San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-26
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|MPRESSES
RUNYON
Rogers and Kruez in Line
for All-America
Selection.
By DAMON RUNYON
Universal Service staff Correspondent,
Copyright, 1925, by Universal Service.


Copyright, 1925, by Universal Service.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 26.-This
University of Pennsylvania football
team seems to be about as solid an
aggregation rs ever set shoe leather
in the upturned faces of gridiron op-
ponents. l mean to say it strikes
me as a great team.
1t appears to be the best team in
the East, if we may judge anything
from comparative scores, although
the young gentlemen of West Point
have developed some claim to that
distinction.
For all / know, it may be the best
team in the country, which is tax
ing in a lot of territory.
1t is stolid sort of team, this
Pennsylvania outfit, without any
great individual sparkle or flash be-
yond that thunderbolt of the back
field, Charley Rogers, and the squat
built rolling stone, Al Kruez. 1t just
goes rumbling along en- masse to the
destruction of its opposition. 1t is
reminiscent in many respects of Percy
along about 1914, 10.
ROGERS AND KRUEZ.
Rogers is slashing, dashing fell
low, who will make most All-Ameri-
cans without much difficulty this
year, if only ON the strength of his
work in the Yale and Chicago games.
The sGuat-built Al kruez, who pushes
100 pounds along no higher than
Sam Langford used to shove his low
set tonnage, is another Penn man
who will come in for the attention
of the profound experts when they
are making up their all-star line-ups.
Nature designed AL Kruez for the
business Of fullbacking, at which he
is such pronounced success. She
gave him many advantages over the
average mortal, and if he isn't a
great fullback he will do until a great
one comes along.
You pronounce his name "Kroise,"
by the way, not Krooz, as some have
il, and he comes, not from Pennsyl-
yania, but from Michigan.
Lou Young, the Pennsylvania
coach, must have designed his team
largely for durability. The original
eleven boys were in there pulling and
hauling in the mud at Franklin Field
against Chicago Saturday virtually
from start to finish, while the aged
AlOnzo A. Stagg used about every
body that came with him from Chi
cago.
| discount the rumor that Mr..
Stagg was casting a speculative eye
over the north stand toward the fin
ish, with a view to locating n few
old Chicago grads that he might i'm
panel for service in the oOze. Any
way, the old grads in that section
were too wet TO do him any good.
FOUR LINEUP CHANGES
Mr.. Young. whose success this sea-
son is apt to give him such serious
as a coach that he may
be called on to write syndicate ar
ticies over his name on the subject
Of coaching, made about four substi-
tutions during the pastime. A couple
OF his men got lost in the mud and
he had TO replace them to comply
with the rules that call for eleven men
in the lineup.
No one substituted for Al Kruez,
however. Mr.. Kruez probably would
resent a substitution as n personal
affront. Mr.. Kruez is so constructed
that he can play football a week at a
stretch and never feel any fatigue. !
am informed that after the game Sat
urday he repaired to the college gym.
nasium and took a couple Of hours
exercise.
The venerable Alonzo A. Stage dis
played number Of very good teams
during the afternoon. Each team
fought manfully and well against the
but the latter had a
distinct advantage. because they
played 50 long in the mud they got
accustomed 10 it. whereas Mr.. StaSg
never gave anyone Of his teams Il
chance 10 get acclimated, so TO speak.
TRAILS THROUGH SWAMP
Toward the colse Of the game Mr..
iOung's men were veterans OF the |
swamp and knew all its twisting |
trails. while Mr.. Stages last team |
vas quite unfamiliar with the going. |
am informed that at one time Mr.. |
Stage thought something of going in |
himself. but he felt the dampness |
night be bad for his rheumatism. Mr.. |
Stagg is not rs young rs be used 10 |
70 and cannot take undue chances.
Bill Curlcy's boy. Bob. distinguish
d himself among the Chicagoans by
a touchdown and he was
'limbing George Thayer's legs trying
o hold George back when George was
Hiding with the ball toward Chicago's
goal 10 n touchdown. and later on
ieorge "kneed- him in the stomach
md shook him off.
! do not know why Mr.. Stagg did
not employ the well-known kicking
alcnt Of Bill Curlcy's boy. Bob. in
'ew attempts at drop-kicks. There
gcre times when Bill Curley's boy,
Bob. would have been n ] 10 3 shot
o score, especially those times when
he Chicagoa took 10 making loose
Onward passes behind the Penn goal
inc.
SCORES A SCORE.
Perhaps the venerable Mr.. Stage
.isdained scoring in any manner other
han by touchdown. Still a score is
core in football or pinochle. The
world doesn't ask you how you won,
mt did you win.
The ball was wet and soggy and
oggy, and drop-kicking was hazard-
us and uncertain, but il was no more
laza rdoug and uncertain thau huriingl