Hurley and Byron Kanaly, both of Chicago. The large wooden structure inclos- ing Cartier Field has proved too small to accommodate the crowds that have wanted to see Notre Dame foot ball teams play in recent years. Games. | Mohawk Preps vs. Friendshi | National Preps Mercury i rookland vs. Linworths. Friendship A. C. eleven, which may nter the title game with Mohawk reps on Sunday minus the services ©f Shipstead, Crouch, Bailyman and Ty, injured in last week’s game, 11_drill tonight ar.d tomorrow night n Virginia avenue playground at 7 w'clock. { Hawk Preps also are grooming for | #he game. Practice sessions will be held tonight and Saturday night at 7 ‘clock at Union League Park. Northerns will drill tonight at 7 o'clock on Park View playgrounds at % o'clock. Another session is booked for Baturday night, when final prepa- A. C. unior Every seat for the recent Notre Dame-Minnesota game was sold weeks before the struggle and more than $20,000 in checks was returned to others desiring to see the contest. o WILL HOLD SPORT DANCE. Southern Railway Recreation Asso- ciation, which promotes athletic teams representing the railway company, will hold a dance tonight at Union Station Recreation Hall at 9:30 o'clock. All sandlot base_ball players and their friends are invited. SOCCERISTS CLOSE SEASON. Stuart Junior High soccerites closed their season yesterday with a 2 to 0 victory over Powell Junior High. A party is being planned at the school for the Stuart players. Business and Eastern Clash 4 To Decide “Cellar Champion” USINESS and Western elevens, neither of which has won a game in the public high foot ball title series, will meet to- morrow afternoon in Wilson Btadium at 3:15 o'clock. Business, swhich started impressively but was weakened through loss of players who gailed to make the scholastic grade, has bowed to Central, Eastern and Tech, and tomorrow’s game will be its fast. Western, which is suffering grom lack of seasoned material, has Jost to Tech and Eastern, and besides its engagement tomorrow will meet Central in a game postponed from early season, Eastern’s foot ball squad, which ®arned a tie in the public high school race by drubbing Central, 26 to 0, Tuesday, now is looking to its final game against York, Pa., High in the latter city Thanksgiving day. The student body is enthusastc over East- ern’s fine showing in the champion- mhip series and a substantial delega; tion of students and alumni is ex- pected to make the York trip. ach Guyon’s charges, however, will gee action in another game before the Pennsylvania jaunt, being down for a tilt with the St. John's College “B” squad in Annapolis Saturday #norning. ¥ ern’s annual foot ball dinner, for which elaborate praparations are being made, will be held November 29. Basket ball is beginning to crowd foot ball from the scholastic athletic picture hereabout. Court candidates have been limbering at many gyms for the last couple weeks or so. Paddy Byrne and Jim Farrell, mem- Ders of the crack 1926 Gonzaga foot ball team, have played in bang-up style with the Holy Cross freshmen team this season. Ted Himmelberg, also with the Purple a campaign ago, was making_a stout bid for a regular berth with Holy Cross, but a leg in- jury put him out of the running. In addition to the Business-Western game, two tilts involving local school- boy elevens are carded tomorrow. St. Alban's is to entertain Donaldson School of Baltimore, on the locals’ field, and Emerson will travel to Char- lotte Hall, Md., to meet the military Academy team there. St. John's also may tackle Georgetown Freshmen, Tn addition to the Eastern-St. John's College “B” squad game Saturday at Annapolis, Devitt and Gonzaga have engagements that day, the former being down for a go with Mount St. Joseph's High in Baltimore, and the latter being booked to engage lount St. Mary's Prep at Emmitsburg, Md. And now the best al ' MAY, BUSINESS STAR, WAR DECLARED UPON GRID SEAT PEDDLERS By the Associated Pres CAMBRIDG —Some 2 § who have paid for tickets to th Harvard-Yale game here next Satur. day will be called on to sign their seat stubs in the presence of an usher as part of the Harvard-Ath- letic Association drive on specula- tors and “graduate seat peddlers.” The 21,000 holders of tickets al- lotted to Yale men will be exempt from the request for signature, | of the 31,000 Harvard men who hs | been given tickets all those who ap- plied for single seats for their own use or for a pair of seats, one of which is to be oceupied by an appli- | cant, signatures may be requested. The signature written at the sta- | dium gates later will he compared {with that of the original application and discovery of any irregularities will be followed by blacklisting for any further applications. Any