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Moser quarter McCaskey
Tawuey right half Robinson, Diehl
White left half Thomas, Heckel
Sheely full Thompson, Walker
Referee, Wolfe. Umpire, Close. Linesman, Fisher. Attendance, 500.
State preserved lier wonderful record in the game with Cornell
at Ithaca, N. Y., on October sth. The score otoo on Cornell’s
home grounds was a practical victory for our team. The sporting
editors of the Philadelphia papers, with their usual weak expla
nations (flagrantly weak this time), have again attempted to be
little the playing of our football team. This time they claim that
one official in four and seventeen players practically bulldozed
three other officials and a crowd of thousands, not counting
seventy odd Cornell football players, in uniform, out of a game of
football on their own grounds.
The facts of the .case are these: State started out with a rush of
20 yards gain, and the Cornell officials saw that their team must
be protected from defeat; they managed to give the Cornell team
the ball. In order to keep the game in State’s territory Cornell
resorted to punting as often as they secured the ball. State’s backs
called for a free catch each time, but were pulled down by Cornell’s
players.
Hoskins did the only thing an umpire could do according to the
rules of the game. He awarded State the number of yards speci
fied in the rules. Cornell’s officials could not object to a decision
so obviously fair. One of State’s “subs” heard Cornell’s coach
instruct the referee to give the ball to Cornell each time it
approached their 15-yard line, and this was done every time State
advanced the ball to this line.
The second half was played almost entirely in Cornell’s territory,
but as often as State advanced the ball to Cornell’s 15-yard line a
foul was called and Cornell was given the ball, upon which it
was immediately kicked down the field, State’s backs being thrown
each time they called for a free catch. Cornell’s captain assured
Captain McCaskey immediately after the game that he was satis
fied with the game and the decisions rendered.
State’s team put up a fine game without exception. Cornell’s
line was repeatedly opened at all points, and gains made of five,
ten and fifteen yards. Captain McCaskey displayed his usual fine
judgment in directing State’s play. The team lined up as follows:
Football.
STATE, o; CORNELL, o.