Pennsylvania at Brown

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  New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], October 16, 1910, page 11

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  EASY FOR PENNSYLVANIA Red and Blue Backs Field Too Fast for Brown Defence. MANY LONG, DASHING RUNS Providence Team, Playing in Hard Luck, Loses by Score of 90 to 0. Providence Oct. 15.-The University OF Pennsylvania football team showed sur prising strength this afternoon and defeat ed Brown on Andrews Field by the score Of 20 To O. Penn played in luck. II is true. but Brown at no time endangered the Quakers’ goal. The visitors played with lots of snap, were always on the ball. and their whlrlwind backfield was almost unstoppable. They scored three touchdowns and goal from the field. About eight thousand per sons saw the game, including q delegation Ct nearly five hundred ‘rOOters” from Philadelphia There was only one department in which Brown outplayed Penn-McKay outpunted Scott and Ramsdeu. though Scott placed his kicks 10 better advantage than his OPP ponent The difference between the offensive strength of the two teams is shown by the fact that Penn carried the ball 226 yards, Of which distance forty yards was made by forward passes. Brown gained but sixty-nine yards against the Quakers, and more than half Of this distance was made by the forward pass. Pennsylvania s strength lay in her backfeld. Mercer, Scott ana Ramsdell making many long runs Ramsdeu and Mercer were so fast that they tGElI double Bdth anu LliGll ot4l- III the Brown tachlers for good gains. The Ouakers made their first score in short order. After receiving the kickoff two first downs were reeled off, and then there were TWO exchanges Of kicks. in which the wind helped the Red and Blue 10 move the ball thirty yards nearer the Brown goal, From the 40-yard line Penn rushed to the award line. when Thayer was sent in and kicked a beautiful field goal from the 30 yard line. Penn did not score again until the third period was well under way. This was made possible by an unusually long kick of Scott’s, which rolled out Of bounds after going sixty yards. On Browns l5-yard line there was a tumble. which Penn recovered Failing 10 gain in two trials at the line, Scott was relieved by Hough, who made daring forward pass 10 Marks, on which the latter scored Browns team could not stand the pace In the fourth period and the Penn backs simply lomped down the field For the Quakers third touchdown Ihey carried the bail forty-five yards In six piavs Two short forward passes and dash BY Mercer made twenty-five yards. Then Harrington took “a uliTo FORWARD PASS which he carried eighteen yards TO i2rown’s 2-yard lire. Before the local men could line up Harrington had taken the ball again and was over Tor me touchdown Rain began to fail after TINS score and for the rest OF the game me Two teams exchanged punts, with neither sue having the advantage

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 16, 1910, page 1

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  0UAKERS TOO STRONG FOR BROWN ELEVEN Penn Gained Strength as Game Progressed and Piled Up a Score of 20 to o. PROVIDENCE. r. l., October 10 Gathering strength as the game procrossed, University of Pennsylvania piled up on the Brown eleven today a score of 20 to O, the result of three touchdowns, from two of which goals were kicked, and a goal from the field. Pennsylvania was aided in the last part of the game by Brown misplays In the last quarter Ramsdell fell on the ball, which had been fumbed by Brown players, and rolled behind their goal line, and Cozzens booted it over for a goal. An earlier tumble by Brown had given Pennsylvania the ball on Browns 10 yard line, when d successful forward pass carried it across. Marks making the touchdown. An exchange of punts during the clos ing minutes Of the game put Pennsylva- MIA in a position again to use the for ward pass to good effect, and with sew eral line plunges, largely by Ramsdell, Harrington scored the third touchdown. Hough kicked the goal. Pennsylvania made it’s first score on a field goal by Thayer. who had been placed In the game especially for the purpose during the first quarter. This was the only score during the first half, which was largely kicking duel. The lineup and summary:

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  Daily press. (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, Virginia, October 16, 1910, page 5

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  PROVIDENCE. r. l.. Oct. 10 Gathering strength as the game pro crossed. University of Pennsylvania niled M on the Brown eleven TO-DAY a score of 20 to 0. The result OF three touchdowns. from two OF Which goals were kicked and goai from the field. Score; Summary: Pennsylvania. 90; Brown, Q. Touchdowns - .LaTks. Ra/sdeil Harrington. Field goal-Tnayer Goals from touchdown-Cozzens Hough. Referee-Marshall. OF Har’ ward. Umpire-O’Keson. OF Lehigh Field judge-Murphy.. Of Harvard Head linesman-Goodchild of La fayette. Time-f:20 periods.

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  The Lake County times, Hammond, Ind., October 17, 1910, page 3 (results column)

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  Saturdays Football Scores WEST Illinois, 3; Chicago. 0. , Minnesota, 27; Nebraska, 0. Indiana, “a: Millikin. o. Michigan, 6; Michign nAggies, 8. Case Is; Denison, g. Ohio State, 8; Western Reserve. 0. Ames, 22 Des Moines college. 0. Kansas, 21; Baker. 0. Oberlin, 20; Wooster. 0. Missouri. 5; Iowa o. Utah, 6; Colorado s of NJ, o. Marquette, o. Denver. 0. Beloit. As; Knox, o. St. Louis u, 8; Rolla s. of M. o. Cincinnati. 20; Earlham. 0. Grinnell. 20; Simpson. 8. Drake, %; Coe, 0. Monmouth, 6 w. and V, g. Louisiana, 40: Mississippi, o. Vanderbilt, IS; Tennessee, o. Oberlin, 20; Wooster. 0. Texas, So; Haskell, v. EAST Army. 9; Yale. 8. Harvard It; Amherst. O. Princeton, 8; Lafayette. 0. Penn, 20; Brown, 0. Navy, 10; w. and j., 0. Syracuse, IA; Carlisle, 0. Dartmouth, 80; Vermont, 0. Wesleyan, IT; Norwich. 0. Hotchkiss, 6; Yale freshmen, 0. Massachusetts A c.. IA; Worcester

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Pennsylvania leads 50–⁠21–⁠1 in 72 meetings, counting the 56 since this game.