The Evening Bulletin,
Philadelphia
November 29, 1926
Quakers and Frankford Likely to Clash for National Football Championship
By RAYMOND A. HILL
IT BEGINS to appear that Bob Folwell's Quakers and the Frankford Yellow Jackets will hook up in a football battle to decide national professional football supremacy.
When the Quakers smothered the Grangeless New York Yankees, 13 to 6, at Shibe Park last Saturday, they captured the championship of the American League. Immediately Leo I. S. Conway, president of the club, issued a sweeping challenge to all title claimants in general and the Yellow Jackets in particular.
Frankford, close on the heels of the Chicago Bears, whom it meets here next Saturday, seems bent on winning the National League championship for the first time. The Yellow Jackets stayed right up there by nosing out Detroit, 7 to 6, on Saturday.
If the Yellow Jackets give the Bears their first setback of the season, it seems inevitable that Guy Chamberlin's will be forced to line up against Bob Folwell's forces.
Players on both teams want the game. This was evidenced yesterday by members of the Frankford band who yesterday watched the Quakers beat Clifton Heights, 19 to 0. The Jackets beat Clifton a week ago, 10-0.There is a matter of dispute over "Bull" Behman, Frankford captain last year, who is now playing tackle for the Quakers, that may prevent the game, but if the Jackets win the National League title it will be hard to see how such a national battle between the two clubs can be prevented.
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Two ends, one of them now a halfback as a result of Bob Folwell's shiftiness, have played prominent roles for both Frankford and the Quakers this year.
Guy Chamberlin, who coaches and holds down one of the Frankford wings, has been a consistent performer all year. There are those who get much fun out of putting Chamberlin on the pan, but they must admit he's a brainy player and a wide-awake on the field.
It was Chamberlin who picked up the fumble behind Detroit's goal line that enabled the Jackets to beat the Panthers. He has been performing life saving feats for the Jackets all year, besides getting down fast under punts, grabbing passes and breaking up end runs. Chamberlin is good and his play is one of the main reasons for Frankford being up in the fight.
The other man is Adrian Ford, of the Quakers, who used to star at Lafayette. Ford, with Doc Elliott, bore the brunt of the Quaker attack and defense when Al Kreuz was hurt against the Yanks.
Ad has just found himself in the backfield after going great guns as an alternate end with Tully and Whitey Thomas. He is big and fast, a great line cracker and a smart passer or receiver.
