New-York tribune., 1920-12-05


by jim Thorpe. thus enabling the
Canton eleven by a score Of to 8
was the first professional football ga
attracted an attendance of about Is,
The stars were all there as adver-
tised. aud they gave a fine exhibition
OF football play, albeit the struggle
lacked the the color and the spirit at
tendant upon collegiate contests. The
issue was featured mostly by various
brilliant individual feats. Both
elevens showed lack of teamwork
and the repertoire of plays put on by
each team was quite limited. Neverthe
less, the game was interesting and
we'll played mechanically all the way.
What surprised us most was the hard
play OF the two teams. 1t is true some
of the backs went into the line "soft'
and without the vigorous drive they
showed in smashing through for their
alma matters. But the tackling was
lard and sure, nary miss in this
respect.
Line Play Isn Superb
The running Of Oscar Anderson.
Jim Thorpe, Weldon and others was
we'll done and the line play Of both
teams was superb. 1t was. in fact.
fawlessly executed. Toward the end
one was reminded of college battle
when some of the players began
riding" each other.
Every player in each lineup is a
former star, but not every performer
/ 10. nIt al
played we'll Jim Thorpe, former
phenom of the Carlisle Indians;
"Swede" Youngstrom, Oscar Anderson,
ex-Colgate pilot and allAmerican
quarterback; "Bull" Lowe. ex-Fordham-
ite and former protege of Tad Jones
at Exeter. and Big Bill Henry occupied
most of the spotlight. These fellows
put on a mighty fine exhibition.
AS stated above. the Swede from the
hills of old New Hampshire, whose
speciality while at Dartmouth was
blocking punts, was the hero Of the
game. Youngstrom is stil up to his
from placement and his team was APP
parently on it's way to victory, mas
much as neither eleven appeared able
t. gain through the other, so evenly
were they matched.
The Swede kicked off to Canton
after that field goal and after few
attempts to rush Thorpe dropped back
TO kick The ball was snapped, and
with the pass the Swede went crash
ing through that opposing line of stall
warts -Feeney. Speck, Henry ct al.
Then. just as Thorpe dropped the oval
and let drive with his powerful right
leg, the Swede hurled himself forward.
just as he did on Clio at Hanover
last year, just as he did on Carey. of
Cornell, and just as he has done on
others.
Touchdown Brings Victory
The ball flew off Thorpe's foot as
though shot from cannon, struck the
flying Swede full on the chest and
rebounded to tine 10-yard line. Thorpe
at the time Of the kick was standing on
his 25-yard line.
loungstrom, quickly Strengthened
after the impact % ball and body,
outsprinted the others to the leather
gathered it up and scampered over for
the only touchdown and victory. Bodie
" eIdon kicked the goal, making the
score to 3.
Just previous to this touchdown
Thorpe, standing on Buffalo's 21-yard
line. almost directly in front of the
posts. with Calac holding the ball.
kicked goal from placement. In the
first half the Indian missed two at
tenpts, the first from the 42-yard line.
the second from the 39yard line. Both
were short.
The first two periods consisted
mostly OF a puntng duel between
Thorpe and Weldon, with the Indian
having all the better of it. This In
dian marvel, who used to thrill by his
wonderful feats while at Carlisle, is
M tpf. TO
Givulge his age--but he still is d
pretty nifty football player.
Thorpe Still Great Punter
The majority of his punts carried
more than forty-fve yards and one
carried more than sixty-tve yards,
from behind his goal line to the oppo-
site 40-yard line. He is still d power
1ul runner with the ball, altho .gh by
no means as fast nor as shfty as in
the good old days Also ne is still a
strong defensive player, and when he
chose to back up the line late in the
game yesterday the opposing backs
clou t have chance of gaining.
Youngstrom relieved Weldon of the
better than his predecessor. Smiling
Big Bill Henry, whom we also selected
Cor our all-star team last wear. gave a
wonderful exhibition of tackle play.
He shot across the line of scrimmage
50 rapidly on one occasion that he
smeared the opposing backs before
they even got started AS tackle
Henry is nearly line in himself. He
received valuable aid on defense from
Bull Lowe, whose hard and sure
tackling was one of the features
Heinie Miller also played we'll at
end. but Bob Higgins, the great wing
OF Penn State college, who topped
them all ast year, was Off form. lie
mas been III several weeks, and vester-
day ne looked to be in poor condition.
pale and thin much lighter in fact.
,nan ne Was year ago. Higgins was
hafdiy 1T to play football yesterday.
Anderson Star on Attack
Lou Little, Buck and O'Connor aleo
old good work in the line; in fact. all
OF lne hnenen were up to snuff Oscar
emerson was easily the star offensive
player His running back Of punts
gave the crowd plenty Of thrills and
Kept the fang on edge
lornmy Hugnltt made the best play
o. 'ne day bluff forward pass. which
anderson took from him and went
around rght end for twenty Yards. the
longest gain Of the Gay.
Latc IN the second period in run
n'ng back 4 punt, Love IN diyiny 70
tacHie Anderson struck him on the
mead With his knee, and the former
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