New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-29

Minds and gained many valuable yards
for his eleven I'm the exchanges.
The Cornell team. as a whole, was the
more finished and spoke volumes for the
coaching. Dr.. Sharpe. who has been
working so hard to establish a footOall
system at Ithaca. had furnished MS men
with plenty OF weapons for reasonably
strong and varied offence. Dan Reed
one of his assistants, mad developed
strong and powerful set of forwards Wen
,erscd in the finer points Of FOOTBALL
while Ray Van Orman, another assistant
who had full charge of the ends can ne
applauded for bringing out such caP@O''
pIavcrs as Eyrich and o Hearn.
CAPTAIN Eddie Buffers puntins apPe"i'u
n me as one of the strongest and most
outstanding features or the game. II was
aLout the best piece Of work that ! nave
seen this year. He cheated the wind SO
20 sneak. when punting against IT, Dy
Getting off low. twisting drives which the
quaker backs found difficulty in handhis,
while ne took full ADVANTAGE OF IN" WIN"
when in his favor with high l"lS'i',7
goira1s which in most cases his SPECIFY
.rde covered with unerring skill
H., rIaced the ball. too, with rare Jus
.,,,rr once he appreciated the force % ,"S
md which carried two or three "I ''''
co,l, nupts over the goal line. fNi '''I'
NO rsn his team with excellent judgment
ia willie some criticise him for not try
ing goal from placement lhs'eau u g
forward pass on the third down, anu
with the ball inside Pennsylvania ~
ward line in the third quarter, II must %
ro,,er,herod that a touchdown was nye"'"
- win. and that a field goal "ouia not
even have ted the score.
eyrich and O'Hearn Stand Out
Ar,nDs. Cornelrs big left guard was
,,,r,sy ON the defence, while his work III
The omen reminded one Of Ketcham, the
yaIo centre. because OF its range ana
eureness. It struck me that Dillon ana
rourneav the Pennsylvania tackles were
a bit more conspicuous than Nash anu
Guver. their direct opponents, but all
four played a sharp, dashing game ON
the ends. as said before, Eyrich ana
O'Hearn stood out l saw Eyrich DoAeu
only once. while the tackling Of both was
remarkably deadly and neither was easily
fooled on plays directed his way
CAPTAIN Mercer did not shine as was
the case a year ago, which may have
been accounted for IN part by the slip
merry field. He was on the ball every
minute. however. recovering lumbics and
intercepung forward passes in way
that made him a terror TO Cornell. Har-
rington's defensive play in the secondary
line was brilliant, while Marshall and
Minds handled Buffers puuts almost
without flaw.
Cornell gained Jos yards by straight
rushing for three first downs, 10 s. yards
and only one first down for Pennsylvania.
In punting the upstate team had an ad-
vantage Of close to eight yards on every
exchange, which was emphasized by One
| fact that the Cornell men gained 100
yards in running back punts to only 81
| for the Quakers All this is brought out
clearly i'm the detailed summary printed
on this page.
1t may be brought out that Pennsyl-
| van!a lost far more ground through pen
| altes, but that one imposed against Cor
| nell was more costly than those OF the
! Quakers combined. a dashing run by
Fritz N forty-fve yards OF catching a
punt which carried the pigskin well into
! the Pennsylvania territory was nullified
! 10y a penalty which gave PENNSYLVANIA
! the ball in midiield