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SP0IRTS AUTOS IjJ JiilUvl SPORTS 0 PHILADELPHIA, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 25, 1925 a 23 Colgate Bowls Over Princeton Tigers Con PENN BEATS-CMC AGO IN RAIN Lafayette Bows to Washington and Jefferson i titer 6v I farming test 0 MUD, 7 TO Battle by 7 to AS WEST- BOWED TO EAST ON FRANKLIN FIELD IN A DELUGE u-Cv --i is 1 v. 1 A. uTXW jet mJA v-i 1 Si MISSED GOAL FATAL TO LAFAYETTE' AND ROGERS' LONG PASS TO THA YER BRINGS ABOUT LONE SCORE BRINGS THEM DEFEA 1 PUCETO! TIGERS HANDED FIRST LOSS OF SUSHI TO 0 Colgate's Start Toward Victory Begins With Safety in Last Quarter Tryon Intercepts Forward Pass and Skirts End for Touchdown ForJ Misses Chance to Tie Presidents by Failing la Kick Goal After W. and J. Scores Touchdown and Edwards Boots One Point Necessary for Victory; Victors Outplay Maroon Makes Successful Toss From Chicago's 49-Yard Line to Pal, Who Dodges Maroon, Tackles and Runs Distance to Goal Line; 55,000 Rain-Soaked Spectators See Teams Fight in Mud and Water By PERRY LEW IS By GORDON MACKAY NEW YORK.

Oct. 24. OBED in glory and mantled in I ripped wide apart the forwards of the ASHED to a fury by the spectacle mud, the dauntless warriors of Maroon. Dazzled by the deceptive Old Pennsylvania swept to their I stratagems of the East, triple passes of their arch football foeman embattled before them, inspired first intersection triumph yesterday on mat inruiea Denoiaers ana ate up yara-a deluged Franklin Field, through had been mingled with the crashes virtue of a. dazzling offense that elee- ('S that juggernaut in moleskins, Al By JAMES C.

ISAM I NGER PHINCETOX. Oct. 1'4. trified their cohorts, confounded their "rfuz to a superb daring- by the exigencies of the moment and tantalized into a ravenous hunger for victory once they scented the kill, Washington and Jefferson gridiron warriors performed miraculous deeds on the Polo Grounds today in nosing out Lafayette by a mar- Forty-nine yards away loomed those OLGATE dealt be Princeton f.jot- foes and gent the Hear of hicago the pallid pennant, fought the good fight. It was conqrerci, but by no means disgraced.

The defeat was do part of a humiliation of the phalanx of Easton. For facing a football machine that has all the elements of greatness, a team running smiuck in its dazzling triumph. outplayed. outnianMivtreft. outgaii ed and ortg-icssed.

Lafayette lost oniy by the margin of a single point after touchdown. Hpre whs a striking example of what a gritty team hav could accept reverse gracefully, but the thought of overwhelming defeat, could do. Doth touchdowns were- scored in the second period. First it v. is AmoJ, wbimnering and groveling at their feet rigid uprights, ghastly in the murk that I ball eleven a this afternoon 7 to 0.

enveloped the arena. As Al Jith v-y when, in a hard rain lasted Fifty-five thousand sat through a tor-' snapped and barked the signals. Char- from start to finish the New Yorker" rent to witness this epic, one of the lie ors a majestic figure in downed the Tigers impre'ssivelv by a gin of to 0. It was a struggle as grim as the towering face of Coogan's Bluff, that s-owled on the misty picture from over i the roof of the grandstand, as cold and tUa U'pct ttoi.nwl l.acL- firo Ion T-ui-rl I SCOre Of .) to U. ENN defeated the Maroon of Chicago yemterday to 0, and the camera busied itself with snapping some as merciless as the weather.

