The New York herald., 1922-12-01

Cornell. closing another brilliant
season without defeat, was majestic in
its victory. Pennsylvania, finishing
another campaign of mingled joy and
disappointment, was magnificent in
defeat. Snarling, fighting. tearing into
their rampant foemen in one glorious
stand after another the Quakers wrote
into Pennsylvania football history Il
chapter almost as lustrous as any
which has been set down by Red and
Blue eleven in success.
Cornell, with individual stars who
dazzled-the great Eddie Kaw. the
elashing Floyd Ramsey. the ever adj
kancing George Pfann-was in the
ascendant from the start. 1t seemed
bnly a question of how big the score
would be. That the men from the
( shores of Lake Cayuga would win was
taken for granted by nearly every
body except those scrappy young men
in red and blue From the opening
I whistle Pennsylvania had its back to
the wall But from the start right
into the gathering shadows and the
finish. this beaten Penn eleven made
Its supporters swell with pride.
n Penn's Four Great stands.
-Four times did the battling Quakers
stop march of the Big Red team
toward their goal line Four times, with
Cornell touchdowns apparently on their
way, did Pennsylvania take the ball on
downs And these stands of POS" Mil
: 1er's men made saga which Penn men
will sing through the winter and in the
3 years to come when time has dimmed all
other details of this twenty ninth con-
test between the old rivals.
In the first period it was on Pennsyl-
vania's three yard line that the Quakers
! rose in their might and wrested
touchdown from the hands of the eager
Ithacans. In the second quarter the
Quakers forced their rivals to resort to
the forward pass in an attempt to score
and it grounded behind the goal line
for a touchback-that with the losers
nghting hard on their own . yard mark.
In that same period Penn took the ball
on downs on its own "a yard post.
And then. as Cornell men, still bitter
over the many lean Cornell wears on this
very field, insisted voclferously on an
other touchdown in the fourth session
Pennsylvania made it's supreme deten-
sive effort Still another great stand
was needed to break the back of the
Cornell attack for the day. and Penn
came through.
Cornell had reached PENIS 10 yard
line. 1t was fourth down and only Two
wards TO go-and Pfann was sent INTO
that mass of blue Jerseys Tor those Two
precious yards. But only one yard was
made. and while the stadium resounded
with cheers for the Quakers they tooh
the ball from their rivals.
Two smashes by Penn. then the hnish'
70 send thousands of Cornell enthusiasts
into the field TO throw their hats over
the Penn cross bar and to zlgzag joyous
1y I'm a snake dance for the second tiils
in two years. Only six times Delore IN
twenty-eight games with Penn had Cor
nell been vouchsafed this great privilege
Cornell one of the Hest
cornelps As yard march TO touch
down against this game team from
Pennsylvania which reached lts zehl.h
IN a defeat marked the eleven from
ithaca as one of the Eastern elect. PER
haps Princeton. the Army or Harvard OF
some other great team would nave u0ne %
Srh.t Cornell did this afternoon. But
SIS hard to tell. Cornell made tacticaI
mistakes and its attack appeared TO lack
variety. but II had power-impresslVe
nower--the kind of power which stoou
ont like a finely cut intaglio and coulo
be recognized even by the veriest yro.
There was a lethal. old fashioned SIM
n,icity about the efficiency of the Cor
to the Reliable slant
orr tackle as its major weapon. IL
sbowed nothing which spoke of decep-
tiveness 1t had nothing to hlder ~
,,sed no screen for its activities IL
crashed and Il slashed--with Ramsey
standing out as the hero of the after
noon. Next to him came Pfann and
then Kaw.
"watch Kaw !" was the word which
was given to Penn as it dashed into the
arena. And Penn watched Kaw. IL
watched him as hawk watches its
prev Now and then the Texas steer
eiuded his tacklers. These occasions
never came out OF scrimmage-and they
came mighty seldom. Late in the game
Kaw's efforts 10 rush the ball netted
an average of three yards for each
rush. But he was used less often than
anv Of the other backs. Cornell knew
that Penn was watching It's luminary
and was using that fact TO strategic
advantage while Ramsey and Pfann and
Cassidy advanced the leather.
CorneiI's Old style Attack.
Cornell used slants and plunges-
plunges and slants with now and then
an effort around an end and sometimes
n double pass from kaw TO Pfann. This
stunt got the Ithacans nothing. In the
first half the offensive OF the Big Red
team had modern look about II. The
first period saw Cornell try two for
ward passes, one OF which netted seven
yards and The second quarter saw Il at
tempt five forward passes. only one OF
which was completed. for n net gain Of
eighteen yards.
Rut I'm the second half the Cornell
team might have been one OF the elevens
of the days Of Osgood. II was smash at
the line and smash again. Slam, slam.
slam-and Penn now yielding and now
holding--hclding only too of.en for Cor
nell after the, Ithacans had gone their
forty-five yards TO their touchdown.
THE statistics Of the game perhaps
tell the story Of Penn's splendid battle
more than mere words may describe.
Cornell. made fifteen first downs and
penn rot only three--three scattered
ones. Cornell gained total OF 253 yards
while Penn made only l2L Cornell got
POS ,Nfsls by rushing and Penn made
only SO. And yet Cornell got only a
touchdown and a field goal!
I,ennsyivansa was startling on de-