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THE PHILADELPHIA liNQUlKLK, fcUiNDAi MOKN1M, NOVEMBER 7, 1926 TIGERS TIE HARVARD PITT BARELY BEATS OUT LOSES TIGERS AND CRIMSON BATTLE TO U-U TIE BEFORE 42,000 FANS With Harvard Scoring Early in the First Period, Visions of a Quick Victory Are Shattered When the Tigers Rally Just as Defeat Appears Certain BENGALS ARE. EQUAL. One of The Plays Which Thrilled 25,000 Fans at Franklin Field TO JOHNNIES IN ALL AROUND PLAY XT' Princeton and Harvard Present Two Mag tmmmmmwm nificent Football Elevens, With Neither Team Having Any Particular Ad- vantage in Football Tactics HMO" PENN CORNELL ''n- WW v. f.w BY PARKE H. DAVIS BY N.

M. RAWLINS ft? tew 1 1 Rex Wray of Penn being tackled by Tom Davies, the Pitt star, during a play in the first period. CHECK BEFORE PENN, UNABLE TO GOES DOWN DAVIES, PITT, 27 Statistics of Penn-Pitt CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 6. Harvard played Princeton to a tie here today in their annual football struggle, or maybe Princeton was to blame or.

the 14 to 14 score. Anyhow, it cune to pass and before a crowd of 42,000 and more spectators that the Orange and Black of Princeton waves equally with the Crimson of Harvard just as it did last year when each team scored 10 points. From the way the game started this afternoon it looked as if the Jersey Tigers were in for a good lacing. Harvard was the first to score and made a touchdown before the game wis many minutes old. It looked as if the Princeton line, which has been ragged all season would cave in under the attack of the powerful Harvard team.

It did at first and the Crimson was able to reward the rooting of thousands of supporters with a touehdown. Sat after that was over the game changed entirely. The Princeton ttam was a few laps behind and it settled down to business in great style. After the first flash Harvard was held and held hard. The first quarter of the game ended with Harvard having only one touchdown and with Princeton a near scorer.

Tigers Tie-up Score There was nothmg doing in the second period for either team. So, the first half of the contest with the Princeton contingent on the short end of the scoring, but not in the playing. Things had gone a little rough for the Tigers at the start, but they recovered and played a slashing game. Then when the second half of the clash started things began to break better for the Trgers. They worked hard for short distances.

Gilroy and Garrity carried the ball into the Harvard territory and then when going through the line was becoming harder Princeton opened up a forward pass attack that turned the tide of the A beautiful pass from Frank Murray to Don Lourie, who picked the ball out of the air, gave Princeton a touchdown after Lourie, thf speedy Tiger, had covered thirtjr yards of the gridiron on Soldiers' Field. The score came like a flash out of the blue. It was a wonderful and spectacular play and called forth all me snoutin? mat tne vasi crowa was i able to do. Keck kicked the goal and I the score was tie at 7 -all as they say tennis. Then it was either teams game and more than half of the allotted time had been consumed.

Therefore, the closing chapters of the fray were the exciting ones just as they are in any od book. It was Stanley Keck from Greens-burg, Pennsylvania, who was to play a leading role in the final result of the game. By blocking a kick in the last minute of the third period he placed Princeton in position to take the lead in the scoring at the start of the last quarter. His big frame broke through the Harvard line and he was down on Owens before the Harvard kicker could get the ball away. The ball bounded against his ample chest, Keck was dazed by the blow, but the other Tigers were right by his side and as the ball rolled over towards the Harvard sidelines Legendere was there to pounce upon it.

It was Princeton's ball and the goal line was only six yards away. Whistle Stops Score Amid terrific cheers from the Princeton forces, which were out in numbers, the teams lined up to renew the battle. It was Princeton's chance to win aud it was Harvard's task to defend its goal after such an unexpected and unfortunate stroke of the game. Garrity dived into the Harvard line and succeeded in dividing the distance to the goal almost in half. Just then the whis tle blew, ending the period.

