The New York herald., 1922-12-17

extraordinary performance. however,
which wins for him a place among the
| national stars of the country's grid
| irons. is the run back of the kickoff
| for 100 yards to a touchdown. This
great run occurred in the first five
minutes of play. Colgate, having scored
a touchdown. opened play by kicking
| off to Sweeney, who caught the ball
squarely on his own goal line. Sweeney
| Immediately started in flight up the
left side of the field. AS he reached
| his own 20 yard line six Colgate men
| endeavored to envelop him. SO per-
| feet, however, was Susquehanna's in
| reference that each one of these six
Colgate men were taken out"
Sweeney thereupon leaped into the
| rest of the Colgate eleven. Here he
encountered such great players as San
| ford Suchy, Tryon and Morgan. Dodg-
| ing, straight arming and struggling.
Sweeney cleared all and raced down
| the field. AS he reached Colgate's
| safety man he slackened his pace, then
suddenly burst into his greatest speed
| and so swept around Colgate's last de-
| fender. The few remaining lines fairly
| flashed beneath his flying feet until
| he crossed the goal line for historic
| touchdown.
1 Inc ScCOnu lllSLdHte VI ihil iitih
| run, kickoff to touchdown presents
George Hollenbach of Albright, who
| caught Cornelrs kickoff on his
ward line and brilliantly raced and
| lodged through the highly slSillful play
| ers that this fall composed mighty
Cornell. Albright's offensive liter
ally moved down the Cornell men
who came swarming down the HELD.
Hollenbach, clinging close to the side
line, raced swiftly up the Held:
| His path was one Of the rarest and
most difficult in all football. for full
| field runs from kickoff to touchdown
almost regularly are made straight up
| the middle of the field. So precise and
| powerful however, was Albrights in
| reference that Hollenbach neither was
| tackled nor forced out of bounds. but
flashing from line to line covered the
entire field and touched down
How Great Runs Were Made.
MANY followers of football are under
the impression that a player making
long run Is an opportunist taking each
man in turn as he comes hut without
a definite plan for his run as whole
| from start to touchdown. The reverse,
however, is the truth. A great player
obtaining the ball, no matter how sud
denly and Unexpectedly. sweeps the en-
| tire 1lelQ WlLu Illo eyes oA' 49,. s'S
surprising swiftness with which great
players think instantly but methodically
| laws his plan of flight for the entire
field. In order that the casual follower
| of football may enjoy this profound
feature of the sport several or the great
| players featured in this review have
been asked to describe specially for us
their long runs and how they made
| them. These personal contributions to
this review will be met by the reader at
different places in this narrative.
Thus while the spectators of these
runs saw only the flying figure of the
| great runner reeling off his amazing
dash the readers of these personal de-
| scriptions may have the highly inter-
esting pleasure of knowing just what
| these heroic players were thinking as
| they dashed aroundsand over adversary
/ after adversary and from yard line to
yard line. The effect must be only to
| increase your admiration and respect
for the brains of football player. be-
cause for quick. far and sound thinking
the hero of the lime lines is without
superior.
The first personal description OF this
| character will be given us by Lester
| Lautenschlager OF Tulane University.
Lautenschlager ran a kick off back 95
long. devious and difficult yards through
North Carolina. Here Is his account,
written especially for us:
II was playing in the quarterback's
position under the goal posts In our
regular kick receiving formation. North
| Cardinals kick was perfect 1t rose
high over our players and came sailing
| down to our yard line. while 1 caught
It. Looking up the field as swung
into my stride I laid my plan to run
through North Carolina II could. First
| I feinted to the right. hoping to draw
81 I.ft .fI al hfrt
the North Carolina men ran right and
could not be fooled l did succeed, how
ever I'm drawing their safety man. John
son, over. Thereupon I changed my
plan and cut loose. full speed. right into
the middle of their team. The whole
play was developing 30 fast that two
OF their llnemen. running at top speed.
| first reached me. These / easily lodged
| because / had not got full momen-
tum and therefore could swerve more
easily than the heavy North Carolina
linemen who lost their balance In try
ing to reach me. i now saw that my
own team mates had blocked of to the
side the majority OF tho other North
Carolinians. so / opened up full speed
straight for their goal.
"As I ran along l saw their safety
man, johnson. whom the original feint
had drawn over to the side, coming back
diagonally after me. l realized then
that Il was race between him and me
and put every ounce OF power l pos
sessed into my legs and at the same
time schemed as I ran how to take
Johnson out when the collision came. A
few yards, further I saw that Johnson
would cut me or just as ] reached the
North Carolina goal inc, so I deter
mined. whatever happened, to keep my
feet and II possible 10 urag him across
the line with me and so score. lie
reached me just two strides from the
line and dived for me. threw every
thing had into my next stride and just
escaped his grasp. The next stride was
my last, for II carried Inc across North
Carolina's goal line"
Longest Run OF Year.
The longest run upon all Of the ma
tion's gridirons this fall Is a run from
scrimmage. IL was a dash OF 105 yards
made by George staten OF Ohio Wes-
lcyan against Wittenberv. This leading
run ~ the year may bc better apprc-
ciatcd. perhaps IL we display ft az this