The Philadelphia Record
September 30, 1917

PENN STATE WALLOPS AMBULANCE CORPS TEAM

Wolf's Field Goal and Pond's70-Yard Run for Touchdown Only Scores.

CONN CROSSES GOAL LINE

But First Minute Play is Out of Bounds -- Fumble Proves Costly.

Allentown, Pa., Sept. 30. -- Superior team work and indomitable college spirit resulted in a 10 to 0 victory for Penn State on Muhlenberg Field in the opening game of the season this afternoon against an aggregation of football stars comprising the eleven of the United States Army Ambulance Corps, training at the historic Fair grounds here.

Many features tended to make it the most interesting game of football ever staged in Allentown. Fully half the 6000 men of the ambulance camp were in the stands and bleachers, the soldiers forming most of the crowd. Around the units from the camp were grouped State College Alumni of Allentown and their friends, forming a crowd of about a thousand, which did most of the cheering, often led by President Sparks, of State.

Within a minute after Penn State had kicked off, "Tuffie" Conn, the famous Oregon Aggie, had rounded the visitors' end, and apparently scored a touchdown, but he had unfortunately stepped on the chalk mark and his beautiful run went for naught. State next tried to buck the army men, but made so little progress that Wolf attempted a field goal against the wind of 40 yards and succeeded beautifully.

The second quarter was scoreless, but in the third after Dunn and Rauch been put out for alleged roughhouse, the ambulancers lost the ball on a bad forward pass and Pond, with everybody in full pursuit, made a 70-yard run, scoring a touchdown from which Conover kicked goal. The greater part of the game was played in Ambulance territory. The effective interference of the visitors was noticeable.