The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-30
WHARTON PRAISES
DARTMOUTH LINE
One Time Star Says Quakers
Dust Seek Gains Elsewhere
in Green Tilt.
PENIS SCHEDULE HARD
Folwell Will Have to Develop
Running Attack to Carry
Team Through.
PENIS SCHEDULE HARD

Pennsylvania realizes that the hardest
game for the Red and Blue eleven this
season will be the clash against Dart
mouth on the Polo Grounds on Novem-
Der s. After witnessing the Dartmouth
Cornell game last Saturday DR.. Charles
NJ ("Buck") Wharton, one time famous
iineman at Penn and now assistant to
Bob Folwell. said:
~ have been at Franklin Field for
twenty years In the capacity of line
coach, and never In that time have l
seen such q line as Dartmouth has, on
our team or any other. The Dartmouth
llnemen have both the poundage and the
punch--they constitute chain of forts.
Penn must look elsewhere for Its
gains than through the Green line. Fol-
we'll must set to work to develop one
OF his great running attacks to carry
the Red and Blue safely through the
rest of the schedule.
''Pittsburg Is strong and Cornell will
be desperate when the big Red team
comes down for the Thanksgiving Day
game. Penn and Cornell always are
desperate against each other. These
games, not to mention the tough little
tilt with Penn State next Saturday. show
that our path is by no means clear, but
We have a great team and l believe that
we can finish strong"
Recognize Penn state Power.
Dr. Wharton goes on to say that Penn
eylvania does not underestimate the
power OF Penn State, and that the Red
and Blue will not be caught in a slump
by the State eleven. He thinks that
Dartmouth will beat Colgate and that
Dartmouth and Penn most likely will
decide the Eastern title on the Polo
Grounds.
Penn will send 10000 undergraduates
and alumni to the game. Although the
attendance at the Cornell
game far exceeded any previous foot
ball game played on the Polo Grounds,
barring the Army-Navy tits, indications
are that the Dartmouth-Penn crowd will
be much larger. The game will have
a vital bearing on the Eastern cham
pionship.
The Quaker team will make It's head
quarters at the Pennsylvania Hotel and
will practise on the Polo Grounds the
day before the game.
Goal Kick Depreciates.
It's tough to be forced from a to 2
favorite to an outsider at to /, but
that 10 just what has happened to the
goal kick after touchdown In regard
10 it's relative value to the touchdown.
In 1888 the year that numerical scoring
was inaugurated, the goal was worth
points, and the touchdown itself
counted only 2. This value was reversed
before the season OF 1884 started. but
the goal still was quite important.
In 1897 the.vaiue of a touchdown was
increased IT, S points and the goal went
down to point-a figure that was MAIN
tanned until 1912, when "a touchdown
was increased to 6 points, the goal
remaining at point Thus, from n
1 to 2 choice the goal has sunk to
to l selection.
And in addition many coaches favor
the abolition OF the extra point for the
goal claiming that too many games are
won by single player rather than by a
team. 1t seems that compromise will
be effected before many years, elimi-
mating the punt out and making the
team, try for the goal from a point in
front OF the spot over which the ball
was carried for the score.
This seems to DO the most logical So
luton. since there would be far too many
tie games II the kick were abolished
altogether.