Referee gain of 807 yards. The small difference of 61 yards in Harvard's favor is so distributed through ten different deportments of play on an average of six to each method of advancing the ball as to be inconsequential in a matter of comparison. (Similarly Harvard made seven misplays for a total loss of 71 yards, contrasting with eleven misplays by Princeton for a total of 74 yards. No major battle has been waged in years in which the punting; the passing and the running attacks averaged so nearly equal as this battle of today. An examination of the table accompanying this narrative leveals a number of interesting details.

Fumbles were unusually low in number and none caused any damage. The penalties also were extraordinarily few in number, but it cannot be said of these that none caused damage, because it wa Princetons two penalties in the. first ten plays of the game which advanced Harvard within striking distance of the Tigers goal iine and gave to the Crimson its first score. Supporters of Harvard, will balance these two misplays by Princeton by Harvard's blocked kick, which led to Princeton's first score. Thus again we come to an amazing equality of these two teams striking out Harvard's first touch down and Princeton's first touchdown Tnisninvs.

we have still left another touchdown by Princeton scored by a long forward pass and another touchdown by Harvard scored by a means of a chain of six forward passes, thus giving to each combatant a touchdown and goal hammered out without the aid of any misplay. Tiaers New Tactics Princeton offensively presented so many changes from 1919 that it may be said it was wholly new. This system consisted of three different formations. The first of these was the tandem formation, which also was disclosed today by Harvard and which has been described above. The second was the time-honored kick formation in which Princeton deployed both ends extremely wide.

The third was a spectacular spread" or "wing" formation In this maneuver of Princeton two backs moved up on the line of scrimmage. The line thus augmented to nine forward was thereupon separated intd two sections, with six players in one wing and three in the other. The smaller wing deployed far out to tae left. The quarter-back stood in his customary position, one yard behind the line, while the full-back dropped 10 yards back to kicking position. This ingenious formation thus simultaneously threatened an end run, a centre plunge, a punt and a variety of forward passes, but the strategy of this brilliant evolution was not yet complete.

At a preliminary signal and prior to the snap of the ball one of the players in the wing of three men started swiftly in directing his course slightly toward his own goaL As he neared the main formation the ball with perfect precision and time was put in play and at the same time the player running in now at full momentum beat forward and literally hurled himself at the point in Harvard's line, which was the objective. The momentum feature of this play also characterized Princeton's use of the kick formation. It is the last reli-of the old momentum mass play of twenty years ago. As used by Princeton, it is highly ingenious, highly effective and unlike the old momentum mass plays of other days is not productive of personal injury. Defensively, the teams presented contrasting; differences of interest.

Among the Crimson's first, line of defensive the seven forwards were evenly spaced along the Orange line, the double space existed between tackle and end. Both centres. Calla han and Havemeyer, "roved re- fluently. An unusual characteristic of the game consisted in the few plays exe- cuted by both teams. Ordinardy fifty plays are run off by two contending teams in each quarter, and when play is fast a total number of plays 'in a period will reach as high as sixty and sixty-five.

The first period today con-sinsted of forty-seven plays. The second of 45. the third of 42, and the fourth of 43. not a good record for a major football game. BOSTON, Mass- Nor.

6. Harvard Und Princton in a football battle stir-; ring beyond an previous encounters played one another to a draw here today, each scoring two touchdowns and kicking two goals, and each leaving a record of prowess represented by the score of Harvard 14 and Princeton 14. Each of these teams may have had an equal power and prowess among its predecessors in the past forty-four years of Harvard-Princeton football strife, but neither eleven has had a superior in running, in panting, in passing, in tackling, in skill, in strength and in stamina. Harvard and Princeton today presented two magnificent football elevens. The scores came in such succession as to aid to the excitement of the afternoon.

Harvard tallied in the first fourteen plays of the first half. Princeton tallied in the first nineteen plays of the second half and scored again on the second play in the fourth quarter, thus overtaking and passing the Crimson, bringing joy to its followers and holding out before them the glorious vision of a victory. Harvard's disconsolation, however, was brief for in eighteen plays the Crimson by a bewildering forward pass assault had itwent Princeton backward to its goal line and by a second touchdown had tied the score. The first touchdown was the result of a disaster which Princeton created for itself. Penalty Helps Crimson The kick-off at the beginning of the and a short run back by Harvard, fave the latter the ball on their own line.

