The New York herald., 1922-10-19
Upstate Team Still Feels
Sting of SO ROut of
Last Season.
RUTGERS USES TEA PARTY
Coach Sanford Renames Effec
tive Western Formation
the 'Huddle.'
BY DANIEL.

Up in the saline Businesses of Syra-
cuse there's a football team which is
being fed on raw meat all week and
whose desire for vengeance is being
developed 10 a degree of ferocity which
has made each player a study in psy-
chology as we'll as anthropology. Each
afternoon hundreds of students sit up
in the stands and yell at the Syracuse
eleven: GO get Pittsburgh" Each
evening Chick Meehan and his assist
ant coaches meander through the
dressing room and whisper a private,
individual whisper into the shell like
ear of each player: go get Pitts
burgh!" 1t has been adopted as the
civic slogan of Syracuse.
go get Pittsburgh It's an OBJ
session up there, though an admirable
one, particularly If it can be done.
Syracuse still is licking the wounds it
suffered against Pittsburgh last Oc-
tober, when a set Of Panthers who
had been beaten by Lafayette and
scared by West Virginia and Gin
. ClIlHdtl tiVihSSAfSs'
and ran the Orange ragged. Pitt
trounced Syracuse by 35 to 0 right
out in front of a crowd which jammed
Forbes Field. And Syracuse, which
never got over that stunning defeat
last fall, finds the sting still smarting.
This time Syracuse faces Pitt eleven
which has been beaten twice. In addi-
tion TO the setback by Lafayette. Z to 0,
the Panthers have been outdone by West
Virginia which, after years of threaten
ing, finally made good last Saturday.
to 6. Pittsburgh has won only one
game-the opening affair with Cincia-
natl. in which it piled up the very score
made by Georgetown against the Rhine
landers last Saturday, 81 TO 0. Glenn
Warner has been handicapped a great
deal by injuries. But his main trouble
may be traced to the graduation of Tom
Davies. who is helping John Heisman at
Pennsylvania. Warner cannot find an
other Davies. and Pitt thus far has
failed to develop a formidable running
attack.
Syracuse Has Been Sluggish.
Syracusea always enthusiastic, thinks
that 1t has a really great eleven this
fall However. it would be advisable
20 postpone judgment until Saturday
might. Meehan has the material and he
has the coaching ability. But thus far
he has not aroused his men to a proper
fighting pitch and a development of the
potentialities Of the team. His team has
been sluggish.
Last Saturday Syracuse was held tc
a scoreless tie by Brown. The Bears
have a strong outfit this year. but !;
was not figured that they had it in then
TO hold the Orange the way they did
Ed. Robinson and Reggie Brown adopted
the proper tactics before that game anC
brought Brown along on defence with.
out attempting to build up a real at.
tack. The Bears had no offensive II
speak OF. but they I'D show a de.
termined intelligent defence, with q
game. resourceful line. a
Brown seems to be the one team in the
East which is using the lateral pass II
tried the Rugby play several times
against the Orange and once Starobin OF
Syracuse broke through, picked up the
grounded ball and ran forty yards fol-
what Syracuse held to be touchdown
However, the officials ruled 1t a
grounded forward pass. An incompleted
forward pass previous to the fourth
down means nothing more than the loss
OF a down. A smeared lateral pass
leaves the ball free Syracuse still
argues that It was a lateral pass and
that Starobin was free to pick up the
ball and run for the goal line.
Syracuse has a fine set of backs
Bowman and Anderson are going greai
guns. Starobin is making a reputation
at tackle and Culver is playing his usua
fine game at center. Simmons and Zim
Inernan have relieved Meehan of quar-
terback worries. There Is no question
that Chick has the men. He must ge
them started