The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-29
BIG SURPRISES IN THE EAST
CHICAGO TIES PENN, CORNELL
BEATS PRINCETON.
Yale Beaten By Columbia-Indians
Score Twice On Harvard-other
Games.

Chicago. Oct. 2S.-The football eleven
of the University of Pennsylvania
barely escaped defeat at the hands of
the University of Chicago in a game
which for desperate playing has seldom
been equaled. The final score was a
tie, both sides scoring a touchdown in
the second half and neither kicking
goal. Total, 8 to 5.
Better football, so far as clean, snap
Ply playing is concerned. has never been
seen in two or three games here this
season, but for sheer gameness, for
rallies when to yield the least bit
would result in a touchdown, and for
situations tending to produce heart dis
ease, the game was certainly remark
able. Five times Chicago had oppor-
tunitieS to score, twice by place kicks
with the ball in a favorable position,
and three times getting the pigskin
inside of Pennsylvania five-yard line.
But only once We're the Maroons able
to get the ball over the goal line, and
that was done when it seemed almost
a certainty.
Through poo generalship on the part
of Captain Kennedy of Chicago in at
TEMPTING to send Shaker through Penn
sylvania's left guard, he lost the ball
for Chicago on downs when it was
within two yards of the goal line in
the second half, and when, finally, a
few moments later, Wellington was
pushed over for the tieing touchdown,
the Chicago captain missed an easy
goal. 1t was his attempt at a fake
kick, too, that ultimately resulted in
Pennsylvania score, Kennedy drop
ping the ball when tackled and Penn
sylvania securing it on Chicago's four
yard line. With Chica go's goal line in
sight, Pennsylvania big guards tore
the Maroon line to pieces and David
son was finally pushed over. But Chi
cago's goal line was not again in dan
ger.
Early in the first half Chicago discoS
cred that Pennsylvania left end was
weak, and time and again Hamil and
Wellington got around fer substantial
gains. But with the ball within a yard
of the goal line, Pennsylvania made the
most desperate stand of the game.
Three times the line held, and when
the mass of players untangled after the
last down. the ball was still foot from
the line. Cocmbs an instant later
punted out of danger, and when time
was called the ball was on Chicago
forts -five-yard line.
Chicago's ail-around playing was su-
perior to that of the Quakers. The lat
ter We're utterly unable TO get around
the Maroons' end, and IN the first half
We're frequently held for down, even
when using the dreaded guards back
play, which has brought victory to the
red and blue in many games. In the
second half. however, the awful ham,
mering told severely in the Chicago
forwards. and during the series of
,JIays. which resulted in Pennsylvania s
touchdown, they were played off Their
feet Most of the time during the sec
ond half the ball was web within Penn
sylvania's territory. and only the
fiercest kind of playing by the we'll
nigh exhausted Quakers saved them
from defeat
Notwithstanding the fact that rain
had been falling steadily since morn
ing, the gridiron at Marshall field was
in fair condition. Frequent applica-
lions of sawdust kept the field from
becoming soft. A crowd of fully 5000
enthusiasts witnessed the struggle, in
Guiding several hundred rooters for the
red and blue IF PENNSYLVANIA. and the
latter team did not lack encourage
ment so far as cheering was concerned.
Total score: Pennsylvania, s. Chi
cago, 5.
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