Penn State
VOLUME 9 NUMBER 13
ANALYSIS OF
SEASON’S PLAYS
Mautne Leads In Scoring—Miller
Gains Most Yards—Forward
Pass “Very” Successful.
Captain Mauthe proved to be the
greatest point winner for Penn State
in the football season just closed.
He scored 11 touchdowns, 8 goals
from field and kicked 29 goals
from touchdowns totalling 119
points. Very ranks second with 9
touchdowns, and Miller a close third
with 8 touchdowns and two goals
from touchdowns. The scoring
record follows:
G, T. D. F. G. G. T..
Mauthe 8 11 8 29 119
Very 8 9 54
Miller 7 8 2 50
Berry’n 8 3 18
Lamb 8 3
Wilson 8 2
Welty 8 1
Keller 5
Totals 38 38 8 31 283
Safety—State against Gtsbg. 2
The records for the season show
that "Shorty” Miller was the great
est ground gainer, the midget quart
erback carried the ball 66 times in
seven games for a total gain of
801 yards in seven games, an aver
age of 12.4 yards per trial, and of
114 yards per game. Mauthe is
second in number of yards gained
but first in number of times of car
rying the ball. The Blue and
White leader took the ball 121
'times fc: a total of 710 yards, an
average of 90 yards per game and
six yards per trial. Most of the
yards gained by Capt. Mauthe were
on line plays while Miller gained
mostly on end runs. Berryman
ranks third in yards gained and
times carrying the ball with Very
fourth. The latter has the highest
average in yards gained per trial,
the star end taking the ball 17 times
for a total of 234 yards gain or an
average of 14 yards trial. Twenty
four men played for the Blue and
White during the season and thir
teen of these took part in carrying
the ball from scrimmage. Penn
State made over 100 first downs,
and gained over 2300 yards from
scrimmage as against 25 first downs
and 830 yards from scrimmage.
Summary of yard gained from
scrimmage by leading players fol
lows:
Y.G. C.B.T. Av.T. Av.G.
Miller 801 66 12.4 114
Mauthe7lo 121 6 90
Berry’n 369 62 6 46
Very 234 17 14 29
Welty 91 18 5 8
Tobin 89 14 6 22
Wilson 65 13 5 8
Lamb, Engle, Weston, Keller,
Langdon, and Welling were the
other men who carried the ball for
lesser yards of gain.
In the use of the forward pass
Penn State showed superiority
over all opponents. Many sport
ing writers chose Pazetti of Lehigh
for All-American quarter back, giv
ing as one of their reasons, his
ability to throw forward passes.
They evidently had not consulted
the records of "Shorty" Miller, who
in 23 attempts succeeded 17 times
for a total gain of 230 yards. Of
more importance is the fact that
nine of these passes carried the ball
over the line for touchdowns.
Mauthe made three successful
passes gaining 122 yards. Very
and Wilson received the same num
ber of forward passes, but the
former gained more yards. He
caught eight passes for 187 yards
gain while Wilson caught eight for
115 yards gain. Lamb and Engle
caught two passes each for total
gains of 25 yards each. State was
successful 20 times in 30 trials.
With the exception of Cornell, our
opponents succeeded but five times
in 12 trials. Cornell made most of
her gains on the forward pass but
could not use the play to produce
touchdowns, which latter fact was
the greatest one in connection with
Penn State's use of the play.
Mauthe, punting for the Blue and
White, more than held his own with
opponents. Mauthe kicked 38 times
for a total of 1447 yards, an aver
age of 38 yards per punt, while our
opponents were forced to kick 67
times for a total of 2092 yards or
an average of 31 yards pet punt.
Miller proved to be in a class by
himself in handling punts. He
caught 35 without a fumble, and
returned them for a total of 596
yards, or an average of 17 yards,
while his opponents averaged but
7 yards. Mauthe returned 15 punts
for 187 yards ap average of 12
yards per punt.
In returning kick offs Very led.
He returned 12 kick-offs for a
total of 240 yards, Wilson returned
eight for 164 yards, while Berryman
and Miller also had good averages
in yards in returning kick-offs.
The Blue and White made a grand
average return of 20 yards per kick
offs while her opponents averaged
13 yds per kick-off.
