Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-20
Score Served as Cold Sho,Uer
to Sleeping Penn Players;
Hobey Light Proues His
CaIiber
.WRAY REAL CENTER
BY EDWIN j. POLLOCK

WT'M SORRY and I'm glad. I'm sorry
our boys allowed Swarthmore to
score on us, but I'm glad because that
one touchdown showed them that moth
ing is impossible. 1t taught them
lesson to be ever watchful and never
careless" "
These are Bob Folwell's $ sentiments
on the SwarthmOre score in the first
seven minutes of play Saturday. For
few seconds it sent chills Quivering up
| the backs of Red and Blue supporters,
but it served as n cold shower to the
sleeping Pennsylvania eleven that awoke
and swept everything before it as it
piled up a 80 to victory.
1t was like shotgun wounds to a
sleeping lion was that Swarthmore
touchdown. And when the lion" was
aroused his roars could be heard along
the far and distant paths of football.
That score shook Penn out of it's hiber-
nation and, like a mighty giant, the
Red and Blue fighting machine trudged
over the bodies of Swarthmore defend
ers to eight touchdowns. 1t was the
largest score run up by Penn team
on a Garnet eleven in long stretch of
years.
Three times Hobey Light lifted his
feet feet over the Garnet goal line and
Bud Hopper, Heine Miller, Bots Bru-
ner, Joe Straus and Herman Harvey
each scored once. Miller, the accurate
Heine, missed only one of his eight
tries at goal after touchdown, and that
ont slip was try from point that was
close to the side lines. Ogden scored
the touchdown for Roy Mercer's eleven.
the first tally registered against the Red
and Blue this season.
uOBEY LIGHT, the mad running,
IL deadly tackling back, was the most
brilliant star among stars. Once more
he stamped himself as the best player of
the generation at Penn. and in such a
statement sight is not lost of the fact
that j. Howard Berry and other lumi-
naries played in this generation. Light
is remarkable athlete. He ran all
around the Garnet stalwarts and through
them, too, and it was more the force OF
his drive that carried the Red and Blue
to its comeback than anything else that
occurred in the cruise down to the Ger
net goal
In the years he has played at Penn
sylyania he never has stepped into de-
served credit. but those who know the
game know his value. He is the sam'
crushing. battering back on the defens'
that he is on the offense. In fact. i
was his defensive play that first gained
recognition for him.
And next in line for glory in thu
! splendor of the Red and Blue come
back stands Bert Bell, the Fcch of foot
ball generals. Bert never called tn
wrong play once on Saturday and h
ran the ball like an Eddie Mahan
Never before in his career has BE
exhibited to better advantage than b
did against Swarthmore. His frequent
dashing, tumbling, leaping runs fur
nished a great number of the thrills.
Bell is the target for slander froI
the stands and certainly he has held u
we'll under the criticism that is as un
fair as malicious. Bert is not only tn
best quarterback and driver of men o
the squad. but he is one of the create
generals that ever cracked verbal VIII
over Pennsylvania eleven.
TT is seldom that the work of linemt
L is appreciated by the gathering in Il
stands. for the first defense men get
their labor underneath the heap, hidd'
from the view of the spectators. 81
: every one OF the Red and Blue linem'
held up like granite wall. And abo
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