Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-21
PENN'S CHANCE
TO BEAT PITT
Is ON DEFENSE
Warmers Men Have SliObt.
ed This Part of Game
for Strong Attack
zIEGLER is OPTIMISTIC
By ROBERT W. MAxwr,,

The dope on the Pittsbursb.
wanna game Is beginning to pour 4, ,'''syl' ~
Judging from the guesses made ~, sno'
OF our local experts, all hona 4. ~ some
in the ranks of the hona tois. no. lost
has a chance to win the Fane e.. rem
and the dopsters are basinR ths,s ~ ,rroay,
on the fact that Penn has bsan .,m claims
strenuous season thus far wh,,a 0usn M
mas had an easy time of II. II = rlt
that Pitt never has been thoroueh,,s. ssh
this fall, the battles with wss,-tn .estn
the Navy and Carlisle being nothIr- othI,,as.sf s.
than practice frolics. NOR,
All Of this is true. TIA a.
played by Warmers men rsrit.a .sm,
walk-over, and In the NAVY ss-s. =
got the jump at the start ana s.u ru
Almost at will. Then. in the cont... ,'oss ~.
tne Indians, 1t took little time IA r,,' WIN
seneIai s scores and fiock Of subst,,,.s.pI "
,,,a.n une pattle Enormous scor..
~ Iuh up, ana this Is the causs =
'ne undue enthusiasm in smoketown
Penn, on the other hand. has 49,
AGAINST IN every game excent 49, ~
Nest virginia appeared in ths curssse
Red and Blue came out tha r,ns tns
one single score. Then CANA Ah,s.aly "
minus one Mr.. Benfer. and Penn war,an.
the weakened team by the score a, = ~
In the next battle Franklin ana Mss-Sv-S ~
almost slipped one over. INT p.-h psnsh
Vania won by the score OF 10 N q '"1syi- rs
came the State game ana the Ar,. ts.l n'a
was smeared on the 1915 escutchs.o' s'o'
DICK Harlow's players took advants - =
fenns weak defense and manares y
snoVe TWO scores across the line.
Last week the. Navy showed une,n.,,..
strength and held Penn to to 7 scors
! use tne "oro 'held' because the NAVY,
result OF an intercepted forward ns.. ..s
which was not intended to be ,n,.,.
cepted. i"e''
So 1t can be seen that Penn h.. -,
the experience of playing in hard 81, ss
II all of the battles had been as essv -
Albright, the Red and Blue. too. ,criS
now be touted as the best team IN ths
world. Wv
Any team looks like championship ma.
terial when playing against a fook ~
dubs, but II takes class to make a rooS
showing with an eleven that has ~
goods" There is some doubt as Ia ina
class of Penn this year, but we ventura
to state that 1t will not be steerase. Tia
Red and Niue has a chance this week
and IL h0~V playing and good coaching
VIII do any good. some stiff opposition
will be put up by our local prides
1t is rumored that Pitts defense Is no,
so strong as 1t might be. While few
teams have been able to gain consistentlv
against the Westerners, there is a bellef
here that fast backfield and fairly
strong line will be able to gain through
warmers forwards. Penn has a GOOD
backfeld, the line probably will give A
good account of itself, and II is likely that
several gains will be made-provided, al
course, that the grandoldope does not
slip cog.
Gus Ziegler, the old Penn guard, BE-.
lieves that Penn has a chance to "cops
from Pittsburgh. He admits that Pitt
has strong offensive team, but has hls
doubts about the defense.
Warner teaches his men to get the
ball and keep it,, says Ziegler. This
might be all right for time, but what
Will happen II the team should happen
to lose the ball? Are the players sum
ciently trained in defensive tactics to hold
their opponents for downs and take the
ball away from them? This system il
similar to Hinkey's theory at Yale last
year, which was to score twice as fast
as the other fellow You know what
happened to Old Eli in the Harvard
game and what a narrow escape the
Blue had In the last quarter Of the
Princeton battle when the Tigers put on
that sensational finish. Yale had no de-
fense.
"A team must be strong on the de.
Tense If IL expects to win games. %
not say that Pitt is weak In this De.
partment, but believe that the West
erners have not had enough opposition
to show what they have got. From an
1 can learn. Warner has a powerful at
tack, his men are the best interferen
and tacklers in the game today. but
this alone will not win. II Penn can geI
the ball and hold it for a time during
the first part of the game, / really De-
lieve that the Red and Blue will surpnH
its followers Saturday and expect 70 50
g close score.
my claims are based upon the per
Il FINANCES of the Indians in the past
Carlisle always had brilliantly offensive
team, but nearly all of its opponens
scored in the big games. remempsl
one case in particular in 1872, wnen Nv
Indians, aided by Big Jim Thorpe os
feated everybody, but were trounceo "
Penn In one OF the most sensauon''
games l have ever seen.
Penn was leading near the end ol tns
first half by the score of 20 TO O. nelus
the period ended, one OF Penns puns
went over the goal line and the lnoaes
got the bali on their own 2O-yard line IN
the first play, Jim Thorpe got loose sn-
ran eighty yards for a touchdown MAJ
ing the score 20 to 10 and the hall enosa
Penn did not find 1t hard 10 score, ~.
was unable TO do anything with tn' ="
dian attack once 1t got started. -.
"In the third period. the Indians maas
two more touchdowns, making the eeun.
26 to 90 Then Penn got the ball ~ ~
isles defense went 20 pieces ana me ~
and Blue made a touchdown ana Nee~ =
the goal, putting Penn In the LEAD,
2s. BY this time Warmers defense III
shattered and just before the game ene-' ,'.-
taar. Fls- Al. aAal ar1ra and the |aN4