Upon the first play Princeton was penalized fifteen yards following five short-distance plunges, Owen burst the Orange line in twain for an advance of sixteen yards. Here again a ferocious Tiger broke the rule against too xealous piling upon the runner, and another penalty of fifteen yards carried Princeton back to their one-yard line, from which Horween carried the ball for a touchdown. Saxon kicked the goaL The second touchdown came in the first few plays of the second half, but this time was achieved by Princeton. Obtaining the ball on their own 40-yard line, Princeton advanced it twelve vard9 by short line plunges. Here Mar- ray hurled a- long torwara pass lorry yards to Legendre.

On the second Slay following this brilliant maneuver array -hurled a second forward pass successfully to Lourie. who raced and dodged through Harvard's backfield for a touchdown. The third touchdown, maintaining the striking coincidence of being scored at the beginning of a period, came on the second play in the fourth Quarter. As the third quarter was closing Har- waMt K9 tha Via 11 awi mam rl line. Here Keck blocked Owens' kick, the ball rolling ont of boundB on Har vard's 4-yard line, where Legendre, of Trinceton, captured it.

The, quarter ending with this play, the elevens exchanged goals. In two plays, Garrity both times carrying the ball, covered the four yards and gave Princeton a touchdown, from which Keck kicked the goal, thus giving Princeton a lead and apparently a victory. The fourth quarter was wearing well into its final stages. Princeton's defensive strength was increasing and Harvard's plunging power was waning. On the 21st play in this quarter Horween, Harvard's captain, ordered the running attack to be replaced by an assault by air.

Harvard now unloosened six forward passes in secession, all being successful, covering 65 yards in all, and the last Kuell and troclcer terminating in a lumuuyju, iui wuoi .1. A 1 A 1 I lie: (uai, luuo t4ir ui auu, as the. game was subsequently played, creating a draw. Teams Are Evenly Matched The detailed analysis of play which is presented elsewhere in tabulated form demonstrates equally with the score that Harvard and Princeton were matched equally in power. Harvard during the day executed 76 1 offensive plays for a total gain of 971 yards.

Princeton during the battle launched 77 offensive plays for a total Ground gained scrimmage Ground gained forward p6S First downs icrimmage First downs forward pass Total first downs Forward passes completed Forward passes intercepted Forward passes grounded Punts (number) Punts average distance Kickoffs (number) Kickoffs (average distance) Drop kicks or placements Fumbles Fumbles recovered Penalties fecght his way over the Quakers goal sma8Ues. double and triple passes andlf" T8 vnr Btful- line once more. If any farther evi- phaT off tackie Davies and Pnod ended. -dence; be needed of Davies' presence Cracken carrying the ball most of the! the very first play of the fourth we will add that he scored three of his t- which netted them a march to Penn ored Wray fling- team's four touchdowns, kicked three cVn Ja-vard mark Then llow lon forward pass into the arms goals and was the life and inspiration ttn t's thlS rd of Erstrevaag. and the goal was kicked, of the Pittsburgh eleven.

10ex" LT: was not lickd- Shortly after Thus did one man, and one man the down the field to 1 nn 3 kickoff she again got the oval at alone, trip Penn and prevent what yari! 1 imidfield and battered her way ahead would otherwise have been one of the This was the longest sustained at-. twenty yardg more At thi8 pomt a most amazing come-backs cver tark developed by either team during five-yard penalty stopped them, and a achieved bv a football team. he da.v; but for a time it seemed that peries of forward paP8es were, ground- nr th ritiMSTn nf would avail them nothing, tor lennlpj, nf hinh FAmilfMl in Titt talHnv friends and driven desperate ty the 'sneers of their enemies, the Heisman football machine rolled on in its might and accomplished the seemingly impos- Kihle bv tlattenine the much-dreaded Panther, in-so-far as team football was concerned. First Hlf Second Penn. Penn.

