The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-31
IN THE FOOTBALL WORLD.
PENNSYLVANIA BIG BRACE
WITHIN ONE WEEK.
II Was . Rough Game That tho Quakers
and Crimson Played-Yartis Gained
by Each-Quarter Backs in Evidence
Michigan May He Seen In New York.

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by Each-Quarter Backs in Evidence
Michigan May He Seen In New York.
To him who In the love OF football holds
desire TO prophecy or even predict con-
servatively the situation presents manifold
pitfalls He must 80 hedge about his fore
casts with Ifs" and "umds" and "buts" that
he has some loophole Of escape, else his repu-
tation as a prophet Is In grave danger. Not
having the entree to secret practice the Or
binary expert has no means OF knowing
the form--the real form-of a team In Its
private trials. and those competent to speak
who attend secret practice keep their know
ledge to themselves.
The form exhibited by the Pennsylvania
team against Columbia was as different from
that against Harvard an chalk from cheese.
One was crude and dismembered. 40 to speak.
| the other finished and welded together.
| Pennsylvania was prepared; Harvard was
| not. A heap OF polishing must have been
done behind the gates Of Franklin Field last
week. 1t goes to show that the imparting
OF cohesion and acquiring OF speed Ia a matter
OF only few days when the time comes.
BY the same token. team work and speed can be
acquired by the Harvard team; but 1t must
| be confessed that so far as last Saturdays
| game was concerned what looked like cool
and steady demeanor on the part Of big Har-
| ward men now stands out as stohdity.
Hndsight, coupled with defeat. reveals
what seemed improbable before the test
| 1t Is clear now that 1t was reputation rather
than form that made the game look like a
| victory for Harvard Pennsylvania had not
| shown much up TO the Harvard game-but
neither had Harvard. Still. no matter II
| the substitution Of little starr, the freshman
quarter back. for Herman did put much needed
life and drive into the Harvard team and
| introduced the element OF what might have
haan md M maj for ~ holm tad M did
| to light in the second half. the fact remains
! that Pennsylvania was the better team. and
| there is nothing but praise due their valiant
| fight to regain leading place in football
and naught but praise due Head Coach Will
lIams. particularly as the latter has c ONE
| in for some severe grillings as u coach since
he took charge at Pennsylvania.
| The long. plucky and successful fight Of
the Quakers to reestablish themselves Is
one Of the finest braces in football. The fact
of the matter is Harvard's victory over Penn
sylvania last year was by no means as de-
cisive or easy generally reported. and
Harvard was no better last Saturday than
year ago. while Pennsylvania had improved.
The game of O3 was the shadow cast before
by a coming event. as things turned out.
In the all important games. no matter how
close they may be. there Is a tendency to
lay too much stress on the work OF the victor.
The same may be said Of Harvard as was
said OF Princeton and Yale when they were
beaten. There Is no reason to view the
future with alarm The discovery" OF
Harr was one good thing. Here is little
man who has the magnetism and the dash
and the generalship to keep the big Harvard
men on their toes, to stir them up, to drive
them at speed. to dispel their lethargy. And
If the big men can get speed and fight and
team work they need fear nothing. In the
next three weeks Harvard must get together.
So far her attack has not begun to approach
that OF Yale or Princeton in powerful. helping
line ripping.
Pennsylvania men say their eleven out
played Harvard man for man in every posi-
ton. The Quaker ends were easily superior
to their opposites and Pennsylvania raised
Cain with Harvard in the middle OF the line.
Parkinson at centre and Parker at guard.
with their portion Of a ton Of beef were weak
spots. The Quakers followed the ball as IL
glued to it. The figures Of the Boston Herald
show that Pennsylvania gained by rushing
23O Yards to Harvard's i83. that Pennsvlva nis
gained by kicking $50 yards to Harvard's
SIC. and that Pennsylvania lost by penalties
IS yards to Harvard's 10. What Harvard
gained in kicks was Offset by superior work
by the Quaker ends In covering kicks. Ste
venson's work in directing the team and run
ming with the ball in a broken field and Smiths
offensive and defensive play were other
factors in Pennsylvania success.
1t was a rough game not wholly free fro m
unsportsmanke tactics. There was slug
ging and one account says Harvard men
used their hands In open sluRsing but tn at
Pennsylvania wa guilty of kicking and
kneeing Harvard men after they had been
downed." In the Boston Globe imp ire Ed
wards is quoted as follows: Prom an um>
pire s point Of view the game W az very rough.
and time and time again spirit was mani
tested on the part OF both teams that OF I'M
understandable conduct-which o ne does not
like to see and makes the g anne unpopular.
The open smuggling by Pennsylvan Ia man
and Harvard man in the first half was an
eohsent Of both captans We're these men
The Yaie-Columbia game was not as mild
game so far as any deliberate rouehing was
Concerned, There was plain case Of inter;
moment later Kineon Of Yale threw, a Column
ba man when there was a6soamtely No &C, OF
necessary a couple OF times, But the Of
Ing that merited q man being ruled out.
OF penalties fSI , on side and the like there
Yne eeIss foolish n,e5
cedure with such a sharp eyed referee as
McSluns, to say nothing of the ethical side
was hardly as well sustained as in the West
Point game. 1t WAS "a strong in spots but
not as consistent. But II was plenty strong
enough for the demands OF the occasion,
and, besides, Columbias defence never was
lacking in pluck. Yale showed big improve
ment In protecting her punter. and Hoyt's
punting was the best seen around here this
season, Yale's great punter, Mitchell, did
not make his reputation until his senior year.
and now Hoyt another senior. Is following
suit.
Last Saturdays game gave Yale another
opportunity to get experience In watching
out for unexpected plays. She was caught
mapping three or four times. but showed more
watchfulness and was not to be fooled on
the same play twice. STILL for close game
she must keep her eyes wider open. The
Columbia game emphasized the resource
fuIness OF Rockwell as a general He never
failed to find the right spot when a gain was
necessary to retain the ball. and this without
extending the repertoire OF plays beyond
few. What with Rockwell and Metzenthin
Han and Stevenson. and Crowell OF Swarth-
more with his field goal, quarter backs were
very much in evidence on Saturday.
It Ia reported that the pride Of the West.
Michigan. has not yet given up hope Of er:
ranging Thanksgiving Day game to be played
show doubling Fasteners how good they are,
and there is a keen desire here TO see them.
Now that they have disposed of Wisconsin.
the Miohiganders, It Ia believed. are, ready to
arrange game II an opDonent can be found