Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-05
SHORTY O'BR|EN
IS DREXEL COACH
Former Swarthmore Star Suc-
ceeds McAvoy as Football
Tutor at Local Institute
WANTS A FIGHTING TEAM

Harry J. ("ShortyD O'Brien has
been appointed athletic coach at Drcxcl
Institute. He succeeds William j. Nc
Avoy. who toiled at the institution
across the river for two years and who
has accepted the appointment to the
University of Delaware.
"Shorty" O'Brien needs no intro
duction to Philadelphia football fol-
lowers. Playing quarterback at Swnrth-
more in 1906 and 1907. his work was
go good that he received prominent men
ton by Walter Camp in selecting his
All American team In 1906. Camp said
that outside of Eckersall. of Chicago.
o Brien was the best drop kicker in the
country.
O'Bricn wrote his name high In the halls
of fame mt Swnrthmore College. Swarth.
more realized the height of her football
ambition when. on Franklin Field, she
Inundated the Red and Blue by the
score Of 1 to o.
A beautiful field goal from the 30
yard line by the .diminutive OBrien
fivc minutes after the opening of the
second half was the only score and de-
Gliding factor Of a hardfought struggle.
On November o of the same year
Swarthmorc defeated Annapolis. Is TO
0. and once more 1t was OBricn $
nifty toe which predominated. lie
kicked three field goals and goal from
touchdown. Again. on. November -,
Swarthmorc defeated Amherst in the
final game of the season. u to o,
O'Bren' s slong runs. his two touch.
downs. two goals from touchdown and
one field goal being the feature.
Successful Coacs,
OBricn has been coaching for ten
years. In 1911. 1912 and 1913 he
coached at the De I.ancey School here.
In 1913 it laid claim to the Eastern
preparatory shool championship.
In 1914 he took charge of the ath,
letics Mt Gettysburg. where he remained
team, he came to Franklin Field in the
fall of 1914 and held George Brooke 5
eleven to a 14-O score. In 1915 one Of
the best games Gettysburg played was
against Cornell at Ithaca. Cornell was
due to win by an overwhelming score.
but they only defeated the battlefield
collegians by the score of 1870. They
repeated against Franklin and Marshall
in their annual game that year. Frank
lin and Marshall had defeated Penn 10
and we're the favOrtes to wallop Get
tysburg. The latter team, however, won
1873. Fighting teams are the kind
"Shorty' turns out.
II realize that my job is no sine
cure" said O'Brien. There Is no
doubt but what we will all have to work
hard to pull Drexel out of the rut, and
| will leave no stone unturned to de-
velop n good football team. After all. a
colleges athletic rating is based on its
football team.
Hopes Team Will Fight
81 understand we will. have two
backfeld men and about five lnemcn
who were regulars last year back with
us. hope the backfield candidates
especially will be good. You can make a
good lineman. but you can't make a
good backfield man-thry have to be
born. But, above all, hope that they
will fight.
~ put it up to the players this way !:
\ game lasts one hour Of playing time.
During this time the actual playing
calling of signals, etc. If man can t
give thirty minutes of hard. aggressive
fight in an afternoon for his college he
is not worth ,bothering WITH
Glasses start at Drexel September 81,
so Coach O'Brien will have but little
more than two weeks to get his system
under way before the opening game.
He will be confronted with the following
schedule:
October 14--Msw York Agricultural Col
lege at home
October 2l--C. c. y. Y. at New York.
October 2S-Juniata College at Hunting.
don. Pa
November st Johns College Of An.
napolis at home.
November iI-Johns Hopkins University
at Baltimore.
November ls--Penn Junior varsity at
home.
November 25--Cialaudet at home.