80 yds. 31 yds. 1 4 5 4 0 1 3 33yds. 4 50yds. 0 2 1 25 yds.

Pitt. 84 yds. 26 yds. 6 8 0 36 yds. 0 0 3 1 20 yds.

S7 yds. 107 yds. 5 5 10 7 1 34 yds. 43yds. 0 1 1 20 yds.

'ncn. jn tne iourtn down, nowever, A'avies snot a iorwara pass over me line to Holleran, who pulled the ball down despite the fact that he was in a veritable nest of Quaker players. It seemed impossible tnat some itea ana the pass. Davies' Wonderful Feat This knotted the score, and as there were only a few minutes remaining of the period, it seemed again certain that tne nan would ena an even ana it would have had it not been for this As Harvey's kickoff settled iu his arms on the eight-yard line, Davies was off like, a shot. Footing it to the north of the Pnn gridiron, he flashed tarough the Penn tacklers 1 mi four of them prone on the ground, and, near midfieldJLpicked up two Snterferers.

Only Wwry was yet to be passed, and his effort was courageous, but vain. Just as he flung himself at the on-rushing Davies an interferer struck him, while the Pitt runner swerved and continued unmolested across Penn's goal line. It was a dazzling run by a remarkable player, and the Pitt as well as the Penn stands were siunnea into wirui-e, A moment and then proper homage was paid the great' feat by friend and foe alike. This put Pitt in the lead, and shortly after the half ended. The second half found Penn fighting just as hard, if not harder than before, but there was one man on the opposing eleven they could not handle Davies.

About the middle of the period this ac- complished young man again stepped For Penn outplayed Pitt, particularly 1 Blue warrior would not put the the first and last periods. In the I ther back out of the play and break up part in the game. Princeton suffered from penalties and a little unsteadiness at the start which cost them a touchdown by Harvard. Then. came Princeton's aerial attack which evened up the count.

Following that was the one bad break of the game, the blocked kick, that cost Harvard dear and finally was a grand display of another aerial attack that robbed Princeton of victory and saved Harvard from defeat. The teams seemed very evenly matched. Harvard had the more power and Princeton showed the more speed. Even in the early stages of the game the Princeton team displayed a lot of prit. After being scored upon the Tigers forced the fighting and several times had the ball in Harvard's terri force the Crimson line back and were forced to relinquish the possession of the ball when Lourie's wide swung runs were smothered.

However, it was little Lourie. a boy from the TVest who kept Princeton in the game at all times. It was he who made the Tigers' first touchdown possible. It was he who did the kicking that was just as good as Harvard's best. Towards the close of the game he did wonderful work in running back kicks.

He was the outstanding football figure on the field. It was a beautiful day for any kind of outdoor sport. It was an especially fine day for football, and maybe everyone who could secure a ticket for the game did not take advantage of it. The crowd wss a little late in starting for the game, despite the beautiful day. The air was fresh and bracing and a kindly sun made it all the more pleas ing.

Heavy top coats were comfortable to those sitting in the stands, so the warriors on the gridiron did not suffer from the heat. The players of both teams were in fine condition and put a snap into their play that only such a game as that between time-honored ri vals like Princeton and Harvard can bring out. Plenty of Color Everywhere All the old college spirit was there, with a lot of the latter spirit thrown in by the younger folk. The women took advantage of the opportunity to display the Crimson of Harvard and the Or ange and Black of Princeton in their a i a a carried a flag or a streamer, fVi. jYj i ame fo lor' or good, solid football playing.

Everything was all right but the score. Harvard thinks she should have won, and Princeton claims a right to believe that the Tigers should have triumphed Probably it might have been more satisfactory if one or the other team won, but the big and royal crowd left Soldiers' Field happy that their team had not been defeated. It was between the halves that the most color and enthusiasm was displayed. The crowd which was later in arriving at the field was too busy to take much notice and think of the game, but during the intermission college bands, cheer leaders and songbirds stood right out in front. Harvard had its band there, all dressed -up.

