Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-21

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New Brunswick once more Rutgers will
be disappointed not to hold Princeton tc
close score again.
Dartmouth found the Massachusetts
! Agricultural College an unusually active
win by a score of only Is to 8. Dart
mouth opens with the same eleven or
Saturday. and the wearers OF the Green
hope to roll up a more respectable score,
They ought to do it. too, because their
wonderful backheld of last year is in
tact and they have had the advantage
Of more than three weeks of practice.
Because Of the prominent place Dart
mouth holds on Pennsylvania schedule
this year the Quakers will witch their
work with n great deal of interest. Dart
mouth has the same coach this year,
Frank Cavanaugh, the old end, man
DR.. Carl Williams pronounces to be one
OF the best in the country.
The game on Franklin Field will be
the first of the season, not only for
Pennsvlvania, but for Gettysburg as well.
Last year Penn beat the men from the
famous battlefield by the score of SO
to o. There will be a goodly number of
experiments in the Quaker eleven this
year. and for that reason It need not
be expected that Saturdays score will
equal the 1918 figures. Gettysburg has
the same coach as last year, the man
in charge being Mauthe, the old Penn
State fullback. II Mauthe has the ma
terial and can develop II to play as well
as he played himself ettysburg would
he much feared. for Mauthe was one of
the best fullbacks that ever stepped on
Franklin Field.
There will be a lot OF speculation all
this week TO learn what men Head Coach
Brooke will pick for his initial lineup.
Probably Brooke himself won't know un-
til the day before the game The sitting
process is still going on, and the merits
and demerlts of every player are being
carefully analyzed not, only by Brooke,
but by his assistants. But the chances
are that the first eleven men to line up
ulars or substitutes as far s that is
possible. There are some new men who
in practice promise to be much better
than the 1918 regulars, but for the most
part they will not get into the rfay until
the game is well under way,
The Quaker coaches have reason to feel
well pleased with the results of their
first weeks work, for they have accom-
plished more than any one, thought pos
sble in so short time. Not only have
they taught the Tudiments of the game
fairly well TO a big squad OF candidates,
but they have carefully studied and tested
the merits OF all the men and sorted them
out until they have gotten all the can
didates working for the positions for
which they seem best fitted.
From tackle TO tackle Pennsylvania has
available a line which will average close
to 200 pounds per man. As far as weight
and strength are concerned, the men re-
ferred 10 are about all that could be de-
sired But these qualifications are only
about one-half of what viii be required
In addition TO weight an dstrength they
must display speed and football sense
Some Of the men who now look big
enough and strong enough to push A
house over may have to be discarded
vet for men weighing 81 or 20 pounds less
because modern football requires men OF
speed and cleverness. About all that can
be said of most fthis quad of linemen
is that they are making progress. II Is
impossible to be much more specific now
An odd situation exists as far as the
ends and backs are concerned, The quail
tiles necessary to play on the ends or IN
the backheld are much the same Ever
since the practice opened the coaches
have been In doubt concerning some OF
the men, whether they would be better
on the ends or In the back field, At any
time they might be shifted back and
forth and II is TO be hoped that when
these shifts are made they will be made
with the same intuition or luck as when
Roy Mercer first came out for football
When he arrived the coaches resolved 20
make an end out Of him, but a train OF
back field injuries made II necessary 70
put him IN the back field He almost In
stantly became a star In his new position
and by this accidental substitution a