The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-20
COLUMBIA AND PENN
MEET ON GRIDIRON
First Game in Is Years Be-
tween Colleges Likely to
Attract $4,000.
ny SAMUEL j. BRooKMAN.

Columbia and Penn meet on the grid
iron this afternoon for the first time in
fifteen years. They are TO renew foot
ball relations at the Polo Grounds be-
fore a throng that Is expected TO num-
Der close to 5000. and the game bar
ring the Army-Navy contest next week.
Is the most attractive OF the season on
n local field. The same spirited rivalry
that existed between the Blue and
White and the Red and Blue in the
days before football became taboo at
Columbia has cropped up again. If any
thing. 1t is keener than ever 1t is the
game both colleges have been looking
forward to for weeks
There is every reason to anticipate a
close, hard fought battle. Neither team
has had particularly successful sea-
son, and their play has been more or
less erratic and disappointing at times.
but the Importance attached to this
afternoons tussle is bound to bring out
the best that is in both combinations.
At this stage of the season both should
be at their best.
Penn looked like the stronger team
earlier in the season, but the over
whelming defeat mt the hands OF the
Virginia Military eleven and the crush
ing setback suffered in the Dartmouth
game lowered the rating OF the Quakers
considerably. The one shining spot in
the record Of the Penn eleven this sea-
son IS the splendid performance of the
team in playing the strong Pittsburg
Panthers to score of q to u. After
that game Penn appeared to have grown
stale and numerous injuries contrib
uted to weaken the squad for the Dart
mouth game.
Like Penn. Columbia opened the sea-
son in promising fashion, defeating
Trinity, Amherst and n. Y q. with
plenty to space A setback followed in
the Wesleyan game. but the Morning
side Heights team redeemed itself by
beating Williams Then came the disas-
trous contest with Swarthmore. in
which the Columbians played lifelessly.
Their defeat at the hands of the strong
Cornell eleven at Ithaca last week was
not unexpected, but the Blue and White
gave better account of itself than the
score shows, and raised the hopes or
the local undergraduates Of a victorious
meeting with Penn.
Swarthmore IS the only team that
both Penn and Columbie have played
this season. The Quakers defeated the
Scarlet. but the game was decided early
IN TIE season DtLOIe lue SNdIti
eleven had attained its real effective
ness. Columbia four weeks later out
rushed :;warthmore but the latter by
wide awake football that resulted in
long runs for touchdowns triumphed by
= score of 81 to T. Only in the scconG
half of the contest did Columbia show
the power it was capable of In at
tack and then it was too late to turn
the tide.
Coming as II does only week after
Columbus game with Cornell, to-day's
contest should indicate what may be
expected of the Quakers in their annual
battle with the Ithacans at Franklin
Field. Philadelphia, or Thanksgiving
Day. Iniuries have handicapped the
Penn eleven considerably OF late. Two
Of their strongest players, Bud Hopper,
captain, and Joe Straus, halfback. will
have to watch the game from the side
lines. Columbia, on the other hand, has
its strongest team in the field. II has
shown signs of Improvement and its
supporters expect the Blue and White
to play its best game of the season to-
day.