As the football season of 1923 draws rapidly to its close, a consideration of its fortunes reveals the fact that three of the twenty-three leading college football teams of the country have come through the season undefeated,--Yale, Cornell, and California.
Yale, after winning a series of six games, faces its final test this afternoon in the Stadium against the University eleven.
Cornell, with a total of 306 points against the 26, of its seven opponents will maintain its clean record for another week, as Coach Dobie's team is resting this afternoon in anticipation of the final game with the University of Pennsylvania next Saturday.
California, the third eleven to survive the season without defeat, is the only team of the twenty-three whose goal line has been uncrossed all season. The final encounter for the unconquered eleven comes this afternoon, when it faces a strong Stanford team in Berkeley for the state championship.
An examination of the figures given below shows that Cornell has piled up the greatest number of points against her opponents during the season, with a total of 306, while Boston University, with a total of 20 points, has scored the least.
Princeton has scored exactly the same number of points as her opponents, with 73 points for both. Harvard has scored nearly twice as many points as her opponents, and Yale with 217 points has scored more than five times as many as her rivals, whose combined total is 38 points.
The complete list of results follows: HARVARD 35--R. I. State 0 6--Middlebury 6 6--Holy Cross 0 0--Dartmouth 16 16--Tufts 0 5--Princeton 0 7--Brown 20 75 42 PRINCETON 17--Georgetown 0 2--Notre Dame 25 16--Johns H'kins 7 3--Navy 3 35--Swarthmore 6 0--Harvard 5 0--Yale 27 73 73 YALE 53--No. Carolina 0 40--Georgia 0 29--Bucknell 14 21--Brown 0 31--Army 10 16--Maryland 14 27--Princeton 0 217 38 AMHERST 0--Bowdoin 13 0--Union 0 7--Mass. Aggies 3 12--Wesleyan 10 7--Oberlin 14 41--Trinity 12 7--Williams 23 74 75 ARMY 41--Tennessee 0 0--NotreDame 13 28--Auburn 0 73--LebanonVal 0 10--Yale 31 44--Ark. Aggies 0 20--Bethany 6 236 56 BOSTON COL 28--Providence 0 20--Fordham 0 21--Canisius 0 6--Marquette 7 21--Georgetown 0 14--Centenary 0 41--Villanova 0 151 7 BOSTON UNIV 0--Dartmouth 24 3--Brown 20 6--Holy Cross 13 17--Colby 7 0--Syracuse 49 0--Rutgers 61 20 174 BROWN 34--Haverford 0 7--W. & J. 12 20--Boston Univ. 3 20--Boston Univ. 3 0--Yale 21 19--St. Bonaven'r 0 14--Dartmouth 16 20--Harvard 7 127 59 CALIFORNIA 48--Santa Clara 0 16--Olympic Club 0 26--Oregon Ag. 0 9--Wash, State 0 0--Nevada 0 13--So. California 0 3--Washington 0 115 0 CENTRE 28--Clemson 7 29--Ogletlorpe 0 7--Carson N'mn 0 0--Pennsylv'na 24 10--Kentucky 0 20--Sewanee 0 17--Auburn 0 111 31 CHICAGO 34--Mich. Aggies 0 13--Northwestern 0 13--No'western 0 20--Purdue 6 0--Illinois 7 27--Indiana 0 17--Ohio State 3 121 16 COLGATE 14--Alfred 0 42--Clarkson 0 23--Ohio State 23 7--Cornell 34 27--Ohio Wes 0 0--Navy 9 49--Rochester 0 16--Syracuse 7 233 73 COLUMBIA 13--Ursinus 0 12--Wesleyan 6 7--Penn 19 0--Williams 10 9--Middlebury 6 0--Cornell 35 21--N. Y. U. 0 62 76 CORNELL 41--St. Bona'tur' 0 28--Williams 6 34--Colgate 7 84--S'squehanna 0 32--Dartmouth 7 35--Columbia 0 52--J. Hopkins 0 306 20 DARTMOUTH 13--Norwich 0 24--Boston Univ. 0 27--Vermont 2 6--Maine 0 16--Harvard 0 7--Cornell 32 16--Brown 14 62--Colby 0 171 48 IOWA 20--Okla. Aggies 0 7--Purdue 0 6--Illinois 9 45--Knox 3 20--Ohio State 10 3--Michigan 9 7--Minnesota 20 108 41 MAINE 14--R. I. State 0 6--Vermont 7 7--Conn. Aggies 0 12--Bates 7 0--Dartmouth 6 0--Colby 7 28--Bowdoin 6 13--N Hampshire 0 66 33 MIDDLEBURY 21--N. H. 0 6--Harvard 6 21--Clarkson T. 14 7--Union 7 3--Tufts 6 6--Columbia 9 0--Vermont 13 41--Norwich 0 105 55 NAVY 39--Wm. & Mary 7 27--W. Va. Wes. 7 3--Penn State 21 13--Dickinson 7 3--Princeton 3 9--Colgate 0 61--St. Xavier 0 155 48 NOTRE DAME 74--Kalamazoo 0 13--Army 0 25--Princeton 2 14--Lombard 0 35--Georgia T. 7 34--Purdue 7 34--Butler 7 0--Nebraska 14 34--Butler 7 229 37 PITTSBURGH 27--Bucknell 0 7--W. Virginia 13 0--Syracuse 3 7--Lafayette 0 2--Carnegie T. 7 0--Pennsylvania 6 13--Grove City 7 13--W. &. J. 6 69 42 TUFTS 25--Lowell Tex. 0 14--Conn. Aggies 0 14--Bates 6 14--Wesleyan 6 6--Middlebury 3 0--Harvard 16 7--Bowdoin 3 10--Mass. Aggies 7 90 41 WILLIAMS 34--Hamilton 0 6--Cornell 23 14--Norwich 7 20--Renssclaer 12 10--Columbia 0 25--Mass. Aggies 0 12--Wesleyan 7 23--Amherst 7 144 61
