Army at Pennsylvania

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 17, 1940, page 33

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  Penn Returns to Early Season Trim to Give Army Its Worst Defeat, 48-O; Stars 15-yard pass to Johnny Welsh, Penn’s 146-pound wingback from Downington, Pa. Johnny caught the ball on the Cadet “a and sprint ed across the goal line without a tackler anywhere in sight. A few minutes later Capt. Raw Frick intercepted a pass from Bill Brown Of Army and ran 1t to the Cadet At. There Wexler let fly again and Johnny Craemer, substitute Penn end, caught the throw and raced 27 yards for the Quaker’s fourth touchdown. Wexler Puts Reagan In Shade. Wexler, stealing the spotlight from Reagan, whom he replaced, bucked and passed the Cadets dizzy in the final period. Receiving an Army punt on his 49, Paul lodged through dozens of grasping Army hands and raced 49 yards for the first of his pair of touchdowns in the period, then in tercepted a Cadet pass on the Penn IS and few plays later passed 10 yards to Bob Brundage, Penn SUBJ stitute back, to put the ball on Army’s l8. Brundage made a first down, but Penn appeared stopped on the 4-yard line until Wexler swept wide around his right end and over the goal line just inside the red flag. Gene Davis performed his usual infallible foot service, kicking all but one of Penn’s extra points from nlacement

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  The Waterbury Democrat, Connecticut, November 22, 1940, page 21 (results column)

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  CORNELL-PENN, YALE-HARVARD HARD TO GUESS Big Red and Crimson Are Favored; Harmon After Grange Record New York, Nov. 22.-Due to a series of circumstances, both con- ventional and cataclysrnic, the Cor nell-P Pennsylvania football game be- comes the big thing, the big stuff, the big everything in eastern foot ball tomorrow. This should probably be the story of the Yale Harvard football game as the big eastern game of the year, because when it ceases to be the big story something very vital drops out of intercollegiate football. It’s thing called tradition, and very sacred thing. We were going to write that it is much more sacred thing than the third term but we happened to re- member we are all for national unity. A week ago more than 50,OO0 people saw Yale and Princeton play. Tomorrow that many and more will see Yale and Harvard play. They will be the kind of people who like to see Yale and Harvard play. And more power to them. That will be football at its best, ordinary teams, beaten teams, non-ranking teams, but Yale and Harvard teams. We may be awfully sophmoric but we still think it means something to be on 8 Yale team that beats Harvard team or vice versa. And you want to ask us why? Well we’ll try to tell you simply in our own simple way. We think college foot ball in America stems from Yale, Harvard and Princeton, and when we say that we mean the finer qual- ities of football. Also we think if college football is to live, there must be respect of what the Big Three of football stand for, which seems to be not how many games you win but how many you try to win in the proper way. StandOut But so much for that. We were talking about Cornell ell-Pennsylvania, The circumstances which make this standout game are known to all. Cornell, undefeated for two years, lost a photo finish, and deservedly to a so-so Dartmouth team. At the | same time Pennsylvania kicked a l very fair Army team all over the lot. | The score was 48–⁠0. But wasn’t this | the same Army team that almost 1 beat Notre Dame? That’s one of the things that makes this Cornell-P Penn cylvania game guess. It makes you wonder how good Pennsylvania is. As a so-called expert what are you going to say about it? You haven’t seen Pennsylvania but you have seen Cornell and you have already gone on record as saying Cornell is the best team you have seen all season. You are going to stick with that aren’t you? If you don’t you are somewhat silly. There is much discussion going around as to how the Cornell boys, | most of whom are seniors, which | means they will be playing their last game, will react to the Dartmouth | incident. Will they be down or will they be up? It’s just guess and we think it’s very interesting guess. | Yours, of course, is just as good as ours. Do you mind if we guess they are going to be plenty up and that | they are going to win from here to | there? In short, we have notion they are going to make good all the things we have been writing about | them all season-that they are one of the great teams of football. A lot of things are going to hap pen in football tomorrow& It’s go- ing to be the last day for a number of great college stars. Let’s take Tommy Harmon of Michigan, for instance. We suppose you would call him the player of the year. Certain ly he is the most publicized. Every body seems to know about him. Swan Song We’ll, Harmon will be playing his last game of college football to- morrow. He will be playing against Ohio State. You have to be familiar with this situation to know what it really means. It’s a minor world war “AAOAA 4sAANAA46 4AACCto A11O 0bdUC. It’s the Yale Harvard game of the middle west. What makes this situ- ation doubly interesting is that Har- mon is on the verge of an enviable record. If he can score two touch- downs against Ohio State he stands out above Red Grange. This will mean that he not only tied but went ahead of the famous Illinois red head in scoring touchdowns for three years of colleg eplay. Grange got 31 touchoowns, and became famous in his sector as result. It will be in- teresting, if not important to see if Harmon, the back of the year, can score twice against Ohio State, a good defensive team, tomorrow. And don’t think for a moment that Ohio State won’t be out to stop him. Al number of things depend on their stopping him, one of which may very easily be a certain cOach’S ioh

