The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-29
PENN TO APPROACH
Big THREE ELEYENS
Old Football Captains Vote to
Resume Relations Severed
Years Ago.
TO ASK TIGERS FIRST
Quakers Last Met Princeton at
Trenton in 1894, and
Beat Them.
TO ASK TIGERS FIRST

ITtHtOu Ill lOOt, anu
Beat Them.
Before the winter comes Pennsylvania |
vii open negotiations looking toward !
,he resumption of football relations with |
Harvard, Yale or Princeton. The move- !
rent was started last Monday night, |
when the four Thayers entert lined TWEEN !
ty.four former Penn football captains at |
A dinner at the Bellevue-Stratford In !
Philadelphia. 1t was the unanimous |
opinion of the one time leaders that iff
Pennsylvania is to make any real head |
way In its efforts to gain the top in foot !
bali II will have to return to the schedule |
Of at least one of the Big Three.
1t is understood that Princeton will |
b, approached first. The Quakers and |
he Tigers have not met on the gridiron |
since that memorable battle in Trenton |
"a 1924, which Penn won by ~ to 0. !
That 1894 Penn team is regarded by all |
Penn men as the greatest which yet has |
represented the university.
Penn certainly had a lot of stalwarts |
that year. Knipe, osgood. George |
Brooke and Carl Williams were in the |
hackfeld, AL Bull played center and !
Wiley Woodruff and Buck Wharton were |
the guards Jack Minds and Otto Wag-
onhurst were tackles and Colbert and
Rosengarten ends Every man was
star and the eleven went through the
season without giving way to a sub
CHUTE George Woodruff coached the
team, and 1t was that year that he
brought out his famous guards-back
play.
How Play Originated.
The origin OF that play is quite inter-
tsting Woodruff had invented the fly
ing Interference, which was ruled illeg Il
By the officials. The entire side of the
line would get on before the ball, run
ling in the direction of their own goal
4 line. and just as they turned the center
would snap the ball. This gave Wood
ruff six men in the Interference and
made it difficult for the other teams to
stop the plays. After. this was legis-
! lated out, Woodruff conceived the idea
| Of placing his guards on one side of the
quarterback. not TO carry the ball, but
10 lead the interference. This was sue
esssful, and later the linenen were used j
Is line plungers with excellent results.
Penn used Wiley Woodruff and Whar-
| ton great deal in that Princeton game
ind they aided considerably in defeating
the Tigers. In that game 1t win be re-
| nembeTed that the onside kick was
used for the first time Woodruff was
rot allowed to use ii In the first half,
but after he explained the play to the
officials between the halves they gave
their consent.
Harvard and Pennsylvania have not
net on the football field since 1905.
when the Quakers won by IL to 6.
Tenn won the year before too, by IL
/ f,,I ctr
tsiiion for the Crimson to handle. so
the annual Figure. which was Instituted
in 1881, was dbne away with. Pennsyl-
Wnla and Yale have not played since
1898. That year the Ellis won by IA
70 6. Yale and Penn met for the first
I time In 1879. and Penn has yet to get
& decision over the Blue.
Sanford Promises Action.
The recent poor showing of the Rut-
gers eleven is not to be taken as an
Indication that Syracuse will have a
galkover when 1t tackles the Scarlet at
the Polo Grounds on election day.
George Foster Sanford, the Rutgers
each, is authority for the statement
that Rutgers will be able to give fine
account of itself. And Sanford Is not
Usually given to saying things which he
cannot DaCk up.
"Hef" Herring. Princeton's old line
\ man and Coach, went to Cambridge to
\ invite Harvard to send some players to
4 Princeton on November Is. when the
Tigers and Rutgers will celebrate the
a dfteth anniversary OF their first football
game In 1869. Harvard has been asked
10 be prepared to demonstrate Lorin
Delsnd's old flying wedge, which It first
used at Springfield in 1892 against Yale.
I Anent- Sitting on Copcrete.
The SUN has received a number of
letters from persons who went to Prince
ION last Saturday protesting against the
TACT that they were asked 10 sit ON
hare concrete. Unlike the Yale Bowl
Or the Harvard Stadium ths Palmer
Memorial Stadium at Princeton is not
equipped with wooden seats. Sitting on
bare concrete on a cold afternoon is not
the best method to conserve health.
The straw seats sold around the stadium
ere not adequate protection. Princeton
mould do something about this
Rights to championship football
1ckets given to subscribers to the Yale
Bowl Fund, which would have expired
1928, have been extended two years
70 make up for cancellation OF cham
'onship games during the war. 1t was
announced by the Yale University Ath-
etc Association yesterday.
Men and not coaches make football
teams. Look at the plight of Sol Metz
ger at Union. If coaching counted for
~ W per cent Union would have won
4 host OF its games. AS It is. the
Shenectady players are taking some
terrific ldclngs.
HARD WORKOUT AT WESLEYAN.
ooote's Kicking Features Practice
Against Cubs.
Special Despatch 10 TIE Sun
AlnuLETCwN, Conn, Oct. 2S.--Dr. Ed
"a Fagver and Coach Liston put the
Wesleyan varsity through a hard scrim-
Iage inst the strong freshman team