The Washington times., 1929-10-19
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MAY HURT
BEARS
BY Davis J. Walsh

BY DAVIS j. walsh
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. l9,
Determined to do it the hard
way, a University of California
team, travel-tired and alone IN
a strange land, was to play
it's big intcrsectional game of
the year at Franklin Field
this afternoon, thus taking the
rap on the coast TO coast trips
right in the middle of furi-
Gus football season instead Of
at the end, as custom hereto
fore had dictated.
The Bears were to put on the
third episode of their serial with
Pennsylvania before upward OF
rs 900 rabid Fasteners and, with
the finish of the game, the invaders
troubles merely will be starting.
This game won't be the end OF
the long. long trail for California;
it will be the beginning Of another
and perhaps longer one. the finish
of which may or may not be reached
even when the 1929 season is no
more.
In the two weeks between Oc-
tober I9 and October 26, this
team is playing three games
and travelling 5000 miles for
the privilege of doing SO. The
Bears, in brief. seem to be doing
their road work to and from
their football games.
Today's affair was to he their first
venture East of the Rockies ana
they were making it notable one
In all the coast versus coast fooF
ball that had been played during
the current generation, no team ever
before had had the temerity to dc
it's long distance visiting as casual
part of the season. Therefore, ID
success rides with California today
and the Bears were very shou
price in the betting-Eastern pres
tige will be taken for ride again.
Odds ranging as high is to@l
this morning said they would do IT,
too. The Bears, largely veteran
outfit except at the tackles, was
figured to have too much saVVy 1or
a PENNSYLVANIA team that had had
more than it's share of poignant
moments in outlasting F. and NJ,
Swarthmore and Virginia Poly to
reach this game undefeated.
In fact, this didn't appear to ne
a typical Pennsylvania team Al
all. an impression that perhaps
had been heightened by the TACT
that the coaches ordained change
ir the offense this season Iheys
had been using the hidden pan
attack for some years, rms u
seemed. had been largely discard.
e6 for 1929. They no longer are
hiding the ball and are beginning
to hide the touchdowns.
1t will be just too bad if they
start hiding them today. for Cal.
ifornia, with the renowned
Benny Lom fitting about in the
hackfield, and good line to
screen his activities, figured to.
score at least once and perhaps.
twice before the end OF the
afternoon.
The Bears, in fact, were said TO
he almost as good as the team that
had to have Roy Riegels run ~
Yards for the other side before 1t
could lose the national title last
wear. Reieels was back in the
center of the line today as captain
of this outfit and promised to stay
in his own lane when running with
the ball, so the Bears looked no
worse than a very sound bet for
this ball game.
They will hare two things against
them. The other one is PennsNl'
vania This team is always danger.
Gus but never so much so when the
monotony of defeat begins to 1rE
the boys. They have been well 1rked
by California. which won in 1928
by A couple of touchdowns and. two
years later, repeated by a score or
81 to 13. Both games were played
at Berkeley.
1t may turn out to be i'm.
pOrtant that this one will he
played almost 5000 mile distant
from that garden spot of the
West.
Pennsylvania is outweighed today.
1t probably will be out-smarted, both
in and ont OF the line. But that
doesn't say that 1t will be out-sc0Ied.
This doesn't happen very often on
any field. 1t happens even less than
that when the field is it's own.
A fighting-mad Pennsylvania team
is one of the obvious things against
California today. The other is lis
transcontinental journey. II :. lcks
both of them, it won't he necessary
to admit that the better team won,
for, in his case. the better team vii
be so much better that an adrls-
sion Of any kind will become super
fIuoue