Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-02
CORNELL ENDS
PITTS DREAM
FOR BIG GAME
Refuses to Accept Chal.
lenge to Play for Cham
pionship of the East
SYRACUSE TRIMS AGGIES
By ROBERT W. MAXWELL.


Another post-season dream has been
shattered. The Cornell football team de-
cfined the challenge issued by the Uni.
verslty of Pittsburgh for contest to de.
eide the Eastern championship and all
hopes OF bringing the teams together on
the same gridiron have been abandoned
All of which means that we will have
couple of championship teams until next
year and the eleven that talks the loud.
est and longest will have the edge.
A game between Cornell and Pitt would
be wonderful drawing card and ono
of the largest crowds that ever witnessed
a gridiron struggle would be in attend.
ance. The gate receipts would have
broken all records, but neither team would
have profted financially. Joe Thompson
chairman of the Athletic COMMITTEES at
Pittsburgh. made 1t plain that the money
taken In at the gate would be turned
over to charity after expenses had been
deducted. But the challenge came too
late. and 1t is a hard proposition to get
college teams together after Thanks
giving.
Both teams have gone through the sea.
son without n defeat and deserve all OF
tho nice things said about them. 1t
would be difficult to forecast winner.
as they are evenly matched and capable
of playing a high-class game. or course,
Charlie Barrett outshncs any member OF
the Western team, but taking 1t all and
all, neither eleven woulG have an advan-
tage on the other.
Pittsburgh won all of its eight games,
scoring 2i7 points, an average OF about
81 points a game. Cornell scored 2s7
points in nine games, an average of about
80 points. Only % points were scored
against Pitt, while 30 were run up against
Cornell. Both teams defeated Penn.
which is not startling, Pitt winning IA to
and the 1thacans 81 to o. Any one
wishing to dope out the chances of the
elevens through the Penn scores has our
permission.
While we are on the subject of dreams.
1t must be remembered that Syracuse
turned on tho alarm clock in Portland,
Ore, yesterday, and rldely awakened
the Oregon Aggies In football game. II
took just seven minutes for the East
erners to demonstrate that Oregon did
not have n championship team, and at
the end of the game 2S points had been
piled up by the men from New York.
This Oregon team has gone through
several seasons without defeat, and
sprung big surprise this fall by trounc.
ing the Michigan Aggies. 1t was pre-
dicted on all sides that the Easterners
We're doomed to defeat yesterday, but the
football played I'm this league proved TO
be superior to the brand exposed ON the
Pacific coast. '- TuoF
At no time during the four quarters
was the Syracuse goal in danger. In
fact the Agges did not even see the last
chalk mark. They were too busy defend
ing their own goal to spend much time
in their opponents territory. The home
folks We're outplayed, outgeneraled and
outmaneuvered from start to finish y
Forward passes. lateral passes and the
double pass were worked so beautifully
that Oregon was bewlldered. and 1t was
only n question of time before Syracuse
marched down the field for a score.
They have started to clean house up at
Yale, and a new committee, consisting OF
Vance McCarmick. ex-Mayor of Harris
burg, Brink Thorne and Johnny Kill
patrick has been appointed to get things
in order. This committee will take charge
of football affairs and start right In to lay
the foundation for n system to compete
with Percy Haughton at Harvard
This move was made without consulting
the undergraduates. but the new body will
have entire support of the college. Prof.
Robert Corwin, after conferences with
leading alumni, made the selections.
1t is carefully pointed out that the mem
bers are in no way connected with the
different cliques of Yale athletics and
have no strings tied to them. This means
that something drastic Is likely to happen
and Foster Sanford viii not be the head
coach next fall. Tad Jones has chance.
but 1t is not improbable that an outsider
will be selected
Cleo O'Donnell of Holy Cross is said 70
be favored for the Job I'm 1915. O'Donnell
has coached Everett High School IN
Boston for six years and has had great
success. Speedy Rush, NJ Sharpe Frank
Cavanaugh, DIR. Harry Williams, of Min
nesota, and others got their start with
school teams and Yale seems
willing to try the scheme-once.
Penn is likely TO do some reorganizins
in football affairs before next season a
new system Is needed and head coaef-a
regular boss-must be appointed. Tae
Red and Blue has been in the rut fogi.
four years and this Is the only chance 70
get out of it, While they We're expert
menting at Franklin Field, DR.. Al sharps
has been getting results at Ithaca and
now Cornell wallops Penn just the same
as Harvard hands 1t TO Yale each year