Penn State fumbled nine times
during the season as against an
equal number for her opponents;
but the Blue and White fumbles
never happened at critical times
while those of our opponents in
several instances meant scores for
Penn State. Penn State blocked
four kicks during the season but
had none of her own kicks blocked.
The Blue and White suffered 250
yards in penalties as against 150 for
her opponents.
The Blue and White made 78
substitutions during the season’s
games while her opponents made
47. The great number of sub
stitutions was not due to injuries,
but goes to show the strength of
the reserve material that represents
the Blue and White. Five sub
stitutions were necessary on the
Blue and White team because of
injuries, while our opponents made
seventeen substitutions for the same
CALENDAR.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 18
7:30 p. m. Room 202 Engineer
ing Building. Lecture by Mr.
Kelsey.
FRIDAY, DEC. 20
11:10 a. m. Christmas Recess Be
gins.
THURSDAY DEC. 26
“Farmers’ Week” Lectures
Begin.
THURSDAY, JAN. 2
1:20 p. m. Christmas Recess
Ends.
SATURDAY, JAN. 4
8:00 p. m. Auditorium. Free
Lecture by President Sparks.
Egypt.
Fort Pitt Again.
The Pittsburgh Club will hold an
informal feed in the Dutch Room
of the Fort Pitt Hotel, Saturday,
Dec. 28, at 8:30 p. m.
STATE COLLEGE, PA., DECEMBER 18. 1912
The Awakening of Public Sentiment
When Cornell dropped Penn
State from her football schedule
last week, sporting editors all
through the East commented on
the action. The following clipping
written by Mr. Chandler Richter,
Sporting Editor, appeared in the
Philadelphia Evening Times, Dec.
14.
“Cornell has taken advantage of
Ohio State’s joke claim that Penn
State played rough football, and
the Ithacans have announced that
Hollenback’s wonderful eleven will
no longer be placed on the Camel
ian and White schedule.
When Ohio State walked off the
tield, forfeiting its game to Penn
State when the score stood 37 to 0
against it, the Ohioans were given
the laugh throughout the country,
and now Cornell has fallen in line.
Cornell made no protest after its
defeat at State’s hands until the
past week, when it evidently sud
denly dawned on the Cornelians
that this would be a nice way to es
cape defeat in the future at the
hands of a college that is not con
sidered quite up to snuff, scholas
tically, in Ithaca.
When football conditions reach
such a stage at a university where a
parlor game is wanted in preference
to the good old-fashioned game, it
is time to quit. Wonder what these
Cornell players of the present day
would do if they were forced to
go through the siege that was
necessary about ten or fifteen years
ago.
Penn was beaten t fcrJState. but
did ncit - raise any -cry of "unneces
sary roughness,’ and that game was
an excellent example of hard, ag
gressive football. State plays hard
football, but it is clean and above
board. The team that doesn’t play
hard football will never amount to
much, and for mine, I think State
deserves credit for its football abil
ity.”
F. and M. Defeated in Soccer.
Playing in mid-season form, the
Varsity defeated Franklin and Mar
shall College in the first of their
regularly scheduled matches by the
score 4-1. The Penn State team
were the aggressors throughout the
game and the resulting score clearly
indicates the superiority of our men.
Valentour, Meixner, Buchanan and
Bishop were the individual stars for
State and were directly responsible
for our tallies.
The strong Haverford College
eleven were our opponents yester
day but we were unable to secure
score and details of the game be
fore this paper went to press. To
day the Varsity will play Westtown,
at Westtown, Pa. Scores and sum
maries of both matches will appear
in the next issue of the Collegian.
The Special Trains.
Owing to the fact that only 800
men have signed up for special
train service at Christmas time, it is
likely that no special trains will be
run on Friday. We lost an oppor
tunity here in our attitude of
indifference to the Pennsylvania
Railroad to be benefited by at
least an assurance of a seat to our
home city.
New Assistant Football Managers.
At the election held last Monday
evening, December 16, C. A. Lord,
W. W. Whetstone, and J. L. Beatty
of the sophomore class were elected
to assist Manager Fleming next
fall,
Collegian.
Water Color Exhibition.
A loan collection of water color
paintings, made by some of the
foremost water color artists of
America, will be exhibited in Room
203, of the Engineering Building,
from January 3rd to 7th, 1913.
This collection has been loaned to
the Architectural Engineering De
partment, of the School of Engi
neering, through the efforts of Mr.
