Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-01
College
=. GridirOnS
Penn did the unexpected.

A new football hero doomed up on
the college grldiron yesterday, when
Marshall, of Lafayette. won the game
from Dickinson in the last few minutes
of !lay by scoring a touchdown.
Penn still has the jinx on the Red
anc White brigade from Ithaca. Penn
apparently could lose every game while
Cornell could come down with an I'M
suliied record and still be humbled.
z score of u to . is very unusual for
modern football. Cornell has won n
game from Penn in nineteen years.
Penn carried the ball 1856 yards to
Cornelrs "a yards.
Both teams scored a touchdown after
receiving a punt.
Penn tried the forward pass eight
times and succeeded -four times in
completing the play. Cornell worked it
once in nine tries.
Butler scored once from the 34-yard
line. on a kick from placement. On
two other tries he failed. Marshall
dropped a goal over the bars from the
20-yard line.
Penn a penalized -four times, for
fifty yards; Cornell eight times, for
ninety yards.
The East Orange team put up a
plucky battle. The difference in the
weight was especially apparent, some
of the Newark players would shove
their lighter opponents around like
basketball players are wont to do.
In~terscholastic championship for 1911
a dead issue.
Brown, by sheer pluck, made the
game with Carlisle close yesterday.
The redskins would have rolled up a
much bigger score but for the Provi-
dence teams great gameness.
Fortunately, the rules of football
committee is not lacking in historical
sense and the demand from some
quarters for a revision which will pro-
duce a score of deaths will not have an
overwhelming influence or their judg-
ments. Besides the tie games of 1897.
1899, 1910 and 1911 between Harvard
and Yale, the calendar also shows that
there was no scoring in 1885, 1895 and
1896.
school football has elements of fasci-
nation for spectators as great as a coll
lege game. The boys look as big, as
rangy and as athletic as the varsity
men. if they are not seen side by side.
The coaching has not developed de-
Tense to such a point that the plays
are stopped before they get under way,
and brilliant run and big gains are
the result, and, as a rule, the kicking
is of a high grade.
Walter Camp says that as the time
of a big football game has been
shortened from seventy to sixty min
utes, and is now played in four
periods, he sees no chance for the
frightening of the time of the game.
Many a spectator is only just becoming
absorbed in the play when the quar-
terly break comes. What effect this
break has on the play is known to
the coaches. To the spectators 1t is
not pleasant, and a little more for
their money would be welcome. Why
not make the periods twenty minutes,
instead of fifteen, or is that asking too
much of contestants In the strenuous
game?
Praise from New Haven for a Har-
yard football team is praise indeed
but there's a sort of wait till next
year. tone about it that will not pre-
vent the Harvard coaches from con-
tinuing their clever work.
- - FAAAhaI1
is similar to that of the baseball sys-
tenn, but always with the provision that
each man must understand his rela-
tionship to the whole team and be
ready to do those things which in the
national game distinguish a great
player from a 'bonehead."
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS.