The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-13
"POP" is WONDER
Warmers Pitt. Team Not De-
feated in Three Years.
VeiOck Says 1t Was Class of
GridjrOn This Season.
BY JACK VEIOCK.

New York, Dec 13.-Three seasons
without a defeat!
Three seasons crowned with glori-
Gus victories over ancient rivals; vic
tories so clean cut that no claims of
the beaten foemen could detract from
their brilliancy.
This is a record to be proud of,
and Glenn Warner and his Pittsburgh
university football heroes are justly
swelled up about it.
When the Panthers finished the
season CT 1917 without suffering the
sting of a beaten team they reached
the goal for which they had been
striving since the season began-the
goal of three years of sweeping vic
tories.
Admirers of the Panthers-and they
have hosts of them-are agreed that
should any team be acclaimed as the
best in the country for the season of
1917 it should be Warmers eleven.
On their showing this year they
are entitled to much consideration,
but because they cannot be handed
the national championship with such
elevens as Ohio State and Georgia
/ Tech standing in the way of their
claims. and no chance to make fair
comparisons, they must be satisfied
with a rating as the best team in the
east.
Georgia Techs Title.
To Georgia Tech goes the southern
title for this year.
The Atlanta aggregation piled up
greater scores against opponents than
any other eleven in the country and
there is not the slightest doubt as to
their class The defeat Tech handed
to Penn early in the season was a
sample of the class of the team, and
though Bob FolwelPs Red and Blue
machine was far from being in its
real form when the Tech game was
played, the decisiveness of the score
leaves Penn with little chance to yelp.
1t must be remembered, also that
Tech improved as the season advanced.
/ Ohio State won the Big Ten cham
1 pionship for the second consecutive
time, romping home with the bacon
after a season of we'll earned vic
! tories that left no stumbling block in
! the path of their claims to class. On
/ the scores made by other western
] eleyens it appears that Ohio State was
+ the class of the west outside the con-
! ferences as well, tho Coach Wilce's
gridders did not meet Michigan, Notre
4 Dame or Nebraska.
/ CHANGING back at the Pittsburg team
/ it is timely to note that Warner de-
/ veloped the best all-around team in
! the east without his bright stars of a
year ago. The team this year did not
/ present the faces of Jimmy De Hart,
! Andy Hastings, Bob Peck, Jim Nor
row, Pat Heron and other luminaries
4 of the 1915 eleven.
New Pitt. Stars.
! Instead, Coach Warner had a squad
/ of lesser lights, composed largely of
men who had been substitutes for the
/ last two years and eligibles from the
i 1915 freshman team. OF the thirty
! four men who comprised the 1916
varsity squad. nine atone remained
when the football team was assembled
this fall. From this material the ia
nous Comedian formed a typical
F., Warner machine with every man
| knowing exactly what he had to dc
in every play and usually performing
that function when the signals were
called
OF the great Pitt backfield of last
year. which outclassed all teams met
George McLaren, the plunging full
back of Pittsburg high school, alone
was left. He is under 81 and not eli
/ gible for the draft. Jimmy De Hart
the quarterback, is at Princeton with
the aviation corps. Hastings and
Morrow the regular 1916 halfbacks
are in France with the Pitt base hos
pital unit. In the places of these stars