Penn State
VOLUME 11 NUMBER 7
PENN STATE MACHINE COMPLETELY
OUTPLAYS HARVARD IN TIE GAME.
Harvard Luck Turns Well Earned Victory of Captain Tobin’s Team Into
a Tie Score. Sportsmanship of Opponents Unexcelled. Papere Con
sider Some State Hen All-American Caliber. State Line Invinci-
Backfield Fast. Secondary Defense Harvard’s Only
Strength.
Outplaying Harvard in every de
partment of the game and leading
by seven points up to one minute
before the final whistle, Captain
Tobin’s team surprised the football
world by tying the great crimson
eleven in the Harvard Stadium on
Saturday. The reasons for the
showing of the team as outlined by
Hollenback were the splendid mass
meeting on Wednesday, the
physical condition of the team', and
the fact that besides being fighters
the team was composed of men
who did not know defeat.
The finest incident of the entire
trip occurred immediately after the
game in the dressirg room. Not
since 1911 has a team even had the
distinction of tying Harvard or of
carrying home the football. Cus
tom decrees that the home team
LOCKE, Guard
keeps the ball in a tie game, but
the true sportsmanship of the
greatest university of the land ap
peared in the contest on Saturday
when Captain Trumbull compli
mented Captain Tobin on his
team’s showing and presented him
with the first ball to leave the
Stadium since 1911. Athletic re
lations with Harvard and Penn
State have only begun but so far
as Penn State is concerned the
student body appreciates such
sportsmanship and hopes for a con
tinuation of relations in more lines
of athletic endeavor than football
alone.
Fully 16,000 spectators had as
sembled in the Harvard Stadium to
see the Crimson trample Penn
State when they were stunned by a
State score in the first three min
utes ot play. The stands even
seemed confident when seven mort
points were added to the wearers
of the blue jerseys after a beautiful
forward pass to Thomas and an
off-tackle play by Clark. Confi
dence increased when the Harvard
team fell on a fumble on the State
nine yard line from where Coolidge
caught a forward pass. However,
gloom began to appear in the
fourth period when Tobin caught a
forward pass and made possible
Lamb’s second field goal. With
one minute and eight seconds to
play, the crowd seemed to admit
defeat and started to leave the
stands when a crimson linesman
fell on a fumbled punt in midfield.
Coach Leary sent in Wilcox, a man
who has a record for the quarter
mile of 48 4-5 seconds.
Harvard lined up with the left
tackle on the right side. The ball
was passed to the quarter who
passed it to the rear half and the
backfield started around right end.
One yard from the line of scrim
mage the right end took the ball
and started around left end. As he
reached the line Barron tackled him
but as he was tackled he made a
lateral pass to Wilcox who was
near the side lines and the speedy
back started to sprint. Two state
men narrowly missed him and
Wood tackled him three yards
from the goal line. The momen
tum carried the ball over the line
and Harvard was saved from de
feat after Withington scored a goal
from touchdown. This wonderful
play beautifully executed ended
one of State's most fiercely con
tested games.
With the exception of Thomas,
who will be out of the game for
two weeks with a dislocated elbow,
every man is in fine condition.
The fierceness of the game is well
shown by the fact that captain To
bin lost eight pounds, Miller 12
pounds and the entire team nearly a
like amount.
Harvard won the toss and Lamb
kicked off to Francke who returned
the ball to the 30 yard line. Brad
lee failed to gain and Harvard
after being penalized kicked to
James who returned the ball six
yards to the State 40 yard line.
James made six. around end and
Clark three yards through the line.
Tobin then carried the ball to Har
vard’s 25 yard line on one of the
beautiful end runs which character
ized his great work of the after
noon. A line smash and a forward
pass failed. Lamb then kicked a
beautiful goal from the 42 yard
line.
Tobin received the next kick-off
and ran the ball to his 30 yard line.
State could not gain and kicked.