That good old hong, "We Will Fight For Dear Old Harvard," was never sung by a greater chorus and never accompanied. Then came across the field the familiar strains of Wow, Wow, Wow, Hear the Tigers It was real old football stuff, all of it, and none was too old or too young or too dignified to fall right in with the order of things and lend their voices and celebrate the first of the great football feats of the year. The Line-up Harvard (14) Positions Princeton (14) Kane Left end Tiortmnntli. Time of nenods 15 minutes. GONSHOHOra RECEIVES SETBACK FROM GOALDALE Special to The Inquirer.

COXSHOHOCKEN. Xot. fl. Conhho-hocken. minus several of its tar players, put up a stubborn defense and were beaten only after sixty minutes of hard fljtntics by the stroDsr Coaldale team, champions of the coal resion.

bv the score of 13 to 01 Coaldale came here well advertised, headed br Blue Streak Bonner, who lived ni) to all hi name implied, scoring both touchdowns mflde bv Coaldale. Coaldale relied on straight football throughout, but not until the second half were they to penetrate Conshos impregnable defense. Conshohocken. Positions. Coaldale.

RigKs Left end Parlik Rerirey IWt tackle Garland Wilson Left ruard Morton Mitchell Center Kiiilier Right guard Boyle Pay Right tackle Melley Carsou Right end RhodeMde I'ownall tiilbea Jones half-back Letage Venbsley Right hnlf-back Lithdow HJarrett) Barry Full-back Bonnor Conshohockeu 0 0 0 Coaldale 0 0 0 7 13 Touchdowns Bonner 2. Goals from touchdowns Litchdow 1. Referee Gilbert, Williams. Linesman Hopkins. Penn.

Umpire 11 art, Lafayette. Time of periods 15 minutes. F. AND M. BEATEN Dickinson Defeats Visitors in Hard Game 7 to 0 CARLISLE, Not.

6 (Special). In a close struggle. Dickinson today defeated Franklin and Marshall, the local collegians scoring with four minutes to play in the last Period. The contest was marked by mnch kicking and many minor penalties. The home eleven showed flashes of while the Lancaster collegians offered a perfected defense of creditable character.

For 'Dickinson. Wert-acnik. Pippa. Brophy, Fish and Blumenthal worked admirably, while Dech.int and Mellin- ger took Honors I or the visitors Dickinson. Positions.

and M. Heller Kurtz Gilbert Truxall Wl'liams Diffenbaiifch Wearer Mar Hoster Tiechant Mullon Sharp iKturhertj Hmith Cook Blumenthal Ooeltz Fish Hrotihy Pippa wertacnik Left end Left tackle Left-ffuard .4.. t'entre Kipht eiiard Rialit tackle Right end Qnarter-back Itiirht half-back Left half-back Full-back Mellinfter Touchdown- -Pippa. Goal from tonchdow div iu.v. nuuMiiuuvuv icuipuu lur un Fih for Temniin.

iieichie for Flan. Pair for WilliamK. Massett for Boster. Referee Smith. Bncknell.

Umpire. Wheatley. Franklin and Marshall. Bead linesman Moffltt. Ot- terbein.

Time 10-mlnute periods. jflaxweii used much care transfer- i Faxon Left tackle Keck ring the ball from one end of the field Tolbert Left guard to the other. The distance from the Havemeyer Centre Callahan goal line was measured by the chain Woods Right guard because the matter of an inch or two Hubbard. Riiuht tackle would mean much to both teams. Crocker Right end Stinson "NYhen the battle was renewed Garri- Quarter-back ty once again, with the aid of his team- Owen Left half-back mates, crashed against the Harvard Right half-back forwards.

The Crimson was forced to Horween Full-back yield a couple of yards and the Tigers Score by periods were then only three feet away from Harvard 7 0 0 7 14 the mark which, if they reached, would Princeton 0 0 7 7 '14 practically mean victory for them, Harvard scoring: Touchdowns- Again was Garrity entrusted with the Horween. Macomber (sub for Kane), ball. He dived into the line just a lit- Goals from touchdowns Faxon 2. tie to Harvard's right of the centre and Princeton scoring: Touchdowns Lou-he slid over for a touchdown just as rie, Garrity. Goals from touchdowns nice as you please.

