Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-06
Youthful Tiger Coach
Praises McNichors Five
After 2O.to.l8 Victory in
Great Came
GOLDBLATT THE STAR

I ,on for the Defeat Hill Zahn. twenty
Aye. veal. old miracle basketball couch
st Princeton, thus spoke n few min
4 utes after the end of the exciting fracas
IN which the Red and Blue Of Penn
triumphed over the Orange and Black
~ princeton, 20 to 1S, Saturday night
on the Tigers court.
( "Therc IL no question about it, The
Tigers played good game. but In tnat
second half they we're up against the
experience that knows what to do In
me pinch. Penn has great team and
40 has Princeton. The next game
should be rs interesting as this one
was. We have no alibis."
Zahn's opinion was shared by sew -
eral old time basketball stars from this
city who made the trip to Tigentown
With viii The Penn team and five hundred
( loyal. student rooters. Former Prince.
TON stars also said that experience was
I In n large measure responsible for the
victory Of the intercollegiate champions
IN the first crucial contest Of the league.
Penn went into their dressing room
st the end of the first half with the
sore standing II to IL in favor Of the
home team. The Tigers had been play
inc brilliantly, although their fouling
I was causing no end of worry to their
I followers.
( the last twenty, Bill Grave and his
mates started the handling of the ball
that has made Penn famous wherever
basketball is played. Short, snappy
pushes, more than throws: fast cutting
and speed on the court made the Penn
team look like q rejuvenated quintet.
However, poor work from the foul
line kept them from tying the score or
forging to the front. while two fouls
BY Loeb sent his team four points to
the good. From thu on the experiecnee
started TO assert itself. Miller and
Huntzinger each scored field goal only
after a brilliant exhibition of passing
and cutting that brought the Penn
crowd to its collective feet.
The guarding Of Grave and his mates
was so good that for seventeen minutes
Of the second half the Tigers Were un-
able to get goal from the field, though
they made at least dozen shots, but
all from beyond and around the fifteen.
foot mark. During the seventeenth
looked like the winner.
With three minutes to 90 and
cictorv IN sight, the Tiger players
perience. Instead of freesing the
leather or forcing tic Penn team,
4 to foul. thev made poor shots at ,
{. the basket that gave Penn the ball.
T,co minutes pere left phen
Huntsin9er came down the field
4 for shot aud .cas skored into
the cropd. The referee ordered
tro fouls.
About a minute before this the Penn
board Of strategy, Joe FOgarty and
Eddie McNichol. decided to send in
Goldblatt to do the foul goal shooting.
First Rosenast was drawn from the
game and less than minute later
Rosie was sent back In place OF Miller.
Coolness Of Label
With the GOODNESS Of n veteran of
q thousand games Goldblntt took the
fifteen foot mark. The first shot rolled
around the rim. sent trcmors up and
down the spines of the five hundred
penn adherents and dropped through
the net for a point. Again Goldblatt.
cool as the proverbial cucumber, lifted
the ball, this time clear through the
net and the figures were knotted.
Experience again came to Penn res
rue. The Red. and Blue started down
the floor with the pigskin in an effort
10 draw. a foul. Already three Tiger
players had been removed via the per-
sonal foul rule. This made the others
wary and Huntzinger slippcd down
nnder the basket, received q pass and
banked 1t for a perfect goal. Less than
a minute remained to be played and
Grave and his mates ran the Tigers
ragged while they vainly tried to secure
possession Of the precious pigskin.
nynsaan ynantzinger's goal puts him into the
uaser Jinx class. It was q field goal
Y Huntz that stopped the Tigers in
1as me famous four extra period game in
leO. Also Huntz's goal stopped Chi
cago IN that famous game in Weight.
"an Hall the sane year.
Goldblatt's foul goals, made at
= NO psychological moment, pcre
ne only ones scored By Penn dur.
tn9 the second half and t,co of Tho
!our made by tho Red and Blue
throughout tho game. Not in the
memory OF scteral of the old timers
aM rem team erer have such
!aattv york from the, fifteen. foot
mark. Eleven straight fouls rcre
missed before Gold6latt sent his
"o through the nets.
Grave made but two out of eioh+
~ ~ tne ilrst hall, missed four straight in
,rt ,%e second half. handed the job to Miller
WHO missed two, and to Huntzineer
w Wno lalled on one. Then came Gold.
platt with his rescue act TINT really
gave Penn the game.
outscore Tigers From Field
s.h renh outscored the Tigers from the
ne,d to U, and would have won with
out the last minute work had the foul
soal shooting been anywhere near nor.
n rnu!' Each team scored five goals in thc
nrs, haif. Huntzinger with three double
aeckers, Kosenast and Grave with two
I"Sm, Del, ana Miller with one accounted for
fenn's points.
H., IN Loeb the Tigers have one of the
mt "st guards in the League. who should
MAKE his presence felt for the remainder
y, XII 1he season. lie is fast, handles the
ydal well, follows his man and can
'"Gos from any place on the floor.
EdGie McNichOl, Penn coach. Draised
nhe paying Of Loeb. "He is n clever
!n1er;' said Eddie after the game.
n,ame ame pest on the Princeton team. We
payed the better game in the second
asii, ana handled the ball the way 1t
ssnouid be handled. That Is why we won,
uut II should have been easier with SO
samy s%amy FOULS missed and SO many shots
'a,I,ihg IN the first half"
zoe F0garty, aide de camp of Nc
SGhol and considered the canny one
hi,,.r pN.