The Penn Game.
State Gives Penn a Hard Fight.
Again on Saturday the White
and Blue was shown to be the equal
L of the big eastern schools in athletics.
lit is true that Penn won 6 to 0, but the
Quakers were forced to fight every
"l inch of the way and the lone touch
!:down came on a blocked kick—a
3'. 4 'fluke" as the North American calls
it. The first half ended oto 0, ana
-=the final count was just that of 1904
. 'when Carl Forkum's team deserved
tie score. As in the Indian game
-7 a week before, Ballou displayed his
, '-'punting ability and this time out
`punted Hollenback. In the early
• part of the first half one of his
=gpirals got past Keinath who appar
ently touched the ball which passed
- through his arms and rolled over the
:goal line where Weaver fell on it.
zit was decided, however, that the
--Pennsylvania quarterback had not
touched the pigskin and the Quakers
-punted out from the twenty- five
:yard line.
" - Toward the end of the second half
State's offen;ive ability began to
:Make itself felt, and runs by Ballou,
Hirshman, Vorhis, and McCleary
brought the ball to the Red and blue
twenty-yard line. A touchdown
seemed so imminent that the Penn
rooters almost stopped their concert
ed rooting and gathered as near as
possible to the side lines personally
imploring the Quaker eleven to pre
vent a touchdown But the Penn
team, now playing entirely on the
defensive, did not need to "hold
'em", for referee Evans detected
Hirshman in hurdling, an act for
which the New York fullback has
never before been penalized and one
which apparently no one but the
official saw. State was heavily
penalized and a second good chance
to cross Penn's line was lost.
Cyphers was head over heels in
the game and either the big right
guard or some of State's other hard-
THE STATE COLLEGIAN
working linemen blocked four at
tempted punts. Our opponents re
covered all of these, whereas the
one punt of Ballou's which was
blocked unluckily fell into Gaston's
hands and he made theonly score
of the game with only five minutes
of the second half played. In this
period our ends were Brown and
Hipple, two of the lightest and
gamest lads who ever fought under
Nittany's colors. Both tackled
fiercely and "Brownie" got Hollen
back for losses two or three times.
Ballou's forty-five yard run, the
secondary defense of our backfield
men, and Smith's good tackling were
other features of the closely fought
contest on the State side, while the
playing of Hollenback, Keinath and
Scarlett for the home team, was
above criticism. Once State held
U. of P. on the two-yard mark, -
once on the one-yard line and finally
on the twenty-yard line. Such a
record means that "Bull" Mc-
Cleay's eleven is of the true State
calibre, never beaten until the final
whisle has blown.
STATE U U. of P. 6
Piollett. Brown .1 e. ..... Braddock Pauxtis
Weaver .1 t . . • ...... Gaston
McClellan lg . Lamberton
. . . Marks
Cyphers . .r g . . .Erwin, Pike
Smith ..r t. . Ferrier. Cozens
. . . . . . ..r e . Scarlett
Ballou ...... . . Keinath
Vorlus .... .. I .... Young, Mclntyre
McCleary (Capt.) .. .r h. . . . Manier
Hershman .. f b..Hollenback (Capt.,) ?hillier
Touchdown—Gaston. Goal from touchdown— Scar
lett. Referee -Evans, Williams. Umpire - Lang
ford, Trinity. Field judge—Fultz. Brown.
Head linesman—Wolf, Bucknell. Linesmen--
"Irish" Mcllveen and Murphy Time of halves
-25 and 20 minutes.
With our Future Opponents.
Geneva College, which appears
here on Saturday afternoon, met
two reverses last week, one at the
hands of W. and J. which defeated
it 26 to 0, and the other from Waynes
burg by the score of 6 to 0. The
Western Pennsylvanians promise a
hard battle on Beaver Field,however,
and State's coaches will be on the
lookout for a reversal in form by
the Beaver people.
The West Virginia eleven won a
game of minor importance last
Wednesday but rested on- Saturday.
Just now they are doing little but
holding secret, hard practice, yet
inside reports seem to denote that
the Mountaineers believe they can
even go their 1905 six to-nothing
score on Beaver field one better.
Watch out for W. V. U.
Our next opponent among the Big
Five is Cornell, which triumphed
over Oberlin on Saturday 23 to 10.
Neither on offense nor defense have
the Ithac ms shown last year's
strength, yet they have plenty of
time to prepare for McCleary and
his c:even before October 31. As
Princeton is not played by Cornell
this fall and as Penn State is the big
game at Ithaca, it is a foregone con
clusion that the New York school
will make every effort to wipe out
last year's defeat.
Reports indicate that Bucknell
would probably have won its game
against Gettysburg had not the
visitors been compelled• to. leave
early for their train when the oval
was in Bucknell's possession on
Gettysburg's 10 yard line and the
score 6t05 in the visitors' favor.
State is anxious to retrieve recent
defeats in baseball and basketball,
but let it be understood that the
Lewis burgers will be well-primed
for their conflict here on November
7.
The Navy is in good form. Our
old friend Dickinson, with Mount
Pleasant at quarter, lost to the Mid
shipmen 22 to 0 on Saturday' and
the Annapolis nut will be a hard 'one
to crack later on.
The Pittsburg papers give - the
University of Pittsburg (erstwhile
W. U. P.) the credit of haviiig a
stronger all-round team this falithan
last. .Bailey, a sub' gnaid of last
year's State eleven, is
Pittsburglaying
regularly at tackle for the t
eleven and will_ probably line_ up
against his former team-Mates on
Thanksgiving. The new "U: of
P." won 27 to from Bethany on
Saturday: - •