one signing a seat stub before presenta- [tion at the stadium gates will be |subject to permanent blacklisting. GETS SIGNAL HONORS Under auspices of the Alumni sociation of Business High ceremonies will be held at an sembly there tomorrow morning honor of Charlie May, crack foot ball, base ball and hasket ball star. A picture of May, hailed as the zreatest Stenog athlete since the days of the Wise brothers, will be presented the school by Richard II. Hart, pres- |ident of the alumni association. Al- |1an Davis, principal of the school, | will accept the picture on behalf of | the institution John A. Reillv of the 1921 class nd former president of the alumni association will be master of cere- monies. There will he a number of other speakers. Many alumni are expect- ed to attend along with the entire student bod KICKERS MAY DECIDE HONORS ON GRIDIRON By the Associated Pre KAN S CITY, November 2 last-minute search for methods of add: ing extra points in championship games today found Missouri Valley Conference coaches nursing kickers and hoping for surprises in converting linemen into backfield material. ‘With not a single 1d goal scored In conference play, Kansas has been shooting at the crossbar from all angles in the hope of again trimming the unbeaten Missouri Tigers over this route at Lawrence, Kan., Saturday. Two years ago the Javhawkers won the thirty-fourth annual clash from the Tigers with a boot that cleared with the final whistle. Nebraska apparently figures the Big Red machine which has flattened every opponent except Missouri and Pittsburgh needs little overhauling to crush the crippled Kansas Aggies at Manhattan, Kans. The Aggies, how- ever, have instituted intensive back- field courses for linemen to put punch in their shifts, Trick formations perfected behind closed gates probably will feature the Oklahoma Aggie eleven’s attempt to stop Oklahoma at Norman for the first time in 20 years. With the race simmered to Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma,’ the Tigers only can afford to lose this week. De- feat for the Cornhuskers or the Soon- ers, already charged with one loss each, would blast their chances. Mis- souri would have another chance against Oklahoma Thanksgiving day. In the northern end of the valley, Grinnell is trying to forget four straight losses to raise the morale for the meeting with Iowa State at Grin- nell. Drake faces Notre Dame at Des Moines in the only conference affair. WISCONSIN’S HARRIERS WOULD RETAIN HONORS CHICAGO, November 17 (#).—Wis- consin’s undefeated cross-country team, winner of the Western Conference har- rier title for the last three i make a bid to retain the ship when the event is decided at Ann Arbor next Saturday. Illinois represents the strongest op- position the Cardinal runners will face, nce Cook Little, president versity of Michigan, will be starter and referee of the event, mark- ing a new departure in interesting university _executives in becoming actively ~ identified with athletics, President Little, in his inte giate days, was a shot-putter at Harvard. TORONTO PICKS CAMP. TORONTO, November 17 (#).—The Toronto Internationals will pitch their Spring training camp at Augusta, Ga., in 1928, Manager Bill O'Hara has an- nounced. Consolidated Cigar Corp. New York Distributor gital Clear & T ‘ennayivania gibinwton 1 e Novomber 17. | ' On the Side Lines With the Sports Editor By DENMAN THOMPSON——= NTIL such time, if ever, that an adequate stadium is provided for the Nation's Capital, it never will be the scene of an Army-Navy foot ball game, but in the clash Saturday on Catholic University field between the M shington will have the nearest thing obtainable to the elevens Wa service classic. ine and All-Army Although the foot ball displayed must necessarily fall far short of the brand on tap when the Cadets and Midsh ngle, there Will be something of the same color and eclat surrounding the con- test here this weck end. and Navy Departments, representatives of the diploma tators, but the First Lady of the Cup to the winning team, and two huge bands will sion with snappy tunes. In addition, James Gene, and who has am defending his title as the world serve as an added a Tunney, who saw biggest contest of them have a hand in the gridir linesman. A compa service Not only will the Secre along with high officers of th ic corp iries of the War % the spec- the President’s nliven the occa- be included Land will prese mon seph Tunney, somewhat better known as ed a fortune in the process of winning and heavyweight ring champion, will action through his presence. with the will not only be a spectator, activities to the extent of a Leathernecks during the but will ng as a on of the accomplishments of the two teams this Fall ‘would