CHAMPIONSHIP BETWEEN CORNELL AND HARVARD

Saturday's victory over Princeton is generally conceded to go a long way toward settling the football championship. Before this game there were seven teams worthy of a place of distinction--Colgate, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, and Washington and Jefferson.

The last three can hardly lay claim to championship honors, but they deserve to be ranked among the first seven. Syracuse, in view of the fact that it held Princeton 3 to 0, and defeated Michigan, Brown and Bucknell, has precedence in the last group, while Pittsburgh's victory Saturday by the score of 19 to 0 puts her ahead of Washington and Jefferson. Penn. State should follow close behind these.

Colgate's victories over the Army and Yale merit her at least considerable attention. But the previous standing of both those elevens places Colgate below the first three. The University's victory over Princeton eliminates the Tiger's claim to the championship. Cornell's claim is perhaps the most convincing, and it is likely to stand unchallenged, for it is hardly probable that Penn. will defeat Harvard's vanquishers. The Crimson was in a different stage of development when Cornell came to the Stadium; and Cornell's otherwise easy schedule greatly lessens the strength of her claim. The championship, then, resolves itself down to two teams--Cornell and Harvard. A defeat for either of these teams in the future should give the championship definitely to the other.