Delaware at Pennsylvania

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  Evening journal, September 27, 1920, page 10

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  Delauure Loses Opening Game to Penn. BY 35 TO 0 Phil ADELPHIA, sept. i7-Delamare COLLEGE football team lost the opening game Of The season TO University Of Pennsylvania. on franklln Field. Saturday afternoon, by the score Of 30 10 o. The superiority OF he Penn team was mostly IN the line; which was so much heavier and stronrer than Delaware’s that the Blue and Gold on 0ffensc. was unable to hold long enough for the in reference 20 form and The backs get well started with the ball, conseuuently Delaware Nas on the defense mosi Of lhe time. Time after time, however the Delaware line held on he Penn attack, Notwithstanding the big difference in weight When everything is considered me result was in no way Disappointing 10 Delaware The work OF The team demonstrated that Coach Sfiplcy has the material for a strong eleven and with more practice the expectations sre tha. the Blue and Gold, before The end Of the season, Will have one OF the strongest combinations IN us history. advantage and slowed up both teams. II was the first game for both teams and they both showed a lack OF practice. Substitute players on both elcvens at times did not know their signals. This viii, Of course. be remcdied with more practice. TWO Delaware men who got In the latter mart OF the game-BelZmer and Wells never had a Delaware uniform on until Friday, and Watson, VINO worked for time in the backleld did not report for practice urlu las’ Wednesday. The decepiiveness OF a crowd was clearly demonstrated in the one thal attended Saturdays game. Most all on the Philadelphia newspapers stated il was one Of ihe largest ilrst game crowds for years and estimated the attendance from 1900 10 iiOOO while the management 10 is under Stood. Informed Delaware officials aficr the game that the paid attendance was but $50. Delaware gets a percentage OF the receipts ana nad lnt paid attendance even been iOOOO, lne Blue and Gold football officials Wouio have no more financial worries lhls season. More than two hundred students and friends Of Delaware accompanied inc iesm from Newark Saturday morning and many other alumnus joined lhe party in Wilmington and Philadelphia Delaware had two sections in the a0rih stands This is the hrst year for Coach Heisman. at Penn and hundreds of Penn followers turned out TO see MS leam In action for the nrst time. rhose who expected TO see great ihnrs from the famous Heisman shif’ were disappointed This play was used only one or two times and then only 4 few OF the spectators seemed 70 no lice ii as 10 was not successful on those occasions The general inn preston seemed 30 be that Heisman mas big Job ahead Of him 90 develop a star team out OF the material he used Saturday. outside Of he line. the bulk OF gains on Delaware were made 10y two PLAYERS who were on Folwels penr team last year, Rex Wray and Jol Straus. Harvey also did fairly goo, work in The hackneld Penn, for IN most part, played straight football Wray carried the ball most OF the tim In me nrst half and in the third quarter, when Straus went In, he carrie the ball repeatedly and mostly it gains OF from three 10 ten yards. one time he carried the ball M times consecutlvely Bud Hoppe

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  The Washington herald, District of Columbia, September 26, 1920, page 13

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  PENN WINNER .WITHOUTSHIFT Dawn of Heisman Era Sees Delaware Beaten by Score of IS to @. Philadelphia, Sept. 25.-The Heisman era in Penn football history dawned this afternoon at Franklin Field with a 35 to o victory over Delaware College. Not until the second half was there evidence OF a reformation in the Penn system and when the new attack did become visible IL failed to roll up anything like the huge score Folwell’s last team accomplished last year against the same institution. The weather was too warm for football and the crowds attire would have been more fitting at a midseason baseball game. Bud” Hopper the captain, is lost to the Penn team for three weeks at least At the start of the second half the brilliant Red and Blue leader was clipped by Fred Hsrmer, of Delaware, and fell hard disloeating his left arm at the elbow. DR.. Light, the team physician, pulled the arm back in shape on the side lines. Hopper was led to the dressing room, suffering in tensely. while the students groaneo in sympathy. THE team looks much better than thought it would and Outclsssed Delaware completely. Ny men played well; they deserve credit” said Hopper. The best run of the game was an S2-yard dash around Delaware’s right and for a touchdown which was not allowed because Of holding. Delaware menaced the Red and Blue goal line only once, which was due Ito an intercepted forward pass. SteaIe snatching the ball and being downed on PENIS 20 yard line. In desperate effort to score the visit | tors launched a series OF forward passes, all Of which failed.

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  The Birmingham age-herald, September 26, 1920, page 19

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  Brief Accounts Of Grid Battles Philadelphia, September 25.-The team opened it’s season on Franklin Field today by defeating Delaware Col lege, 35 to 0. John Heisman, the for mer Georgia Tech mentor, who is now coaching Pennsylvania, did not uncover his famous shift, his team easily out playing their opponents on straight football. Several of the Pennsylvania regulars were on the side lines when play started, but got into the game later. Cambridge, Mass, September 25.-. Harvard’s football team was held by Holy Cross to single field goal and won, to 0. the opening game of the season here today. Harvard started with some fair rush. ing plays. and with the aid of a Holy Cross tumble carried the ball to the visitors seven-yard line. Here Buell. dropped an easy field goal from the Cighteen-yard line. Another Crimson offensive in the third period placed the ball twice on the eighteen-yard line, but field goal attempts went wide. Holy Cross, capturing the ball in midfield on a Harvard tumble in the last period drove it to the twenty-two- yard line. Charlottesville, Va, September 25.- The University of Virginia opened its football season here today, defeating William and Mary, 20 to 0. The visi- tors failed to make a single first down

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Tied 3–⁠3 in six meetings, counting the four since this game.