New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-01
PENNSYLVANIA VIEW OF VICTORY.
Harvard's Shift of Schedule Puts Fighting
Spirit in Quakers.

Philadelphia Oct. go Observation-Disclosures
students and alumni have not yet recovered from
the Joyous stupefacton into which the victory
Harvard plunged them. Now that the game is
over there Is a tendency to ask why Pennsylvania
did not have q perfect right to expect greater
chance than last year. Last fall Harvard had a
team apparently 100 per cent stronger than this
years aggregation. In the line were Andy Mar
shall, Knowlton and lie Moyne. These three men
were the mainstay OF the Harvard team. At quar-
ter was the veteran Carl Marshall. while at the
end Bowditch. In the backfield was Schoe-
kopf the former Cornell star. These men were
team in themselves and yet with them Har
ward played a wretched game Franklin Field
last fall letting Pennsylvania score twice. This
year when she had lost them all, she went up
against a team stronger than she met in 1903, and
lost
Piekarsk at guard TO Pennsylvania a
freshman four years ago. and was about as poor
and clumsy a lneman as ever wore cleats. But
he improved a little with every game, last
year was considered among the best, and this year
he is OF the best guards now playing. Zeigler
was a second Piekarsk only last fall was his
first season At the tackles Butkewcz was the
best the line last year, and has improved
since while at the other side. Lamson, the former
Lafayette star, needs description. At centre.
Torrey is the example of the understood lineman
who makes up his lack of weight with sheer fierce
Stevenson at quarter by his ability to run the
team Is the best thing that has put a red and
blue Jersey since the days of Carl Williams Greene
made the third back Pennsylvania has been long
ing for, with enough speed keep up to Smith and
Reynolds.
Two things the Harvard game for Pennsyl-
vania. First the faster and better team Of this
year. that was able by snappy plays to get the
jump on Harvard and score and, second, the Won
derful herceness and savageness with which the
lighter line played on defence. and which enabled It
to withstand rushes that sent with the full
crush Of the man-out- of-theiine tandem style OF
play and which would have ordinarily smothered
and killed a team of Pennsylvania weight.
For this fierceness of play Harvard undoubted-
ly has herself to thank. For If Harvard had not
tricked the manager of the Pennsylvania team into
an October date and then rubbed It in by asking
for shorter halves. thus openly declaring that she
considered the Red and Blue minor game and
one 10 be looked at only as practice in preparation
for the Yale contest IL she had not made 1t felt.
through inside channels, that IL Pennsylvania did
not do better this year Harvard would have 10
look for a foeman more worthy OF her steel. it is
doubtful whether the Pennsylvania coaches ana
advisers could have put into the Quaker eleven
the desperate Spirit that humbed the Crimson In
the dust and showed that cherished Princeton
Harvard game back into the mists OF improbabiity.
PENIS troubles not over by any means. al
though to tell the truth, the Quakers don't care
much what happens now. and il Lafayette or the
Indians should win the sorrow might be great,
hut NOT lasting This week will be spent in looking
for spots and getting In form LOT LaIs2ette
ant there is little likelihood OF Lafayettes defeat
ing Penn or the Indians giving serious trouble. as
neither of these teams is up to It's usual stana-
tack from now on for the Ithacsns have strong
eleven this year.