The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-25
Cornell and Penn State Should
Win Big Football Con-
tests To-day.
BY DANIEL.


Thanksgiving Day this year presents
football programme of unusual In
terest. With the Columbia, New York
University and Stevens seasons already
completed and Fordham in Worcester
where 1t will meet Holy Cross, this
metropolis will have to depend on in
terscholastic fare for its turkey prelude
that is, unless it chooses to move over
to Philadelphia. only two hours away,
where Pennsylvania and Cornell win
meet In their twenty-seventh contest.
The Penn-Cornell game Is by no
means the biggest of the day. That dis
tinction goes to the battle between
Penn State and Pittsburg-two unde-
feated elevens-a struggle In which
victory for Penn State would means
a place at the top of the Eastern rank
ing with Princeton and Harvard. The
Rutgers Detroit game In the West also
will be watched with great interest. as
will the Washington and Jefferson
West Virginia tussle. the Nebraska
Washington State and Notre Dame
Michigan Aggies meetings in the West
and the Georgia Tech-Alabama Poly
contest in the South.
1t has been many seasons since the
Penn Cornell game looked to be so
open an affair as it appears to be this
morning. Last fall Cornell went 10
Franklin Field fully aware of the fact
that It faced a severe trouncing--and
IL got 1t. "a to 0. In 1918 they played
no game, but in 1917 1t also was certain
that Penn would win-and win 1t did.
by 81 to o.
In 1916 Cornell also was the underdog
and was trounced by % to .. NOT SINCE
1915. when Cornell, with the help or the
great Chuck Barrett, triumphed by "a
to 9. has AN eleven from Ithaca been
the fayorite over the Quakers.
Penn Wants ODDS.
And to-day. with three straight de-
feats by Penn chalked against 1t, Cornell
once more will go into the Tray the
favorite, the second time In five years
But the Ithacans are not tne s.rons
favorites which they were in 1915. Penn
having seen its eleven walk through
Columbia last Saturday, declines to ao-
nit that Cornell has the edge. mat ls'
II declines until there Is talk or odds,
and then il wants to 8. If there must
be any wagering on the game the ooos
should not be any better than 70 3
If there should be any at all.
We saw Cornell once this year and
we saw Penn once, and on their snow
inRs in these games the Ithacans ought
to walk through the Quakers. But rem
has made great progress since We
watched it take an unmerciful beating
from Dartmouth--44 to Z. Penn was
de1noralized in that contest. 1t was ous-
clossed as a team and outdone at every
position We saw Cornell play Dart
mouth too, and lose by Ia to 3. But
Dartmouth as 1t faced Cornell, was not
the team which slammed Penn.
We figure that Cornell will show the
better line and the more powerful backs
as a quartet. In Whitehill Penn is likely
n, have the best carrier. Penn Will nave
Ia RELY on the forward pass, and II II
works the toss as 1t did for while
against Dartmouth it is going to give
Cornell an uncomfortable time. we do
not think that Cornell will present a
forward pass attack as strong as tnat
Of the Penn combination. In kicking
tho teams will be about evenly matched.
Test Between Coaches.
Tho game will be test between
coaches who arc old in the game put
new In their present scenes OF ACTIVITY
Gil Dobie, who went from the navy 10
Cornell. and John Heisman, VINO leIt
Georgia Tech for Penn. Their styles
of plav and their methods are diametri-
cally opposite. 1t will be an interesting
test of STYLES and methods as well as OF
the strength of two teams.
we believe that the Dartmouth ana
Columbia players, who have faced both
Cornell and Penn, favor the Ithacahs'
The seasons records OF the rival eieNe
follow: