Brown at Pennsylvania

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  The Bridgeport evening farmer, Connecticut, October 26, 1911, page 7

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  Brown Eleven To Give Crimson Fieht Harvard Eleven May be Defeated by C0nquerers of Pennsylvania Team xC0iu There is no team on the schedule which the men are so anxious to defeat as Harvard said Capt. SprackIing a few days before the Pennsylvania game. Hast season we won from Yale, and we have good hopes of beat ing PennsylVania-but Harvard is our nearest rival. and while the team has played a good many close games in past years Brown has never wen. g game” Since the defeat of the Pennsylvania team it is likely that the Brown idea of achievement has widened consider ably, and the college can now see no reason why spracklins’s eleven shouldn’t go ahead and win the cham pionship. Yet the game with Har- ward is really the goal of the season, and if the Rhode Island eleven had it’s choice of another. win over Yale and a defeat oyer Harvard there isn’t any doubt as to which one they would choose. Therefore it ts safe to say that the men will play a great game at Cambridge this week, and the bat tie will have a definite effect on the ranking of teams at the end of the season. Coach Robinson, who is largely re- sponsible for the rise of the Provf- dence team in the football world, is one of the best strategists in the coun- try. and at the present writing.he has a team which is the best drilled in the country At the start of the sea- son everything was not as rosy on Col lege Hill as most people thought, but Robinson has succeeded in making up a team which for all around play is better than anything except Michi- gan at the present writing. This does not mean that 1t will necessarily rank first at the end of the season-Or that it will defeat Harvard next Saturday. Robinson now has the most difficult task which any coach can face-that of keeping a team which has appar- ently approached pretty close to the apex of it’s development from rum ming into a mid-season slump which would be fatal to the most important games of the season. The Providence eleven came out of the game with Pennsylvania with a few injuries, and Charlie Huggins, the trainer says the same eleven men will be able to play in the game against Harvard on Saturday. The fact is that the team will prob ably be stronger, for the injured ankle of Geib is rapidly improving, and he will probably get in the lineup. Bart lett. the Worcester Academy player, it is said that Goldberg will be the substitute if Geib is able to play. Goldberg is entirely too fat to stand the pace with Leslie and Jenckes, the Harvard line men, will set. Getb is a hardened player and ecan give them an even battle if he is in shape to play. Ashbaugh and Adams will have a much stiffer proposition at the ends than they did at Philadelphia, and Ia QyHy7 ic football than Penn. Penney, the freshman right halfbach who scored the touchdown against Penn, has fulfilled his early season promise. He is built fairly close to the ground, but has a tremendous chest and shoulders. He hits the line like Ted Coy, and when he meets ob- structing players they hit the ground with the same emphasis. His advance resembles speeding ball going down a bowling alley. When the line of pins Is reached. they, fly right and left. Penney came to Brown from St, Paul, Minn., and is an illustration Of the wide drawing power which the athletic fame of years. Although the team at Cambridge has failed to show definite strength and power. and in spite of the criticisn of Boston writers whose judgment is always worthy of consideration, 1t Is impossible to shake off the impres- sion which resulted from a three days stay at Cambridge early in the sea- son.. There is great potential power in that first squad at Harvard, and 1t seems that there has been an inten- tional slow development. The teams encountered so far were not of a char acter to lend strength to championship claims at the end of the season, and while there is no definite way of proving 1t. it seems as though the Crimson eleven ought to show the re- suit of Haughton’s coaching. In an article written for the Bos- ton Globe after Saturdays game with Amherst, Paul Wilmington, who year ago was in the thick of the fray, and who is assisting Haughton this year, gives as great raking over the coals to the Harvard team. After comment ing on the weather conditions, he says: “But even Soldiers Field. mud pud- dle that it was, was no excuse for the crude, unintelligent football play ed by the Harvard team. The game from beginning to end was full of fun- damental errors, the players seeming to think that the slippery field render ed good playing impossible, and that therefore they would not be blamed for slip-shod play” Wilmington continues his frank talk for 8 couple of columns and says that the line charging was too high, that the Harvard line lacked aggressive ness throughout, and that “Hollister, the sub end, was the only man who showed real fight” As little chance was given the backfeld to do brilliant work, Wilmington certainly doesn’t paint up the chances of a victory over Brown in alurfng cOlOrS It may be true that the Harvard play was crude on Saturday, but an eleven in good physical condition can come along rapidly in five days, and when play is called at the Stadium on next Saturday the chances are that the Crimson will have pretty efficient machine in the field. lAnnM n HAl no

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  New-York tribune, New York, October 22, 1911, page 12

