Public Ledger, Philadelphia
November 28, 1926

Quakers, Alert On Defense And Offense, Beat Yankees For American League Title

Ford's Touchdown and Dinsmore's Two Field Goals Score Winning Points -- Hip Injury Bars Red Grange From Battle

By ED POLLACK

"As Ruth goes, so go the Yanks." This baseball phrase can aptly be applied to Red Grange and Charlie Pyle's footballers.

The famous red head went no farther than the bench at Shibe Park yesterday, and the Philadelphia Quakers trimmed his teammates, 13-6, thereby winning the American League championship.

The Grangeless Yanks went quite some distance farther than the bench. In fact, the roamed up and down the A's outfield, converted into a gridiron, but took advantage of only one scoring opportunity.

Grange, the main punch of the New York backfield, was missing. He bruised his hip so severely in Thursday's engagement between the same teams that his physician made him confine his football to a dress rehearsal. He was in uniform, but the only time he was on the playing field was before the game.

Even if the main Yankee punch had the ball from their own 20-yard line down the score would have been different. The Quakers presented an alert and sturdy defense, and an attack that had power and precision.

Instead of starring Grange or Eddie Tryon, Colgate's famous back, the game elevated Adrian Ford and Brad Dinsmore to the center of the spotlight.

Ford Sprints for Touchdown

Ford, who learned his football at Lafayette, grabbed a forward pass in the opening quarter and sprinted over the goal for a touchdown, bumping off Tryon in his flight.

Dinsmore, who used to call signals for Princeton, contributed the other seven points of the Quakers' total. He kicked the extra point following Ford's touchdown and later booted two field goals, one from the 15-yard line and the other from the 25.

While Dinsmores's two field goals were beautiful to watch, being perfectly executed and shot between the uprights, they meant nothing in deciding the league championship, counting merely as six extra points.

It was Dinsmore's drop-kick following Ford's touchdown, which proved eventually to be the deciding stroke of the combat.

The Quakers had so consistently turned back the Yanks when they threatened that it was a safe bet with the fourth period well under way that the New Yorkers would be blanked.

About the middle of the final quarter, however, they unleashed a forward passing attack, which stirred the chilled blood of 20,000 shivering spectators and moved the ball rapidly over large yardage to touchdown territory.

Pease, the Yankee quarterback, who will be remembered by Philadelphians as the Columbia athlete who ran a kickoff back for a touchdown against Pennsylvania at Franklin Field two years ago, did the scoring. He clutched a forward pass on the 10-yard line and was over the goal mark before eager Quaker hands could be placed on him. that made the score 10-6, as Dinsmore had not yet kicked his second field goal. When Coglissar missed the subsequent try for point it meant that New York needed a touchdown to win.

Forward Pass -- Elliott to Ford -- on Which Quakers Score Touchdown Against Yankees at Shibe Park

Yankee Hopes Fade

Yankee hopes faded with the sunlight when late in the fourth period as darkness was rapidly setting in. Dinsmore belted a ball from the 25-yard line for a bull's eye. The former Princeton quarterback forced the opportunity for himself. His interception of a forward pass placed his club in scoring position.

Both touchdowns came as finishing touches to sustained offenses. In the opening period the Quakers took the ball from their own 20-yard line down to and over the opponent's goal. A 25-yard penalty for clipping helped mightily in the advance.

The Yankees were on their 46-yard line when their successful assault began, but they were given no gift from the officials to assist them to the goal line. They needed none. Only three plays were employed to reach the goal. All three were passes and only two of them worked, the first netting 36 yards.

With the game about five minutes old the Quakers started their touchdown drive after Tryon had punted over the goal line.

Three Lafayette players of the other days -- Doc Elliot, a broad-shouldered line-backer; Johnny Scott, a shrewd general and good ball carrier; and Ford, who can belt the line or skirt the ends -- figured prominently in the march dowwn the white-ribbed field.

Scott circled the end for 5 yards. Elliot crashed the line for 5 more and first down. Little Albert Kreuz, of Pennsylvania, contributed 2 yards and Elliot 3 more.

On third down Scott passed and Pearse gathered in the ball, but the officials called a clipping penalty, and the Quakers gained possession on the Yanks' 30-yard line.

It looked as if Pyle's paid players had them stopped when two plays yielded only 3 yards, but a double pass. Ford to Scott, behind the line sprouted into a forward with Tully, of Dartmouth, on the receiving end. It netted 17 yards and first down two chalk lines from the goal.

Ford ran off right tackle for 3 yards. Then he gained 2 on the other side. On third down Scott took the pass from Karl Robinson, Penn center of 1925, and darted as if running off tackle.

Ford Thrills Fans

Ford seemed to be leading the interference, but instead of hitting the end, ran wide and as the wing cut into take Scott, the Quaker quarterback flipped a lateral pass to Ford and the ex-Lafayette athlete grabbed the ball on the run.

Ford was gaining valuable yardage in the trace against Eddie Tryon, who played defensive wing back. At the 2-yard line Tryon jumped and bounced back off Ford's shoulder as if he had collided with a runaway freight car. Ford tumbled over the goal line.

The Yankees' scoring attack resulted from one of those dying efforts of a beaten team. They had reached the point where they had tossed caution to the wind and flipped forward from any point of the sward.

Tryon was out of the game when the touchdown was made. He had been replaced by Marks, who on the first play after his substitution lost a yard. This put the ball on the Yankees' 46-yard line.