indicate that the Devil Dogs should have little difficulty in eme about such things ving with the long end of the count, but one never can be The Doughboys can he depended on to play the game for all they are worth, and, regardless of the outcome, there should be a real battle on tap. Only One College Game Here. ITH Georgetown journeying to New York to meet a Ford- ham team of far less power than usual, and a somewhat jaded Maryland squad trekking to the strong Vanderbilt Commodores, Gallaudet and American University, at only college foot ball game here. ashville, Tenn., to face c the meeting between Kendall Green, will be the Catholic Uinversity is taking time out to prime for its annual Thanksgiving day combat against George Washington, and the Colonials will go to Athens, W. Va,, to play the Concord State eleven as a warm-up for the Turkey day battle, Followers of the Hilltoppers are_convinced that the only thing in doubt ahout the Fordham fracas is the size of the score, and be- cause of the fact that Lou Little’s combination is in a position to establish something of a record for total points attained during the season this angle will attract a high degree of interest, To date, Georgetown is leading all varsity teams in points regis- tered, with a total of 339 for the scason, and some of the motre en- thusiastic adherents of the Blue and Gray are predicting that the 400-mark will be exceeded. To accomp thus far, however. even in their off seasons. sh this on Saturday it will 1 toppers to perform at an even more impres necessary for the Hill- ve clip than they have h . In the eight games they already have played an average of 423 points a game has been established, and to re. aggregate of 400 the registration of 61 points w Saturday, and this isn’t done often against Cav ch the ould be required on anaugh-coached teams, Harvard May Make Yale Hustle. LTHOUGH the sctto with sure to further strengthen Y iron championship of the games between these anc rvard generally is regarded as claim to the mythical grid- st, there is something about the ent rivals that gives them distinc- tion, regardless of the comparative rating of the teams. Under the Haughton regime against Yale on the gridiron, and between 1907 and 192 Harvard enjoyed notable success its record was nine wins against three losses, with two contests ending in draws Since 1923 Yale has not lost to Harvard, but its victory that vear marked the only time in 19 years that the Blue has scored a touchdown in the Harvard Stadium, although many have been recorded in the Bowl at New Haven. . Saturday's game is at Cambridge, but if the scoring punch the Elis flashed against a stubborn Princefon defense in the closing min- utes of the game Jast week can be taken as a criterion, they may be expected to upset the theory that the last chalk mark at Soldiers’ Field posscsses the magic quality of an insurm tremely unlikely that the Universif \ It is e its unmarred record besmirched Mercer, and Tuits, ountable barrier. of Georgia will have Saturday when it goes against the only other school that has been neither beaten nor tied, is doped to get safely by the Massachusetts Aggies, Temple University, which stands next to Georgetown in the list of high-scoring teams, is catching a tartar in Buckn of the other leading elevens which are listed for action t tomorrow is likely to be seriously extended, prospective champion of the Western Con: the erratic Ohio State eleven, cll, but none he day after and this goes for Illinois, ference, which takes on _— HARVARD IS TRYING OLD YALE GRID IDEA By the Associated Press. Harvard, in drafting Canadian col- legians to teach the lateral pass, has torn a leaf from Yale's book of almost forgotten experiences. In 1914, when the late Frank Hin- key, Yale's great end, was head coach of the Blue, he electrified the foot ball world by springing the lateral pass, which had been secretly taught that Summer by college stars from Cana- dian teams, Yale, with a fleet set of b; swept away all opposition in the early season games. There seemed to be no defense against the play. HKven Princeton could not stop it, and in the me- morable game opening the Palmer Me- morial Stadium, Yale won, 19 to 14. But Harvard, with the aid of one of the greatest scouting systems ever de- vised, solved the secret, and the fol- lowing week overwhelmed Yale at New Haven, 36 to 0. Reggie Brown, one of the late Percy Haughton's right-hand assistants, who Scouted Yale that season, was mostly responsible. The Harvard line was especially coached to outcharge the Yale line. The Harvard forwards got the jump on their opponents, and the lightning-fast Yale backs never got rted, I TOSSERS FIX OPENING DATE. NEW YORK, November 17 (f).