The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-25
Big YEAR FOR DOBIE
IF CORNELL WINS.
Also Considerable Comfort for
Quakers If They Take
To-day's Game.
HIGH PRICE OF BASEBALL
Oldest Fan Writes That 1t Is
Time for Lower Tariff
Sport Gossip.
BY WILLIAM II. HANNA.

BY WILLIAM II. HANNA.
The University of Pennsylvania gets
lot OF comfort out of beating Cornell
even IL the rest Of the season is rocky.
The Quakers have experienced seasons
OF that sort--erratic playing and a dis
appointing campaign until Cornell comes
along. and then q big and sometimes
sensational brace against the visitors.
The writer hasn't seen Penn since ante
bellum days. but remembers we'll that
they used always to play game of the
utmost interest because of diversified
tactics. and were teams of the utmost
gameness.
The day is bound to come at Penn
when its teams there will be at the top
of the football heap again. Those days
will come as soon as they find a coach
ing system and stick to it long enough
for it to have fair chance. There
is too much tradition at Penn for it to
be otherwise. Sooner or later the tran
sition period will pass.
To-days game at Franklin Field will
not reestablish Penn In the front ranks
even IL the Quakers do win but such
result would be a big stimulus for
next year. If the Comedians win the
Dobie system will have made fine
start at Cornell, for the Ithacans will
have gone through the season with only
one defeat and that by no means a Sc
we're one at the hands of Dartmouth.
BY the way. why Is 1t that certain
big Eastern elevens such as Harvard.
Yale and Princeton, instead of casting
about for intersectional opponents to
give them good tests. do not go a good
deal nearer h0me and take on Cornell?
Is it that they don't want to or that
Cornell doesn't want another big game
on it's schedule? In any event nothing
could be more interesting than a test
of the Dobie methods against one of
the three named.
Apropos of reports that Yale men at
this late day were charging undue
roughness by Boston College, comes the
following from certain indignant b. c.
men:
1T is a dishonor for Yale TO try to
dim the glory of its conquerors by the
boyish pastime of throwing mud"
Why blame it on Yale? Just after
the Yale-B. c. game this fall Tad Jones
was reported as having gone into the
b. c. dressing room and congratulated
his conquerors and. assured them they
wouldn't be dropped as long as he had
anything to say about it, Also he has
been quoted as denying that b. Z. was
unduly rough. Such being the case,
il ought to be enough for Boston College
or anybody else; and there is no more
reason for Il. G. men to get fussed UP
over something for which official Yale
probably is not responsible than there
was for any friend Of ELS to make
talk about needless roughness.
The writer didn't see the fale-B. C.
game, but hasn't seen single game
This wear in which there wasn't un-
necessary roughness. A football came
without unnecessary roughness? There
isn't any such thing. There are vari-
Gus unnecessary things In footpaii'
liz, Thorne was describing the close
,nss of football battles between his
canton Bulldogs and the Akron eleven.
"Why." said Jim, "a field goal IN one
OF them is worth forty points
two more Governors have signified
their intention OF attending the Army
Navv game acknowledgements OF
delaware and Beeckman OF hnooe ISL
and That's four so far, the two named
and snroul of Pennsylvania and Ritchie
of Maryland.
wonder how many persons noticed the
little act of courtesy in the HarNaro-
vale game as Crimson player was
.ra,tinp ready to kick off. He was nav
;nr trouble making the ball stay on the
Zee II tumbled off. as the pigskih
. often does on such occasions ana tns
nearest Eli, twenty yards away picked
nm a handful OF his own mud, trot.eu
ever 10 the Cantab and handed II TO tne
latter to replenish his supply footDaii
isn't all growls and glares.
7. r. Hayden, New York. sends the
following: -
George Wright I have been base
taII Fan L am 50. and, think, about
che oldest man who keeps up inter-
est In the game to the extent OF
seeing twenty-five or thirty games
every year.
In almost every line prices are
coming down toward normal SO
seems to me that considering the
trornendous profits made this year
hy both clubs and the certainty for
noxt wear. that the price of seats
should be put back to the old tariff.
am positive that no money would
he lost for there Is always plenty or
room. which think would be filled
largely IL the old tariff was re-
sumed.
ore Of the best Eastern duarterbacks
Of the year. according to expert OBJ
servers. was O'Hearn OF the Yale fresh
men. He can run and throw and get
the most out of team. Other likely
material among the Ell cubs was Hull
man. a fast end; Blair and Adams line
men. and Neidlinger, halfback. But all
the material in the world isn't going to
make Yale winner unless more prog
ress is made toward perfecting some OF
the manoeuvres, 80 big a part OF the
modern attack. To that emo possibly
Chester La Roche, who did so well with
tho freshmen this year, will be closer
next fall to the directors Of varsity I'd
tcica.