Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-21
FOOT BALLS WINDUP
Curtain Goes Down With Army
Navy Game Next Saturday.
GOOD GAMES THANKSGIVING
nn-Cornell Struggle Will Be Top.
liner for the Turkey Holiday.
Hard Contest Predicted.
By Edward B. Bushnell.

Franklin Field, the athletic GROUNDS OF
the University of Pennsylvania, will wit
ness the wind-up to the foot ball season
of 1910. On Thursday Pennsylvania and
Cornell settle their annual argument for
gridiron supremacy. and two days later
the Army and Navy elevens officially end
the season. In view of the fact that there
are no other games played on these days
and that the other big college elevens
have already ended their season, there
Will be a great influx OF coaches. officials
and players from all over the United
States to see these two matches.
For the Thanksgiving day game Penn
sylvania Is the favorite over Cornell
while the Army and Navy will meet on
more nearly even terms than has ever
been the case heretofore
There is good reason for the belief that
pennsylvania should be at Cornell. So
often have the Quakers, with supposedly
inferior teams, defeated Cornell eIevens
tnat should have won, that most critics
are unwilling to concede Cornell chance,
no matter what the situation looks like in
advance. The two teams have been meet
ing annually since 1893 and during this
time Cornell has won but single game
inns exception occurred in 1901, when
pennsylvania was about the weakest that
any Red and Blue eleven ever was, while
cornell, on the other hand, had a team
OF championship proportions.
From the way the Cornell eleven rolled
up the scores in it's preliminary games
cans had good chance to trounce the
Quakers. This belief was considerably
strengthened when Pennsylvania lost its
first game of the season to Ursinus
since then conditions in the Quaker foot
ball camp have changed radically. Cor
nell continued to make big scores against
small teams, but when she encountered
Oberlin the Ohio eleven held her to
score of 90. That was the first evil
uence that Cornell was overrated and
tnat her Dig scores were due to the
weakness OF her opponents. Then when
Harvard overwhelmed Cornell. 27-5 the
ithacans were judged to be no stronger
than previous teams
oOnsiderable enthusiasm has been
aroused at Cornell during the last week
oy the lthacans victory over Chicago.
But 1t Is a question whether or not Cor
nelfs big score in this game was not due
IN measure to Chicago's weakness
Shicago this year has had the most
disastrous season since Stage became it's
coach: Nearly all the small teams in tie
west have had no trouble to beat Chicago
this year. But even then Chicago was
aoie TO hold Cornell to a 90 score for
.ne nrst nall. The Ithacans won that
game by two field goals and the skillful
running OF Quarterback Butler.
Cornells team this year is extremely
light, and while it Is composed of some
Individual stars. 1t has never shown abil-
sistently. 1t Is this lack of confidence
which Cornell men fear more than ANY,
thing else when their team lines I'D
against Pennsylvania
NO root ball team ever made such prog
defeat by Crsinus The ineligibilfty of
Fullback Hutchinson seemed to give
pennsylvania an entirely new spirit. Since
then the Quakers have been coming by
leaps ana bounds. This is shown by the
fact that Pennsylvania beat Brown 20
TO U. whereas Harvard was lucky to get
away with a 1a-to-0 score, and Brown
soundly trounced Yale, 21-O. Similarly
pennsylvania bettered Princeton's score
against Lafayette. from 80 to 1870, and
the Tigers score against the Indians from
60 to 17-5. Against Brown, State Col
lege. the Indians and Lafayette the
Quakers played remarkably good foot ball.
Their backfield is probably one of the
best In the whole country. 1t consists
OF quartet of men who combine speed,
strength and knowledge of the game.
Pennsylvania only disappointment
since the Crsinus game was the 90 score
against Michigan last week. But the
Quakers exp ain that the failure of their
condition of Ramsdell and Scott. but a
much more potent reason was the great
strength of Michigan. The Wolverines
were undoubtedly much underrated by
Pennsylvania. though they should not
have been since their 1876 victory over
Pennsylvania last year. Michigan showed
in the Pennsylvania game that she has
one of the best elevens Coach Yost ever
turned out. Michigan is the only team
that has been abe to gain ground con-
through Pennsylvania line The
Wolverines had an exceptionally good
for this sort Of work Capt.
Benbrook is almost half line by himself
and time after time he opened uD the
Quakers' forwards so that his backs
through for big gains. In Magid-
sohn, Michigan has a man who is certain
ly Of .AE-American size. The way he
through the Pennsylvania line.
always with his head down. yet picking
his openings with rare skill, could not
have been done better even in the old
days of mass playing.
vania and Cornell, it should he no -. il
mind that Cornell has two first-class men
to score by field goals. Both Pitcher and
Butler have shown great consistency in
this sort of work. and hardly a game |
has been played this year in which the
Ithac have not scored more than once
or twice in this manner. Cornell s attack |
is built in the main around her back |
field. Here Butler at quarterback and |
Simson at fullback have proven them |
selves star ground gamers. Whether |