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...that the last games of the 1916 football season have been played the various "dopesters" throughout the country have begun ranking the teams and picking mythical elevens. The New York Times has announced its opinions of the Eastern teams, giving Pittsburg first place and putting the University in sixth place. the order of the first 15 teams is as follows...
...Centre is the most easily disposed of position of the whole line. Gennert clearly outplayed both Harris and Taylor at Cambridge, and Callahan in the Yale game. Only Peck, of Pittsburg, would keep him off every all-American...
...Brown, Pittsburg and West Point stand in the front rank of Eastern college football elevens, as having so far no defeats to mar their slates. Brown, alone of these three teams, has not had its goal line crossed, the only scoring against it having been done through kicks by Rutgers and Yale. Saturday's results recorded the first defeats of the season for Princeton and Yale. The surprise of the day was the defeat of Tufts by Springfield Y. M. C. A. College, which turned the trick with a marvellous display of open play...
...battle was formerly a thing of hours and a few square miles; it took its name from a town, and sometimes, when no town was near, from some handy object, Chrysler's Farm, Gaines' Mill, Pittsburg Landing, Shiloh Church. Now a battle is what a campaign used to be, a thing of months, stretching over an expanse of territory, the course of a river, perhaps a province. The battle of Champagne, the battle of Bukowina, the battle of the Dobrudja, are already historic names. In one such battle, as that of the Somme, there may be many small campaigns...
...Carnegie came with a good reputation and a good team, but the speed and weight of the Elis proved too much for them. Something fancy on the attack was expected from Carnegie, but there was little out of the ordinary, the Pittsburg men trying only one forward pass. It worked for a gain of thirteen yards. Yale tried the forward pass once, but it failed...