Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-10-18
Dickinson Defeat Has Not
Cracked SlUarthn10re Spirit
Mercers Band of Fighters Survive Shock and Settle
Do,cn to Work of Preparing for Red and Blue
sect Penn! Is Battle Cry
BY EDWIN J. POLLOCK

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A LTHOUGH beaten in the secont
"A game of the season by the little
Dickinson College, Swarthmore will not
enter the Pennsylvania game at Frank
lin Field Saturday like dropping lily.
The suburban Quakers have their heads
up and their minds on their work oi
today, not Of tomorrow nor yesterday.
"What do I think Of the Penn
game?" asked DIR. Roy Mercer, the
coach and an All-American back in his
undergraduate days at Ben Franklin
University, in reply to the same query.
lie dribbled the thought around in his
head bit and then said hur1edly:
''Not a thing. l don't think about
it. The Dickinson game we have forgot
ten and the Penn game isn't here yet.
We have plays and formations for today
to think about"
He didn't add that those particular
plays and formations were being devel-
oped for the express purpose of spring
ing surprise on Johnny Heisman.
Penn may believe that the Garnet uth-
letes are "meat" done to n brown by
Dickinson and ready for the feast at
Franklin Field.
But we had look at the little Quak-
er in action yesterday. There is plenty
Of beef and it is very much alive.
CWARTHMORE may not hare
~ team comparable to the great
Garnet elerens of the past, there may
not be back pith the uersatilitv
aud Keen football sense of Cr0wel,
there may not be linemdn rith the
bulk and strength of MarueH, but
the spirit that drove other teams to
victories orer Pennsylranin is pres
ent, and Sparthmore fight Is as
rugged this year as It is traditional.
Swarthmore Spirit
TOLLEGE spirit is an Intangible
~ thing of beauty. and it's at its best
out at Swarthmore. 1t seems to be
contagious. You feel It about you as
you walk up the cement pathway lead
ing from the station to College Hall.
The campus is spacious and rolling and
ancient trees stand guard on either side
of the walk like silent sentinels.
On your right, beyond the trees. a
large number of students are playing
soccer, and on your left several dozen
co-eds are practicing field hockey, and
these, We were told. are only the left:
and to the right Of College Hall the
varsity hockey girls are drilling in their
white middies and black boomers.
Swinging to the left around the main
building, you run across tennis courts,
and they are fully occupied. Skilled
and ambitious racquet wiclders cut the
ball over the net. And what a sight
awaits you as you approach the football
Head Coach Mercer has a squad Of
backfield men crouching before him
about to run through formations. Bill
Ward, an assistant coach, is giving in
structions to numerous and husky line
men. Bill Kelly, another assistant, is
reaches of the field Is Frank Fits. drill
ing the unskilled but hopeful scrubs.
IT SEEMS that oil S,oarthmore IS
/ indulging in sports and every
membe of the student body Of both
sercs cdndidGte for some team.
Hepes in athletics, from the president
down to the greenest freshman.
THE PIT defeat handed the Garnet
L by Dickinson was the most startling
surprise of this young gridiron cam
raign. DR.. Mercer was asked to ex-
plain it.
"Dickinson has a great team" he
said, "and we did not look no good.
We made numerous mistakes. l know
that Dickinson was strong. They con-
cealed their power in their first game.
but / knew 1t was there. They used
only four plays in defeating Albright.
"Killinger uses the Penn state sys-
TEN which he learned under Bezdek.