Michigan at Pennsylvania

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  New-York tribune, New York, November 10, 1912, page 13

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  MICHIGAN BOWS TO PENN. In Wonderful Rally Quakers Smash Way to Victory. OUTCLASSED AT THE START Team Suddenly Reaches Form and Gains Steadily, Winning in Final Minutes. ! BY Telegr7nh to The Tribune Philadelphia, Nov. 9. - Pennsylvania 8 football team underwent an ordeal of fire in a 81 ec,acular battle with Michigan on Franklin Field this afternoon and emerged though SCARED and battered a grim victor by score Of q TO 2l. Bat tered and beaten in the early stages, they fought back. Where the Wolverines had been slipping through paper line, seer ing p 10 0. they suddenly found them selves bucking a defence that was as rigid and infexible as wall Of steel. The Quaker backs became Goliaths, who riIrced and tore and fought their way down tie field. AS the Pennsylvania score Legan to mount the whole atmosphe.e exuCcd enthusiasm. and when in the final minutes of the game Marshall, a stodgy quaker substitute quarterback, TONED OFF tie contest with 52-yard run that meant victory nothing could stand IN the way OF the wildly excited thyong that poured helter-skelter on TO the grid iron and began TO celebrate even before the anal whistle blew. Never I’m the long history Of Pennsylyanla football has the!e been such a ,an.s as tha, played to-day. In a fractjon Of an hour a poorly coached indiscrinfnate team came TO itself and battered its way to victory Mercer. Harrington. Minds. Marshall and Craig played as they never did before. and the line, so badly bent and twisted in the first scoulg.ng moments, became as one man, fShtins with a unity Of power and purpose that was marvellous. AS 1t played IN the clos ing periods against the Westerners, Ptnrsylvania could have beaten any team IA the land. The eleven that Hurry Up” Yost brought 10 Franklin Field was probably as good as any that Michigan has had. When things were going right il was a strong. resourcef,l combination. snifty ani precise In attack, and practically i’m movable IN defence. Patterson. the CEN Ire. was the keystone on which the whole structure rested. With Thompson, the fuVback. and Jimmy Craig, brother OF Ralph Craig, OF Olympic t4me Patterson was ne life OF the team. Time and as 1!n they halted the Penn backs In IN !r tracks. ami when they were ugnting with the ball there was mighty little that could stop them. Even after the Test Of the team had gone 10 pisces and was yielding step by step TO the improving Quakers, this ‘rio fought a battle of desperation. When Patterson was finally Obliged TO quit after al injury in a scrimmage in the fourth period, Craig and Thompson tried 10 carry the battle on alone, but the ODDS against them We’re too much. The came was less than five minutes cd when Michigan scored its first touch down. Penn tried a kickoff to the side snc the Wolverines had the ball pract.cally in midheld on the first play. After trying out the Quaker line Thompson punted 10 Mercer OH his own 5-yard line, who ran il lack five yards. Minds then punttd and Craig got the ball on Penn $ I5-yard line Holding sent the Wolverines 10 the 81 yard mark, where Thompson ana Graf; set cut for touchdown, between them getting the ball to Penn’s 2-yard mark IN four plays. Huebel went over IN a mass play and Patterson’s goal gave the Wolverines points. Husni,t’s ffteen-yaTd run from Penns 4o-yard mark again put the Quakers on the defC nsive. and when CIa!g got around right end for twenty more after Huebel and Thompson had picked up four yards the ball was again close TO Pcnn’s goal line Thompson went through centre for the touchdown and Patterson counted the goal That was how matters stood at the end Of the FIRST period. 1t was the same in the second period, Thompson getting another touchdown after an uninterrupted march through the Red and Blue team. Thea, with the score p to 0 against them, the Quakers began to play, With only two minutes TO play Minds shot a forward pass TO Jourdet from Mchigan’s S3-yard lne Jourdet got twenty-five yards or the play and Penn was on the brink Of Mchigan’s goal. Mercer made one futile stab at Patterson, but a second drive In the same spot found an opening and the Quaker captain rammed across for a touchdown. Minds made good by kicking the goal from difficult angle. Fighting desperately, Penn began It’s struggle in the second half After the leather had been seesawing for a time they got II on their own 20-yard line. and started a series Of spectacular plays. Marshall and Minds got seventeen yards. and Mercer switched off on a long end run for thirty Yards, putting the ball on hichigan’s S3-yard line. Mercer got an other three yards. and a forward pass. Minds to Young, put the ball on Mlchlgsn’s 4-yard line. A fake pass formaton and Il line plunge by Mercer added fourteen more. On three tries Mercer made seven yards. and then crashed through for q touchdown. from which Minds kicked the -oal In the fourth quarter Penn kept driving Michigan back foot by foot Thompson finally puntng from behind his own goal line to Mercer on Michisan’s 45-yard line Mercer got two yards through centre, but forward pass was not completed. Minds tried another. shooting the ball IRON Michigan’s JO-yard Tine to Jourdet, waiting on the 3O-yard mark. Jourdet caught the bali AMI dodgcd his way through To a touchdown. that brought iac score 10 q 10 p Minds, who had failed 70 miss a single goal all season, was looked on to tie the score, but the sngie was too sharp and he missed. Ihere we’re only TWO minutes left TO ay ana Michigan still seemed certain = the game on an exchange Of puIts Ll.ci iBan sot the ball on its own a0-yard lhe, Whoh Maisnaifs Try al a goal from fe!d was low Thompson lr.ed a couple OF line plays and thea punted Marshall ‘asHht Va pan on 4is Own tS-yard line and set OF Tor the Wolverine goal One man a4ter another he eiLaea, and fnally with clear field. dashed across for the de,isiVe score. II was the most spec