After Keck kicked Keck 2. Referee R. W. Maxwell, the goal Princeton led in the scrim- I Swarthmore. Umpire Thm Thorp, aie, Ji 7 Columbia.

Field judge Fred Murphy, Jt looked to be all day for fair Har- 'Brogen. Head linesman G. N. Bank- TO 21 Fray Half Pitt. Totals Penn.

Pitt, 117 yds. 120 yds. 13S yds. 26 yds. 6 7 9 3 15 10 12 2 2 0 8 0 4 7 33Vjds.

SSViyds. 6 2 47 yds. 51 yds. 0 0 3 4 45 yds. 25 yds.

86 yds. 0 1 1 0 0 4 35 yds. 51 yds. 0 1 1 5 yds. tne nau on downs.

Peon's Inspiring Finish Again securing the leather on their own 40-yard mark, following a kick, the Quakers again started a forward passing attack, and this time it resulted disastrously. It was Davies, who intercepted one of TV ray's passes and scampered 55 yards for his third touchdown. Now came the end in a blaze of glory for Penn. Still undismayed and fighting for victory all the time, the Quakers received the kickoff. and starting from their own 25-yard line inaugurated the greatest forward passing attack seen on Franklin Field in years.

Once twice, thrice, Straus hurled the ball far down the field the arms of a colleague, and the oval was on Pitt 20-yard marc. Again, and it rested five yards closer to the goal: yet a fifth time, and, it was over the line for Penn's third and last touchdown, Erstrevaag making the score. After the resultant kick-off the game came to an end. The Line-up Penn. Positions Grave: Left end Left tackle Cochrane Left guard Pitt, McCrory Bond Day Centre Stein Frank Right guard Ward.

Right tackle Gourley i Wray Right end Edgar Quarter-back Left half-back Right half-back McCracken Full-back Score bv periods: pjtt 0 14 6 7 27 Touchdowns: Thomas (Penn), Holleran (Pitt), Davies (Pitt), Grave (Penn), 2. Goals from touchdowns: BROGUES 20 SOUTH C2D ST. Loses in Sensational Game After Making Great Uphill Fight Before Big Crowd Long Runs of Pan-thers' Great Player Keeps Quakers From Victory BY PERRY LEWIS The Penn football team lost another decision yesterday, but in losing proT- ed itself to be greater than the Uni versity of Pittsburgh eleven, to which it succumbed by a score of 27 to 21. Never did gridiron warriors representing the institution beyond the Sghuylkill wage a more amazing and heartbreaking battle than that against Pitt on Franklin Field, and on no page in all the glorious football history of the Red and Blue is there recorded a more inspiring exhibition of fighting spirit than that displayed by the sons of Father Penn yesterday. Yet Pitt won won because in her line-up was a super-rlayr, on Davies, extraordinary.

This young man was the Panther's claws which mauled and mutilated the moueni giaaiators or. renn. On -k less than four occasions Davies got away lor long runs, tne shortest of 1 a a 1.1 i which was twenty-five and the longest eighty-seven yards the latter coming in the closing minutes of the second neriod when he causrht the kick-off nnd scampered through the entire Quaker i team for a touchdown. On another occasion, this in the fourth period, when Penn in her des- peration was trying one forward pass nC-AH A4-l. A.

A I A overhead toss by Straus at midfield and Results of Leading Games on Gridiron Harvard 14. Princeton 14. Pittsburgh 27, Penn 21. Dartmouth 17, Cornell Syracuse 14, W. J.

0. Swarthnore 21, Columbia 7. Army 53, Lebanon Valley 0. Penn State 20, Nebraska 0. Yale 14, Brown 0.

Navy 21, Georgetown 6. Illinois Chicago 0. Ohio State 14, Michigan 7. Lafayette 10, Bucknell 7. Carnesrie Tech 42.

Allegheny 0. P. M. C. 9, Ursinus O.

