Evening star., 1941-10-26
Stiff Leads Merci|ess
Attack asQuakers
Pile $50 Score
Terps Parade Almost
Length Of Field in
Averting Shutout
By LEWIS F. ATCHISON,
Star Staff correspondent.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 25,-A big
Stiff and a lot of other big guys
wearing Penns fancy red jerseys
kicked the stuffing out OF an out
classed Maryland eleven here today,
burying the Terps under an ava
lanche of eight touchdowns to win
by IS to s.
A throng of 10000, licking its
chops in anticipation OF an East
ern championship and possibly a
bowl bid for the Quakers. saw them
strike savagely for touchdown in
the nine opening plays Of the un-
even affair and then charge on to
make a rout of it. The big Stiff,
whose first name is Bert, scored
three touchdowns, but it wasn't his
scores as much as the irresponsible
surge of power he generated that
hurt most.
Whenever Penn needed couple
Of yards it sent Stiff spinning into
the line and he got 10 and Is.
Maryland stopped the Quakers'
equally devastating flank plays sew
eral times, hurting back one thrust
within the shadow of its goal line
when Perm tried to circle the ends,
but never did it halt Stiff's mad
rampages into the lire.
Penn piled up the amazing total
Of 381 yards from scrimmage to the
Old Liners 55. And while Mary
land went into the air for 1873 yards,
the Red and Blue came back by
intercepting enough enemy aerials
and running them back to Offset
this
Returns SO With Interception.
One of these interruptions was
returned SO yards by numbering Wal
ter Weismuller. 19O-pound center
for the games final touchdown and
at least two others set up scores.
Maryland surprised the gathering
by picking itself up off the ground
after Penn's fourth six-pointer and
travelling the length of the field
TO pay dirt. 1t started from its
own %, where Jack Mier had run
Gene Davis kickoff back from the
5. Mier passed to Mearle Duvall
for first down, the Terps' first
of the afternoon. on Penn's A.
George Barnes kept the movement
going with a sensational overtime
shoulder catch of Duvall's next pass.
reaching up between Clifford and
Stiff to take the ball for first
down on Penn's 49, From that point
John Cordyack and Mier pounded
through the line for a first down
on the 8, where Penn called for time
Duvall then tipped a short pass to
Cordyack for the score Duke Alex
ander's attempted placement was
blocked
Penn Romps in Final.
The game had all the aspects of
a reputable contest in the third
quarter as Maryland held its host to
a single touchdown, and that COM
ing on the heels of blocked kick.
But Penn threw itself into high gear
in the final period and roared down
the gridiron for three markers.
1t was W. G. Moeling, Sd. who
blocked Bernie Ulman's punt and
arranged the setting for the third
period score. Stiff rammed into the
line off spinners and took the ball
from Maryland's 35 to the 7. from
which point Joe Kane scored
A tumble by Mier on a fourth
down gamble for yard and a first
down gave Penn the ball on its own
10 at the end of the period, and
with Stiff ramming the line on re-
verses and Kane sweeping the ends
the Quakers placed it in position for
q short buck into pay dirt to open
the final quarter. 1t was Stiff who
made the score.
Bill Miller set up PENIS seventh
tally by gathering in Miers pass,
after Maryland had taken the ball
on It's own 20, and running it back
"a yards to the Terps' "a. Smith.
emulating Stiff's tactics, went
through the middle of the line. cut
to the right and went over stand
Ing up.
Stiff Leads Two Marches.
Penn, after a 73-yard march for
its first touchdown, scored by Kane
on plunge from the 1-yard line,
came right back with a 79-yard
thrust for its second marker. This
time it was all Stiff.
Mier, who didn't have too much
buck with his air grenades, pitched
one to Gene Davis, Quaker captain,
on Maryland's 24-yard line near the
end of the opening period, and Penn
quickly converted the break into a
touchdown. Stiff tossed pass to
Welsh for a first down on the 10
and then broke through the line for
the points. After that came
tho dell1ue