Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-10-23

with the injured list negligible the
coaches will be enable. to lay their
plans with the hope Of having every
man eligible to play.
Getting back to the game Saturday.
During the first half of the contest
Penn made but little effort to gain
ground through passes or scrimmagins
Hamer frequently punting on the second
or third down. The Swarthnore line,
coached by Bill Ward. the former REQ
and Blue. star, showed unexpected de.
fensive ability that considerably upset
the calculations Of the Penn stratcgisti
up until the fourth period.
Hdsman's instruction.
According to Heisman, his order
called for as littls using up Of tn.
players rs possible because Of the
dearth Of backs. His instructions
were carried out to the letter until it
became necessary in order to win to
discard every,ning and bang away ut
the Garnet line.
Penn lacked the old punch up until
the fourth period. but when 1t is con-
sidered that only straight football with
out the slightest trick playing was used
entirely there is some excuse. There
is little doubt that the coaches were
saving a lot for the game with Bob
Folwell's Middies mis- Saturday.
Considering { ery: hing the Red and
Blue coaches were satisfied with the
teams play. "Swarrhmore l-ayed a
much better game than we expected.
Matter Of fact they played q siperb
game" said Heisman this mor..ing.
0THE Sioarthnore defense ,oas the
best zoe have met this year. They
kncp their lessons and certainly made
1t difficult for our backs. Naturally,
Swarthmore ,oas all keyed up for the
game. 1t is marked as their biggest
of the year. Our team has not been
keyed up yet. We are pointing for
the Nary game.
"NEY INSTRUCTIONS to the team
AVA were to take no chances. ex-
pccted the kicking game in the first
half. The team had nerve, plenty Of
fight and confidence in that fourth
period or they never would have been
able to come through with victory"
Coach Roy Mercer of the Garnet and
his team were downcast after the game.
The plucky fight they put up from the
start and the short-liyed lead which
did not prove sufficient for victory, had
the Garnet rooters and team all keyed
up. They didn't expect victory but
hated to lose out as they did in the last
period.
Asplundh's onside kick caught Penn
completely asleep. The Red and Blue
players contend that they failed to see
Knapp 60 behind the kicker but a
number of newspapermen testified t.
the fact that he did.
The First Penn Score
The first Penn touchdown did not
come from an onside kick as was Mt
first supposed. Hamer's punt went
down the field 20 high that his mates
were under the pigskin before it hit the
earth. Instead Of watching the ball the
Swarthmore eligibles were keeping their
eyes cleaned on the Penn runners.
The ball hiS a Swarthmore player,
although but feH Of the 81, 900 specta-
tors saw 1t and rolled along. Thurman.
quick to grasp the situation, picked up
the horsehide and raced to the 1O-yard
line before he was thrown out of
bounds.
The officials at first refused TO allow
the play, the referee and umpire con-
tending that they did not see the bail
hit Swarthmore man. The field Judge
and linesmen who were nearest TO the
play said it did and Penn was given
the ball 10 yards and some inches from
the goal line.
ACCORDING to S,oarthmore
student. Schneider, the clerer
little Garnet quarterback, ackno,ul.
edged after the game that the ball
hit him in the stomach and rolled
a'oGr before he could get his hands
on it.
\ MOTHER play that caused consid.
cradle comment was the recalling Of
the second goal after touchdown. Dern
passed the ball to McGraw after sew
eral Swarthmore men were offside.
According to the rules Penn should
have been awarded the point immedi-
atcly. Instead they were forced to make
second try for the point.
According to the statistics the Red
and Blue outplayed the Garnet The
first downs registered were: Penn. II:
Swarthmore. 4. Ground gained from
scrimmage was: Penn, 1872 yards;
Swarthmore. 112. Penn tried seven
forward passes, one of which was sue.
cessful for o yards. Swarthmore at
tempted eleven, four of which succeeded
for 10 yards. Asplundh punted twenty
times for an average of As yards, and
Hamer, McGraw and Sullivan fourteen
for the same average.