Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-11-02
THREE GOAL LINES
HERE NOT CROSSED
Germantown Friends, Swarth-
more Prep and La Sale
Have Clean States
ONE SCORE UNSETTLED
by PAUL PREP

Inc NUMBER or scholastic football
teams in Philadelphia and vicinity that
have mot been scored on has gradually
'dwindled until there are only three left
-Gerpantown Friends. Swarthmore
Prep and La Sale Prep. And, strange
to say, without mentioning the coin
cidence part Of the act, not one of this
trio performs in any Of the three leagues
around town.
The. Quakers from Germantown ave-
nue. and Coulter street opened the sea-
son with Germantown Academy, and
was held to scoreless tie. Ridley Park
High was then taken on. and the G.. F.
). aggregation came through with n 13.
o victory. After that Haddonfeld, Epis-
copal and Friends Central were met.
These games resulted in 1910. 1870 and
900 wins. making a total of 126 points
for the Coulter street eleven to 0 for its
opponents.
Swarthmore Prep has played four
games to date. The team has met some
Of the best teams around town. In the
battles staged Swarthmore has totaled
lo0 points. while opponents have been
blanked. Friends Central was defeated,
40: Bryn Athyn. 40; Penn Char
ter, 20. and Pennington, 40.
Fast Backfleld
Captain Coombs. star halfback, aided
by klose, Bossi and Denney, fullback,
halfback and quarterback. respectively,
has enabled the Main Line aggregation
TO come through admirably this season.
The boys have played wonderful ball.
and the combination is considered one
of the fastest in scholastic circles.
The one big achievement Of the season
was the win over Penn Charter. After
the Twelfth street institution walloped
Central High, every one was looking for
win over the Main Liners. However.
the dope was spilled. and the Garnet
team defeated one of the fastest elevens
in these parts.
Coach Lou Little's La Sale Prep
team has record equally as good as
the other two members of the select set.
The team has played three games and
has totaled 61 points to 0.
Win All
The season was opened with Norris
town and the result was 14-O. Wood
bury High was defeated by the margin
of field goal kicked by Rockford.
while Southern High and Brown Prep
were licked 800 and 4S-O. respectively.
The Southern game ended with the
score unsettled. A safety was made
during the fuss and it was undecided
which team tailed it. According to the
information on hand, La Sale tackled
a Southern runner behind his goal line.
However, followers of the downtown
institution claim it was the other way
around.
If Southern is given credit for scor-
ing the safety when the official records
are published, La Salle's unscored on
record goes fiooe. But at the present
time the school stands out, according to
unofficial records, as not having been
scored on.
st. Joseph's Loses
Brooklyn Prep. for the last three
years champion Of Greater New York,
took the st. Joseph Prep team, Catholic
League champion of last season, into
camp yesterday afternoon OH the Phil
lies Ball Park muddy gridiron, by the
score of to 0. 1t was their annual
game and, incidentally. their third
fuss, giving the metropolitan eleven the
advantage in the series by two games
to one.
The first meeting of the teams was
in 1919, when they clashed on Cahill |
Field. This resulted in an easy win for |
the visitors by a 27-O score. Last year
the two teams again clashed and the |
Crimson and Gray eleven evencd up the
SERIES
The only score of yesterdays game
came in the third perlod ana was made |
possible by the great work of Bowen,
the Brooklyn halfback. After Brook
lyn Prep lost the ball on downs, Con-
merry, the Crimson and Gray back,
punted 70 Bowen, who caught the ball |
at midfield. He started mis- run along
the sidelnes. and. after gaining about |
10 yards, st. Joseph's linesman grab
bed him.
He shook off this tackler, however,
md swerved toward the center of the
field. but finally was downed on the
Stiles Strecter's 20-yard line. This en-
the Brooklynites. who had
done little gaining up to this time, and
they made first down on two plays
that carried the ball to the 2-yard
mark.
The st. Joseph's line stiffened and
held Doyle, who had attempted to go
through that point, but Saunders wac
equal to the occasion, and virtually
bucked through the line for the necea-
sary distance for the score.
Bowen added the extra point by kick
ng the ball between the uprights.