No quarter was asked, none was given, none taken in this turmoil of the burly, line-punishing full-back of or the scenes. Jn the upper left, inarue Kogers, tne amaen isomer, ts seen racing ahead after catching one of the punts hurtled his way. On the other side, Jesse Douglass, who played splendidly behind conflict. The riral clad the President who went thundering vii i iii i.iiiuiirii i toric battlefield. These thousands, who Scooting toward the goal line, his lank-defied the weather and sneered at the iness the more startling against the rain, victory drop out of the air drab wall that the weather had cre-to aid Penn in her conquest, after the ated.

ran George Thayer, the end of lied and Blue had outplayed their foes the home host. out of the Wect, by an appreciable Twenty-two yards from where the vantage. battling giants were fighting for their Twas in the first period that the head in the scrimmage line. Thaver Quakers dipped their pennons in glory wheeled and the ball dropped victory, with two majestic figures edlv and confidinglv into his out-limned against the murky sky and muddy Stretched hands. Down upon him thun-background.

Penn. crashing and slash- dered two Maroon giants there were ing at a Iin that had been called the the Quaker line, is seen getting away for one of his fine runs. In the lower picture well it was raining, and why say more It was the first defeat charged in Jwngletown books this season to the Tigers and now Penn is the only mem- ber of the so-called 15ig Four of col- lege football that has not been beaten. Yale and Harvard lost to IVnn and Holy Cross, respectively, a week ago. i It took little Colgate today to do its! share toward demolishing the prestige of three of the four- autocrats of the football field at least four elevens en- I joying the dignity in earlier days.

More than one university situated in i many widely separated points of the! Nation now disputes any assumption! in moleskins, made slimy by the pelting over the line. A moment Liter, the of Jupiter l'luvius. battled each other educated toe of Left End Edwards 1 ferociously, and even the elements had propelled the ball neatly between tha no pity for either player or spectator uprights and over the crossbar for the as a cold and steady rain was driven extrsi point. One point destined into the very marrow of every one. stop an undefeated Lafayette jugger- The crippled but courageous Eafay- i ette team, never for a moment, raising Continued on 27th Page, 4th Column COLLEGE GRID RESULTS Hi CRUSHED BY Gibraltar of the West, had torn and Continued on 26th Page, 1st Column I I DARTMOUTH, MSumichigan state loses to mm ctdhiput mm strong penn state team MICHIGAN BE A TS AS FRIEDMAN BOOTS GOAL imnu iJinHiuni mn of Amermii.

It was a keenly fought tug that seesawed for three quarters without either combatant scoring. It looked like a scoreless stalemate until tCings began to pop in the final period. Score in Last Quarter7 In this quarter all the scoring of the afternoon was massed, a safely against Princeton and a Colgate touchdown STATE COLLEGE, Oct. 24. goal line.

It tvas a 27-yard gain and A steady downpour and on a Penn State was comnletley tooled. 111., Oct. 24. 1 Friedman s-Iammed into centre without ICH1GAN, learning about lied gaining, Dritton nailing him. Molenda, Smith missed the try for extra point.

I muddv ir rid iron. Penn State de- Ml range in presented however, picked up four yanls through Benny Friedman, the Woher- centre, taking the ball to the Illinois ine's point scoring ace, to Illinois to- if-yaM line. On the next play Gregory lost half a yard trving to smash day. to square accounts for the d.sas- throU)fh right tackle, and then Fried- with the accompanying extra point giving the llaiuiltonians nine points and Crimson Attack Triumphs in Early Periods Only to Lose Oberlandei'i of Victors, Plays Stellar Role in Success of His Mates In the final period Uth teams played for breaks. As a result it was largely a kicking duel, with Captain Bas I'cnn State's centre, having decidedly the better of it.

In this session the visitors were continually pressed back to their goal line, just as in the third period, their aerial attack had Penn State on the defensive. Eighteen Fumbles by Players Statistics reveal just what could be' expected on such a day ami on such a field. There were eighteen major fumbles, not to mention many juggl'ng acts that were hair-rciising. Penn State fumbled eleven times and on eight occasions a Michigan player recovered. Michigan State fumbled seven times aud lost the ball by so doing on four occa WEST Nebraska 14, Kansas 0.

Missouri 3, Kansas Aggies 0. Wesleyan 27, Ohio U. 0. St. Xavier's 19.

