Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-02
NEW GAME PRAISED
Bushnell Says Foot Ball Has
More Than Made Good.
EXPLAINS PENN'S DEFEAT
Yale Coaches Pleased With Rules
and Look for Better
Contests.


New loot ball haS more than made good
in the few preliminary games that have
been played since the season Of 1910 was
formally opened a week ago. From evefy
field there has come little but praise for
the new game. The college world was
pretty much thunderstruck when it read
the score of the Pennsylvania rsinus
game week ago, which resulted in a
humiliating defeat for the Quakers by. the
score Of to 5. Possibly 1t was as a re-
suit OF this that the Pennsylvanians got
together and redeemed themselves in the
next game by a decisive victory over
Dickinson.
The uncertainty as to the effect the
new game might have, and did have az
Pennsylvania, undoubtedly made Har-
ward, Yale and Cornell wide awake Cor
the unexpected in their initial games with
Bates, Wesleyan and Hobart Wednesday
BY playing carefully each Of these insti-
tutions came out OF the fray with flying
colors. In fact. they did much better
than Pennsylvania and considerably bet
ter than their coaches had expected
Some time ago the writer expressed the
opinion that as soon as the new game
was thoroughly mastered the big uni
versitfes would run up higher scores than
under the old rules Both Yale ard Har-
ward exactly doubled their scores made
years scores being % to o in each in
stance. Cornell did not play Hobart last
fall, but if 1t had it would never
have made the score of 50 to against
Hobart which they did Wednesday. 1t IS
worthy of note that in the last three
games the victorious teams made bigger
scores than they had anticipated. and all,
without exception, were surprised at the
ease with which they scored with new
foot ball
PENIS Unexpected Defeat.
The college world was totally unpre-
pared for the defeat of PENNSYLVANIA in
her opening game with Crsinus In fact,
II WAS an unprecedented defeat. Never
before had Pennsylvania been SO humii-
lated in her first game. and no other big
university. has experienced such a set
back. The Pennsylvania coaches have
been on the defensive ever since trying
to explain the defeat az being due to other
causes than poor material. They have
asserted that the team was weakened
by the absence of several of the regu-
lars, who We're either injured or kent
out Of the game by conditions. That
was certainly true. for Hutchinson. the
star fullback. had not then squared him
self with the faculty, while Sommer and
Ramsdell. two men sure to be permanent
members of the back fields, were unable
to start the game because they had but
a single day of practice and did not
know the signals. The coaches were
compelled to put them in during the
last period, and their work was ali that
saved the Red and Blue from being
whitewashed. The Pennsylvanians ex-
pect their team to make substantial
progress from this time on, and scout
the idea that the material at hand is
poorer than last year.
All the big teams have paid tribute to
the new rules as certain to reduce in
jurfes. This, they say, will be accom-
phshed by the operation Of two of the
new rules. One is that which provides