After an exchange of kicks Har
vard carried the ball into State
territory where McKinlock tried a
field goal. James caught the ball
on his five yard line and ran to the
40 yard line. Clark, James and
Tobin added 15 yards. On the
next play James shot a forward
pass to the Harvard 20 yard line.
Higgins jumped and just touched
the ball enough to knock it toward
Thomas, who caught it on the 18
yard line. Tobin made five yards
and then Clark smashed through
the Harvard left tackle for a touch
down. James heeled the puntout
and Lamb kicked the goal. Score,
Penn State 10 Harvard 0. In re-
STATE COLLEGE, PA., OCTOBER 28, 1914
ceiving the forward pass Thomas
was hurt and Barron took his
States only chance to score in the
second period was an unsuccessful
field goal attempt by Lamb from
the 53 yard line. The ball fell
short and Harvard put the ball in
play on her 20 yard line. After an
exchange of punts Harvard ob
tained the ball in midfield. Neith
er team seemed to be able to score
and both sides restoed to punting.
With less than one minute to play
BRADLEE, Harvard Back
Courtesj ot Boston Herald
and the ba’l on yard
line, Clark plunged through right
tackle. Francke tackled him so
hard that he lost the ball to Har
vard on a fumble. In three plays
the crimson lost a yard and a half
and then came a forward pass.
Coolidge stood about four inches
from the end zone and reaching out
caught the ball just as Clark tack
led him. The half ended after two
more plays.
The third and fourth periods was
full of fine punts and thrilling run
ning back of punts particularly by
James.
In the middle of the fourth
period Tobin by a great jump
caught a Harvard pass and ran to
their 29 yard line. Clark and
Tobin made six but State was pen
alized five yards. Lamb then stood
on the 30 yard line and kicked
his second field goal from a difficult
angle. The heart-breaking run of
Wilcox terminated the contest.
While a Boston writer mentions
Tobin, Lamb, James, Higgins and
Clark as All-American candidates,
every State man played a great
game. The five men named played
brilliantly but the other six did al
so. The line play of our team is
shown by the fact that Harvard in
72 rushes gained 95 yards and
totaling gains and losses Harvard
gained but two yards.
The new manager of the Nittany
theater, Mr. Blackford, accom
panied the team to Harvard but
was refused permission to take pic
tures in the Stadium by the Har
vard Athletic Association, He
did, however, secure several hun
dred feet of pictures at the team’s
training quarters at Auburndale and
when they were leaving for the
Stadium.
After the game the team was
banqueted at Young’s Hotel by the
New England alumni. Speeches
Continued e* p*g* 4
Collegian.
CALENDAR
Wednesday, October 28
7:00 p. m. Forum Society, Open
Meeting, Library.
7:00 p. m. Center County Club
Meeting, 202 Engineering
Building.
Saturday, October 31
1:30 p. m. Pushball Scrap, Old
Beaver.
2:30 p. m. Varsity Football Re
turns, Lafayette Game, Audi
torium.
2:30 p. m. Freshmen Play Indi
ana at Indiana.
Sunday, November 1
10:00 a. m. Freshman Service, Old
Chapel.
11:00 a. m. Chapel Service, Audi
torium.
6:30 p. m. Y. M. C. A. Meeting,
Auditorium.
Freshman Lacrosse
For the past few weeks the fresh
men who have been out for la
crosse have succeeded in using the
stick very well and have developed
quite rapidly in the points of the
game. The following men have
been chosen to represent 1918, but
they are by no means certain of
their positions and a good man will
always be given a chance to show
his worth: i. h„ Schanty; o. h.,
Loyd; i. a., Dean; 2a., Edwards;
3a., Holyer, c., Coon, Capt.; 3d.,
Cook; 2d.. Smith; Id., Mueller;
c. p., Krotyer; p., Henry; g., Hoffer.
At the first meeting of the fresh
man class Montgomery was elected
manager and he in conjunction with
the other class managers has ar
ranged the following schedule:
November 7 —1916 vs. 1915.
November 7 —1917 vs. 1915.
November 14 —1916 vs. 1918.
