Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-09
Pittsburgh Has Crack Eleven
Pennsylvanans, Are Making Strong Bid for Championship Honors on the Gridiron-Warner's Men May Make Another Sweep. +s

! who ever played college football before entering Pittsburgh. Seidel played at tMuhlenberg for one year. He was on the scrub eleven last season, but by furious playing won his place on the varsity this year. Indeed, most of the 1 players came from the preparatory schools of Western Pennsylvania. 1 Nothing succeeds like success, and 1 the renarkable advaneo of Piitsburg in the athletic field has caused hun Edreods af prep school lads to natric- ulate there rather than go to some of the Eastern colleges to make their bid for athletic fame. The university IS | 129 years old, approximately 1000 students, and an alumni body of 5000 | On this years eleven there are sev- eral men of All-America timber. George McLaren. the fullback, IS one | of the greatest line breakers we have two years more before him. Bob Max well, former star of Swarthmore elev- ems, and a keen student of the game, | declared McLaren to be one of the greatest backfied men he had ever seen. With two more years in which Ito develop he should rank with the great Ted Coy, or, Bezdek. or some of those other heroes of the gridirons. | Bob Peck was chosen on the All America team last year, and careful student of the other centres on the | field this fall discloses no dangerous rival to him. Red Hastings is a star of first rank, and Heron has few su- periors as an end.
 Few Stars Lost.
 | Those opponents who are suffering silently and waiting for next year. Ito break the power of Pittsburgh have E1ittle cause for jubilation. A few stars will be lost through graduation, but team to start with in 1917, and we have Warner will have practially a veteran his word for it that several of the scrub are about to take their places lon the varsity eleven.
 T. 4 Perhaps the most serious loss will be | that of Bob Peck, the crack centre ron, the end. but there is a wealth ot material with which to fill the gaps> Carlson and Heron the two ends are home products. The former was graduated from Bellefonte Academy and is playing his third year on the l loc:el schools. anc never played footbal il before entering the university. He T will be S: aduated this year.
 :hornhill, one of the tackles. is play ing his last year of college football lie came to Pittsburgh from Hanover High School near Pittsburgh He wa. conspicuous in the Syracuse game by his fearless, furious playing. Seide came from Muhlenberg and last seasor
 wolkcd alorg or the scrub eleven. Perhaps the greatest surprise in tht SyTacuse-Pitt game was the eas, manner in which Seis outp.ayed Babt l White. Seis, a giant himself stand
 ing some feet 2 inches in height anC
 weighing some 200 pounds or more ] was dwarfted in comparison to tn, Syracuse captain. But physical dis parity was the least of the troubles O Seis He tore into White and mad,
 him look peer.
 Seis was a scrub last year, and mad,
 the varsity afteP Soppitt wa sinjuret
 in the Navy game. His home is il l Davenport Iowa, and his brother is member of the faculty in Pittsburgh l &Iniuersi/y. Sutherland. who mad Schlachter sigh for the ease of home
 Is from Sewickley, Penn. He prepared 1 at Oberlin Academy.
 1 Harvard is better fixed for ends thi! l season than any other football tean
 in the east So say the crimson grid
 iron experts. In addition to the reg
 ular ends, Dick Harte and c. Coolidge
 the Cambridge eleven has two or thre
 men who can hold down these posi-
 tions in brilliant style. Harte IS on
 of the speediest men in the east. anc
 many football experts say he is tn
 best end of the season. Harte is :
 hard tackler fast down the field unde
 kicks and is not easily boxed out o
 the play. He is exceptionally cleve
 catching forward passes.