New-York tribune., 1922-11-19


Penn won because it was the ag-,
gressor all the way, was constantly on
the alert on the defense and played
sounder football. State had superior
rushing attack that was hard to check.
but its dashing offense was somewhat
nullified by questionable generalship
in chance taking. Penn State, to be
sure, has violated its own plays and
it's percentages in previous seasons,
and in fact has made capital of this
style of play. But its team Is not
smart enough this season to carry out
those tactics.
1t was a forward pass deep in it's
own territory in the third period that
proved its own undoing. State had
just taken the kickoff and was bring
ing the BALI up the field in smashing
style with Wilson acting as the chief
ground gamer. Using delay pass
effectively, the same play that Kill
linger used SO we'll last year, Wilson
soon had the ball on his own 35-yard
line. 1t was a penalty at this point
given State for holding, then it was
that Palm cut loose with forward
pass directly over the center of the
line of scrimmage.
Thurman to the Rescue
Thurman, Penn's husky tackle, who
played sterling game to-day, sprang
up and grabbed the leather. It was
Penn's ball OF States 40-yard line
This sudden change in the tide of the
game seemed to inspire the Phliadel-
phia students.
Penn then went about scoring a
touchdown briskly and efficiently.
Hamer, who is built along the line Of
one of those steers that roam about
the prairie in his native Texas, ran
the center of the line for seven yards.
McGraw smashed off tackle for a first
down. Successive line plunges by Mil
| ler, Hamer and McGraw brought the
ball to States 20yard line.
Penn then shifted tactics, the backs
dove into the lines again on the next
| play, but McGraw dropped back with
the ball and flipped a short forward
raced out on the end. Miller caught
the ball over his shoulder and sprinted
to the corner Of the field for a touch
down. Hamer neatly kicked the goal.
| Penn's touchdown seemed to rouse
the State students as much as Thur
mans intercepting of Palms forward
pass had melted the locals. Taking the
kickoff State quickly got busy and
started steady march UP the field.
Bezdek's prodigies were now team
thoroughly aroused and dead on de-
struction, not the sluggish eleven it ap-
| peared to be in the first two periods.
After running the kickoff back to his
own twenty -eight-yard line Palm
ripped off a gain of six yards and his
teammate, Wilson, cut in off tackle on
a mad dash of eight yards for first
down.
Disregarding the previous disaster
Palm hurled sharp pass to WILSON,
who raced to midfeld before he was
thrown. Wilson bluffed another pass,
got by the line of scrimmage and
eluded the secondary for 8 gain of
twenty-five yards. Palm lost five yards
on the next play, but Wilson picked
that up with an additional three yards
sixteen-yard line.
Palm Misses the Goal
All Of these gains were made on de-
layed pass and slant off tackle. State
then made touchdown in much the
same manner as Penn did. Palm, re-
ceiving the ball on direct pass, raced
toward the side line and snapped a
forward pass accurately to the ubiqui-
/! tous Wilson, who went over the line in
| the very corner Of the field. A Penn
|
the latter made his catch, but Wilson
was too shifty for his opponent, the
ball was brought out to the ten-yard
line and the teams lined up as Palm
| dropped back to make the try for the
extra point. He hurried his drop kick,
with the result that the ball flew wide
to the left of the goal posts.
| That miss cost State the game. The
rest of this period and the fourth quar-
ter were evenly fought out, although
Penn made several threatening rallies
toward it's opponents goal line, and
once Hamer tried a goal from place
ment from States own forty-yard line
which failed.
The first half was rather dull and
productive of no real chances for scor-
| Ing for either side. In the second
| period George Sullivan, the feet half
back of the Red and Blue, was sent
| into the fray, and the Penn supporters
sat throughout the remainder Of the