Ohio Northern 0. Baldwin 20, Hiram 0. Oenison Cincinnati 12. Loyola 6, Dayton U. 2..

Marquette, Lombard, 6. St. John's M. 13; Great Lakes, 0. Knox, Beloit, 2.

North Dakota Aggies. 14: Des Moines, 6. Carroll. Lake- Forest, 6. Columbus 10: Dakota Wesleyan, 7.

Gonzago, 12; Idaho, 3. Creighton. 19; D. State. 0.

Utah Aggies, 14; Brigham Young. 0. Northern Normal, Augustana, 6. Colorado Mines, 16: Denver, 7. Western States, 18; Colo.

Teachers. 7. Colorado Aggies. Colorado 3. U.

of S. 56; Arizona, 0. Washington, 64; Whitman, 2. California. 28; Oregon, 0.

Montana State, 33; Inter Mountain, 0. U. of 57; Montana Mines, 0. Utah, 12; U. of Colorado, 7.

St. Mary's. 35; U. of Nevada, 0. Stanford, 26; Oregon Aggies, 10.

Wyoming, 24; Regis, 0. SOUTH Alabama 7, Georgia Tech. 0. Louisiana 9, Tennessee 0. Georgia 26, Vanderbilt 7.

Washington and Lee 20, V. P. I. 0. William and Mary 35, Duke 0.

Furman 7, Davidson 0. Maryville 10, King 0. North Carolina U. 3. Mercer 0.

-Birmingham Southern 38, Loyola 0. V. M. I. 27.

North Carolina S. 6. West Virginia 16, Vest Virginia feated Michigan State. IS to here today in the big Pennsylvania Day game. The Pennsylvanians took advantage of the first half drive to tally two touchdowns, while in the third period.

Michigan's forward passing attack resulted in their solitary score. Both elevens showed a running attack in the opening half when the field was still passable, but in the later stages of the game fumbles were frequent. Michigan, with nothing to lose and everything to gain, hurled passes in rapid fire order, but completed only four out of seventeen. One of, these gave them a touchdown. State Scores Touchdown Early irous route oi a jear ago.

I man dropped back for his game-winning victory. In one of the greatest football games field goal. The safety broke the deadlock early of the Western Conference. Michigan With Gilbert holding the ball, the in the fourth period. The ball was on defeated Illinois, a to 0.

while tJT.OOO hockey 10-year-old Friedman stepped Princeton's 4. -yard line when Ptin i back while the huge- crowd was deathly 1 ryon. a Napoleonic figure ah through spectators. a record-breaking home pjUnt in th(, brea, h.taking excitement the battle, drove a punt deep in Tiger coming crowd, gazed down on the spec- situation. The pass came per- terrain.

Sammy Ewing. who had his from Illinois' magnificent fecfly from Captain Drown, Wolverine troubles handling punts, let the ball roll tKtO memoiial stadium. The huge centre. Gilbert grabbed it and held it to past him and it had more motion than double deck affair was packed from ton the ground, and in an instant Fried- he divined for he did not stop the ball bottom, and 20,000 persons were oe crashed against it. sending until it rolled to the Tigers four-yard turned awav la11 hurtling tli rough space and line.

iv- vicrorv emerge between the Illinois goal posts. In this position of peril. Princeton JtKT Fails on Fie.d Goal, Ji r' IinTS' der the best out daSrf aiKe' Mood ference. and the -'battling ve, ms form they have shown this season, tried eiht or so 0phind his goal line are boasting of a goal line un- desperately with field goals, but both fo Jet th? Punt fT iossed this reason. Attempts were failures.

Earl Brit- As Bartell snapped the ball back to Friedman Boots Winning Goal ton, the Illinois kicker, made his first him the Colgate forwards charged. The Wolverines, humiliated by the attempt from the 51-yard line in the pi0 lifted his leg and gave the oval a EAST Penn. Chicago 0. Colgate, 9: Princeton, 0. Yaie, 20; Brown, 7.