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  Evening star, November 10, 1912, page 57

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  PENNSY A SURPRISE 0verC0mes MiChigan’s Lead and Cieverly Wins Out. MARSHALL STARS FOR PENN Wolverines Had Lead of FL to O and Then Crum- bled Up. MARSHALL STARS FOR PENN | PHILADELPHIA, Pa, November o. Pennsylvania turned what appeared te | be humiliating rout into a brilliant vic | tory on the foot ball field here this aft | ernoon, when she defeated Michigan by | the score of – to 21 It was one of the | most interesting games played on Frank. lin Field in a long time, and brought out new Pennsylvania hero in the person of Quarterback Marshall who, on great | 5o-yard run, scored the touchdown that Won the game. Flushed with victory in ! the last moment of play, the crowd became SO enthusiastic that it rushed on the playing field, interrupting the game. 1t was five minutes before the police could force the foot ball rooters back to the side lines long enough to permit Pennsylvania to put the finishing touches to the score. The Michigan team, playing like a championship eleven, had Pennsylvania down II to . in the second period, when the fortunes of the battle changed. The Pennsylvanians suddenly became a changed team in the latter part Of the second quarter. and played Michigan off her feet, the period ending II to Z. In the third period the fighting Quakers hammered out a second touchdown, MAX ing the score u to II. and in the final dash the Red and Blue put the score up to q, the Michigan team appearing al most helpless to stop her. There was no fault to be found with Michigaq’s game while she was putting tosether her u points. Her rushing of the ball was OF high order, and the line bucking of Thomson was the best seen here this season. Pennsylvania appear ed erratic and suffered much from fumbling. But when the Quakers took their brace conditions were reversed. The western team scored its first touch down few minutes after play began. Receiving the ball on a punt on Pennsylvanias 40-yard line, Michigan was awarded fifteen yards for interference, and then rushed the ball for the touchdown without much apparent effort. The second tou hdown also came easy. Craig of Michigan made a fine 25-yard dash, and then a Michigan tumble rolled almost to the Pennsylvania goal line, where an Ann Arbor man fell upon it. The task of put ting 1t over was given to Thomson, and he accomplished ii on plunge against Pennsylvania center. Michigan made her third touchdown after Pennsylvania twice lost the ball on incompleted forward passes. Getting the bali on a touchback, Michigan, through the great work of Thomson, rushed it SO yards. Pennsylvania being unable to hold the plunging Michigan backs. Then came the change. Pennsylvania made her first touchdown on short end runs. long forward pass and 10-yard dash by Capt. Mercer. The second score came in the third period on a 3O-yard run by Mercer, a forward pass, Harringtons plunges through the iine ard final buck through the center by Mercer. In the last period Pennsylvania secured the ball on Michigans 45-yard line. and a 35-yard forward pass by Minds landed the ball in Jourdet’s hands, ard the lat ter sprinted over the Michigan goal line before an opposing player could stop him. 1t looked like a tie score, but Minds missed difficult goal and the score stood 21 TO 20. With but few minutes to play left. Marshall, who had replaced Quarterback Craig, caught punt by Thomson in mid field and lodged in and out amoEg the Michigan players until he had a clear field, and scored the touchdown that gave Pennsylvania the game. Minds kicked the goal with thousands of excited root ers standing on the side liEes. The line avn

