Evening star., 1940-10-24
Big Red Boasts
Leading Total,
Air Attacks
Averages 1861 Yards
Per Came; Quokers
Best at Rushing
BY GAIL FOWLER,

SEATTLE, Oct. 24.-Those giants
of the East-Cornell and Pennsyl-
vania-dominate this weeks batch
of statistics as compiled by the
American Football Statistical Bu-
reau, and the welter Of figures also
indicates some interesting conclu-
SionS.
For the second straight week
Cornell is tops in total offense-
gains both rushing and passing
with 1867 yard average per game
The Ithacans gained 584 yards on
the ground and BIG in the air for
400 yards in three games.
For the third straight week Cornell
was the Nations "passingest" team,
averaging 272 yards via the air lanes.
Penn meanwhile doomed into sec
ond place in total offense with 400
yard-per-game average and the
statistics say. is the countrys best
rushing outfit with a 303.7 average
per game.
Penn Stops Running Plays.
Also, Penn for the second straight
week boasted the best defense
against rushing. IT'S opposition.
while not too robust. crossed 147
yards against the unquaking Quaker
forwards and lost 121 yards for the
microscopic net yield Of 26 yards, or
all average per game of only 81
yards
Penn's Saturday adversary, Mich
igan. which has been playing tougher
teams. is ninth in total offense, but
fifth in rushing alone, what with
Harmon, Westfall and Evashevski
SO Saturdays tilt should pit strong
running outfit against line which
held Maryland, Yale and Princeton
ball packers to that tiny 81 game
average.
Cornell's Saturday foe. Ohio State
the 1889 total offense leaders also
has been playing tougher clubs and
doesn't figure among the offensive
leaders, its 252-yard-per-game aver
age being we'll under the ACCOMPLISH
ments of the first five. But the Ohio
Staters rank fifth in pass offense,
holding the enemy aerials to an
average OF only 34.8 per game.
Tough Tussling Looms.
This means the Nations best
passing club will run up against a
team with a stout anti-aircraft de-
partment, so all four-Cornell, Ohio
State. Penn and Michigan-will get
an opportunity to try out their best
poison against high-grade antidotes
The leaders, statistically were:
Total oftense-after Cornell and
Penn come Detroit. 1895 yards
average per game; Lafayette, 1915;
Arizona. 366; Brown, Mississippi.
Navy, Kentucky and Michigan and
Creighton tied for 10th Mississippi
and Drake fell from the top five.
Rushing offense-Lafayette, which
whacked the likes of Ursinus. N. Y.
u, Muhlenberg and Gettysburg,
rolled up l,408 yards for a 352
average per game. The Lafayette
Leopards. who apparently like to
march. will direct their infantry
against Uncle Sans Army Saturday
Penn's 303.7 average is second, fol-
lowed by Brown. 2s9; Detroit, 287,
and Michigan, 276. Creighton and
Mississippi bowed out of the new
corners, Penn and Brown.
Mississippi State Sturdy.
Passing offense-Cornell is way in
front at 272; Princeton, which gained
more than 300 yards in the skies
against Penn last week. is second
at 1857; Marquette is third with
1913. followed by the lofty-minded
Yales. whose grid tactics have been
on an atmospheric plane with their
announced standards, 1888, and
Missouri, l47.8.
Total defense-Mississippi State.
with game missing, has yielded
an average of 67.7 yards per game.
Then comes Navy, 1913; Penn State,
81.3; San Jose State. 98.2 in six
games, and Michigan, 985. Georgia,
Texas A. dc M, 1899 leader; Rice,
Clemson and Detroit round out the
list.
Rushing defense-After Penn
again comes Penn State, 1873: Texas
A. & NJ, 235; Clemson, 37.3, and
Navy, Alb.
Pass defense-Mississippi State,
still one game shy. ITO; Fordham,
230; Utah State, 30.3; Navy, 3l.3,
and Ohio State, 348.
Punting-Clemson. Texas Mines,
Holy Cross, Oklahoma and Ken
lucky.