Western Maryland 21, St. John's 0. Stevens 4S, Delaware 0. Johns Hopkins 17, Haverford 10. Notre Dame 28, Purdue 0.

Dickinson 7, M. 0. Webleyan 7. Amherst 0. Centre 24, Depauw 0.

Wisconsin 3, Minnesota 0. Detroit 05, Tufts 2. Wisconsin 3, Minnesota 0. -Boston College 34, Boston University 0. Oberlin 20, Western Reserve 7.

Mount Union 35, Case 0. Baldwin-Wallace 17, Muskingum 0. Akron 14. Hiram 7. Gettysburg 34, Villanova 7.

Lehigh 58, Muhlenberg 0. Mercersburg -21. Penn Fresh 7. Utah 7, Colorado 0. Nevada 21, Utah Aggies 0.

Missouri 10, Kansas Aggies 7. North Dakota Aggies 7, Fargo College .0. Iowa 20, Northwestern 0. Georgia Tech 7, Clenison O.Alabama 14, Vanderbilt 7. Virginia Mil.

23, North Carolina 0. Tennessee 41), Transylvania 0. Uni. of Virginia 0, Georgia 0. St.

Mary's 14, Susquehanna 14. Yale 41. Dean Academy 0. Davidson College 27, U. of South Car- olina 0.

Tulane 14, Florida 0. The Citadel 35, Newberry College 13. North Carolina State 81, William and Mary 0. Alabama Poly (Auburn) 49, Birmingham-Southern 0. Lynchburg College 13, Emory and Henry College 9.

Furman Uni. 42, Oglethorpe 3. Virginia Poly. 21. Richmond Uni.

0. Mississippi A. and M. 20, University of Mississippi O. California 40.

Washington State 0. Stanford 3, U. of Washington 0. Oklahoma 21, Kansas 0. Drake 14, Washington .0.

Ames 17, Creighton 0. Louisiana 3, Arkansas 0. Colorado liege 20, University of Wy-ominf 17. of Denver 16, Colorado i I into the limelight witn tne result -ia the Panther drew -further ahead. A Saner-player Gathering a punt on his own 30-yard offensive Penn rushed the ball as efEec-! tively from scrimmage as did titt, and aaaiuon uncoverea au uvemeu uu A.

A tack superior to anythirg seen at Franklin Field this season, In all, the Quakers attempted 21 forward nasses. and twelve of them were successful. Seven were ground i and two intercepted. The visitors only tried the aerial route twice, and both efforts were successful, While on the matter of statistics we I- Y. 4- kwl nffA.TI first downs, nine of them by virtue of forward Dasses.

Pitt gained the necessary distance in, four downs on ten occasions, twice by overhead All three of the Red and Blue's touchdowns came on forward passes. Pitt's first score was the result of a forward pass across Penn's goal line, and a Penn forward pass that went astray was responsible for the Panthers' third score. Morale of Penn AboVe Reproach But to the football enthusiast as well as the other red-blooded sportsmen, the most gratifying feature of Penn's play was the aggressiveness, the fighting spirit and the courage dis-nlaved bv the losers. Trotting out on the field to face a team picked by virtually every critic in the land to beat them by four or five touchdowns, their demeanor was that, of conquerors. While the 25.000 pairs of none too friendly eyes which have grown bleary searching for something of encouragement, looked on, they heard the whistle and hurled themselves at the enemy with the abandon of a team accustomed to winning football games every Saturday.

This sort of football was certain of its reward jnd it wasn't slow in coming. AfteCieking off to Pitt, Penn furnished the first Surprise of an afternoon of staggering developments by holding like the proverbial stonewall and forcing the visitors okick. Now the Quakers showed that they had something more than simply the courage and the will to do. They had an effective weapon, and it was the forward pass. Three of these overhead thrusts "together with a few successful line smashes for- short distances and a five-yard penalty for offside, put them on Pitt's eight-yard line with a first down.

