Gettysburg at Pennsylvania

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  New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], September 29, 1912, page 1

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  PENN. ROLLS UP SCORE Smothers Gettysburg Eleven in a 0ne-Sided Game. CAPTAIN MERCER A POWER Carries the Ball Many Yards in Piling Up Points for Red and Blue Team. CAPTAIN MERCER A P0WEF Philadelphia. Sept 2S.-The University of Pennsylvania football team over whemed the Gettysburg College eleven here to-day by n score OF IS to 0. The visitors. who held Pennsylvania to 4 ) TO score a year ago, proved unexpected ~ weak, and made only one first down. PENNSYLVANIA scored two touchdowns IN each of the first two periods and one in the fourth. Captain Mercer and Marshall ran rings rounc their opponents. and each had n Vulnerable long runs to his credit, made tosslble through sheer speed and clever dcds.ng. The new rules worked well The extra down was responsible FOR more line play, but there was almost as much end run ming by the Red and Blue backs. Not man on the Pennsylvania team PLAYED the entire game, for the coaches sent In substitutes thick and fast after IT was seen how helpless Gettysburg was. The forward pass was used only once and this time II scored touchdown FOR the Red and B,ue Pennsylvania scored the first touchdown IN nine plays. Mercer made most OF the ground on series OF short runs. The second score was the result of “A long forward pass of thirtJ-hYe yards from Mercer to Young Mercer made SO-yard run for the third touchdown. and he made the fourth also after I. @0-sard sprint by Marshall had taken the all to the s-yard line. Thu lMI,.up folIOws:

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Pennsylvania leads 18–⁠0–⁠1 in 19 meetings, counting the three since this game.