The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-13
In THR FOOTBALL WORLD.
COLUMBIA BEATS SWARTHMORE
~ TO o IN A ROUGH GAME.
Big Elevens Have Their Hands Full. Hsr.
ward with Bate, Yale with Springfield
and Princeton with Lafayette--Wet
Field and Slippery Ball for the kickers.

rIctu hHu bHppefy BELL tOT thc hichetp.
The football teams had their first taste Of
wet field and wet ball yesterday. The stronger
teams suffered the most, because their ordi-
narily better organized formations did not
work as smoothly as on dry ground. The
most noticeable point In the days play ives
the fact that the big teams generally had their
hands full to win. Harvard beat Bates only
II to o. team which she beat % to o last year.
This year Holy Cross and Bates played o to o
game, and Yale beat Holy Cross 2s to 0.
Yale made only one touchdown against the
Springfield Training School yesterday, and
Princeton beat Lafayette only s TO o. Last
year Yale beat the Springfield men ~ to o.
and the Tigers Weat Lafayette II too.
CoMmbias game against Swarthmore yes
terday showed weakness In defence. though
Columbia won. ~ to o, seven more points
than she made against the same team last
year. Pennsylvania beat Swarthmore this
year to 4. Yesterday Pennsylvania de-
feated Gettysburg 81 to 0. Lafayette has
beaten the Gettysburg team 20 to and the
Indians beat them the other day ~ to o.
Yesterdays scores follow:
Harvard, IL: Bates, o.
Yale, Q; Springfield Training School. o.
Princeton, :; Lafayette, o.
Columbia. IL: swarthmore. o.
Pennsyivania. n; Gettysburg, o.
Amherst. II: Bowdoin, O.
Brown, II; wesleyan. o.
Annapolis. 6s; Marine Omcers. O.
CoIrMBIA, ~: swARTHMoRE. 0.
Columbia beat Swarthmore ~ TO o at foot
ball yesterday in hard fought. rough and
ragged game. The field was muddy and
slippery and interfered with offensive forma-
tons. While Columbia had better attack
and better defence than the Swarthmore men,
the latter were fully as heavy as Columbia.
and outplayed the latter completely In the
second half. except In the last Ave minutes.
Thew had the ball lowering around Columbia 8
goal line. but the Blue and White always braced
In the last ditch. and In addition poor general
ship was shown In directing the Swarthmore
assault when on the verge Of n touchdown.
There was lots Of delay between scrim-
images. Somebody was everlastinsly yell
ing Time out" There was also wrangling
over the referees decision. and foul work
and rough work. Bower Of Swarthmore WAS
disqualified for kicking Muir Of Columbia,
and Browne OF Columbia was disqualified
for his needessly rough handling Of crowell
Nj. ,sei1as was the referee in the hrst
bis work. and Bell Of swarthmore of,iciated
more re was psnsIiaed Ave Yards for sosshing
e1G fro from the swarthmore rooters. George
Brooke. the Swarthmore coach, eaid the
man who coached from the side lines had no
connection with Swarthmore. Once Swarth-
more was penallzed fifteen yards for fla
grant case OF tripping.
very bad. The most encouraging thing
about 1t was the way the men helped one
backs doing good york. Swarthmore used
her big sbsd good deal G
in Columbia,s centre. The Columbia ends
were also vulnerable points for the Swarth-
more attack. The tacklng Of the visitors
was noticeably weak.
the Columbia tscflers as q they were dummies.
ran in TO. the %5-yard line. sgarthmore
smashed its way ten yards more before Co.
lurnbs woke mp and took the ball on downs.
The local players rushed the ball to Swarth-
as:. H sns sss s..
iumbia resumed rushing The side line
coaching. penalty finally put the, ball on
the LIZARD line and ThS5ps ear[ed i oyer
in the second half, driving the New Workers.
back to their goal posts. jackson on one
occasion turned Columbia's right flank
for thirty yards. Twice the shaky Columbia
captured the bali on downs on the s-yard line.
The first time the Swarthmore man actually
crossed the goal line. but the referee had blown
his whistle indicating that the ball was down.
The second time the Swarthmore advance
seeEed straight into s9a post st e..
toward the. finish, Metzenthin topped off
the forward movement With an eighty-f1ve
yard quarter back run His interference was
splendid and he made touchdown. The