The Washington times., 1921-01-27

| Incidentally it was Danny Nc
NichoI. captain of the Penn team
who defeated c. U. McNichol has
been synonymous with winning for
Penn since he entered the institu-
| tion. Since McNichol started as a
| II eshman, Penn has won consistently
| In basketball
| AS freshman McNichol went
through the season captaining the
team winning nineteen straight vic
| tories.
| In McNichors sophomore year when
Lou Martin was captain OF the var
sity team Penn played nineteen games
and won eighteen of them. The lone
defeat was scored by Yale on the
New Haven floor. By a singular CO.
incidence McNichol was not in the
lineup as he suffered from indiges-
tion.
| Penn won the intercollegiate title
that year and while McNichol did not
play in the Yale game the record was
81 out Of 3S starts.
| WON CHAMPIONSHIPS.
Last year when Dutch Beck cap
tained the team the Red and Blue
five won the intercollegiate title and
nineteen straight games. The first
game of the championship series Of
three games with Chicago University,
| Conference champion. was won by the
Maroon five in Chicago, McNichol
played and it was the first defeat reg
istered against Penn in which he
played. In other words McNichors g
straight string record was broken at
Sc. Penn won the collegiate cham
pionship in the two remaining games
played in Philadelphia and Princeton.
| This season with McNichol as cap
tain Penn has won nine straight
games. Since McNichol has been
' playing with the Red and Blue his
teams have won IS Of 67 starts, a re-
markable campaign in three seasons
and a fraction. Eddie McNichol. a
| former captain and star guard for
Penn, is coaching the team.
McNICHOL IS ACE.
| Danny McNichol, however. is the
real ace of the combination. Bill
| Grave is the best intercollegiate
center in the league but is inclined to
slump at times. He is somewhat
| sluggish.
| Rosenast, who performed at for
ward last season. Is not shooting as
we'll as he did last year. Miller, the
other forward. is not getting the floor
| goals that he should. He Is not in a
class with Mike Sweeney. who lead
| the intercollegiate forwards in point
scoring last season.
| McNichol, of course. is better than
ever. but Huntzinger, the other
guard, fails to approximate the clever
Peck, who is putting up a fine game
with the Crescent A. c. team, in New
York.
The Catholic University players
| came mighty near breaking up a per-
fectly fine record a week ago when
they played Penn to a 10 to II score.
Penn had a bad night and c. U. an
especially good one. The Phila-
delphians played safe during the first
half and c. U. did the same thing.
| evidently figuring they would do well
| to hold Penn.
| MISSED CHANCE.
| Had the Brooklanders gone out in
the first half as they did in the sec
ond they might have broken McNich-
| OILS record and the heart OF the Penn
team. Those who are figuring on the
intercollegiate title hunt this season
say Penn will be beaten ere long
when the team gets of Its own floor
In the league games.
| Penn has won sixty-fve out of six
ty-seven starts since McNichol began
his career as n freshman. This mark
Is just the same as that OF Raymond
Peck, the Washington lad, whose ca
reer at Penn was unusual In that his
| teams lost but three games In four
years. Peck's freshman team won all
it's games. In his sophomore year out
of twenty starts Syracuse was the
only team to trim Penn.
In Peck's junior year Yale won
from Penn, while as captain in his
senior year Chicago scored the only
victory.
Catholic University missed a grand
chance to come through with a record,
but did Itself proud against the titular