The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-26
CORNELL NO MATCH
{ FOR PENN ELEVEN
Ithacans Are Outplayed in
Pronounced Fashion by
Score of % to O.
$4,000 SEE GAME IN RAIN
Quakers Race and France and
Have Bigger Rivals FIOun-
derin0 in Their Wake.
BY WILLIAM u. HANNA.

Special Despatch to THE NEW YoRK HERALD.
PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 25.--For a few
moments after the opening kickoff this
afternoon Cornell was going fast and
punching through the Penn line with a
vigor promising of victory Fifteen
yards were made in three running at
taclls then Penn steadied got its bear
ings. piled up the Cornell plays at the
scrmmage line and forced a forward
pass from the Ithacans. The pass was
intercepted by Joe Straus of the Quaker
backield. From that moment and all
through the many moments that fol-
lowed Penn outplayed the Comedians
and outplayed them in pronounced and
comprehensive fashion. The Quakers
made vivid finish to a checkered foot
ball season by topping the big Red team
by score of 2S to 0.
Penn won with four touchdowns, one
In the first, one in the second and two
in the fourth period. They finished
strong, these Quakers, even when they
had a cluster of lightweight backs TAX
ing the place of regulars, and they were
so thoroughly the masters of the Cor
nellians that the latter, who provided q
poor game indeed, never were close
enough to a point to make any Penn
adherent feel the least bit uncomfort-
able.
The Pennsylvanians did everything
better than Cornell, including outfighting
them and made their abundance OF
points in spectacular ways. A combined
forward pass and run, the two Tor net
gain of forty-seven yards, gave the 1irst
touchdown. A forward pass over the
last strip of whitewash when Cornell
5ofo line
gave the second. A romp of forty-six
yards by splitting through the Cornell
line gave the third The fourth came
from good line SCATTERING work from the
Cornell seventeen yard mark.
Effective Playing by Penn.
The Quakers played effective, spirited
and pretty slSilful football and with
football slippery and Shiny with mud.
They raced and pranced through the
mlsts and drizZle OF gray and sodden
afternoon and had the bigger Comedians
fioundering In their wake. 1t must have
been sad disappointment to Cornell
folk and to Gilmour Dobie, the veteran
coach finishing his first year as football
tutor at Ithaca.
Cornell was expected to win this game
and had made a good record. But sell
dom IL ever has Cornell sent team to
Franklin Field to do so poorly. The
Ithacans playing was full of errors.
Three of their kicks were blocked, and
they fumbed bountifully. They handled
he ball poorly. played kicks in the back
cid with wabbly decision. and poorest
Il all was their tackling. They couldn't
hold the ball and they couldn't hold a
Gunner Rather. they couldn't get hold
of the runner
At the start Cornell with the backs
and line working in nice unison went
well. but once stopped never got going
again. The Cornell line was outplayed
and the Cornell attack became weak, and
stayed so. 1t became cramped and had
little variety Only one or two runs
were tried from kick formation and
those not until late in the game.
Partly because of the wet pigskin the
kicking on both sides was erratic. and
by Cornell generally too low for the
ends to cover Carey's lifts. The result
was that Penn ran kicks back a multi
tude of yards and Rex Wray. who did
the running distinguished himself in
that and other ways by his excellent
Saying. He left the field a roly-poly,
muddy hero
The Cornell band. brave and tuneful
outfit. played "Cozy and Warm" be-
weather was not. 1t was chilly and
raw. Rain dripped off the finery of
$4,000 spectators, or those OF that num-
Der who had finery. The hats of the
men glistened with the wetness thereof.
and the hats of the women. together with
the Cornell band. in white and carnellian.
splashed with color the sombre settings
OF weeping nature. II was n fine day
for college spirits--or would have been
before the Volstead days--and n test of
college spirit which never faltered on
either side.
Poor Kfckofrs the Order.
Poor kickoffs were the order OF the
DAY, and the one with which Penn opened
was nabbed on Cornells 80 ward line
by Dodge. Kaw had made first down
on Penn's III yard line before the
cornell attack began to slow up. When
Vt did begin 1t slowed ~ fast and when
Cornell sought to make needed distance
by forward pass Joe straus inter-
cepted. great man on defence for.
Penn was Straus, playing his valeiic-
tory.
Wray. fast and elusive and runntnc.
always with definite and positive mr.
\ pose had come back with a punt to Gov
! 1elTs 10 yard line when Penn bapan 70
get ready for a touchdown Before !,
/, anne. however Whitehill had punted N
touchback and Cornell plnted out
from the 20 yard line.
They were at Cornelrs a. ward line
when Whitpbill n,t,,e