The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-11-29
(By Associated Press)


NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-The 1922
gridiron season, which comes to an
end this week with the few collegiate
contests scheduled Thanksgiving day
and Saturday, will go down in the an
nails of the game not only as remark
able for its spectacular upsets in form
but also outstanding in unusual scor-
ing achievements and incidents.
Review of the scoring records, In
Guiding last Saturdays games, dis
closes that SO colleges, representative
of play in all parts of the country.
scored exactly 1000 points in 500
contests, an average of approximately
1873 points per team and 10 points per
game.
California's eleven stands out as the
highest powered scoring machine in
the group. The Bears ran up 1913
points, with only "a tailed against
them.
Auburn, in the South, showed the
highest total, 277; Cornelrs big Red
team set the pace in the East, with
$50; while Center, with 254. and Ne
'braska, with 252, were leaders in the
Middle West
Low scores maze
Michigan and Notre Dame permit.
ted the fewest points scored against
any team on the list, 10, the Wolver-
ines allowing two touehdowns, while
the Hoosiers held. opponents to one
touchdown and two field goals. Col
gate rolled up the highest single game
tally when the Maroon buried Sus-
quehanna 81 to 6; Georgia swamped
Newberry 80 to 13, and California
overwhelmed the Mare Island Ma
rines 80 to O. Twenty-seven contests
ended in ties, of which 10 were score
| less. In five others the margin OF
victory was one field goal, the only
score of the game, while in two in
stances a safety resulted in triumph
| by unique scores of to 0.
Proof of the important part played
by the new try for point after touch
down was the fact that nine games
were decided by single point. Penn
| furnished two outstanding examples
/ by losing one week to Pittsburgh,
to 6, and winning the next from Penn
State by the same score. Princeton S
ability to score the extra points gave
the Tigers their winning margin
against Chicago, q to Is in the sea
sons outstanding inter-s C t i
battle.
Popular 1913 Score
Harvard, losing to Princeton by 8
score of 10 to and defeating Yale BY
similar score emphasized a curious
fondness for this tally. The Crimson
has been beaten by the Tigers by 10:
for two straight years and in turn van
pushed the Blue by the same score
in three of the last four games.
Standing out brilliantly in the lis
of individual performances was that O
Covington, crack Centre college quar-
teFback, who created a new drop kick
ing record by booting six between thu
bars against Louisville on Oct %.
E. c. Robertson of Purdue, kicked
seven placement goals in 1900-th,
greatest number of field goals record
ed in a single game, but the best prev
ious drop kicking effort was five
achieved on three occasions. The fea
was performed twice by Walter Ecker
sail of Chicago, in 1905 and 1906; AM
by B. W. Trafford of Harvard in 1890
Charley Brickley of Harvard in 191
booted four drop kicks and a place
ment goal in one game, while Ale
Moffat, old Princeton star, toed fou
drop kicks over the bar in one hal
from an average distance of As yards
Individual Scorers
Individual scoring records in tn
East, including last Saturdays game!
showed Bots Drummer, veteran L;
fayette halfback, with sc points, 1
more than his nearest rivals, Wilson
of Penn State, and Robertson, of Cal
negie Tech. All three of these pla,
! ers have scored IL touchdowns, bu
5 Drummer added to his total with /
4 points from try after touchdown an
9 one field goal. Pfann, Cornell, qua
2 terback, and Palm, Penn State fiel