Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-07

future the Big Three will be forced 10 play
Pitt or w. and J. to regain lost recognition.
so the game on Saturday looms up as the
one big event OF the season. Figure IL anv
way you wish, the only answer YOU can get
Is that It will be hard fought from the
start, with the advantage on neither side
Pitt has McLaren, the greatest fullback
In the United States; Seis and Sutherland
at guards, Seidel at tackle and CAPTAIN
Carlson who outplayed Heinie Miller. at
end. These men are stars, but 10 offset
their work w. and j. has Ruhle Stobbs and
McCreight in the backheld. Henry and
Wimberly and Brown on the line and a
pair or fast, heavy ends. Sol Metzger has
the men in good condition, and is said to
have an attack which will sweep any ordl-
nary team off its feet.
Sol Makes Prediction
Sol isn't saying much, but he has an idea
that the tide will turn in his favor this
year. We asked him what he thought of
his chances when he was here for the Pitt
Penn game, and he said without reserva-
tlon:
II am quite confident that IL we stop
George McLaren and score more touch
downs than Pitt, we will win" Metzger al
ways Is making rash statements.
Some people in this section have an idea
that brutal and barbaric football is plaved
in the other end OF the State and that the
players go for each others throats as soon
as the whistle blows. This Is an entirely
wrong impression. have oflcated in many
games In Pittsburgh and never have seen
any rough work on the part of the home
team Visiting elevens have tried il, and
In one case l remember where a player on
one Of the big elevens was put off the field
for kicking an opponent
While Washington and jefferson and
Pitt are bitter rivals the best of feeling
exists between the two institutions off the
athletic field. The football teams do not
go in to- kill one another, but play a fair,
clean, hard game, which usually gives the
verdict TO the better eleven Mucker foot
ball outside Of the East exists only in
memory.
A football official is r. n,uch-abused per-
son at times. He is used as the favorite
alibi by a defeated coach and weaknesses
OF the team are concealed under the guise
of unfair rulings and deliberate discrimi-
nation in favor of the other side. II is NOT
at all uncommon for a coach to assail a
referee-verbally-aft a game, saying:
| You had no right to rob me of this game
| You penalized my team every time II got
| near the goal line If it hadn't been fol
| you we would have Won" This has beer
| used Sc many times that an official feels
| he hasn't done his duty if he is not handed
| calldown after the game.
However, something new is sprung occa.
| sionally, and when it is the arbters of th'
| gridiron feel that life is worth living A
| regular coach sometimes appears on tn,
scene, and want to introdue Mr. Mcintyre
of the West Virginia team. He passed
| through Philadelphia Saturday night aftel
playing a 7-to-7 game with Rutgers. BE
tween trains he called up Ross Kaufman OF
| the telephone.
I'VE had a pretty tough battle" saiC
Mcintyre. but I have no kick coming
| Rutgers played clean football and the ofi
/ ciating was the best I ever have seen.
| wish you would see. that the referee, UNI
| pire and head linesman are thanked prom
,erly for their work"
The officials were Carl Marshall of Har
ward; Dr. Carl Williams and big Bill
| Holenback, of Penn. Those names shoulc
go down in the hall of fame.