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Show REACH DIZZY HEIGHTS IN FOOTBALL WORLD I COACH FOLWELL AND HOWARD BERRY OF PENNSYLVANIA. Colgate, Washington and Jefferson and Penn State are teams that have risen to dizzy heights in the football world because the new game has paved the way for them removed the weight handicap they had to suffer in the other years of the beef era. Those three colleges have a small enrollment, the average being around 500. It's an almost impossible task to recruit from such a small crowd of pupils a team that could match in weight with colleges where the coaches have 5,000 or more men to draw from. And so, in the other days, when mass plays were in vogue, it was rarely that the lighter elevens could nose out a victory over the heavier ones. They were crushed under the awful bulk of their foes. All that is changed now. No longer is there a premium on bulk. Brains, speed and trickery count far more than weight. And so this "Small-Fry Trio" gas gone out and whaled the wadding out of the biggest enrollment college elevens in the country with startling frequency. Once it merely constituted a "practice game" for Harvard, Har-vard, Yale, Cornell, Pennsylvania and the other "big fellows" to meet W. J., Penn State or Colgate. But not now. |