Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-15
HuMILIATINe PENNs CAPTAIN.
Too Much Experimenting by Coaches Blamed for Penn's Poor Season Captain Miller Made to Take the Blame.

The football season for the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania is ended, says the Philadelphia Times. Down in the archives of Red and Blue athletic his tory will the records be smothered. With the shouts of thousands a glori- ous victory over Cornell was recorded but at what a cost. A tie game with State college, tie game with Lafay- ette and defeat sustained through the powerful Wolverines is the sum tctal of the achievements of an eleven that in the early weeks of the season looked like an intercollegiate cham pionship possibility.
 As told in the Evening Times just prior to the Lafayette game. too much experimenting was done by the coach- es.
 Almost pitiful is the condition of lit tie Cartain Allie Miller. who, through the experiments of the coaches, was shifted to almost every position on the team and lis playing so ruined that on the last day of the season, the last game in which his fellows could call him captain, the last game he would ever play for his university, he was found sitting dejectedly on the substi- tutes' bench watching his own eleven sw weep down the field to victory. Per- haps it was sentiment, perhaps it was final experiment, just before the close of the game he was sent in to play, and with what result? The eyes of the university were upon him; he became over anxious perhaps, lost his head; but he was rough, too rough. and he was ordered from the game.
 The Michigan game showed that Penn's season was almost a failure. The student body knew it: the press knew it, and the coaches knew it.. Where was the blame to go? On Mil Ter? On the man who, after the injury to Kid Keinath last year, took hold of the Penn eleven and whipped it into such shape that at the end of the sea- son it was a toss up between Harvard, who defeated Yale, and the Quakers for the championsip? By many last years Penn team was conceded the best in the history of the university and Miller helped make it. This years team compares with that of last year 8 as does preparatory school to a col lege-and Miller was not good enough for it.
 The humiliation to Allie Miller must be scorching. When he was ordered from the field on Thanksgiving day for unnecessary roughness, he stopped a second dazed, then, then, slowly gath ering up his Red and Blue blanket and drawing it close about him, lifted his left arm so the thousands in the west SLdnu WHICH ne pass COulu Hbl see his face. It was a Penn captain ordered from the field-the last time he would ever appear on it in his university suit-he was crying.
 Standing close to the gymnasium door watching the game was Jack Means, On whom Miller called twice in the 1908 Michigan game for field goals, and each time they were made. Jack had played his last game the year before. As the sturdy Penn captain brushed by him Jack patted him on the shoulder kindly and said: Never mind, Allie. I'll always remem- Der last year" Miller passed through the high archway into the kymnasium and was gone-gone forever in the role of a University of Pennsylvania football player.
 From the time he was ordered from the field not @ sound broke the still ness Tn the great stadium. The game was forgotten for the moment. And when the great doors changed behind him a Geaeening cheer was sent sky ward to the University of Pennsylva- nia captain V ho suffers for the repu- tatIon cf the coaches.