A. L. Kocher, Instructor in Archi
tecture, by the Pennsylvania Aca
demy of Fine Arts of Philadelphia,
thus giving the students of our col
lege and the residents of our town a
chance to see a few of the extraor
dinary paintings just shown by the
Academy at its tenth and most suc
cessful exhibition. The selections
have been made by Mr. J. E. D.
Trask, late Director of the Pennsyl
vania Academy of Fine Arts and
now Director of the Panama-Pacific
Exposition which will be held in
San Francisco in 1915. The exhib
ition at State College will be under
the direction of Mr. Kocher, who
will be assisted by Miss Anna E.
Redifer, of the Department of In
dustrial Art.
Opportunities like this do not
often come to the small town locat
ed as is State College, and no one
can afford to miss this display.
The paintings will be on exhibition
to the public on Saturday, Monday
Tuesday, from 9 to 12 a. m., and
8 to 10 p. m. To facilitate the
viewing of the collection it is sug
gested that students take advantage
of the Saturday afternoon and even
ing periods. Monday afternoon
will most likely be devoted to the
pupils of tne public schools, and it
will probably be more pleasant for
the residents of State College to see
the collection during the Tuesday
periods. No children will be ad
mitted unless accompanied by an
older person.
Everyone is invited to come.
You will be welcomed at any time
the collection is on view, if the
times suggested above are not con
venient.
Professor Gregg’s Successor.
Professor Arthur Westcott Cowell
comes after the Christmas recess to
head the courses in Landscape Gar
dening which place has previously
been filled by Professor John W.
Gregg. Mr. Cowell’s training for
the profession began at the Buffalo
Botanical Gardens in 1898 and has
continued through all phases of the
work of a landscape designer. For
a number of years he was the asso
ciate of a prominent landscape
architect in Pittsburgh and later
took up landscape contracting in
Philadelphia. He has acquired
considerable reputation as a design
er, and as a field engineer and
plantsman among landscape gar
deners. A very large number of
private estates and parks and rail
road improvements throughout the
East bear the earmarks of his
craftsmanship. His interest in
civic betterment has brought him
from time to time before public
and civic improvement meetings in
a number of towns. He was one of
the pioneers on the landscape gar
dening course at Cornell University,
taking his degree there in 1903, and
immediately went into active work
which he has since pursued in the
large and ever increasing field of
landscape art.
The Registration Days for the
second semester will be Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday, January
13,14 and 15,
PRICE FIVE CENTS
MILLER NEXT CAPTAIN
Our Excellent Quarterback Honored
With the Football Captaincy for
Next Year—Fleming Elected
Manager.
Ex-captains Very and Mauthe,
Engle, Wilson, Hansen, Whitney,
Bebout, Clark, Miller, Berryman,
Lamb, Tobin and Welty, the “S”
men of the 1912 football team,
unanimously chose Eugene Miller
'l4, the midget quarterback, as the
Penn State 1913 football captain.
E. E. Miller, better known as
“Shorty” Miller, has a wide reputa
tion which is by no means limited
to the State of Pennsylvania. Many
expert critics throughout the coun
try elected him to the position of
quarterback on their All-American
teams. He started his football ca
reer at the Harrisburg High School
where he captained the team of
that school in his senior year. He
Captain Miliar
immediately donned a football uni
form upon his entrance to Penn
State in 1910 —made good and has
played in every game since then
excepting the Gettysburg game this
fall which he missed through taking
a necessary trip to Philadelphia
with Coach Hollenback.
The wee fellow, who weighs out
140 pounds, has been a wonder in
guiding the Penn State team always
giving the right signal at the right
time. He is a phenomenal broken
field runner invariably making long
sensational runs, is a sure catcher of
punts and in fact possesses all the
qualifications of an All-American
quarterback. “Shorty’s” popular
ity has been gained only partly
through his football ability, as the
good character and personality
which he possesses are beyond re
proach. With such a leader as
Miller for next year’s varsity eleven,
a successful season is predicted.
Manager Kerr of this year’s team
performed his duties faultlessly and
his hard work was partly responsi
ble for the team’s success. Niel
Fleming T 4, the newly elected
manager showed sufficient ability
while acting in the capacity of as
sistant football manager, to insure
future success in his new and high
er position.