Three smashes at the line failed to gain more than a yard, and then Wray hurled a forward pass into the waiting arms of Thomas and Thomas was over Pitt's line. Then the Celebration Penn had scored on Pitt. More! Penn was leading Pitt, and the Quaker cohorts in the, south stand literally went crazy for the first time this season. And they stayed crazy while the diminutive Rex Wray kicked the goal, bringing the Quaker total to seven This was the second touchdowr scored by Penn on Pitt in the present series of games between the two universities. The Quakers now had the advantage and they held it throughout the first period.

Only once was the ball in home territory, and then on the 45-yard line, in Penn's possession following a fifteen-yard penalty for holding. Toward the end of the period the Heisman warriors got possession of the oval on the enemy's fifteen-yard line on a fumble, but immediately booted their chance for another score by fumbling themselves on the first play attempted. Came the second period, and with it Pitt's greatest display of team power. Securing the ball on their own 12-yard line following a Penn punt, the Panthers inaugurated a series of line ffta'S-t through Te Quake? Sam like a knife, and was not downed J'chMf" rT! until he had placed the pigskin on Thurman Sawyer for HTvey, Es-Penn's 30-yard mark. On the next tresvaag for Hopper, WhitehiH fpr Far-play he tore through the Quaker right -jell, Straus for Sawyer Pitt, HoUeran wing for twenty-five yards more, and fr Bowser, Hartnett for McCracken, on the next play crossed the line Gourley for Kelly, Simpson for Mc-tbrough a hole in the same spot.

Other Lean, Loughran for Hartnett. than this, Davies had nothing to do Officials: Referee, C. A. Reed, Spring-with this touchdown. He failed to kick field Training Schools.

Umpire, C. the goal. Taggart, Rochester University. Lines- Even fnis did not break the Penn man, J. C.

Helderness, Lehigh. Time, spirit, and her defenders were back 15-minute periods. at the Panther with all the ferocity of the jungle. Getting the kick-off on WEST CHZSTEJt TLM.YEB WEXX their own 25-yard mark, they forward. WC8T OHKSTEK.

not. 6 (Special). passed and smashed their way to the West Chester uish played smart football 's ing the ball. In this advance, a 20- Chester Hith School. 20 to o.

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The Dreass naa gone against the Crimson and thero rvas mighty little cheering in the Harvard stand. But the Harvard team was game and the Harvard supporters were not down-hearted even if discouraged at the turn of affairs. While the Tigera, big and little, old and young, and male and female, kept up their din, the Harvard people called upon their team to get busy. Harvard's Graat Rally There were less than fifteen minutes play. The Princeton line that had been bored through in the early stages the battle was playing like a stonewall.

It may not be as powerful as Harvard line, but the men, now that they were in the lead, bent to their work with a will. They had speed to burn. They were much faster than Harvard's forwards and Harvard was held helpless. No longer could the Crimson line smashers make their way even by small raids. Up to that time Harvard had not made use of the forward pass.

The team has not employed the pass to any extent in its attack this season, but today in the last minutes of, the frame Harvard was desperate. Something had to be done and the question was how could they possibly stave off defeat. Harvard had rushed a lot of fresh men into the game tp help out. It was Buell and Fitts that showed the way to save the day and to turn defeat into a drawn battle. With the ball on Harvard's So-yard line Buell mad a long pass to Fitts.

He made a brilliant catch while on the dead run and he never did stop until he was thrown to the ground on Princeton's UiJ-yard line after covering 40 yards of thf gridron. Then Buell threw another pass and Owen caught the ball, but only for a fbort gain. Harvard switched things a little. Owen went back and tossed a ball that Fitts caught and that play took the ball to the 17-yard line. Again Harvard varied the plav and further made oure of crossing the goal line.

The Tigers were disconcerted, they were being beaten at their own game end with plays" that enabled them to match Harvard's first score. And the Band Played Buell went back again and made a pretty toss that Crocker caught and could check him. Faxon kicked the goal, woiie me crowd cheered, the bands MEN! "Wm Yobt OpgeirgrjDsUy! Pre-War Prices for 10 Day MEN'S STURDY HIGH SHOES SfR.85 Reg. $10 Values i Stylas. WaO Btult.

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So it came to pass that the forward pass played a very important.

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