Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-26
PENIS ALERT BUNCH !
TOO MUCH FOR DOBLE,S
BIG CORNELL TEAM
Red and Blue Superior in All Departments Great
Defense Sho,Us Ho,O Well Philadelphia Collegians
We're Coached -.
By SPICK HALL

DENNsYLvANIA won from Cornell
i yesterday because the men wearing
the Red and Blue were physically and
mentally superior to the 1thacans. Gil
Dobie Is a good football coach. out
neither Dobie nor any one else can
instill the football idea into a group Of
boys who are not capable of digesting
II. Before the game Dobie said that
his team was not representative one
He was partly right. The Big Red
athletes were not the worst that have
ever come here for a THANKSGIVING bat
tie neither were they the best. But
the victory Of Pennsylvania cannot be
wholly aseribed to theiy enemy's weak
ness. No eleven under the Red and
Blue banner ever went out to grapple In
n Turkey Day struggle with poorer
prospects than Heisman's team yes
terday, yet they came through md
played a brand of football which con
vinced every one Of the 2S. 900 specto
tors that spirit Is far more than half tho
battle.
With the finest bunch of rooters In
the history Of Franklin Field and backed
unanimously by the student bodv
alumni and friends of the University,
Bud Hopper's team began yesterdays
game in a mental condition which xyos
cross between desperation and their :.
toxication Of battle. They went in there
to fight. and they did every minute Of
the sixty.
To the individuals rather than TO
anything else can the victory be- Mt :
tributed. II there was n player on the
team who did not give everything he
had on every play, he covered himself
up we'll and could not be distinguished
from the sidelines. The only feature
that marred the game was the absence
Of Bud Hopper. The Red and Blue
captain was not even permitted To nut
on uniform, so serious were his in =
juries, but he was sitting with his men
+, all through the game and while he was
heart broken because he could not get
into the conflict. no one was happier
over the result than he.
Great on Defense
Coach John Heisman is tho man who
conceived and developed the oifense
which gave Pennsylvania her victory.
but IL must not be forgotten that with :
out its great defense the Red and Blue
gonfalon would have been dragging in
the mire instead Of floating proudly
over Weightman Hall as It does today.
Cornells big backs were hailed as
winners. but they found that they
could do nothing consistently against
Pennsylvania. The credit for this. of
course, goes. In the first place. to the
men themselves. Joe Straus and Mike
Whitehill In the secondary defense were
in every play and time and again stop.
ped the Ithacans' plays. In the primary
defense Wagner. Cochran, Day,
Thomas and Bill Ward loomed up like
giants. Times innumerable they tore
through their opponents and spilled the
hefty Cornell backs before. they got
under way. On three occasions they
rushed Mayer to such an extent that his
punts were blocked and twice these
bloodhound ball followers pounccd on
the oval after the kick had been blocked
Mayer, Carey, Kaw. Hoff and later
Wahl are powerful athletes, but they
were not good enough to keep their feet
when the Pennsylvania forwards broke
through and spoiled the interference
before it was fairly organized.
SO much for the men who aid the
can get. but 1t must be remembered
in the final analysis that they had been
well taught. Pennsylvania forwards
lave been under the tutelagd of Buck
Wharton since the season began. Buck
has been associated with PENNSYLVANIA
football teams quarter of q CEN
fury and he knows how to teach team
to play defensive football. The result
Of his efforts showed yesterday. The
men played as Buck had taught them