Ursinus at Pennsylvania

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  New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], October 10, 1912, page 1

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  PENN WAIVERS THEN WINS Ursinus Starts Well, but Is SWamped at the End. MERCER THE STAR OF TEAM Makes Four Touchdowns, While Jourdet Works Forward Pass to Effect. Philadelphia, Oct. 9.-Although the Pennsylvania football eleven won by a score OF 80 TO 0. the Ursinus team gave the Qualters bad scare In the first period OF this afternoons game. On two &C. casions the visitors made three first downs In succession through line plunging and end running. on one occasion they car ried the ball forty yards and again for thirty yards. Their advance the second time was stopped by bad pass. which lost them twenty yards. II was not until the second period that the Pennsylvania team got together. and then Urslnus was powerless to check the rushes OF the Red and Blue backs, Three times Pennsylvania scored In this period and twice more In the next In the last period the Quakers sent In new players after nearly every lineup and no further scoring resulted. Captain Mercer and Jourdet were the stars OF tho Pennsylvania team, Mercer making four toushdowns and Jourdet one. Jourdet handled the forward pass exceptionally we’ll, making his touchdown with II and getting II successfully from Minds four out OF five times. He made the initial score on a flfteen-yard run after getting n twenty-yard pass. Pennsylvania made the second score on an even dozen plays from the I0-yard line. Mercer made his longest run OF the day on the hrst lineup after the next hck-off. On a tackle play he sprinted slxty-five yards for the touchdown. In the third period the Quakers rushed the ball from their 25-yard line to with I’m foot OF the Ursinus goal line, where Il was lost on downs. The ball was car red over the line on eight rushes from mldfeld, Mercer scoring. For the final touchdown Simpsons intercepted forward pass on Ursinus’s 20-yard line and Mercer tailed with a single rush.

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  Norwich bulletin, Connecticut, October 10, 1912, page 3

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  Pennsylvania Defeats Ursinus. Philadelphia, Oct. 9-A series of well executed forward passes and long runs in the second and third periods enabled the University of Pennsylvania football team to defeat Ursinus here today by the score of 34 to O. AL though their play was marred by ire quent fumbles, the Ursinus players gained more ground than their heav- fer rivals during the first period. Ken : nedy. Yohe and Gingrich made consist ent gains and carried the ball from their own five yard line to Pennsylva- mia territory, where the period ended before either team scored. Pennsyl- vania made three touchdowns in the second period and two in the third, but funbles and badly directed forward passes prevented any scoring in the final period.

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  The Bridgeport evening farmer, Connecticut, October 10, 1912, page 7

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  PENN ROLLS UP BIG SCORE ON URSINUS TEAM Philadelphia, Pa, Oct 10.-A series of well-executed forward passes and long runs in the second and third pe- riods enabled the University of Penn Sy1van1a football team to defeat Ur- sinus here yesterday by the score of 34 to O. Although their play was marred by frequent fumbIes, the Ur- sinus players gained more ground than their hav1er rivals during the first pc riod. Kennedy, Yohe and Gingrich made consistent gains and carried the

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Pennsylvania leads 8–⁠2 in 10 meetings, counting the four since this game.