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  MORE LAURELS FOR BROWN SprackIing Leads Eleven to Victory Over Pennsylvania. 0UAKERS PUT ON DEFENCE New England Team Forces Fight from Start and Plays Much Better Game. rYN telegraph 70 Tho tribune Philadelphia. oct 21.--Brown defeated Pennsylvania here this afternoon by score Of TO O. II was superior football by tho visitors that Inundated the Quakers’ Spurred on by tho brilliant playing Of CAP tain sprackling, Brown forced the fight every minute, and while Pennsylvania made n game stand the visitors were al ways the masters. CAPTAIN Sprachlire, the visitors star quarterback, was chiefly responsible ior the victory This wonderful player seemed 10 tcv with the Pennsylvania tacNers’ When he took tho ball on end runs from his position he rarely failed 10 make gains and in returning punts he lodged WITH wonderful skill Time after time he would oxtricatc himself from three or four tack lers who seemed unable 60 hold him even after they had their hands on him. His efforts were ably seconded by Bean. Marble and Tenney, the last named making the touchdown. The first half was played without either team being able 10 score. The gridiron was covered with mud and pools Of water stood i’m some places. which made clean football out o. the question. At the same time there was very little fumbling. Al though Brown had the advantage in me FIRST three periods II was not until tho fourth quarter that the touchdown was scored. The third period ended with the ball in Pennsylvania possession on its own 1-yard line. at which point it had been taken from Brown ON downs. The OuakeYs kicked out Of danger and Brown started back from the 35-yard line. Two Ia fire the ball 10 Pennsylvania’s 2o-yard line, but the next resulted in the ball striking the ground over the goal line. and the home team put IL in play on its own 10-yaId line Barr punted TO Sprackling and the speedy Brown quarterback sprinted back 10 his own Award line, from which point Brown began her irresistible assault sprac cklins made three yards on the first play and then executed forward pass which Adams carried fifteen yards 70 pennsvlvaria’s s 25-yard line. Here Captain spracldinE began TO call upon Tenney’ who had relieved Bean. Tenney responded IN wonderful fashion and never failed 70 gain. He made a first down in three fierce plunges at Pennsylvania line, and then caught q splendid forward pass from Sprackline. which no carried fifteen yards nearer the goal. with the ball on tho ward line the ball was again given to ( Teuney. Mercer. the Pennsylvania cap tain, met tho Brown halfback as ne Jumped through the line, and it looked as though he would he thrown back. He Kept On struggling however, and finally got across the line for \ touchdown. Captain epracklinc punted out and Ashbaush Kicked the goal. For the remainder OF the game Brown was content TO play on the defence During the entire first half the visitors carried the fight 10 Pennsylvania. Three times thew had the ball dangerously near tho Quaker goal, but each time the Penn ,vlvania line would stiffen and rather than lose the ball on downs Brown would ,rv for a field goal Captain Sprackling made ali the attempts. The first two made from the 80 and So yard lines, fell short. due TO the rain-soaked ball The third attempt was made from the Zc-yard line and went wide cf the mark. At the beginning of the second half. and after Brown had scored, were the only times that Pennsylvania made an aggressive attack The first time Marshai caught one Of Browns klcl-offs and raced through the entire Brown team 1or Iort!- | fve yards 10 Browns 4S-yard line. Two line piungos gained only four yards, and Barr tried q quarterback kick, which went 10 Brown. out OF bounds. Then the visitors took the ball and put Pennsylvania once more on the defensive After the Providence men had scored PENNSYLVANIA made desperate effort TO turn the tide. Getting the ball on an in tercepted forward pass OF Browns 45-yard line, Mercer opened up with ten-yard advance. but he lost five yards on another attempt, and had TO kick. For the rernainder Of the game neither team had any advantage Only a handful Of Brown students acoompanied the team, but they celebrated IN royal fashion. In spite OF the steady orizzle which fell there was an attend snce Of nearly eight thousand The lineup follows: Brown 90. Positions. Pennsylvania t0.

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  Norwich bulletin, October 23, 1911, page 3

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  BROWN OUTLAWS PENN. Providence collssians Defeat the Quaker Eleven, 6 to 0. Without the semblance of a fIuke the Brown university football team de- feated dPennsylvania, at Philadelphia on Saturday by the score of to 0. AL though the winning touchdown was not scored until the fourth period there was hardly a minute in which the Philadelphia team was not outplayed by the New Englanders. Not once dur ine the entire contest did the Quakers menace Browns goal, while the Prov idence teana was always on the ag- gressive. The fourth period was only five min utes old when Brown had crossed Pennsylvania’s line. Just before the third period ended Brown had taken the Ball to Pennsylvania’s one yard line by a succession of clever forward passes and end runs. With only a yard to gain Brown had to surrender the ball on downs. After two ex- changes of kicks Brown got the ball on PennsyIvania’s A yard line and from this point marched straight down the field for the touchdown. Sprackling and Penney did most of the Browns ground gaining. Penney carried the ball from the 20 to the 5 yard line on a forward pass over the line of scrimmage from Spraclxling and then with one tremendous plunge went over the mark for the score. Ashbaugh kicked the goal.

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 22, 1911, page 61

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  brown, 6; Penn, 0 New Englanders 0utpIay Quakers From Start. | SPRACKLIN IS THE STAR Brown Quarter and Tenney Do Most of Ground Gaining, Playing Great Foot Ball. PHILADELPHIA, October 21.-Without the semblance of fiuke the Brown University foot ball team defeated Penn sylvania this afternoon by the score Of 9 to o. Although the winning touch down was not scored until the fourth period. there was hardly minute in which the Philadelphia team was not outplayed by the New Englanders. Not once during the entire contest did the Quakers menace the Brown goal, while the Providence team was always carry ing the fight to the Pennsylvanians. The fourth period was only five min utes old when Brown had crossed Penn sylvania’s line. Just before the third period ended Brown had taken the ball to Pennsylvania vineyard line through succession of clever forward passes and end runs. With only a yard to gain Brown had to surrender the ball on downs. After two exchanges of kicks Brown got the ball on Pennsylvania s 44-yard line, and from this point marched straight down the field for the touch down.

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Pennsylvania leads 50–⁠21–⁠1 in 72 meetings, counting the 55 since this game.