The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-26
CORNELL-PENN In
MARKED CONTRAST
Rivals Not So Far Apart After
Saturdays Sensational
Results.
By DANIEL.

Not the least interesting or the sew
eral major developments in football las.
saturday was the shift In fortunes In
the Cornell-Pennsylvani company. On
Saturday morning Pennsylvania stood
indicated, and most OF the followers
of the game looked for it to wade
through Virginia Military Institute pre-
paratory TO taking on the formidable
Fem STATE eleven. Cornell stood I'M
beaten. too. but it had not met first
class team. While II hoped to defeat
Colgate it was not so sure that it could
turn the trick. Then came the stunning
defeat of Pennsylvania by Virginia Mill
tary Institute by 81 to I and Cornell's
equally sensational triumph over Col
gate, AZ to 6.
Now. as the rivals head toward their
annual meeting on Thanksgiving Day,
Cornell finds itself transformed from tho
urder dog into a team with at least an
even chance. Cornell realizes that GIL
pobie already Is q success. for he has
placed the Ithacans on the high road to
real achievement and has given them
new hope and spirit and n real morale
Lot TO speak of the greatest Offences
since Glenn Warner was coach of the
Big Red eleven.
Cornell's tally against Colgate con-
firms the impression that Dobie has d
great scoring machine, but IL demon
strates. too. that Colgate has sunk to the
lowest point in its football fortunes. The
total OF AZ points stands as the second
biggest score made against any Colgate
eleven. The worst defeat ever suffered
by Colgate team was that which it
had TO take from a fighting Yale team
bent on revenge in 1914. The Els won
by 40 to 7 and made up for their defeat
~ 16 to the year before.
Crossed Advanced Reports.
Cornells game against Colgate was
particularly surprising to us in view Of
what we had been told about Dobies
material. Dobie himself the apostle of
pessimism in football, had announced to
the world that he had no team and no
hopes, and that this season would have
to go down in the Cornell books as
total loss. But we wanted more reliable
Information on that particular subject,
so we went to an official who had seen
Cornell at work.
This man informed us that Cornell
looked mighty poor-that Dobie and
Stan Hunt. his assistant had admitted
that they had a woeful lot of players
and that In the big games they ex-
pected mighty little. That was after
the GO to 0 score made against Union.
Accordingly we figured that Colgate
stood a fine chance of beating Cornell.
However, we are glad that we were
crossed. for Cornell needed that victory
more than did Colgate.
To those who had followed the gen.
erai football situation closely and had
heard of the great deeds of the Vir-
ginia Military Institute team the <vic-
tory over Pennsylvania was not SO
att
II had a great offence. II had scored
1856 points against Hampden Sydney and
beaten Virginia by three touchdowns
to one 1t had been pointing for the
Penn game. while the Quakers spent
lazy week building up overconfidence
and looking toward romp. Now Penn
is wiser and chastened. and will be
all the better football team against
Penn State. Pittsburg. Dartmouth, Co
lumbia and Cornell Considerable array
of opponents. by the way.