Cornell at Pennsylvania

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  The Bridgeport evening farmer, Connecticut, December 1, 1911, page 11

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  Penn Wins From Cornell Team By Brilliant Playing End Runs of Capt. Mercer En- thuse Big Crowd at An nual Battle Philadelphia, Dec 1-Tearing wide holes in the giant Cornell line, racing up and down the field and around the ends with much speed, the Pennsyl- vania football team ended disastrous gridiron season on Franklin Field yes terday with a victory over the Ifh- acans by a score of 21 to g. With out doubt it was the most sensational battle of the year. There was not a minute during the conflict that the crowd of 10000 spectators was not cheering the struggling players. Hard tackles, open field runs. soaring punts. goals from field, and frequent and spectacular use of the forward pass combined to arouse the spectators. Pennsylvania won because the Quak- CTS played the better football. In the finer points of the game the Red and Blue rose to excel ent form and cross ed the Cornell goal line for well-earn- ed touchdowns. Once an easy goal from field added to Pennsylvania’s to- tai. In the first quarter Young SCOT ed the first touchdown for Pennsyl- vania. In the third quarter Capt. Mercer sprinted across the goal hne for the Quakers’ second touchdown. In the fourth period little Marshall was rushed into the fray when the game was fast ebbirg to an end, and drop-kicked a goal from the twenty yard mark. Then, toward the end oe the sixty minutes of play, Spruance, bounding over the soft and slippery field, recovered quarterback kick and darted across the Cornell goal line for the final touchdown. CornelPs points were also scored in a spectacular manner. The Ith- acans’ touchdown came unexpectedly when the Big Red’‘ team was play ing desperately at bay in it’s own ter ritory, forced there by the irresistible tide of the Quakers’ attack. Catching a bounding punt on his own 53-yard line that Minds had no opportunity to reach. Eyrich, the Cornell end, ran up the field for one of the most sensa- tionaI touchdowns made on Franklin Field this year. The first period had almost expired when Eyrich escaped with a clear field. Then came Buffers splendidly executed goal from place ment in the third period, when the score was 12 to in Pennsylvania’s s favor. The resulting points from this 32- yard goal feat placed the Ithacans within menacing distance of the Quak- CTS total. But Cornell joy and Penn syIvania apprehension were dispelled in the fourth quarter, when the Red and Blue outplayed the Carnelian and White decisive!y. In many respects it was an ideal day to play the final act of the football drama of 1911. While soft and treacherous in spots the grid iron was in much better condition than was expected. The largest crowd that had seen the Quakers in action this year was seated inside Franklin Field.

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  Norwich bulletin, Connecticut, December 1, 1911, page 3

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  PENN swAMPs CORNELL. Wins by 21 to score-Goals from Field and Long Runs. Philadelphia, Nov. 30.-Pennsy1vania, as usual, won the Thanksgiving day football game from Cornell this after noon, the score being 21 to g. The two teams nave met on this day for the last nineteen years and Pennsyl- vania. has wone seventeen times. About LOCO persons saw the contest. At the end of the first period today 1t looked like a close game with the result very much in doubt. Pennsyl- yania had scored within three minutes of play on 0 forward pass to Jourdet and Cornell before the period was over evened the score through a 45 yard run by Eyrick. who recovered punt that the Pennsylvania backheld miss ed The Ithaca team then took a brace and played good football, but the Pennsylvanians showed the better staying qualities and also displayed better generalShip, taking the lead In the third period and increasing it in the last quarter. The game was good in spots and enjoyable from the spec tatorE’ point of view. There were nu- merous forward passes in which Penn syIvanIa fared better than Cornell and many end runs for from twenty to thirty yards featured the game, Cap tain Mercer of Pennsylvania. being the particuIar star in advancing the ball In the second period Cornell got the ball on punt on her own 50 yard line and worked 1t on short rushes to the Pennsylvania S5 yard line, where But Ter kicked q pretty goal from place. ment. Pennsylvania, slowed the game away safely in the final period when nine points were added to her total. The red and blue securing the ball on funbled punt on CornelPs ten yard line, Marshall, who had come into the game but moment before. kicked field goal from the twenty yard line Just as time was about to be called for the end of the game, Barr made an onside kick with the ball well in Cornell’s territory and Spruance leap ed in the air and caught 1t. There was no one in front of him and he ran ten yeards between himself and the Cornell goal for PennsyIvania’s final score. Minds kicked the goal. Touchdowns, Jourdet, Mercer, Fly rich, Spruance- Goals from touchdowns, Minds 3. Butler. Goal from field, Marshall. Goal from placement But Ter. Time of periods, fifteen minutes each. Referee, D. L. Fultz, Brown; umpire, A. Sharpe, Yale; field judge, W. $. Langford, Trinity; head lines man. W, w. Roper, Princeton

