Rutgers at Syracuse

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  Perth Amboy evening news, New Jersey, November 5, 1919, page 1

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  RUTGERS IS SHUT OUT, 14-O Syracuse ShOVes Across Two TOuChdOWnS in Last Half Syracuse beat Rutgers at the Polo Grounds yesterday before 10000 spec tators by a score of IA to 0. The first half was scoreless with spirited and gritty playing by Rutgers against Il gridiron esemble Its superior in pretty much everything technical. Through the second half the playing of rutgers continued to be spirited and gritty, but the superior Syracuse eleven, better individually and as a team, excelled to material advantage in this period and made w o touch downs, n in the third quarter, one in the fourth. A deft forward pass by Syracuse a complicated, swiftly moving affair and Of completely in the directions in volved, was one of the m~anoeuVres which won a touchdown for Syracuse; thanking runs by the Syracuse backs, topped off with thrusts through the Rutgers line, won the other. The emerald and velvet turf of the Polo Grounds was mauled and chop ped considerably by flying bodies. Sod was flung skyward in large and scarf flying chunks, but nobody stopped to replace the divots. All hands were otherwise engaged. The action of the game was we’ll sustained and consist ed principally of Rutgers defense and Syracuse offense. However, Notwithstanding having no offence-either in repertoire or execution-and q childish sort of a for ward pass which seemed to &C three yards ~laterally and n forward, Rutgers was in the game. Their quarter back, Baker, a rafting good little player, intercepted a forward pass n ran fifty yards. He was free and ahead of the pack, but Erwig of SYRIA cuse was too fast for him.. There was a thrilling chase along the side line from near the goal line, where Baker intercepted the pass to mid field, where Erwig, closing in inch by inch, caught the scarlet jerseyed quarry from behind and dragged him down. Baker on His Way Baker was on his way to a touch down-the best and only really good chance Rutgers had to score-and had his mates blocked off he SYRIA cuse posse in pursuit he would have made a touchdown and tied the score. In pursuance of q prevalent policy this season, only short periods were played-twelve minutes-and when the contest is interesting, as yesterdays was, the battle to the spectators hardly begins before it is over This business of shortened periods Is being %overdone. Spectators want to see longer ones and they’re entitled to-. The close back-of-the-line formatons used by Rutgers, in which the backs face inward and jump to close quarters just before the ball is put in play, was reminiscent of football taught by Foster Sanford years ago and didn’t take Rutgers anywhere. Syracuse smeared these plays with ease. The Rutgers lads played with a zest which bespoke football aptitude, and it seemed O. pity that they weren’t equipped with more with which to make an impression on the bulwark of Orange forwards. For their spunky stand in making the first half blood less they were cheered heartily and d~eservedly by their supporters in the north stands The game was elemental In the simplicity of its tactics, which made 1t none the less interesting and lively, and in it’s scarcity of attempts at deception. Syracuse had q shift which involved the ends, around which plays were swung with varying sue cess. This shift often was smashed and d~isintegrated by Rutgers, but often paved the way for such fast and hard running backs as Fallon, Abbott and Erwig to get through the scrimmage line and make useful gains. A criss-cross of a kim was used by Rutgers, with the quarterback trying to owe up the ball and another back circling back of him and taking it,; but it was stopped by Syracuse before 1t reached the line. An onside kick, in which three men punched on one side to grab the ball, didn’t work either. 1t might have on one occasion if it hadn’t been kicked out of bounds. The short Rutgers forward pass with the receiver back of the line was wrecked by Syracuse because the receiver was right where an opposing tackle naturally would come through.

