The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-25
FRAGMENTS OF FOOTBALL
FROM MANY GRIDIR0NS.


OIIearn, for the first time this season,
will be in the best OF shape for the Fenn
game and will play -he best game OF MS
career II -his proves 20 be so. then there
ought 10 he one more or few exhibitions
OF high class frontier work in a season
containing deal Of mediocrity In that
position O'iIearn is really first class
end and there have been comparatively
few OF that description lying around
loose in this year Of grace.
Penn football teams may vary from
good TO poor. but nearly always Penn
has captain who is player OF high
quality captain who is hard. per-
sls,ent worker and whose hard work and
all around effectiveness stand out whether
his team is good. fair or Indifferent. Sucn
a player is Capt. Al Journeay o. thls
years eleven. q man who still would ne
; onspicuous were he on much stronger
eleven. Torrey. Hollenback. Mercer. Fol-
well and Metzger were all PLAYERS OF this
! sort. tireless fighters and conspicuously
efficient in offence and defence.
| There are numerous instances in Yale
| football OF suffering from errors and sud
! den breaks arising when things were
going the teams way. The Ellis punched
, errors last Saturday. but single instances
/ of a similar nature have been by no
means rare with preceding eleVe"s. IN
| 1898. while the Blue was ploughing i's
I way fast 70 Princeton's goal Arthur Poe
appeared out OF the mass with the ball
under his arm and ran nearly the feld's
length for the touchdown that won The
game Ralph Boomer was taking the
leather through tho West Point line once
| and the next instant Torney OF the Army
| team was seen hiking for tho Yale goal
/ conveying the leather on the Journey that
won the game. Dudley Dean beat Yale
/ in lS9O by breaking through and mailing
tumble and running for q touchdown
John DE witt nailed a blocked Kick IN
/ 1904 and ran for touchdown. thus beat
ing the Blue Booth of Princeton grabbed
the ball in midfield when the Yale punter
kicked into his own line and crossed the
/ line for touchdown. This was in 1907.
but Yale pulled this game out Of the fire
Storer grabbed a muffed punt in 1912 KEEP,
ON going until he crossed the line AMI
made the mrs, score for Harvard sam
White beat Yale in 1910 by picking ny
| tumble and streak!ng over in the mud
dra sging Arthur Howe over the line with
| him,
| Cahau OF I.ehigh Is ;he best field goal
| kicker Of the wear Most Of his goals
have been by drop kicks and he has lifted
| the ball over the bar on field goals ten
! times in the seven games he has PLAYED
| two each against Franklin and Marshall,
| Muhlcuberg and Penn state and one each
! against Yale, Carnegie Tech. Nillanove
. and Lafayette.
\ grand exhibition OF selHshncss was
seen on trains to or from Princeton and
| New Haven for the big games. Many a
mere man stood up IN the aisles. squs tied
| on tho arm of seat or rested his weary
| length against a door while furs. rugs
muffs. coats and lunch boxes rested COM
fortahly on the otherwise unused portions
| of seats. We're the gaze of the pied
| males frosty. envious or appealing il wa
hcaped up nIpedimenta to tho racks over
head said silent hint was waste o,
ocular effort.
Time was when all these Greek god
| football players on posters ana maeaain,
covers We're done in blue. Now they wea,
arteri.l red.
! In the last six years Yale has mad,
more points against Harvard by safrt,c,
than by touchdowns. The blue hasn'
scored at all by touchdowns and ha.
scored twice by Harvard satellites Cor
hett made one in 1909 and O'Bri-n on.
In 1913. In 1914 Nathan made what "A lo
Of folks think was one
The Harvard OF the species was dead
lier than tho Yale.
The Illinois team. Western Conferenc,
champion, outsCored all OF its rivals. 1t,
record was 22i to -.
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