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  The Lake County times, Hammond, Ind., December 1, 1911, page 1

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  OUAKERS DEFEAT CORNELL 21–⁠9 Pennsylvania Team Out plays Ithacans;; Strong on Defense. Philadelphia, Dec. LIN what was conceded to be the best offense under the new rules the University of Penn sylvania football team defeated Cor nell yesterday in the eighteenth an nual battle by the score of p to 3. The red and blue had the better of the at tack and Cornell was always power less to stop the local players. Throughout the game the Quakers gained fully twice as much ground as the 1tahacans. Three well-earned touchdowns and goal represented the scoring strength in the quarters. A fluke touchdown and goal from place ment We’re responsible for Cornelrs 8 points The rush of plays with which Pennsylvania scored her first touch , down cut the Cornell defense to pieces as though it had been paper. The Quakers received the initial kickoff. and, starting from their TWEEN ty-five-yard line went the remaining distance in seven plays. On three consecutive runs Mercer made rtyfour yards. After Minds had gone through Cornells line for four yards the Quaker captain came back again for a twenty-five yard sprint. A three-yard gain by Thayer and forward pass to Jourdet made the touchdown. Cornell evened things up in the first period with a lucky touchdown. But Ter had kicked from his own twenty five yard line and Minds failed to get the ball as it hit the ground Everich took it on the bound. and, behind good ! interference by Captain Munk, ran fifty yards for the touchdown. 4 Cornell assumed the aggressive in ! the second period and played the Quakers TO a standstill. neither side being able to score The Ithacans used pool generaIship on several occasions. and Butler failed on several attempts a. long goals from placement In the third period Pennsylvania go a touchdown after Mercer caught But ler’s poor kick on Ithaea’s thirty FIVE ward line 1t took six plays for thu Quakers to score. a forward pass Il Jourdet taking the ball to the sixty yard line and Mercer going over fol the touchdown. A few minutes late cornell made her last score from place ment which Butler kicked from tn. thirty-yard line.

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  New-York tribune, New York, December 1, 1911, page 1

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  .QUAKERS ONCE MORE TRAMPLE ON CORNELL Play Fast, Dashing Football in Winning by a Score of 21 to 9. CAPTAIN MERCER A POWER Four TouchdoWns and Two Field Goals in One Game Keep Big Crowd on Edge. CAPTAIN MERCER A POWER Philadelphia, Nov. 30.-Pennsylvania’s 5 sequence Of football victories over Cor nell was not broken on Franklin Field here to-day. In fact, the Quakers saved the season from utter failure and doubly enjoyed their yearly Thanksgiving Day feast by defeating the team from Ithaca by a score of 81 TO 8. The record now stands seventeen games for the Red and Blue to one for Cornell, with the struggle in 1906 tie. Pennsylvania won this afternoon by making three touchdowns, with their resUltant goals. and a pretty goal from the field on Marshall’s drop kick Cornell scored on a touchdown by Eyrich, who recovered loose ball and ran thirty-five yards, the following goal, and goal from the field on placement by Eddie Butler. Young scored Pennsylvania first touchdown in the opening minutes of play after the most powerful, brilliant and at the same time best sustained at tack seen on any gridiron this season. The Quakers, led by Captain Mercer, took the ball on their own 15-yard line from the kick-off and carried it 10J yards across CornelPs goal line in exactly seven plays. The assault was so fast, so strong and withal so unexpected that the Cornell men were swept off their feet and forced back in a way that made their defence look weak and i’m

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Pennsylvania leads 65–⁠40–⁠5 in 110 meetings, counting the 91 since this game.