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Co/or Keynotes State-Quaker Gridiron Series
While the Penn State-Perm
series is something new and diff
erent for most students at the
Nittany College, it's old stuff for
metropolitan sportswriters who
have been covering the colorful
36-game series since 1890.
A graphic headline and lead
topped the details of a hotly
contested battle in 1929 in the
Philadelphia Record. Go r don
Mackay went all out as he blast
ed:
COOPER FRENCH RUNS 90
7ARDS AS STATE WINS. MUL
TITUDE B 0 0 S OFFICIALS
AND VISITING HENCHMEN
OF BEZDEK AS ROUGHNESS
SHOWS THROUGH SPIRITED
STRIFE BETWEEN INVETER
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TESTIC PASS TO GRAUPNER
)VER LINE ACCOUNTS FOR
'.OCAL TOUCHDOWN; Phila.,
`Toy. 9—Away from his lair in
he jungles of Nittany, the old
of Penn State yesterday
inped, slashed, tore and clawed
'ennsylvania into shreds and
'liters as the Blue and White of
':entry County waved in triumph
ever the twin hues of its rival
- n F-anklin field. Beaten 19-7,
he Quakers learned that, while
" 1 ,000 000 Frenchmen might be
•-ong, one French was all right.
From there the description of
.w Cooper French almost single
andedly conquered the "valiant"
nenn team fills out the story of
.ne of the more evenly-matched
r'n - in-Penn State battles.
From 1800 until 1909 the Lions
ere unable to make a mark on
Cle record books as they absorb
: d 13 straight losses ranging
from a 40-0 contest in 1898 to 6-
0 games in 1904 and 'OB. Finally
in 1909 a field goal enabled the
, 7ittany team to tie the Philadel
nhia squad and for the first time
in 18 years. the Lions were able
'o walk off the field with their
heads held high.
Penn tried to send the Nittany
tr?am back into the same rut in
1910 by winning 10-0, but the
( - glowing year the Lions came
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
through with a long-awaited 22-
6 victory and from that point
until the present time, neither
team has won more than two
games in a row.
Writing about the closest con
test of the series, a 7-6 verdict,
Perry Lewis said in the Phil
adelphia Inquirer in 1922:
"It came to pass that poetic
justice was done at Franklin
field yesterday. Fate thrust a
pair of scales into the hands of
Euterpe, and Penn won a foot
ball game—won as she lost yes
terweek."
(Penn lost to Pitt the previous
week by the identical margin).
Penn State avenged the one
point loss by smacking down
Penn, 21-0, the following year.
In 1924 the Inquirer said of the
0-0 tie: "Even though the snow
and hail that had fallen through
out the greater part of the State-
Pennsylvania game had failed to
put a blanket on the spirit, the
final whistle seemed to have
stunned the multitude . . . there
was no demonstration and Penn
seemed unable to fathom the fi
nal score.
(Penn) Coach Lou Young said,
"My, what a game that was!"
The Lions and Quakers did not
meet in 1925, and in 1926 Penn
back Paul Skull kicked a field
goal for the only score in the
game.
Allison Danzig stated in the
New York Times:
"The largest crowd that has
gathered in Penn's newly-en-
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larged stadium this season, 65,000
persons, saw Lou Young's team
narrowly avert a second defeat
as it halted the Nittany Lions'
attack in the second period on
Penn's 1-yard line.
"It was a creditable perform
ance for Bezdek's team to hold
Penn to three points, but it can
be said fairly that the better
team won, in spite of the fact
that the Quakers never seriously
threatened State's goal-line."
The 20-0 win in 1927 by the
Lions was described by Ed Pol
lock in the Bulletin with the col
orful sentence:
"Leaving boys in red and blue
sprawling in wake, scarlet
jerseyed }Tiffany Lions thrice
sped over the goal line for touch
downs to establish their suprem
acy by a 20-0 victory and to re
cord in the annals of football the
most surprising conquest of the
1927 season."
"Only a tremendous, stubborn
fight on the part of a game State
team that turned back three Penn
attacks within its 10-yard line
prevented a larger score," com
mented the New York Times on
the following year's 14-0 defeat
by the strong Penn eleven.
In '29 the Lions 'trounced the
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Red and Blue, 19-7, and in '35,
the Red and Blue smashed the
Lions, 33-6. In the one interven
ing g a m e, the Pennsylvania
teams played to a 6-6 deadlock.
The "LIONS SCARE PENN
IN HOT GAME, 19-12" headline
told the story of how an under
rated State team almost upset
the Quakers until "superior
weight and power finally told
the story" in 1936.
The Lion's turn to roar came
in 1937 when the "NITTANY
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