The New York herald., 1920-12-05
BUFFALO WINS
FROM CANTON;
SCORE, 7 TO 8
Blocked Kick by Young
strom Beats jim Thorpe's
Professionals.
STARS SHOW THEIR SKILL
Lines Too Strong for Offence
to Make Any Impression
at Running.
BY WILLIAM b. HANNA.


The Polo Grounds. the most trampled
field for sport in this country. If not out
lying and a few transoceanic countries
was torn by the cleats of professional
football players yesterday after having
been lacerate1 all fall by the amateurs.
The Canton Bulldogs, Jim Thorpe and
all, were beaten by the Buffalo All Amer
leans, as they call themselves. in game
noticeably devoid of the college flavor,
but in which there was a good deal OF
football OF conspicuous expertness The
Buffalo team won, to 5-one touch
down to one field goal.
The two teams presented rare array
of former college stars. and the line play
of such notables as Henry, w. and j..
Thornhil. Pittsburg; Lowe. Fordham;
Youngstrom, Dartmouth, and Buck, Wis
consIn, as we'll as work in the backfield
of Thorpe and Anderson (Colgate) was
tslseasant but the intensity of college
Ray wasn't there. That was but natural.
~1t wasn't to be expected that the same
spirit would be shown as when the men
We're in college. They did, however. play
clean football and vigorous
An attendance of 49, 900 looked on for
two periods without seeing any scoring.
The task of ether's getting through or
around the others line bordered so close
ly on the impossible that it began to look
like no score game. Then in the third
period Thorpe kicked a placement goal
from the 81 yard line and Youngstrom
blocked a kick and carried the ball over
for a touchdown. There was no scoring
beyond these two outbursts.
Impregnable Defence.
The defence of each side was all but
impregnable; the offence limited to
few plays and few of these effective.
Better tackling than is seen in most
college games was the rule. Real class
there. The lines were strong and well
matched and play after play was toppled
without gaining an inch. Thorpe punted
beautifully. but at running with the
ball was not his old self, or else to men
of the calibre Of those opposed to him
he was no particular terror. He had
few thrills ready to let loose on the
spectators. His best was a run of flfty-
five yards at the beginning of the sec
ond period. He caught a punt and
whrled into Buffalo territory with the
ball.
The only first downs--two of them
were made by the Buffalo eleven.
Thorpe missed two placement kicks be-
fore driving one over. One was from
the AZ yard line, the other from the
39. Both were straight but short A
Buffalo tumble on the IL yard line gave
the ball to Canton in the third period
and 1t was then Thorpe kicked his
goal.
Thorpe took the ensuing Buffalo kick
off, and a few minutes later one Of his
punts was blocked. Youngstrom did it,
then grabbed the ball on the run and
crossed the line with nobody near him.
Youngstrom played the game in the old
slashing style of his undergraduate days
at Dartmouth and. as will be noticed,
had lost none OF his knack of blocking
punts. Just the same he had one blocked
on him before the game was over. AL
though he dropped back nearly fifteen
yards, Henry rampagel through and
blocked q kick on him.
Anderson's Good Work.
Anderson, frail looking chap COM
pared to the rest of the stalwarts, was
the hit of the fourth period. In the sec
ond period a knee belonging to Bull
Lowe struck him in the head and sent
him from the field groggy. but in the
fourth he circled Canton's left wing for
sixteen yards and ran to Cantons six
yard line. He took the ball from an
and the great Higgins was fooled and
drawn In.
Thorpe threw lot of forward passes,
OF which a good many were punched in
the last quarter in Canton territory.
They were thrown all right and with
speed and accuracy, but the receivers
had butter fingers. Guyon had one
smack in his hands and with a chance
OF getting loose, but he muffed. The
forward passing all around was a fall
ure.
Canton's Indian backfield did not
strike any terror to the Buffalo people.
Welch was unable to appear. but Grigg
OF Dallas, who played quarterback in his
place. made a good job of II. Guyon and
Calac, crackerjacks of college gridirons,
couldn't make any impression on the line
| they ran into yesterday.
Only four changes were made on the
| Buffalo side and none for Canton. Evil
/ IDENTIFY these players keep themselves in
good condition. They were playing hard
az the finish and were not tagged. The
| lineup:
buffalo. Canton.
shelton, Cornell LIE. Penn State. Higgins
Thornhi. Pitts. 80. LII. Wis, Buck
Brace, Brown. ...... .L.G.. George. OConnor
wray, Penn. .........C G. .Notre Dame. Feeney
loungstrom, Dart. r. G.. ..... Canton, Speck
Little, Penn. R.T....... w. j., Henry
E.i,sr, Penn. ..... RE. .Fordham. Low.
Huehitt. Michigan. q. .P....... Dallas. Griggs
Anderson. Colgate. 4. n b.. Carlisle, Thorpe
Weldon, Lafayette. r. y. B.. Carlisle, Calac
Smith. Michigan. LIB. Carlisle, Guyon
rcore by periods
Buffalo ........................O u
Canton ...................... I'd
acknowledgements Goal from touch
down-weldon. Goal from feld-Thorne.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.: Poltiger for Ander-
son. Andersen for poltfgcr. Gavin for Smith.