Dartmouth, 32; Harvard, 9. W. and Lafavette, 6. Pitt. 12; Carnegie Tech, 0.

Penn State. 13; Michigan Aggies, 6. Navy, 37; Washington, 0. Muhlenberg. Dickinson, 0.

Villanova, Lebanon Valley, 0. Lehigh, Rutgers, 0. Columbia, 26; Williams, 0. Syracuse, 48; Providence, 0. St.

Joe, 13; Manhattan. 6. Grove City, 26; Marietta, 0. P. M.

13; Temple, 0. Susquehanna. Schuylkill, 6. New Hampshire, 10; Springfield. 10.

St. Bonaventure. Alfred. 0. St.

John's, 22; St. Stephen 0. Niagara, 19; Hobart, 7. Union, 40; R. P.

0. Mass. Aggies 54, Worcester Tech. 19. Albright 18, Blue Ridge 0.

St. John's 7, De aware 6. Haverford 15. Hamilton 0. Johns Hopkins 13, Drexel 0.

Western Maryland 19, Loyola 0. Norwich 12, Lowell Textile 0. Amherst 73, Wes.eyan 6. Colby 10. Bowdoin 7.

Conn. Aggies 7, Tufts 0. John Carroll forfeited to Canisius, 10 to 0. Davis Elklns 39, Buffalo 0. Buckne.l 3, Georgetown 2.

Boston College 14, Allegheny 7. Army 19, St. Louis 0. Swarthmore 13, F. and M.

2. Holy Cross 47, Vermont 3. Haverford 15, Hamilton 0. F. and 13, Swarthmore 2.

Ursinus 0. George Washington 0. Waynesburg 12, Westminster 0. WEST Michigan, Illinois. 0.

Iowa. 15; Ohio State. 0. Notre Dame. 19; Minnesota.

7. Oberlin. Case. 0. Detroit, Quantico.

0. Fcrdham 28, Akron 0. Wittenberg 19, Heidelberg 0. Wooster 7, Mount Union 0. Kenyon 13, Western Reserve 0.

Tulane 18. Northwestern 7. Wabash 10. Butler 10. Drake 7.

Grinnel' 6. Indiana 25, Miami 7. -Wisconsin 7, Purdue 0. CAMBRIDGE. Oct.

24 (A. Oli the third successive year the Ireen waved in triumph tonight Gn ncr Penn State scored right from the sions. On several plays the ball wo'd'J over the Crimson in the great first kick-off. Dangerfield returned the 1 iOOSe from four or five idnvers ll- kick to his M7-yard line, Michalske made fore was downed ten at centre and Dangerfield circled jn first downs-Penn State led. ten left end for thirtf ve yards In less the Lions made nine of their than six more plays Michalske torejUn in the openin? half.

Penalties wera around right end for the initial touch- 1Vnn Sfate losi tAveutv yards ami ii to 14 defeat of a year ago, achieved ymou out me enori was snori solute kick. ffr The towering form of Al Mankat uomii. in ill iciiifuru fevtii aa uivr. rv. i Visitors live victory near tne nmsn or tne sec-: l- mini pmuu, iui- ond periodwhen Frielman, Yost star ton attempted to square the score with o.iarter-back.

Looted a field goal at a klck frol the 84-yard line. This ancle from the 24-vard line effort was low and wide of the mark. by iiasKms. A blocked kick led to Penn State's second touchdown in the second period. Penn State stuck to a running game for the most part and tried but.

three pj.sses. one of which netted six yard.i. The game was largely a battle for ifter he and -his teammates hail ad MeCinn broke through to block Me- i IVnii State I'ofition statt individual honors betweeu Grange. Il the ball from midfield. Cosh's pui.t on the Aggie 40-yard line, sinnu- "Lwf eliil linois captain, and All-Anierican star.

