Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-12-02
penn SURPRISE OF YEAR
VICTORY OVER MICHIGAN
SHOWS DOPE is VAlUELESS
Comparative Scores Indicated, VOL
Hcrines Had All the Best OF Pros
pects--Berry Largely Responsible.


NEW YORK. December l-Penl
gave the football sharps the surprise
OF the season.
When the Red and Blue mo!esHir
warriors OF Bob Folwell trampled ,h'
Wolverines into the dust at Frank lii
Field. headed by the versatile Now'
ard Berry. they tipped over the H'an:
completely. for 10 one expected that
The Wolverines, hailed as the cream
OF the West. would return 20 An" Ar
Dor Il defeated team. though .aanE
critics predicted that Penn would put
up a great battle. and tho writer was
one OF them.
pretty clearly just how much DOPE is
worth when il Is gathered from com
parative scores In sizing up the
strength o! various teams Which q,
pairing two teams scheduled 20 play
on the scores o! previous games
aEains, The same teams. the dopester
takes the longest Kind OF & chance
and, d : L rule, re Gcsen't get away
from the BARRIER insofar as hitting the
nail OF ,he COCO is concerned.
Doping o., football teams by COM
pAratire scores = JUST as sure as dop-
sPects 20 ;iusa;e Fullerton.
In, o;hs- words. !, is bunk. pure
and simple. tor thsee are jus, as many
uncertainties III football as IN any
other game.
Fo- instance. V.ho would have pre-
dieter that Penn could have played
the hetIy Wolverines OF ,hei- feet in
every department; - :he game" Who
would have Predicted that Howard
Berry, AT .a-and-ovt player as rule,
would slip three Held goals between
The bars asains: Michigan, Who?
We hear 10 answ:r. The heartiest
supporters Q! ;ae Penn :eam-,hr
Philsdslphia sports wr:;ers-did not
Penn could win. 70. Michigan came
East too well press-aganteG and car.
rying too sood q record for ;aa,. But
the fact remains ;ha' Penn ala wal
lop Michi gan. a.i there YOU are.
Fem. as she PLACED against NicSi-
Ean, might have beaten Pittsburgh.
Penn was pointed and .eadE FOR that
game. She had found herself and Bob
in the ouakers wAich would not be
owned. PENIS backs and Peua's for
wards played as though their very
lives depended on victory. The pep
they rushed onto ,hs field to-. their
preliminary sigma! drill. They showed
more jazz and ginger than tile VOL
verines could possibly have shown.
The old dope is bunk IN many cases.
but what is poor dopcSter gonna 90.
huh? Tell us what.
Captain IIeine Miller. OF the Fem
sylvania eleven. who played right end
for the Quakers this season, stands
out prominently as candidate for
ono OF the All-American jobs this
year.
Miller has played a great game or
football from the start OF the season
but his work in the game against
Michigan stamped him as one OF the
best ends in the country. and many
critics throughout the East. who az
tended the game were highly Inn
pressed with iicinic as AllAmerican
timber.
Miller played rings around his op-
moment. Gcotz, Mchigan's left end.
He box GeotZ continually. got down
under punts like flash and broke up
the Interference Of the Wolverines
coming around his wing before il was
fairly started. Ii Is good 10 see an
end play football as Miller did in that
game for IL reminded every one o. III e
good old-timers who used TO MAKE
cata3ults out ot themselves regardless
OF the chances they took OF breaking
their necks. Miller deserves real con-
sheraton. and lie TIll get II