Cornell at Pennsylvania

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  The Richmond Virginian, Richmond, Va., November 26, 1915, page 5

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  PENN MEETS DEFEAT AT CORNELL’S HANDS 1thacans Remain at Top of Heap BY Downing Quakers In Philadelphia BY Count of “a to 9-Cornel Had To Fight Hard To Defeat Penn Outfit Philadelphia, Nov 25.--The Cornell football team. at the top of the East ern heap. stayed there this afternoon by winning its game with Pennsylvania / on Franklin Field, The score was “a to 3. 1t was the final game Of the year for Cornell and the big Red eleven drove home it’s claim to su-8 premacy by making the last of ia unbroken chain of victories a deeisive one The teams battled into the last quarter with the outlook very dubious for the Comedians, for the QuaRerss led, 9 To I, when the third period ended Then the lthacans. a strong second half team ala the season rallied as is their wont when point must be had, and jumped into a safe lead with two tuochdowns and foal from . the field. The points by periods were apportioned as follows: y Touchdown with no goal thercfron. and u goal from the field ia the second quarter for Pennsy two touchdowns and dependent goals and a goal from fieia for Cornell In the fourth quarters No smooth Romp For Cornell. Penn was beaten, but it was no smooth romp for the Ithacans The much harried and much thumpen Quakers made a mighty fight against a better eleven and gave as good a. tHty received, sometimes shade more for three-fourths OF the game. ] PENNSYLVANIA handled Cornell in SURF prfsingly vigorous and effective FASH ion for greater part of the melee, hut in the final period Cornells res | Operative powers, alertness and abil-l ity 10 pierce the Fennsylvanian’s de- Tense when pressed. netted the need ed points for the visitors in a short but sensation laden space of time. Morale was required by Cornell tosteady and get going again in this face of opposition disconcertinly stub born Barrett. the kingpin. Cornell captain. contributed greatly 10 Correlfss success by his individual operations. and filled spectacular role n the ebb and flow OF Cornelrs tide as the russell carried the hostile groups from point TO point in wide and repeated geogra phical changes of base. a single player seldom has fig ured as frequently In the plays which resulted In exchanges of vantages and in as MANY different WHY’S as did RaT= rett i’ll his farewell game. His mistakes worked to Pennsylvanla’s good. led to Pennsylvania scoring but he mace up for his mistakes with plays which opened the way Immediately “a { }I,fs, hi1 NUN Gil

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  New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], November 26, 1915, page 1

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  FOLLOWING the Ball As Cornell Defeated Penn. next play and Russell fell on the ball for Pennsylvania on Cornell’s i4-yard line. II was the first chance offered to the Quakers to show any offensive strength, and they took quick advantage. Williams slipped of tackle for eight yards. but it went for nothing, as Pennsylvania was penalized fifteen yards for holding. 1t looked fatal, nut the next minute most everybody in those black and sloping stands was enhis feet and the majority shouting exultingly. With split line, Miller shot long forward pass of thirty two yards 10 Hopkins, who. making a remarkable catch. ran ten yards before he was laid low or Cornell’s 20-yard line. Derr poughed for three yards and Williams for two. following which the latter sent another forward pass hurting through the air 4 Cornell man Jumped up and battered the ball. but Bell grabbed it before il hit the ground. and Mas buried under a mass of tacklers on Cornells 2-yard line. Williams then plunged over on the first lineup for a touchdown. Mathews missed the goal, the ball rolling along the ground, and the score read to 8 IN favor of Cornell. Barrett kicked off. but rather poorly. The ball covering only twenty-five wards. A forward pass by Miller for gain Of thirteen yards put the bali near midfeld. and Bell soon punted deep into Cornell territory. Barrett soon returned, but Pennsylvania had another chance, and two first downs were eked out for gain of twenty-three yards, Williams making one pretty run of ten on double pass around Cornell’s right end. Barrett then spoiled a forward pass and moment later intercepted another, and again punted out of danger, landing the ball on Pennsylvania 25-yard line. Then followed a play which for the minute made quite difference. After gaining only five yards on three plunges al the line Bell punted, Barrett fumbled and Neill recovered the ball for Pennsylvania on Cornells 35-yard line: After two forward passes had failed and one rush that Melted only three wards. Hawley, who had been. substituted for Hopkins, tried a goal from the 44-yard line, but the ball fell short and went to Cornell on the lS-yard line. With less than a minute TO play Barrett made forward pass on the first down. Rockefeller intercepted II and ran twenty-five yards 10 Cornell 14-yard line, and ilawley, as told be fore, kicked a pretty goal from the

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  The Bridgeport evening farmer, November 26, 1915, page 10

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  CORNELL DEFEATS PENN BY GALLANT RALLY NEAR CLOSE Philadelphia, Nov. 26.-Cornell’s S 1915 football team wrote it’s name in football history in blazing letters on Franklin Field yesterday afternoon when at the end of one of the most stirring contests ever seen on that grfdiron scoreboard read: Cornell, “A; Pennsylvania, g. These figures mean much more than cold numerals to Cornell men the country over They spell Corne1l’s claim to the Eastern football cham pfonship, a claim which is strength ened to the point of Iacceptability by most followers of the game by reason of yesterdays sweeping victory over the University of Pennsylvania And Cornell earned the victory needed. Entering the last fifteen min utes of a punishing battle with the l score to T against them, the New l Workers showed real championship calibre by coming from behind and 1 gathering seventeen points in the. fin al period, while more than 25,0oO | spectators -cheered themselves hoarse. While the score would tend to indi- cate an easy victory for the YItha- cans, the figures tell a, misleading l story Penn gave the unbeaten Cor nell team terrible scare down to the last chapter, Then Charlie Bar rett, the Cornell Captain. pulled the Ithacans through almost si7glehand- ] ed. The Itaacan leader scored one I touchdown in the final period, made another possible through tntercepting a forward pass in Pennsylvania terri tory and wound up his football career by kicking a, field goal from the 45- yard line. All told, he scored eigh- i teen of the points for Cornell. He broke up play after play and killed forward pass after forward pass in the last quarter. So, when the team goes down in i football history as the best ever 1 turned out by the Ithacans, Barrett lname will lead the list of the players who carried the Red and White to l its place in gridiron archives. With i out detracting from the other players 1 it we’ll can be said Barrett was close 1 to being the Cornell team. Penn battered about by various teams during the season, rallied in the I-second period, after Cornell had gain 1 ed 2 to 0 lead early in the quarter scoring a touchdown and kicking 8 1 goal from field, with the result thai 1 when the first half ended the score favored the Fed and Blue by to z. E

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Pennsylvania leads 65–⁠40–⁠5 in 110 meetings, counting the 87 since this game.