The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-26
C0RNELL'S GREAT SHOWING
HOLDS UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYL-
 VANIA DOWN TO FOUR POINTS.


 During First Half the Ithacans Do All the Playing and Pennsylvania Fails to Score In the Second Half the Quakers Use the Famous Guards Back Formation and Finally Get Touchdown.
 Philadelphia, Nov. 25-The Univer- sity of Pennsylvania football team de- feated Cornell this afternoon on Frank lin field by the score of to O. It was by far the fastest game that was play ed here this season and shows Cornell to have 8 remarkably strong team. There was less enthusiasm manifested by the 10000 persons present than on last Saturday, because during the first half Cornell did all the playing, but in the second half Pennsylvania used it's l guards-back formation with terrible effect on the Cornell line. After nearly every scrimmage in which this forma- l tion was used there would be a Cornell | man stretched on the grass. These tire some interruptions were the only draw | back to an otherwise brilliant game. l Of course there was considerable fum- 1 bling, due primarily to the slippery ball, | and Weeks also made a bad mess of two quarterback kicks, but this latter was also partially due to the muddy | ball.
 | Princeton had beaten Cornell 10 to o, and Harvard scored "A against for the | Comedians and it was the Quakers an- | bition to top both of these scores, if possible, and thereby make to-days game a fitting finale for the greatest football season in the history of the red and blue. It was also Captain Minds ambition to make good, big score against the Ithaca lads, as this would make his captaincy shine out with even more brilliancy than ever. But in both calculations hope was dashed to the earth, mainly through rhe brilliant playing of the entire Cornell team.
 In the first half Pennsylvania tried the gaurd back, but this formation was just as easily stopped as was attempted end skirting, and no matter where the 1 Quakers tried to get through there al- ways seemed to be Cornell man lying in wait to tackle, Their line in this half held like stone wall, and the ends | were down the field under Young's | kicks before the Pennsylvania men | reached the ball. The individual stars on the Cornell eleven were decidedly Wilson, Windsor, Whiting and Young, the back field. The two former were sent against Pennsylvania's line for good gains and also round the ends, j while the tacl1ling Of Whiting and Young on the ends was beautiful ex- hibition of fast football
 In the second half the pace began to tell on the Ithaca lads, and they were driven down the field by the guards back at desperate pace. For the first fifteen minutes of play it looked as though the Comedian and white repre- sentatives would surely score, but af- ter this and, notwithstanding the ball wasin Pennsylvanias territory a great CT part of the time, their goal was not menaced. Young, who came here with the reputation of being a brilliant kick CT, showed none of his prowess in that line. He seldom gained in an exchange with Captain Minds and was clearly outkicked by the latter. Minds placed his kicks beautifully, while Young's tries often went out of bounds after go- ing fifteen or twenty yards, which was a great handicap to the Cornell men.
 The Pennsylvania players lost one, and possibly two opportunities of SCOT ing when within Cornelps 12-yard line by fumbles. Aside from this their fumbles were not disastrous. Cornell | iaI vi olr o,,I every time One of their most effec- tive tricks was what is known as lends and tackles over." Only the guard was left in his original position in the line. The tackle and end were shifted to the opposite end of the line and led the interference. Each man on the line moved along one position in the direc- tion of the play, thus having center face the guard, guard face tackle and the tackle face end. It was due to this formation that several good end runs were made. Pennsylvania tried one or two tricks, such as the delayed double pass and fake pass, but only once did they make a good gain. Penn- sylvania's touchdown was not made until after twenty-one minutes of act ual play in the second haIf For any team to hold Pennsylvania's guards back for such length of time is great feat and Cornell demonstrated how strong the line is to-day.
 The lineup follows:
 PENNSYLVANIA POSITIONS CORNELL Boyle .......... left end. Tracey Goodman ....... left tackle ..... Lueder Hare ........... left guard ... Reed ooso,a ;.i,;...........' ..-Langeman center McCracken ...... right guard ..... Falle outland ...... right tackle ...McLaughlin
 ;.......'~. '.:.;. ..-Hackett l Weeks ....quarter back .....C. Young | Morice ....... left half back ... Whiting Jackson right half back. Windsor Minds ........... full back ..,..... Wilson ". A. McCIunC. Lehigh: lInemar-ranoe-