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  Norwich bulletin, Connecticut, November 11, 1912, page 3

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  CLUB BA TTlN0. PENNSYLVANiA WON IN LAST MINUTES Marshall Made 47 Yards Run for Touchdown Against Michigan. Philadelphia, Nov. 10.-It became necessary by reason of one of the most stirring and most remarkable finishes in the history of football to demon strate once more Saturday afternoon that there is more fiction than fact in the report that the placidity of the Quaker atmosphere of this city pre- vents it’s inhabitants from becoming excited. Michigan had made three touch downs and kicked three goals before Pennsylvania had made point. Then the fighting Quakers began to score. Pennsylvania scored it’s first touch down, then it’s second, and then it’s third. All that remained between the eastern team and it’s western rival was a bare count of one. Minds this sea- son had kicked eighteen goals from the field in succession The goal was not so hard to make. There was an angle to it, but he has kicked goals from the field at worse angles this year. He took his time. From the stands he seemed to be nerv- ous and the players, after the game, said that he shook when he sighted the ball. He drew back his foot, swung forward, the ball lifted from the ground and missed its target by two wards, Pennsylvania folks actually groaned aloud. Michigan started to play the game safe. There was but a few minutes left to play and with team which was t1ring rapidly g. defensive game was the best. Finally, Thompson, the Michigan fulIback, who should have kicked out of bounds to save his team, showed a punt straight down the field, a little closer to the Pennsylvania side than the Michigan side. Marshall, who had taken the place of Craig for Penn. caught the ball. Twice he was pocketed completely by the Michigan defense and got away from it. Darting first to one side, then to the other. pushing one back l out of the way and eluding the last man in defense by lodging him, he ran forty-seven yards for a touch | down. The crowd stopped the game right there. Three thousand spectators rush. ed on the field. They would have talk en Marshall away on their shoulders if his team mates had not beaten them I off and explained to them that the l game was not over. Minds kicked the nineteenth goal and Pennsylvania led by the score of 27 to 21

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  The Topeka state journal, Topeka, Kansas, November 9, 1912, page 1

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  Philadelphia, Nov. 9.-Michigan scores a touchdown and also kicks goal from touchdown. Score: Michigan Z; Pennsylvania o. Michigan scores another touchdown. Michigan kicks goal from touchdown. Score: Michigan IA; Pennsylvania 0. Score end first period: Michigan IA; PennsyIvania 0. Michigan kicks goal from touch down. Score: Michigan 21; Pennsy1vania, o. Pennsylvania scores touch town. Pennsylvania kicked goal from touchdown. Score: Michigan 21 !; Pennsylvania Z. Score: End second Pennsylvania scores touchdown and kicks goal. Score: Michigan FL; Pennsylvania. 4. Third period: Michigan 21; Pennsylvania, II. Pennsylvania scored a touchdown but failed to kick goal. Score: Michigan 21; Pennsylvania 20. Pennsylvania scores touchdown. Pennsylvania kicked goal. Score: Pennsylvania 27; Michigan 20. There was much punting in the fourth period. Finally Pennsylvania getting the ball on Michigan’s 45-yard line, Minds hurled a forward pass 81 yards to Jourdet who had a clear field and ran the intervening 10 yards for Pennsylvania third touchdown. A 5O-yards run by Marshall gave the the goal put the Quakers in the lead. q to 81. The crowd became so enthusiastic that play had to be stopped until the gridiron was cleared. There was no more scoring and the game ended with the score: Pennsylmia 81, Michigan 21.

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Michigan leads 11–⁠8–⁠2 in 21 meetings, counting the 13 since this game.