Lehigh at Pennsylvania

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  The news-democrat, Providence, R.I., October 1, 1906, page 2

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  The trend of opinion I’m regard 10 the footballs rules seems TO be no more set tied since Saturdays contests than II was before The first demonstration Of the practical results OF the new legislation I’m actual contests has called forth from the experts a liberal amount of both condemnation and praise, Considerable scoring was done on straight rushing. This was uneNpeetri, yet ii occurred In cases where the scor- Ing team showed manifest superiority. And to balance IL several 90 games There was nothing in the game Sat urday ON Andrews Field 10 make enthusiasm or TO thrill with the single exception Of the fact that the tean eLn the game starting the season of last year. and none OF the brilliant playing that was seen during the season, What the game Will show for Brown at the next contest remains 10 be seen, but from a spectacular point or view, and from the view OF the student, the game es played on Saturday was dis appointing and promises TO be duh. Princeton put up a fairly sensational article of new football by defeating Villa Nova. 24–⁠0. Wister. her star end. rush, has developed into “A precocious catcher of forward passes. and his 90 yard and 30-yard runs for touchdowns were hair raisers. Princeton tried the FORWARD pass sixteen times and sue ceeded eight times But this was the exception to day of disappointment. Almost everywhere else where the game was tried the new plays were either ignored or found disastrous. Harvard played straight football against Williams and scored on two OF the latter’s mistakes T-O). Pennsylvania rushed Lehigh all over the field and was scored against In an attempted forward pass (32–⁠6(. Cornell and Colgate punted and ran all over the field and left an 90 score behind them West Point defeated Tufts. 1870. scoring both touchdowns on long runs, the last one due TO a mistaken understand ing OF the rules on the part OF TUFTS Everywhere there was kicking galore. on one point everybody seemed salts fed. The neutral zone rule and corollarry rules result I’m a clearer vision for the official and In cleaner playing near the line man.

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  Arizona republican, September 30, 1906, page 8

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  NEW RULES AT PHILADELPHIA. Philadelphia, Sept. 29.-The football season here was opened today under the new rules with a game between Pennsylvania and Lehigh which the former won 32 to 6. At Columbus-Ohio, 4; Otterbin, Il.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Pennsylvania leads 45–⁠12 in 57 meetings, counting the 30 since this game.