The New York herald., 1921-12-03
PENN STATE TEAM
MAY LOSE PRESTIGE
Meets Washington Eleven,
Which Lost to California
by 72 to 3, To-day.
w. AND J. IN ACTION TOO
Presidents Play Detroit in the
West-'PrOs' Battle at
4 Polo Grounds.
w. AND J. IN ACTION TOO
by DANIEL.

This afternoon will see the Inaugural
,tion of the post-season football cycle
the first of what threatens to be an alto
gether too numerous sUs of anti-climaxes
all away from the East, which is sup
posed to be frozen by now. but declines
ITO become SO. Penn State. ranked first in
the East, will have 1t out with Wash
.ington at Seattle. while Washington and
Jefferson. one Of the four unbeatep
elevens Of this section. will tackle De-
troit, also undefeated, In the Motor City.
Up at the Polo Grounds we are to be
fbe regaled with the professional variety
OF football in game between Charley
sBrickleys New York Giants and Jim
'Thorpe's Cleveland Indians. Washing
ION State and Southern California will
meet at Los Angeles. while in the South
there will be two or three games to wind
up the regular season down that way.
The Penn State-Washington contest
Is not exactly a post-season affair. as
1t was arranged along with the rest OF
the schedule of the Nittany Lions. The
contest between Washington and Jeffer-
son and Detroit is recent development.
and may be the first of a long post
season series for the Presidents, as long
IL
played in Montana and California some
years ago.
W. and 7. Is booked to play the Texas
Aggies, claimants of the Southwestern
title, at Dallas, and now comes word of
an invitation to play in Pasadena on
New Years Day. Centre is supposed to
play at San Diego on Christmas Day.
and Lafayette also has an offer to go to
California. The air Is full of post-season
plans, most of which appear to be
highly commercial.
1> No Glory for Penn state.
When Penn State booked the game
with Washington 1t took it for granted
that it would be among the topnotchers
OF the East and supposed that Wash
stngton would be one of the best on the
coast But when Penn State worked
its way TO the fore In this neck Of
America California once more won the
Pacific coast championship and Wash
ington was left very much out in the
cold Just where Washington stands
out there may be appreciated from the
fact that California beat Washington
by 72 10 g. Washington played Stan
ford scoreless tie and California beat
Stanford by AZ to z.
In consequence, Penn State, with the
prestige of the East, to-day meets a
team which is nothing at all on the
coast and Eastern prestige Is in danger.
Critics out that way without question
will emphasize the fact that the coast
champion ran up ~ points on Washing
ton, and we do not believe that Penn
State after its long ride, the many hos
FATALITIES enjoyed by it and the change
.of climate, will score even half as many
points as did California. An odious com.
,parison Is inevitable.
" WASHINGTON and Jeffersor a1fbouob
,unbeaten. has not been placed among the
,nrst four in the Eastern ranking for the
season.. so it goes into tho game at
Detroit with nothing in particular to
Jose. 1t would be no surprise If Detroit
defeated the conquerors of Pittsburgh.
Has Many "Transfers.o
The Western outfit is composed in the
main of men who starred at other coll
leges-Sonnenberg OF Dartmouth, LOOMS
OF Carnegie Tech and four or five more
The Detroit eleven showed great strength
in trouncing Boston College. 1t de-
feated Springfield with ease, scored over
Vermont without yielding first down
and ran wild against West Virginia Wes-
leyan Tulane of New Orleans managed
to hold the Detroit club to IA to 10.
Neale. tackle for Detroit is brother
of Earl Neale, the Cincinnati outfelder.
who is coach at Washington and JEFF
ferson.
Up at the Polo Grounds there will be
tan interesting preliminary in the form
of drop kicking contest between
Charley Brickley and Jim Thorpe While
we are not strong for professional foot.
bah, the game which was played on
corresponding date last year at the Polo
Grounds brought out some very high
class football and was most interesting
Carl Flanders of Yale is In favor of
rotating the Big Three schedule. He
does not like the idea of Yale playing
Princeton and Harvard on succeeding
saturdays. Princeton is not crazy about
II either. But it's dollars to doughnuts
that the same old arrangement will be
made for 1922.
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