New-York tribune., 1912-11-10
MICHIGAN BOWS TO PENN.
In Wonderful Rally Quakers
Smash Way to Victory.
OUTCLASSED AT THE START
Team Suddenly Reaches Form
and Gains Steadily, Winning
in Final Minutes.
icy Telegram to The Tr'bunc.l

! BY Telegr7nh to The Tribune
Philadelphia, Nov. 9. - Pennsylvania 8
football team underwent an ordeal of fire
in a 81 ec,acular battle with Michigan on
Franklin Field this afternoon and
emerged though SCARED and battered a
grim victor by score Of q TO 2l. Bat
tered and beaten in the early stages, they
fought back. Where the Wolverines had
been slipping through paper line, seer
ing p 10 0. they suddenly found them
selves bucking a defence that was as
rigid and infexible as wall Of steel. The
Quaker backs became Goliaths, who
riIrced and tore and fought their way
down tie field. AS the Pennsylvania
score Legan to mount the whole atmos-
phe.e exuCcd enthusiasm. and when in
the final minutes of the game Marshall, a
stodgy quaker substitute quarterback,
TONED OFF tie contest with 52-yard run
that meant victory nothing could stand
IN the way OF the wildly excited thyong
that poured helter-skelter on TO the grid
iron and began TO celebrate even before
the anal whistle blew.
Never I'm the long history Of Pennsyl-
yanla football has the!e been such a
,an.s as tha, played to-day. In a frac-
tjon Of an hour a poorly coached indis-
crinfnate team came TO itself and battered
its way to victory Mercer. Harrington.
Minds. Marshall and Craig played as they
never did before. and the line, so badly
bent and twisted in the first scoulg.ng
moments, became as one man, fShtins
with a unity Of power and purpose that
was marvellous. AS 1t played IN the clos
ing periods against the Westerners, Ptnr-
sylvania could have beaten any team IA
the land.
The eleven that Hurry Up" Yost
brought 10 Franklin Field was probably
as good as any that Michigan has had.
When things were going right il was a
strong. resourcef,l combination. snifty
ani precise In attack, and practically i'm
movable IN defence. Patterson. the CEN
Ire. was the keystone on which the whole
structure rested. With Thompson, the
fuVback. and Jimmy Craig, brother OF
Ralph Craig, OF Olympic t4me Patterson
was ne life OF the team. Time and as 1!n
they halted the Penn backs In IN !r
tracks. ami when they were ugnting with
the ball there was mighty little that could
stop them. Even after the Test Of the
team had gone 10 pisces and was yielding
step by step TO the improving Quakers,
this 'rio fought a battle of desperation.
When Patterson was finally Obliged TO
quit after al injury in a scrimmage in
the fourth period, Craig and Thompson
tried 10 carry the battle on alone, but the
ODDS against them We're too much.
The came was less than five minutes
cd when Michigan scored its first touch
down. Penn tried a kickoff to the side
snc the Wolverines had the ball prac-
t.cally in midheld on the first play. After
trying out the Quaker line Thompson
punted 10 Mercer OH his own 5-yard line,
who ran il lack five yards. Minds then
punttd and Craig got the ball on Penn $
I5-yard line Holding sent the Wolverines
10 the 81 yard mark, where Thompson ana
Graf; set cut for touchdown, between
them getting the ball to Penn's 2-yard
mark IN four plays. Huebel went over IN
a mass play and Patterson's goal gave the
Wolverines points.
Husni,t's ffteen-yaTd run from Penns
4o-yard mark again put the Quakers on
the defC nsive. and when CIa!g got around
right end for twenty more after Huebel
and Thompson had picked up four yards
the ball was again close TO Pcnn's goal
line Thompson went through centre for
the touchdown and Patterson counted the
goal That was how matters stood at the
end Of the FIRST period. 1t was the same
in the second period, Thompson getting
another touchdown after an uninterrupted
march through the Red and Blue team.
Thea, with the score p to 0 against
them, the Quakers began to play, With
only two minutes TO play Minds shot a
forward pass TO Jourdet from Mchigan's
S3-yard lne Jourdet got twenty-five
yards or the play and Penn was on the
brink Of Mchigan's goal. Mercer made
one futile stab at Patterson, but a second
drive In the same spot found an opening
and the Quaker captain rammed across
for a touchdown. Minds made good by
kicking the goal from difficult angle.
Fighting desperately, Penn began It's
struggle in the second half After the
leather had been seesawing for a time
they got II on their own 20-yard line. and
started a series Of spectacular plays.
Marshall and Minds got seventeen yards.
and Mercer switched off on a long end
run for thirty Yards, putting the ball on
hichigan's S3-yard line. Mercer got an
other three yards. and a forward pass.
Minds to Young, put the ball on Mlchl-
gsn's 4-yard line. A fake pass forma-
ton and Il line plunge by Mercer added
fourteen more. On three tries Mercer
made seven yards. and then crashed
through for q touchdown. from which
Minds kicked the -oal
In the fourth quarter Penn kept driving
Michigan back foot by foot Thompson
finally puntng from behind his own goal
line to Mercer on Michisan's 45-yard line
Mercer got two yards through centre,
but forward pass was not completed.
Minds tried another. shooting the ball
IRON Michigan's JO-yard Tine to Jourdet,
waiting on the 3O-yard mark. Jourdet
caught the bali AMI dodgcd his way
through To a touchdown. that brought
iac score 10 q 10 p Minds, who had
failed 70 miss a single goal all season,
was looked on to tie the score, but the
sngie was too sharp and he missed.
Ihere we're only TWO minutes left TO
ay ana Michigan still seemed certain
= the game on an exchange Of puIts
Ll.ci iBan sot the ball on its own a0-yard
lhe, Whoh Maisnaifs Try al a goal from
fe!d was low Thompson lr.ed a couple
OF line plays and thea punted Marshall
'asHht Va pan on 4is Own tS-yard line
and set OF Tor the Wolverine goal One
man a4ter another he eiLaea, and fnally
with clear field. dashed across for the
de,isiVe score. II was the most spec