The sun., 1908-10-11
BUCKNELL CHARGESROUGHNEsS
Athletic Director Hoalins Says Penn Aien
Deliberately Injured HOOfbail Players.

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LEWIaRrRo. Pa. rct. Io.-FoF several
days this week tho Philadelphia papers
have been filled with charges against the
Buoknell eleven. which played on Franklin
Field last Saturday, alleging roughnoss and
dirty playing. The charges arose out OF
the fact that Penn had several men injured,
an occurrence which 10 apt 70 happen In
any hard game. In reply TO these many
charges George W. Hoskins, athletic d.
| rector at Bucknell. gave out the following
statement this morning:
| "Buoknell is in no fit condition 10 plsy
Gettysburg to-day for the simple reason
that 20 many OF our men were crippled by
Penns dirty playing last Saturday. Some
OF the Philadelphia papers have been filled
with stories OF Bucknell's dirty work.
but half the story has net been told Sew
eral Penn men deliberately tried to put
two OF our quarterbacks out Of business
and they succeeded we'll
"Munk, the regular quarter. who weighs
/ only 1872 pounds, tackled the Penn captain.
| Big Bill Hollenbaok. who Us a reward kneed
MunI and put him out Of the game. Munk
has a very severe bone bruiss Of the spine
and bruised muscles and will be out Of the
game for two weeks, Clausen, who replaced
Munk. was thrown to, tho ground after
catching a punt and while lying there was
uelDeTltely upon Uy u lbUn lndus
As a result he suffers from a spllntered col
| larbone and badly bruised shoulder. He
will he unable to play for three or four
weeks
Strange to say. the officials did not in
terfere. Possibly they did not see what was
going on. but the dirty olays were plainly pTiyy
seen BY persons on the % side % lines; Is Lhe
ling iiuckneii men after they were out OF
bounds, Another infraction of the rules
that was passed over by the o1cials was the
lnl- Of axylin
1t was dead,
There we're Ave or six Bucknell men in
jured in the Penn game and we were com
OF Tennis rough playing and tackling.
Il do not want 1t understood that we are
s1uealing because we were beaten: nothing
to the sgueallng Penn has been doing be-
cause few Of their men were hurt;
lem has always had the rspHtSS99p, SnS OF
IN an innsportsmanlike manner. so much
80 that several colleges will not play them.
In saturdays game. for. INSTANCE. Capt.
with the ofiicials and o,r play ers at all stages
OF the game. That was a sample OF the Penn
type OF sportsmanship.
snoring ri 9" bi iood m nigh. mention the MoGor-
mick incident in 1907. Bucknell had a
strong team that year. so strong that Penn
snds Sent tber sp Before
the game and protested Mccormick on the
ground that he had played sumner base
ball with the Atlantic City nine. This is
the same Mccormick who played with the
New ork Giants this year. Tie was resu.
lar bona fide student. but was taken ont at
Penn 8 request and replaced by substitute;
As a result OF Mccormick loes BuSknell
joet the game BY ao-5 score. Had Motor
mick been In we would certainly have won
that contest.
Hut the disRraceful part Of the. whole
proceeding was that we afterward learned
that Penn had played two professional men
against us that day. These we're Mike Ben
nett, who played professional baseball with
the Franklin nine OF Philadelphia, and John
Dale uf Lamont, Pa. who had played three
years on the Gettysburg team. being assist
ant coach there, and had been at the time
we played Penn tYo years on their eleven;
can't see the true sporting blood In that
kind OF work.
@Nor has Penn recovered from those un-
fair methods OF old, IL is not generally
known that panxtis. on whom Penn builds
80 much this fall, is summer baseball
nlayer, plaring under an assumed name.
The proof can he furnished