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, November 18, 1940, page 1 (results column)

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  N0TRE DAME L0SS| SURPRISE Football Remains As Unpredictable As Ever AS Up sets Sweep Country NEW YORK, Nov. 17.-R-One Of the main reasons football is such a fascinating pastime is that at times it can be so completely unpredictahle. You could have run two bucks into an impressive bankroll, for instance, on a parlay that would have taken in such startling occurrences of yes terday as Cornell needing a disputed fifth down” in the fading seconds to edge out Dartmouth, 7–⁠3; Iowa making good one big break to toss Notre Dame out of the all-winning ranks, 10; North Carolina polishing off Duke, 6–⁠3, with one 75-yard march, Baylor and u C. L. A. win ming by two-touchdown margins over Tulsa and Washington State, and Clemson being held to a 1912 tie by Southwestern of Tennessee. For good measure you could have thrown in Harvard’s shutout of Brown, Louisiana States trimming Of Auburn, and Wisconsin’s conquest of Indiana. That furnishes a rough idea of what can happen in late stages of any season when the chips are down and past performances just so many confusing statistics. OF the six all-conquering big time teams that survive today, Cornel1s status is the most questionable. Held inside midfield for an entire half by a team that had beaten only st. Law renee, Harvard and Sewanee; trail ing O-3 on a fourth-quarter Dart mouth field goal, the Ithacans, by all writer’s accounts, missed connections on a fourth.down pass and then, with the Indians expecting to take the ball on downs, were given an extra play and scored. Cornell, pending developments, stands ready to give this game back to the In dams by 80 If investigation proves it was a fifth-down play. That would leave only Minnesota, Texas A. and NJ. Tennessee, Stan ford and Boston College with clean states in the first division. Lafayette and Hardin-Simmons in the second. and would take much of the punch out of Cornell’s finale Saturday against a Penn team which showed 1T was back in stride with a 48–⁠0 wal looping Of Army. OF the five others, B. c. made the most notable advance in popular es- TEEN. Smartly coached by Frank Leahy and smartly directed by Hen ry Toczylowski, the Eagles had what it took to win their big one from Georgetown, 1918. A wide-o p e n thriller all the way, 1t found B. C.. saving triple-threat Charley O’Rourke for Commute service by having him signal for fair catches, and thus dodge punishment, on all George town punts; staging notable rallies to overcome 100 and 1913 Hoya leads, and giving Georgetown a safety with IS seconds to go in order to dodge all risk of a game-losing break. Minnesota, meanwhile, nailed down the Western conference title by running back the opening kickoff for a score and then continuing to a 1916 rout of Purdue; Stanford all but put itself into the Rose Bowl by breaking a IT tie with three touch downs in nine minutes to best Ore gon State, 2s-14; the Texas Aggies won No. 10 in a row, $50 over Rice, as John Kimbrough bulled for 1903 yards in 1S carries, and Tennessee, the south’s only all-winning big Lacquer, bowled yer Virginia, Ala.

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Army leads 13–⁠4–⁠2 in 19 meetings, counting the 17 since this game.