. selection of the Giants to win the
‘gonfalon in the National League
| for the past two years,

Besides, there aren’t many repu-
; tations left lately to worry about
in the ranks of the pigskin ‘‘ex-
perts,’? who usually pay off to the
office boys in the weekly football
guessing pools—proving that what
you don’t know won’t do you any
harm and that a little inside knowl-
edge is a dangerous thing.

Thomas Gray-summed it up in his
‘| Prospect of Eton College’ (which
had nothing to do, however, with
Eton’s football prospects) with the
simple statement, ‘‘Where ignorance
is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise.’’

With two full Saturdays of play
down and most of the season to
go, the teams in the Hast that have
given the most convincing evidence
of abnormal strength are Pitts-
burgh, Holy Cross and Villanova.
Temple, which has been going
along with almost no help from the
injured Dave Smukler, might be
grouped with these three, and
Princeton, Navy, Army and Colgate
are close behind, followed by Yale,
Penn, Dartmouth, Columbia, Syra-
cuse, Fordham, N. Y. U., Manhat-
tan, Catholic U. and Williams,

Elis Well Equipped.
It may be that some of the teams

 

|top ere long. Any team that plays
the rugged sixty-minut2 football the
Elis showed against Penn, that can
‘| come back in the face of such over-
whelming odds and that boasts two
dangerous climax runners of the
| ability of Frank and Hessberg, a
|forward passer and field general
such as Ewart and two powerful
offensive and defensive ends like
Kelley and Train—such a team,
with sound fundamentals, a smart
attack and an iron constitution,
merits earnest consideration.

If Dartmouth had a back of the
calibre of a Marsters or a McCall,
a back of big size who could both
‘| pass and run, it would be set for a
large season, despite the fact that
line reserves are few and the ball
carriers lack weight. But even
without a Marsters the Green may
be a horse of another color.

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