Cornell at Pennsylvania

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  New Britain herald, November 30, 1927, page 3

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  DENY CHARGES IN COLLEGE EDITORIAL Claim That Penn Players Used Rough Tactics Branded False Ithaca, N. Y, Nov. 30.-UP)- Branding the article as “a complete surprise to everyone connected with athletics at Cornell, Coach Gil Dobie and other university officials today repudiated an editorial in the Cornell Daily Sun alleging rough tactics were used by Pennsylvania players in the annual Thanksgiving day football game. The Suns editorial, referring to the game which Penn won 35 to 0. advocated a severance of athletic relations which have endured for 34 years and followed with an attack on Penn’s eligibility standards. The article which appeared in yesterdays issue of the University publication evoked storm of pro- | test from officials. including Dobie, Captain Harold Hoekelman of the 1 football team, Romeyn Barry, | graduate manager of athletics and Louis P. Seller, president of the stu dent council. Signed statements were forward ed to Pennsylvania university which characterized the editorials as ! deeply regretted” and the attitude as of the author of the article and not the school. Coach Dobie’s statement said in part, “I have talked 10 members of our team and do not find any criti- cism or complaints on their part. In my opinion it was a hard clean game and I deeply regret the edi- torial in question” The Suns editorial said: The most disgusting sight on an athletic field is to see q player re- sort to unfair tactics to achieve his purpose. Slugging, holding, interfer- ence, and the like has no place in any collegiate football contest where the participants are primarily gentlemen who are playing the game for the game’s sake, and for the glory of their alma mater. “The nn-Corncll contest was not a struggle between sportsmen. | Idllltl II NdS q tDliN’Nt l’f’ W NfIl athletes and roughnecks. Cornell or any other institution of similar standards, does not care to engage an opponent who blindly permits it’s representative to use foul means on the fields of sport Cornell never objects to beating as long as it is administered fairly and with the good will and sports manship that chara cteriZcd the dc feats at the hands of Princeton anC Dartm mouth. But if a football contes of the magnitude Of the Penn n-Cor nell game Is permitted to become { slugfest, it is time that relations, re gardless of the hoary lines of tra dition, come to an end. Cornell prefers 10 play oppo. nents that maintain similar eligi bility standards and rigid require. ments of sportsmanship. The twelve penalties inflicted by the officials or Penn is mute testimony of it’s stric adherence 10 the rules of the game We know of no other major contes which proclaims such a glaring in dictment”

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 25, 1927, page 1 (results column)

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  “ | Military institute anu JtHuS VI Hopkins are sitting on top of 4 the world today. Yesterday all won more or less uneNpected victories over ancient rivals and as a result Virginia. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Maryland have few joyful reflections over the happenings on foot ball fields IN various parts of the South Atlantlc section. North Carolina beat Nlr, ginia ny II to l3, hopkins trimmed Maryland by the same score. and Nlr’ ginia Military Institute won from Maryland Il to 9. 1t generally was expected that Nlfginia would beat North Carolina. but those familiar with the Tar Heel $ potential strength realized that IL would have a hard row to hoe III did, and found North Carolina more of a proposition extensively than II has found it in several years Alter trailing in the frsta half the CavaIlers made a fine effort to pull the game from the fire. but just could not reach. Virginia Military Institute went into the last quarter of It’s contest on the short end of a 3-to-o score anu made the two touchdoWns that were necessary to give it the margin. ne Lexington eleven simply outplaNed 1t self in that final quarter. and deserves even more lfldl the ~ hiSC 1ii”N with the average victory. Many of the newspaper stories about the victory Hopkins got over MARYLAND by ] point attribute Hop kins’ victory to many things, nut most of them are exceedingly charliable toward the Maryland coach. To tell the unvarnished truth. IL the coach had elected to spend the after noon duck hunting or reading good ,~tn nf “A ing the game Maryland probably would have won without much diff Guilty. Quarterbacks and players often, nearly always. as a matter of fact, blamed for poor judgment and the loss of games thrown on them, ana coaches seldom take the real lame that often is theirs. but one game that one coach can blame himself Tor losing is that which Maryland lost yesterday. MARYLAND completely overestimated Hopkins’ strength. The Baltimoreans were not nearly so strong. not by three douchdowns, as Maryland had been led to believe it was. Actually MARYLAND was about three touchdowns better than Hopkins yesterday. and should have won by about that margin if it had started and played the game as it ordinarily would nave DiaNe0 against SOtDe VI luz olhNi elevens it meets. One man who went through the MISUNDERSTANDING game Yesterday deserves great credit for the exhibition he put up Thomas at halfback play ed throuSh three-quarters after nav ing got out of sick bed and With out having practiced for week. lie did a brilliant job of it. too. and Incl dentally. every one of the five reg ular Marylanders who played their last time against Hopkins probably exhibited about the best games of their careers in Maryland uniforms. | Adams and Zulick at tackles. Bafford | at center. Thomas and Linkous in the | backfield were at their best and the | exhibition they put up. in company with their teammates, in the second | half was good enough to win almost any game. except that yesterday. Georgia kept its slate clean yester day and beat Alabama by three touch downs TO one, and inasmuch as Georgia Tech won from Auburn by is to 0, the two big Georgia elevens will meet December without defeat against either. 1t will be the South’s biggest game of the year. and probably the greatest attendance OF the season. Probably Atlanta wishes it had the Yale bowl in which to stage the contest. University of Pittsburgh demon strated it’s effectiveness yesterday by cleaning up Penn State by 80 to 0, and caused Glen Warner to say that Pitt has the best eleven he has seen this season. Penn State had good team and none expected il would lose by any such margin. Pitt not only has IL 1.,,f 81 I,ac through a brilliant season, with one of the greatest backs in the game, WEIGH. No other back this season has shown such consistently brilliant ability as the Pitt star. Nebraska was too tough a nut for New York University to crack. despite the excellent eleven that has worn the latter’s colors all year. Both elevens scored often. the New Workers getting IS points and the Westerners 3. What PENNSYLVANIA did to Cornell was caution to those that seem to want to take a fall out of the Quakers. A beating by 35 to 0 in a big game is something almost unknown for Dobie. who is said to be dissatisfied with conditions at Cornell and ready to turn back his contract, although it still has two years to run. Recent reports in dictate that Dobie is anxious to go back to the West Coast. Columbia took the measure of SYRIA. cuse yesterday for the first time, causing another big upset in gridiron happenings. The Gothamites outplay. ed the team from the western part Of the State. although nobody seemed to expect them to do SO. COlumhia’s first victory over Syracuse in the history of foot ball relations was by ii to STRAIGHT q

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Pennsylvania leads 65–⁠40–⁠5 in 110 meetings, counting the 76 since this game.