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Miners Defeat Chicago Cardinals in Post- Season Contest for National League Title

WALTER FRENCH IS A STAR

    After the next kickoff the Cardinals started
up the field with a forward-passing attack, but
Herb Stein, of Pottsville, grabbed one of Dunn's heaves and Pottsville had the ball on its own
38-yard line.
     On the next play Halfback Flanagan, of
Pottsville, was taken off the field with a broken collarbone, and the stage was set for the entry
of French, the fast-running ex-Army boy.
     French showed he was in the fray
immediately.  He took the leather and raced down
the field 30 yards before he skidded and was
downed.  A couple of line plays followed, and
then French got his wind back and took the ball
again for another romp around the Cardinals' right
end for 30 yards more and a touchdown.  Three Cardinals tackled French in the course of his run,
but he shook all of them off.  Berry again kicked
the goal.
     The Cardinals sent Smith to an end. 
McDonald replaced Driscoll and Mahoney
replaced Erickson.  Red Dunn took the Pottsville kickoff and started to heave passes.  There were
only a few minutes left to the quarter and Dunn hurled pass after pass.  Six passes were
completed in succession, with Keehler,
McDonlad and Mahoney on the receiving end,
and the Cards had their lone touchdown of the
game.
     The six passes gained a total of 45 yards. 
Dunn was set to kick the goal for the point after touchdown, but Pottsville was offside and the
Cards were awarded the point free.
     That ended the action, except for a flash in
the final period when Pottsville staged another
big drive up the field, with French tearing and
ripping his way through the line and around the
ends, and then Wentz dove off tackle for 3 yards
and the final touchdown of the contest.

Chicago, Dec. 7 - THE POTTSVILLE MAROONS
yesterday won the National Professional Football championship of the United States here in defeating
the Cardinals in a post-season game 21-7.
     The victory was clean-cut, and gave the Pennsyl-
vania Miners the right to the national title previously
held by Cleveland.
     Walter French, who plays an outfield position
for Connie Mack during the summer, was the chief source of grief for the Cardinals.  He was here, there
and everywhere, gaining yardage, breaking up
Cardinal plays, bucking the line, putting over deadly passes, punting and running, displaying skill in every move.
     The "big kick" in the battle came in the second quarter.  The first period was spent fiddling around
in the snow, both of the teams punting on third
downs and feeling out the other fellow's strength. 
Then the Eastern team got a break and drove right through the Cardinal line for a touchdown.
     That break came in the form of a long punt
which hopped over Red Dunn's head and rolled to
the Cardinal 5-yard line, where a Pottsville man
downed the ball.
     Driscoll immediately punted out from behind his
own goal, and Quarterback Ernst, of Pottsville,
took the ball on the 50-yard line and raced back
through a broken field to the Cardinal 5-yard mark
again.  Then the husky Wentz, former Penn State fullback, crashed at the Chicago line and on his
their attempt went over for the first touchdown. 
Berry kicked the goal.

Evening Public ledger-Philadelphia
Monday, December 7, 1925