State Collegian. Vol. 11, No. 3 Football With the thermometer raging at the 85 mark, and “Old Sol” beating fiercely down upon Beaver Field, our ’Varsity eleven played some fine football last Saturday afternoon against the California Normal team, a good husky lot of players, who al so displayed considerable football ability. The day was really far too hot for football, and it was desper ately hard work for the players to get into the battle with the right sort of speed and ginger. In the first half State’s team played miserable football, getting their plays off aimlessly and fumb ling outrageously, the only redeem ing features being Wray’s line plung ing, Miller’s 35 yard dash around ihe end, and Henry’s running back of punts; also the fast, hard game put up by the California boys, who took advantage of all State’s mis takes and did not allow them to score during the first period. Be tween halves State Coaches and Captain Yeckley gave the 'Varsity squad a spirited talking to, and the men looked determined when they came out for the second half. A wild outburst of cheering. greet ed Old State’s warriors as they dashed out from the Track House Captain Yeckley in the lead; and urged on by the enthusiasm of 700 s loyal students, the ’Varsity jumped in and played some real football. “Cal” Moorhead’s snappy, aggres sive work at quarter-back put new life into the tired, perspiring fight ers, and as McGee kicked off to California’s 20 yard line every man was down the field with a business like stride. Harmon caught the ball and sped back for 8 yards coming Con'inucd on pitge 3 STATE COLLEGE, PA., OCTOBER 5, 1905 Saturday’s Game, Some interesting conclusions may be drawn from a comparison of the scores made on Saturday last by Carlisle, Dickinson and W. U. P. with that made by our own team on Beaver Field against California Nor mal. The Indians, for instance, ran up 35 points against Villanova. This is just one more touch down than State made against a team which is probably the equal of Villanova in every respect. By this fact, of course, nothing is proven, for, of all things, an attempt to estimate the relative strength of two teams by a comparison of scores is most useless. However, there is certainly nothing in this score that need scare us, or cause us to regard the red skins as being more than a good match for the Blue and White. Dickinson defeated the Western University of Maryland 26 —0. If any conclusion can be drawn from this score, it must be that Dickinson is as usual, ou,t with a good strong team and likely to put up a stiff fight against State or any other of the smaller Colleges. The surprise of Saturday’s games to many was the small score: 6-0 made by “Wup” against the Butler professionals. If any one takes this game as an indi cation that “Wup” is weak,however, he had better stop and consider sev eral things; first, that in looking over the list of “Wup” players one can find the names of a good many of the men who helped in the “smear” of last Thanksgiving day; second, that it was the policy last fall of the Pittsburger’s to withhold their real strength in games with weaker op ponents, and lastly that the Butler team is composed largely of old col- Coutinncd on flag/: 7, Price Five Cents Dr. Pond Returns Dr. and Mrs. G. G. Pond return ed to college last Wednesday, after having spent the summer abroad. They sailed on the Baltic from New York for Queenstown June 21 arriv ing in that port June 29, and, after visiting at Cork and Dublin for a short time, crossed to England. Here they visited Chester, Lichfield, Stratford-on-Avon, London, Oxford, Cambridge and Canterbury where they saw the famous Canterbury Cathedral and were entertained by Dean Wace. In London Dr. Pond was in atten dance at the convention of the So ciety of Chemical Industry. The president of this Society is this year, for the first time, an American, Dr. William H. Nichols. During their stay in London Dr. and Mrs. Pond were present at several receptions for members of the society, notably the one given by the Lord Mayor of London and his wife. They also met W. H. Walker, ’9O, who was in London at the time. During their stay in England they were received at the home of the late Lord Tennyson and met the present Lady Tennyson; and also met the great novelist, Sir A. Conan Doyle. From England they crossed to Antwerp and traveled through Bel gium, Germany, Austria, and up in to Denmark, visiting Brussels, Ber lin, Vienna, Cologne, Copenhagen, and many other famous and interest ing places. In Berlin alone they stayed a month visiting neighboring points of interest and during then visit saw the Crown Piince and his bride. After an altoge'her delightful summer, they sailed from Bremen on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, arriving in New York Tuesday after noon, September 26, and came at once to their home in State College.
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