The New York herald., 1922-12-10
Hard Battles, Desperate Stands
Typified by Bucknell-
Pitt Game.
OWENS RUN CONSPICUOUS
Big University Teams Figured
More Than Usual in Bril-
liant Plays.
BY PARKn n. DAVIS.

Come, fellow followers OF football,
and take your seats this morning in
the greatest Of all bowls and bleach
ers, stands and stadiums-the amphi-
theater Of fancy. For you this morn
ing the greatest football fighters of
the entire United States will again
perform their stupendous personal ex-
ploits in reenacting tho scoring plays
by which the best battles on all Of the
country's gridirops this autumn have
been won. To tho partisans Of WIN
ming football teams and to. the nom
partisans Of all elevens. victors or
vanquished. tho best football games
imply those struggles in which VIC
tory is tho outcome Of single scoring
play. and particularly the result Of
some extraordinary personal perform
ance.
In former years. in reviews Of this
character, tho most prominent foot
ball elevens Of the country have ap-
peared infrequently in our narrative.
II at all. because the games Of the
great teams usually are so decisive as
to be represented by scores widely
separated It has been. therefore. the
smaller teams Of the country in other
years who have provided really the
best games from the standpoint Of
stirring and spectacular victories
based on a single play. Happily in
this still more happy football year Of
1922 the great eIevens Of the United
States-Army, Harvard, Iowa, Lafay-
ette. Navy. Notre Dame. Princeton.
Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Stanford.
Washington and Jefferson and numer-
GUS others-share in the glories of
hard fought football battles equally
with the smaller elevens Of the ma
tional football terrain.
Princeton on TOP.
or all the football elevens Of the
United States, Princeton takes prece-
dence, not only in the number of close
battles won but in the national promi-
nence of these encounters. Princeton
Is, Harvard 10 to and Yale 8 to o.
BY a marvellous coincidence all of these
four victories depended upon the stout
heart and extraordinary skill OF one
and the same player. old Nassau's star
field goal man. Kenneth B. Smith. To
this glorious galaxy of stirring battles
we might also properly add another
game in which Princeton defeated Col
gate by the close score of 10 to 0. The
victory in this instance, depending pri-
marily upon a brilliant dash Of 70
yards. with an intercepted pass achieved
by J. b. Cleaves.
Another eleven whose football career
this fall has been exceptionally stirring
from Saturday to Saturday was that
football pioneer, Tufts. for be II remem-
bered Tufts football history dates back
to the middle 70s beginning with a
victory over Harvard. The football
records of the fall brilliantly reflect
Tufts as having beaten Bates 6 to o.
Williams to 0. Norwich z to 0 and
Massachusetts Aggies 3 to 6. and in turn
being beaten by Bowdoln 13 to IL.
The University of Pennsylvania sim
ilarly looms conspicuously as an eleven
which has been forced each week to fight
every inch of it's way from kickoff to
victory or defeat. The figures of the
Trays on Franklin Field present Penn
sylvania as having defeated Swarth-
more IA to 6, Navy 13 to z and Penn
state Z to 6, and In turn being beaten
by Alabama to and by Pittsburgh
z to 6.
Records Of hard fought battles like
the above are so rare that close games
really are phenomena and only to be
appreciated when It. Is said that less
than fifteen teams In the United States
tn Col
margin OF single score.
For your entertainment, therefore. the
best of these crucial battles will now be
selected and their mighty champions
will replay for you the stupendous and
stirring exploits by which their VIC
tories have been won. II you are
methodical and mathematical in your
fondness for football you will be inter-
ested incidentally in observing the COM
parative number of victories in the par
ticular classes OF play by which foot
ball games are won. In other words. II
may interest you to know what propor-
tion OF victories In close games are won
by running attacks, by forward passes.
by goals from the field, by tries for
points and by runs with kickoffs, punts.
blocked kicks and fumbles.
OWENS Great Run.
Obviously and naturally. the largest
number of close games has been won
by runs and plunges from scrimmage,
although from a standpoint OF numbers
victories achieved by goals from the
field arc closely pressing running at
tacks for precedence as winning plays.
One of the most brilliant runs to win
n game, and also the most conspicuous
run on account of the prominence OF
the contending teams is the extraordi-
nary dash of ffty-seven yards OF George
Owen OF Harvard in the game with
Yale. Charles O'Hearn OF Yale, early
In the first period had punted to Har-
wards 35 yard line. The punt, although
long. was low and finally striking the
ground bounded against the leg OF a
Crimson back and rebounded I'D the field.
Owen playing deep, leaped forward.
seized the ball and was OF. Sixty long
difficult yards lay between him and
Yale's goal. with every strategic point
OF the way covered and defended by a
giant In blue. Gathering great speed I'm
his first few strides, Owen leaped
straight into the pack OF the oncoming
Yale forwards. Dodging here, straight
arming there. he burst through and
turning TO the left swept diagonaily
across the field. outskirting the second
aries and then straight down the field
along the sdc-lino to O'Hearn, Yale's
nnal defender. AS owen reached the
latter. he turned sharply 20 the right.
again reversing his field and racing
across to the opposite side-lines. This
difficult maneuver. carried him around