November 14 —1915 vs. 1917.
November 21—1915 vs. 1918.
November 21 —1916 vs. 1917.
Underclassmen WreEtlers Busy
A joint workout in preparation
for the coming meet between 1917
and 1918 was held in the Armory
last Friday evening. The number
of spectators and the number of
men reporting for work gave evi
dence of the growing interest
which will reach its climax on the
Saturday evening following Penn
sylvania Day, when the two teams
meet in their annual contest. As a
rule the second year men count on
their previous experience to aid
them in attaining victory, but judg
ing from the manner in which the
new men are working such pre
sumption is likely to fail. But one
week remains before the prelim
inary trials take place. ‘‘Doc’’
Lewis is giving his time to the
work in the evening, and the two
managers are anxious to have a
still larger number of candidates
out.
The Civic Club
The Civic club held its regular
bi-weekly meeting last Thursday
evening. One or two matters of
business were brought before the
club. Dr. Ashworth spoke on the
new banking system and his ex
planation was both interesting and
instructive. Keller and Horst gave
the current events of the past two
weeks. The program for the next
meeting is not yet ready and will
be announced latter.
The three short Y. W. C. A.
plays, ‘‘Carrots’’, "The Far Away
Princess”, and “The Deaf Model”
will be given Saturday, November
14.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
DR. HALL VISITS STATE
Speaks to Fifteen Hundred Men in
One Meeting.
The lectures by Dr. Winfield S.
Hall of Northwestern university
were largely attended. On Satur
day evening Dr. Hall spoke on the
psychology of child life. “Every
human being in his development
from infancy to maturity repeats
the psychic and social history of
his race”, said he, in introducing
his subject on the “Sex life of
Man”.
Dr. Hall pictured the race de
velopment of man through tbeprim
eval stage, the stages of savagery,
barbarism, chivalry and civilization,
and pointed out their similarity to
the successive stages in the life of a
man—of infancy, early childhood,
pre-adolescence, adolescence and
manhood. Dr. Hall said that an
intelligent appreciation of this sim
ilarity and careful training of the
boy in his vulgar, pre-adolescent or
barbaric stage would do much to
simplify the social and moral
problems.
On Sunday, Dr. Hall spoke at
both chapels to an interested
audience in both cases. Sunday
evening the Auditorium was crowd
ed to standing room with 1500
students who listened to his address
on Social Hygiene.
During his visit here, Dr. Hall in
terviewed many men personally,
and spoke to a number of group
meetings. H's stay at State is
much appreciated, and has been
very helpful.
Penn vs. State
The results of the State time
trials and Penn’s victory over Dart
mouth indicate that the meet be
tween these rivals on Saturday in
cross country will be a close
contest. This is the only contest
of the fall in which State will have
an opportunity to demonstrate her
prowess over the Philadelphians.
The start and finish of the race will
be at New Beaver Field, just be
fore the returns of the Lafayette
contest. Every man who turns out
to cheer will aid considerably in re
covering some of the glory lost in
football last year.
The trials on Saturday indicate
that Coach Martin is slowly bring
ing the men into the finest possible
condition. Humble bettered bis
mark of last week by nearly two
full minutes and Schroeder
was only two-fifths of a second
in the rear. It seems probable that
the following men will start the
race: Humble, Schroeder, Hunter,
E. E„ Entwistle, Fisher, A. E., Bat
ten, Texter, Farley, Hunter R. V.,
and Whiting.
While the Penn team had little
difficulty in defeating Dartmouth
the time was not fast enough to be
lieve that they will lead the Penn
State men to the tape. Pennsyl
vania will arrive on Friday evening
and will probably be quartered at
fraternity houses.
Freshman Class Meeting
The freshmen met in the Old
Chapel last Thursday evenirg.
They decided to pay John Clark
for his services as coach of their
football team. Louis and Connell
were elected soccer and basketball
managers, respectively.
Those nightly serenades in the
ghost walk are appreciated but how
about holding them a little earljer
in the evening.