Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-02
CALIFORNIA HAS HIGH SCORING TEAM
 ,OF THE COUNTRY FOR 1922 SEASON

New York, Dec. 30-By the A. P0- The 1922 gridiron season, which comes Go an end this week with the few col 1eEiata contests scheduled Thanksg1V- Ing day and Saturday, will go down in the annals of the game not only as remarkable for its spectacular up sets in form, but also outstanding in unusual scoring achievement and in lcideht.
 1 Review of the, scoring records in clading last Saturdays games, dis closes that eighty three colleges, rep resentative of play in all parts Of the country, scored exactly 11o00 points Of 6sS contests, an average of approxi- mately ,133 points per team and 1S points per game.
 California's eleven stands out as the highest powered scoring machine in the group The Bears ran up 9S points with only 34 tallied against them.
 Auburn in the south, showed the highest total, PIT; CornelPs big red team set the pace in the east, with isS0; while Centre, with 254; and Ne braska, with 2S2, were leaders in the middle west.
 Michigan and Notre Dame permit ted the fewest points scored against any team on the list. IS, the Wolver- ines allowing two touchdowns, while the Hoosiers held opponents to one touchdown and two field goals. Col rate rolled up the highest single game tally when the Maroon buried Sus- Quehanna, S7 to 6; Georgia swamped Newbury, S2 to IS, and California ov- erwhelmed the Mare Island Marines, 80 to O. +.4 esy' Si'.s S'
 Twenty seven contests ended in ties, of which ten were. scoreless. In five others the margin of victory was one field goal, the only score of the game, while in two instances safety result ed in triumph by unique scores of to 0.
 Proof of the important part played by the new try for point after touch down was the fact that. nine games were decided by single point. Penn furnished two outstanding examples by losing one week to Pittsburgh, to G. and winning the next from Penn State by the same score. Princeton's abil- ity to score the extra points gave the Tigers their winning margin against Chicago, q to IS, in the seasons out standing intersectional battle.
 Harvard, losing to Princeton by a score of 10 to 3, and defeating Yale by a similar score, emphasized a cur lous fondness for this tally. The Grim
 
 by i10-S for two straight years and ir turn vanquished the Blue by the same score in three of the last four games
 Standing out brilliantly in the list o1 individual performances was that oi CoVington, crack Centre college guar. terback, who created new drop kick ing record by -booting six between tht bars against Louisville on October 28 N>E. c. Robertson, of Purdue, kicked seven placement, goals in 1900-the greatest number of field goals record ed in single game-but the best pre- vtous drop kicking effort was five achiayed on three occasions. The fea was performed twice by Walter Ec kersan of Chicago, in 1905 and 1906 and. B. W. Prafford of Harvard II 1890. Charley Brickley of Harvard, il 1913, booted four drop kicks and ; placement goal in one game, while Al ex Moffat, old Princeton, star, toeC four drop kicks over the bar in on, half from an average distance of Al yards.
 Individual scoring records in the east, including last Saturdays games showed "Bots" Brunher, veteran La eayette halfback, with 86 points, 1; more. than his nearest rivals, Wilson of Fenn State and Robertson of Car negie Tech. All three of these player have scored twelve touchdowhs, bu Brunner added to his total with points from try after touchdown ant one field goal Pfann, Cornell guar terback. and Palm, Penn State fieE general, were next with 66 and 5 points respectively.
 Hanson, Cornell tackle, proved tn most adept at kicking extra point with 30 successful tries, while McBrid of Syracuse and Roderick of Colum bia, led the field goal scorers wit three each. .5.s25rt a;~ ;, f~
 Freak players were numerous, bu it is doubtful, if any surpassed tn feat of Asplundh, Swarthmere stal who caught his own punt behind hi own. goal line and was thrown for safety In game in which his team de feated Haverford 25 to 2.
 This trick play was made after Hay erford had been held for downs on tn edge of Swarthmore's goal line. As plundh tried to punt but his kick wa partially blocked and the pigskiR wer up at an angle of about 45 degree Caught by a: stiff breeze sweepin down the field, the ball, was carrie back over the goal line, where As plundh grabbed 1t, just as sever; r..