Cornell at Pennsylvania

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  New Britain herald, Connecticut, November 29, 1929, page 27 (results column)

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  PITT TEAM LEADS ELEVENS IN EAST Winds Up Season Without Being Beaten or Tied in Games New ork, Nov. % P]-Thc mythical eastern football champion ship has fallen into the hands of Pittsburgh’s mighty Panther array with Colgate only q step behind. The Panthers clinched their posi- tion yesterday by defeating Penn State 20–⁠7. They wound up their reg ular season unbcatcn and united in nine games While the Panthers were 1 coming from behind to trounce the 1 State College. Colgate was giving campaign with only one defeat on it’s ! record-that by Wisconsin of the 1 Western Conference in an early sea- son game. So far as the records go, these | two games were the standouts in an ] interesting and spectacular Thanks | giving Day of football in which Penn surprised Cornell with a 17–⁠7 win ! Carnegie Tech ended the New York 1 University jinX with a % to vic i tory, and Syracuse noscd out Colum- ! bia Dy a single touchdown. G-o. Penn State stopped Toby tansa. | Pitts ll-Amcrica halfback Caudi- date. dead but the Nittany Lions could not halt Tom Parkinson bull like rUshes. The big fulback scored all three of Pitts touchdoWns and 1 lIckcd both of the extra points. A pass, French to Stanley, and q sue ccssful try for point gave Penn State q 7-G lead which it held through the ; second period but Parkinson got busy in the second half and the game was won and lost Tommy Dowler and Les Hart, Colgate backGeld stars, ran Brown dizzy and the Maroons won almost as they pleased, recording their first victory over Brown in ten years, A 102-yard run from kickoff for q touchdown by Dick Gentle furnished Penn with the impetus it needed to sweep aside the red team from Cornell, beaten only by Dartmouth previously. Gentle’s run enabled the Quakcrs to tie the score at TT after Cornell had led TO throughout the first half. Thereafter Gentle and Walter Masters ran Cornell ragged 10 score another touchdown in the third period and field goal by Mas tcrs in the fourth. Syracuse waited until tho final period to score it’s win over ColUm- hia. Through three periods COlUm- bia battled the Orange 1iercely and stayed off all scoring threats but the Syracuse offensive finally began 10 click and Warren Stevens carried the ball across the Lions goal as the climax of a 49-yard march down the field. A barrage of forward passes sc disconcerted New York University that it never really got started against Carnegie. Th” Tartans from Pittsburgh tailed two touchdOwn’ in the first period and another il the last to beat the NiOlcts for the first time The passes and th’ lumbles about matched one another There were IS fumblrS, seven bl Carnegie but the scotch made III for this with 15 completed passes Tn the other outstanding game of tho day, Clark llinlile. BucknrI fullback, supplanted Al Marsters a the sectional scoring leader by tally ing 50 points as his tr”m sWAmprc Dickinson, 7S-0; West Virginia sur pris”d the experts with C. triumph over Washington and JelIer son; Western Maryland recorded it tenth successive victory with – win over Muhlcuherg; Maryland waited until the second half to pil’ uu most Of the % points it taIlI”t against Johns Hopkins six; DaNl’ and Elkins, another unhcat”n team tromccd Salem, 37 to G, and GettyS burg. by virtue of a 21-O verde over Franklin an1 Marshall won lh’ eastern PcnnSylVania intcrcollegIat’ conference championship. Rider unbeatcn but tied, earned an cas! , 27–⁠0 victory over an All-Coast Guart team.

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Pennsylvania leads 65–⁠40–⁠5 in 110 meetings, counting the 74 since this game.