The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-21
Penn Says Team
 Was Given Very
 Raw Deal In West
Claims Michigan's Victory Was Due to Poor Deci- sions by Referee Pendle- ton.

Something that has never happened
 in the entire history of athletic com
 petition of the University of Pennsyl-
 vania, occurred immediately after the
 Red and Blue game with Michigan,
 when Mike Murphy and several of the
 Penn coaches visited the dressing room
 of Joe Pendleton, of Bowdoin, the ref
 cree, and told that official that he was
 directly responsible for the defeat of
 the Penn team.
 Leon Jourdet, the Penn right end,
 took an onside kick in the first minute
 of play on the Michigan 20-yard line.
 Thayer had made a perfect kick, and
 the ball was bounding along toward
 the goal line of the Blue and Maize,
 caught it. At the same time Bell, one
 of the linesmer, also jumped for the
 ball. Jourdet being the lighter and
 more nimble, went higher than Bell, and consequently caught the ball. The men returned to the ground to- the earth Bell put his hands on Jour-
 det to prevent their sprawling about.
 There were two other Penn men about
 the ball to ward off the attack of
 Michigan.
 Jourdet started toward the Michigan goal and crossed the line. As he
 planted the ball behind the goal posts.
 Pendleton, who was at least 30 yards from the start where the ball had
 been caught, blew his whistle and or
 dered the ball returned to Michigan's
 2O-yard line Captain Roy Mercer im-
 ball had to be returned. Pendleton
 replied that Bell had used his hands and assisted Jourdet to score. The fact that Bell did place his hand up- on JOurdet was to prevent both men from losing their balance while in the I . c,1 AI,~ T prevent their starting for the Michi- gan goal line.
 Captain Mercer made a long kick on the decision, and even asked Pen- dleton to refer it to Dr. Al Sharpe, who acted as umpire, but his request ted while on the train coming East with the Red and Blue team that he certainly would have allowed the score had it been his decision.
 The play that preceded the Michigan touchdown made by Jimmy Craig,4 was
 erred in his decisions, according to the Penn coaches and other officials. Roy Mercer was carrying the ball back up the field by sensational spurts around Michigan's right end. He was tack led and flung out of bounds with the ball in his possession on his own 30- yard line. Mercer had the ball tight ly cupped in his arm as he went over the boundary line: but Conklin, the heavy Michigan end, tackled him after | his body crossed the line, and he fum- bled, but recovered the ball by sweep | ing 1t to his body with his outclasped arms. Pendleton was 20 yards away from this play, but he ruled upon it, declaring that the ball was Michigan's, and an instant later Craig made that pretty run for the second score of ! the Michigan team, and it won the Oolx fyUn mi tn l be played, and Mercer had rounded out a first down on the end run, and would have at least had the ball for 1 two more attacks and then a punt, and it is more than possible that Mich l igan would not have scored, for Barr would have kicked the ball into their l territory, even if Penn had failed to advance the ball for another first down.
 l When the game was over the officials I returned to their dressing room. Mike 1 Murphy, who has taken defeat uncom- plainingly for thirty years in athletics, l hurried to Pendfeton's room and said, ! "You had better quit, you don't know 1 the game. I know that you cost us the game today, the world will know l it tomorrow by sunrise. You took one | touchdown from us, you gave Michi- gan the chance to make the second when we were playing them safe. You 1 have caused bad feeling, for this Penn | team won that game. You're too slow; you don't know the rules, and I would | advise you to get off the list of off, l cials before they let you go.''
 Al Sharpe, of Yale, and Walter Eckersall and Walter Booth, of Princeton, the other officials, stood in open-mouthed astonishment at the charges of Mike Murphy, still all three admitted that Pendleton had erred in 1 his decisions.
 Andy Smith then went to Pend'e- ! tons room and said, 'You did the best you could, but your inefficiency cost | us that game.''
 l It was not Michigan that chose Pen dleton to off1ciate, for he was the choice of the Penn coaches, who were l asked to name the referee, and Michi- gan knows but little about the Bow | doin official.
 | Roy Mercer did not return to Phil adelphia. He stopped off with Billy Paul, the former mile wonder, at Buffalo. but before he left the train he remarked:
 1 "I am sorry for the fellows. They | played such plucky ball; they were penalized 110 yards to Michigan's sin