The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10
COLUMBIA VICTORY
AIDED BY TUMBLE
Burt Receivers Loose Ball and
Runs Twenty Yards for
Touchdown.
n. Y. Z. BEATEN IA TO Z
Record South Field Throng of
1900 Witnesses Hard,
Even Tussle.
BY SAMUEL J. BRooKMAN.

ny SAM btNoON
A tumble, a general scramble for the
loose ball and then a recovery and a
dash for a touchdown stroke of for
tune that so often has played leading
part IN football victory and defeat
enabled Columbia to wipe out the sting
Of last years defeat at the hands of
New York University yesterday. BY the
margin Of the score that resulted from
that one slip on y. Y US part the Blue
and White triumphed over the Violet
before the largest crowd that ever
thronged South Field, The score was
IA to Z, or two touchdowns and goals to
one.
Fourteen thousand football fans wit
messed the hard but cleanly fought bat
tie, saw the tide shift several times from
one side to the other. saw Columbia rally
after a stubborn defence of its own
goal and take the aggressive, and saw
n. Y. u. counter rally with logged
determination that came just a bit too
late to- prevent defeat.
y. Y. u was not outplayed-far from
IT, If anything the Violet had somewhat
the better OF the fracas. for the tally
showed nine first downs for the Uni
versityT Heights squad and only six for
Columbia. The Violet gained more
ground on rushes and end runs. most Of
II being earned bythe speed and alert
ness of its captain. Jack Weinheimer.
who was easily the star of the team.
Neither line was particularly strong, but
y. Y. us was the stronger In the
back7eid Columbia showed to better adj
vantage, for barring Weinhelmer the
Violet backs were too slow getting
started and faded to follow the inter-
ference with the speed that Is expected
of men behind the line even at this early
stare of the season. II was a sharp.
even tussle. however, and the least that
New York University deserved was tie
Not since the days when Columbia
rated, with the best in the football world
has local interest in the gridiron sport
been go keen. A few years ago when the
Morningside university decided to revive
the game on South Field the contest with
n Y.~U. attracted merely a curious
handful. Yesterday long before the rival
squads took the field the stands that
hold ten thousand persons were damned
from end to end and from bottom row TO
top. while around the outer bounda~ies
OF the field thousands stood four and five
deep.
Rooters WAX Enthusiastic.
The rooters did not wax very enthusi-
not as vociferous as one could expect al
an important football tussle. 1t was toe
hot to get excited. n bit too hot to play
football, in fact, and the rooters per-
mitted the brass bands stationed at OPP
posite sides of the field to make most OF
the noise. The heat was completely for
gotteh. however. as the game progressed
and with one tense, situation following
another excitement ran high. Toward
90 fNf -fa 1c q 1f
the undergraduates around the roped of
area looked more like the frantic en-
thusiasts that one Is accustomed TO be-
hold at gridron contests
The. play that brought about the de-
feat of the Violet warriors came in the
sixth minute of the second quarter
when, n. Y. U. had the ball on it's 90
yard line. Weinheimer had intercepted
forward pass few minutes before
, that. and that had failed to gain on an
end run. On the third down Bourguinon
the Ny. L.. quarter back, called for a
delayed pass. Weinheimer received the
ball and passed It 10 Ferguson. who
fumbled As the bali bounded out oil
his hands n mad scramble followed
during.-which half a dozen players tried
In vain to pick the oval up clearly
Suddenly Bob Burt Coumbia's right
half back. darted into the melee. grasped
the bounding ball and was off in a jlffy
for the y. Y. L. goal There was nc
one IN front OF him, and there was a
sinking feeling in the Violet stands as
he ran twenty yards unmolested for n
touchdown. Canapary kicked goal and
Columbia was out in front. 20.
Columbia ewas hard pressed AT the
start of the fray, for after losing the
I ball on downs on It's 35-yard line. the
Blue and White was beaten back stead
lily. the, Violet making three first downs
by line plunging and end runs and car
rying- the oval finally to within the
shadow of the Columbia goal posts
'rhera Columbia fought flercely and the
". Y. L. gains became shorter with
every plunge. Finally. with their backs
almost against the goal posts. Buck
f, O'Neills charges took the ball on
downs on their 3-yard line, the Violet
failing to make the distance by about a
yard.
Punting out Of danger Columbia held
its own for the rest OF the quarter. and
the period ended with the ball in pos
session Of the Blue and White on ~ Y.
U's 40 yard line. Before the whistle
y announcing The termination of the quar-
ter Columbia had begun 20 show power
in attack. Canapary and Harris by
plunges outside OF tackle accounting for
two first downs.
Harris Gains often.