Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-11-20

exfF ARE home WIN .h'
W..r Fo,well was right when he told
80, wa would carry tho breakfast
Iess ssck 20 philadelphia with US. fNery-
~ = s,premeiy happy ~ woulu nav
s.sv hard to find more Iliiar.ouS .,,., ,,,hics
II tos..ai, saturday night and drew into
Ht ~ rails Yesterday morning. we saw
flalaIna ,bo RapIds and everything there
p - - and boarded our special late IN
~ w.snoon for the last les OF the tourney,
saas.hlrs " the Reading Terminal shoruy al'er
e'elock this morning
-. coaches tell us that we played our
=, game OF the season against MiG.lIss,. ,s,.,.
~ ssaitove them our line was better
80 - and the way the fellows showed
uAa At.cb Raymond, Sparks and smith
- os Ferry Field was fine sight
" ;rhs back0eld came through as never
s,rr. and II looks as though Coach folWe"
~ yound the best combination.
zoo much credit cannot be given to "Nis
go We all expected him 10 snow US
n..,hine II he was right, and he surely
ea,s never saw Berry play better
~ Ie was virtually In every play. and
1.strg I'm OF the line was revelation.
ms.,s. ~ haa over accused "Nig" OF being
N..si,g Noysi nut n star on the offense, but his
.asansye game has not been as strong as
80 az some Of the other backs am
are. however, that you could not convince ,.
80 N the Michigan men of this however
~ sy .,Nisa was wonder in every depart
,nsnt ot the game Saturday.
LlKht Star
~. work of Hobey Light has not re-
.,sved the applause that 1t should. Hooey
80 IN there working his head on and
ssnklnR I'D any holes that occurred In the
,taA IN vvonderfui style. Lights work was
"a az tho spectacular kind, but he was
-.ssr avery play which came his way.
sn.n ne got under them they stopped
mighty sudden.
e .Nig,, Berry's wonderful work, which re-
,uted in q touchdown before we had been
saving three minutes. put us In right from
he start. Those seven points looked aWtul !,
~ hut the boys were thinking OF the
,sirga they had heard about the Michigan
f.eLheid and about Maulbetsch particu-
;sriv Everybody in Detroit told us what
1 hear he was and we were uneasy until he
asde his first three cracks at the line. He
IA US and bounced back, and after that
felt that we were bound to win and
stopped worrying.
ThrouRhout the game our line played low
according to instructions, with the result
lAat Yost's backs never gained more than
yard or two at n time and often not that.
fha Michigan men have been taught to put
lls.r heads down and simply bore in. often
diving headlong with tremendous force
when they neared the line.
Nv playing low and holding our ground.
es.formed barrier over which Yost's trio
@shid not 60 They usually slipped over
IL ana were nailed by the secondary line
q defense as they came.
Two Bad Scares
Nchgan gave us two bad scares during
siss game Twice they started series OF
al M
tfiplh passes and forward passes. They had
soma plays that we're combination OF the
three When team starts to open up like
aHythlng Is likely TO happen and we all
III better when Berry Light, Urquhart
and Miller broke up one attempt after an
sshsr
We relied mostly on straight football for
TIT was all we seemed to need. OF course
BsH Bell tried a few forward passes, but
hs did 1t more to keep the Wolverines guess
ihg than for any other reason.
Right here l want to say that Bell played
wonderful game. His choice Of plays
Haa fine and he not only ran the team well
nj he kept the men working hard all the
tine by his line OF talk. Any time Bert saw
player showing signs OF the strain he
as talking to him right away and every
Hady who has ever played football knows
that that means in hard game. Berry
snrks better with Bell than with any one
80 and unless something happens which
= arc not looking for between now and
thanksgiving Bert will play quarterback
Fsainst Cornell,
asgret for Lud
The only regrettable feature OF the game
rs the disqualification of Lud Wray. Lud
and Heine Miller tackled Sparks at the
me time after kick, and after 1t was
sser the referee sent wray to the side lines
a,F.Fy- ftagf mo
2 those plays which always look rough.
zayhow
After Lud had gone out his brother
Aiex took his place, and l want TO say
Hkht here that he played fine football. 1t
- Alexis first big game, and on the first
~ ne threw Maulbetsch for n loss and
saowed US alt that he knew what he was
Tiers for. Folwell believes that 1t is
Hafe Important to have a good substitute
#ater than any other position, and he has
#seioped one in Alex Wray.
something that had a great deal to do
u our spirit and victory happened In
= Dressing room before the game started.
- oelore We trotted out on the field line
szeh Doctor Wharton gave us little
- on, Penn's football history. He told
Of the old Quaker heroes and said a
OF things that made US determined TO
our there and beat Michigan or never
back to Philadelphia,
Wolverines Surprised
sust as soon as we got out on the field
Berry started kicking practice. He
2 lot OF high kicks above the stands
- found out how the ball acted when
WIND got hold OF H. He also got the
shsah men to believing that the high
vas his only style, and when the game
zs4'sd they got the surprise OF their
heyer saw Berry kicking better in my
lie took advantage OF everything
Alnss the wind he sent the ball low and
With the result that Il carried II a