The Wolverines got possession of Wesleyan 0. 1 I 1 .1 1 Pvi'afl Til 1 i gray stadium here, while a madly cheering Dartmouth crowd snake-danced across gridiron in celebration of a victory over Harvard. The score was 32 to V. For Dartmouth it was the fourth straight victory of the season. For Harvard it was the second defeat in two weeks, the severest setback the Crimson has ever suffered at the hands of her New Hampshire rival.

capacity crowd of saw the game. The of impending" defeat lay heavily on Dartmouth in the first period. The Harvard machine scored a field goal in the first four minutes of play and the much-vaunted Green offensive broke against the heavy Crimson line. Not once did Dartmouth hold the ball in Harvard territory, and the ball only went" into he Crimson end of the-field as lie result of the kick-offs and a weak punt that just carried beyond midfield. In the waning minutes of the Srst Left tackle l.i-f Kiianl 'en i re liiutit Kuartl KIht tackle liKlit end The ball bounded backward, with a back M-t'aun in pursuit.

After squirming from three or four players', finally dropped U.ii-e on the ball on Michigan's 10-yard line, In one smash at right tackle, Michalske pim-ura Geneva ZO, Bethany n. Virginia 6, Maryland 0. Oklahoma Agnies 22, Texas Chris Haskin Voxel llarkcit. lluiiitiieM I rr I.illlHTl Mi-Ow-h Itocrinrer Kuhl tjiiarter-lcn-k Colgate's great ackle, who measures six feet four inches in height, was seen to leap in the air. His uncommon statute enabled him to reach the ball and give it a vicious bat back pas Sbigle.

There was a wild scramble for the ttnll and it was of Princeton, who captured it. and before he could 'rise to run to the goil line a covey of Colgate tacklers fell on top of him, giving Princeton a safety which meant two points for Dignan had to be alert to retrieve the spinning ball or else a Colgate nrmn would have taken it and it would have been a touchdown instead of a safety. The two paltry poin's that went to Colgate seemed to be sufficient to-ua- Contlnued on 33d Page, 4th Column -went nrriKi; foi" bij Kecorul score Pritchar't I bill -la-k i i i i IaiiKerrtelii Ilitlit half-back ton kicked a. perfect goal. Kuti-back ti.e ball wnen uosieronan miercepien iuoi i i i-wm seusa- Bri'ttou's pass.

Friedman started a tion. Grange, was seriously handicap-is iple pass that was largely respons- with the heavy condition of the for the gain that put him in posi- field, which was rain-soaked as a to boot the goal. From behind suit of a downpour that did not stop ins own line of scrimmage, Friedman until 1141 hour or no before the start to Babeock. who in turn handed of the game. the oval to Gregory.

The play was Molenda, the ripping full-back of the deceptive that the bewildered Illini Wolverines, covered himself with glory did lot fcnuw fr l'3e imstaut who had ml mud by ploughing through the line the whenever he was.clied upon. He and Gregory sprinted thirteen yards Captain Brown of the Wolverines play-around left eud. running to Illinois' eo brilliantly, sharing honors wirli line before he was stopped. I kins for vicious tackling. In the third period the visitors soon- t.v ihtumIs: opened up a.

desperate passing attack, I 013 tian 7. Oklahoma 9. S. M. U.

O. 0. Centenary 7, Tennessee Doctors 0. Ouchaita 3. Ozarks 0.

Tennessee 12. Mayfield 0. Auburn 7, Howard 6. Fort Benning 23, Catholic U. 7.

Denison 24. Cincinnati U. 12. Texas 27; Rice, 7. -v Baylor, 20; Howard Payne.

4. Florida, 24; Wake Forest, 3. realizing tneir cause was uopeiess Peull stat- Mu-halk. otherwise. During the half thev com- Point ftr tow-hiimvn: stou ii.ytw.ti nleterl four usskps! fur a totnl in Wilson Mlt-iiiKan State scoriiiK pietea iour passes ior a total gain or ko.us (euhatiiut for RoriiK.T.

SiXtV-t yards, the mast Successful Ttefere V. II. Pennsj Ivanni. being a long toss. Van Buren to Fonts, Vmiir K.

Ianiels. Ipad linesman -K I on which the latter raced across the xiui of pcriot vuu-ea uiinun tact. Continued on 33d Page, 1st Column.

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