— The Eastern Intercollegiate Basket Ball League season will open Decem- ber 31, with Yale playing Pennsyl- vania ‘at Philadelphia. It closes March 10, . GRID GAME DECIDED, 256-0. _HAV ovember 17 (#).— Virtual formation gained plen- ty of yardage and almost every one on the Haven High School eleven crossed the enemy goal line to wallop Sylvia, Kans,, 256 to 0, yesterday. The scoreboard was abandoned at the 200 mark. A press stand with accommodation for 600 newspaper representatives is included in the plans of the Olympic stadium at Amsterdam. RUMORED THAT YALE WILL GET COAST BID By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 17.—In an |article in the New York American to- j3ay. Damon Runyon says that author | ties ‘at the tournament of roses, hel |annually in Pasadena, Calif, are | making an effort to secure Yale as | the opponent for the University of Southern Calif n the New Year Although there is tween Princeton, Har | that no post-season foot ball games shall be played, the article savs there is hope that Yale will apply for a lispensation from Harvard and Prince- ton for this one game, which would involve a meeting of teams coached by ther Jones brothers, Howard and Tad. LOS 17 (. yet of the team that will car ANGELES, Calif, November the representative in the annual foot ball classic of the tournament of roses at Pasadena on January 1 This was announced by Les Henry, chairman of the foot ball selection committee for the ‘tournament, com- menting on an announcement credited to Alfred R. Masters, graduate mana- ger of Stanford, that Stanford has been invited to play. Henry said the decision probably | would not be made for two weeks. sentative, it is understood here, will go to Washington and Jefferson. FOR WATCHING HOBEN By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, November Johnny Hoben, Yale's plucky quarter- back, goes into action in the Harvard Stadium Saturday, Harvard should give him no little attention. He comes from Torrington; Conn., the same town that produced Ducky Pond, the only Yale back to cross the 1 line in the Harvard Stadium in a's daring dash of 72 yards in paved the way for a Bulldog tri- umph during a bitter struggle played in a steady downpour of rain. Ho- ben's master stroke in forward pass- ing to Fishwick last Saturday turned the tide against Princeton. Hoben and Pond received their early foot ball fundamentals from Coach Tracey W. Garey of Torrington High School. GETS PRESID.ENT’S SEATS FOR ARMY-NAVY GAME SALEM, Mass, November 17.— “One-Fiye” Connolly, famous for_ his gate crashing, has a rival here. John Corrigan, local garage foreman, is going to see the Army-Navy foot ball game at the Polo Grounds, New York, on November 26, and how he got the tickets is an epic in the annals of gate crashing. Corrigan, or “Shorty,” as his friends know him, was in the Army during the World War. When he found that tickets to the game were almost im- possible to obtain he wrote to Sena- tors and Representatives galore. But no_luck came of this campaign. Finally Corrigan saw in the news- papers that President and Mrs. Cool- idge would be unable to attend. He sent a note to Representative A. Piatt Andrew, of whom he is a constituent, and remarked that if the President was not using his tickets he might send them to Salem. How he got the tickets Corrigan is not telling, but evidently his practical joke brought results for he has a letter postmarked Washington and fs flashing two tickets to the game. . 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No selection has been made | ANN ARBOR TILT TO TEST Qosterbaan of Michigan Now Considered Choices for Mythical Combination. The invitation to the Eastsrn repre. | Illinois HARVARD HAS REASON |, 17.—1t | game. | tosser, colors of the West to battle the Fast's | pinces | quarterback and leading scorer of \h“; | Big Ten, and Louis Gilbert, one of | | the best Kickers and passers to wear | By tha Associated P: 17.—Four for 1927 HICAGO, Novembher strong candidates all-American foot ball honors will perform before wha Ten ct likely to he a_record-break- ng his ing Big Ten crowd when Michigan |stories to keep their and Minnesota clash at Ann Arbor Saturday. Two of Minnesota’s Benny Oosterbaan, canny forward pass receiver already have been given | om the mythical eleven. The | Harold Almquist, Minnesota Wilce's men | ie Buckeves and Joesting. | 15 times on the gr and | ning eight times, ( un- | two games tied. 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Trainers, how} ever, hope they can get into the con- Coach Phelan of Purdue has several new tricks to spring against Indiana them yesterday and one was good for two touchdowns. the weather Waverly C. gridironers have postponed thelr 1 at Seventh and O streets from to-