The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-01-03
FUMBLES RUNBACK
| BY ENDS TO WIN 2
FEATURE CONTESTS
Georgetown Beats New York
and Rutgers Trims Lehigh
on Breaks Of Game
BALL SHOULD BE DEAD
Iowa State Was Only Team to
Do It Twice in One Game;
Missouri Won
BY BOB MATHERNE
(NEA Service SnOrts Wrifer)

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OF the football coaches have been adj.
vocating q rule whereby q fumbled
ball would be dead at the point Of
recovery. All one has to do is to re.
call what happened in the George
town-New York University, Lehigh-
Rutgers and other games this fall.
1t isn't hard to remember that
Georgetown beat New York Univer-
sity because Provincial, an end. re-
covered tumble for the lone and
winning touchdown, and that Chase,
an end at Rutgers. recovered tumble
that proved just as costly to Lehigh.
Both winning touchdowns were made
on runs Of 81 yards!
II the new rule advocated ever
comes into effect, a fumbled ball
would be dead at the point of re-
covery. thereby making the loss of
the ball penalty enough for the err
ror. and also eliminating one Of
the likely breaks Of a game.
The Break That Hurts
Such a rule would be like holding
the batter to one base in baseball for
ar error. It seems to this writer. in
asmuch as handling of the ball is one
Of the fundamentals of the game, that
q tumble should carry as much Of a
penalty as possible to assure proper
handling Of the ball. And to have
the ball dead at the point Of recovery
would certainly take away one of the
thrills that come now and then when
1t Is recovered for touchdown.
Instances where touchdown
scored on recovered tumble won a
game are not so numerous that it
doesn't hurt when it does happen.
That run Of Provincials certainly
hurt New York University.
The record book shows that as
such plays occurred in 1927 against
30 for 1926. Statistical reports
from go representative schools in
all sections Of the country for the
past fall show that 80 such scoring
plays were made by these so teams.
Were one to estimate the number
made by the supply Of teams, all over
the country on the ratio Of 80 such
plays for 60 teams, what will all of
them have? It would be reasonable
to expect all of the 800 odd teams to
check In total greater than 100.
Those 07-yard runs by Provincial
and Chase were not the only ones in
the nineties. Opekun of Pennsyl-
vania made a marker in the same
fashion against Cornell with q run
Of "a yards, Worthington Of Montana
State pushed a 30 on Nebraska. and
Muff' Of California Tech got q 90
against Occidental.
To Tappaan. Southern California
end, goes the credit for two such
plays this year. He recovered FUN
bles against Washington State and
Occidental and converted them into
touchdowns with runs Of 80 and Is
yards, respectively.
And the Others
The only team to do it twice in
one game was Iowa State. Burton
ran IS yards and Lutzens ran IS
yards with recovered fumbles against
Missouri. Missouri. however, won.
Some Of the other, fellows who
scored touchdowns on recovered FUN
BILE; either back OF the goal line or
on runs up to 80 yards are: Olson,
Purdue: Kisktemaker, Denison:
Lewis. West Virginia: Kenny, Army:
Fuller, Tennessee: Evard, Centenary;
Calderwood and Holmer, Northwest
ern; Lyle and O'Connor, Dartmouth:
Hamas and Stanley, Penn State:
Phillips, California: Clark, Florida:
Temerario. Geneva; zeno. Loyola; |
Leary. Georgetown: Eddy. Yale;
Schleusner. Iowa: Mullins, Notre
Dame; Casey. Wisconsin: Donchess,
Pittsburgh: Grove, Rutgers, and Os-
borne, Colorado.