The sun., 1919-10-09
Heat Does Not Prevent Stars
From Making Spectacu-
lar Dashes.

IL was hot last Saturday, dreadfuiiy
not whom collegiate football got into
rul swing throuGhout the land. and the
pay OF most of the teams suffered &C.
cordingly. Nevertheless, many players
praved the exhausting heat with sensa-
tionh long runs that featured the OPEN
Ing contests.
In three instances these long runs were
the initial scores Of the contest and in
Fourth instance the snake danoe of a
s'ngie player resulted in the lone touoh-
down for his team. This was Frits sbiy-
erick's sixty-thres yard dash through
oberiin for Cornell's only touchdown.
Ths etE Red team was leading, 3 to o,
~ the time. due to fsld goal by the
Same player earlier in the game, and the
touchdown came In quito handily. for
Corns,l Those were the only scores
made against oberiin. the final count
being 0 to o.
chst La Roche started Yale on its
winning way against Springfield College
with . twenty-three yard dash around
end, and strubing. the Princeton star.
drew hrst blood for the Tigers by GAL
lopins sixty yards through the Trinity
team. Crane of Yale n,ade q twenty
two yard run into Springfield territory.
which did not culminate IN q touchdown
but which put the Blue in . position to
obtain its hrst marker shortly there
after.
rhorns Murphy Of Tale got away for
forty-hve yards for an apparent touch-
down IN the fourth quarter. but the bail
was called back on account Of Blue In
fraction Of the ru,ea Tale didn't need
the tally. anyhow. but Murphy prob
ably rsgrstted its loss.
Cas~Y In LOu~ Rwu.
In me Boston College Harvard game
there wsrs NO long runs for touchdown..
but Eddie Casey grabbed q punt on his
own goal line and raced well past mid
field. Here the Crimson machine began
its attack and q touchdown resulted In
ten plays
Beckett Of Williams brought sorrow
to Sol Metzger's heart by opening the
williams Union tilt with a seventy yard
dash for o score. Beckett's play was
probably the most brilliant OF thee day
and instilisd wonderful life into the Will
iams elevsn.
In the scramble down In Philadelphia
In which Penn slaughtered Penn Military
got away for long runs for two Of the
touchdowns Had the Quakers been
playing harder more Red and Blue play
era might have registered long sprints.
but Penn was winning and the weather
was too hot for added sxsrtion.
springheIa Improvss.
Inadvertently. no doubt, New York
football writer last Saturday referred to
the Springfield College eleven as Spring
neld Training School. that traditional
punching bag for Eastern college
elsvenA" Herman Hillebrand, athletic
manager Of the Massachusetts, institu-
tion, In an sHdesvor 70 correct this I'M
preston. sent THE Sun the following;
while Springfield College was de-
feated by the strong Dartmouth team.
10 to o, on opening day, II was able
to hold Yale to 20 to 0 that same day.
In college football circles It 10 recog-
nixed that q team never reaches the
height OF It's game until at least the
middle Of the season and that changes
and experiments are necessary In the
early games.
"Inasmuch as Springfield has cut
grown the circle of smaller colleges. II
teams to all its schedule-for even the
preliminary games. This years card Is
the heaviest In the history Of the insti-
tuition, containing Dartmouth. Yale, Har-
ward, West Point. Tufts, Hamilton. Holy
Cross and Massachusetts Aggies.
with such teams on the schedule It
Is only reasonable to suppose that
Springfield must experience her share Of
defeats, especially In the early games.
However. we have grown out Of the
punching bag class and feel keen
regret that our work Is not recognised
as being on the high plane upon which
Ne have striven to keep It these many
years"