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  The Washington herald, November 5, 1919, page 10

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  SYRACUSE WINS FROM RUTGERS Upstate Eleven Keeps Up Its Wming by Setting Back Brunswick Team. eleven took the measure OF the Rutgers team, II 70 oSat the Polo Grounds here today before q crowd estimated at about 1000. The syrzcuse men started from the outset 70 push their way through the opposing defense IL was due solely TO the almost heroic defense Of the Rutgers team that the larger Rutsers hcked on TO Abbot Who was downeo In his tracks. Barxha tr1ed out the Rutgers line twice and Erwtg once with small gains and Ackley was forced to punt, Baker receiv- Ing the ball on HIS own so-yard line He ran Il In i’ve yards. Troup made four yards through LEFT tackle He failed on his next attempt and Gardner also was unable 70 gain. Garrett then punted 70 AckIey on Syracuse B-yard line. Aekiey Pu,ta Ackiey threw q 3-yard pass 10 Schwar.er. but Baker colIided with him and he dropped the ball Ackley yard line. Garrett punted on the first down. Ackley received and was dropped on his S-yard line. Abbot tossed q D. yard pass TO Erwig- Abbot made i’ve yards around left end for n FIRST down. Barsha fumbled. but recovcred. Syracuse again fumbled- this time on q fake kdck formation. and Rutgers recovered. Baker punted at once. Ackley took the kick on his R-yerd line and ran Il In ten yards. In the second period Ackley at tempted a fieid goal from ais S-yarc I’m kA wide. Garrett immediately punted to Ackley. who was dropped In hiI tracks. Barsha made i’ve yardf through the line. Two line bucks and a forward pass failed. and Rutgers took the ball on downs. Makes Fair Catch. Baker punted to Aclley on the lat ter’s so-yard lire. Aclcley made e izoI - .-ckl’,,- - after he mad fignaIled his intention. ack.ey punted me nrst down Rutgers immediately tried forward PASS, which Brown intercepted. SYRIA cuse bucked the ball to midhelowhere Rutgers held. and Ackley at tempted a long field goal. The try was short. Rutgers then made first down on three bucks through the right side OF the Syracuse line. Storck ana Troup carrying the ball The half ended with the ball IN midheld- Starting the second half, Garoner caught AckIey’s kick-oT on his 10 ward line and ran back fve yards Gardner made i’ve through night tackle. Baker punted to Abbot on Rutgers S-yard line. Erwig made \ seven around and Abbott threw q ao-yard pass to Schwarzer. who rsn | twenty yards for a touchdown Abbot kicked goal misses Field Goal. | Ervis took the kick on on hist Inward line and made ten yards An exchange OF kicks left the ball on Rutgers 8-yard line. A pass, nckley to Schwarzer. gained ten wards. FaIlon. who replaced Barsha. bucked for five yards. Ackley tired a field goal from his 2s-yard line but missed. Rutgers bucked three times but failed to gain and Baker punted- Ackley threw a long pass to Erwig on Rutgers 1o-yard line Gardner In tercepted a pass by Ackley almost on the Rutgers goal line and ran TO midfield and the period ended. Abbot started the last quarter by sklruns 4 r1ElI enc IOT shot around the other end for twenty five, Fallon bucked for i’ve, four ano two yards and first down. A pass and two more bucks put the ball on the tiring Rutgers b-yard line. Erwig failed to gain around right end. Er~ig smashed through the right wing for a touchdown. Ackley kicked goal. Score-Syracuse. IA: Rutgers, Q. Parker replaced Abbot for Syracuse Erwig took the kick OF on his hve ward line and returned ten yards. Ackley punted to Baker on Rutgers 4o-yard line. A forward pass, Storck to Redmond. gained nine yards. Gardner made five through the line ana FIRST down. c. Redmond replaced Storck. Redmond kicked out OF bonds on Syracuse’s 3c-yard line. Baker caught Ackley’s punt on his R-Nsrd line and returned twenty yards. Duny lost fve yards. Parker returned RED mond’s punt ten yards to his p-yaro line as tSne final whistle blew. The lineup and summary: I sv,o,- Posi- tionA Rutreu Brown ................L E....-...-.... keomoro

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  The Bridgeport times and evening farmer, November 5, 1919, page 10

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  SYRACUSE WINS FROM RUTGERS IN GREAT CAME New York, Nov. 5-George Foster Sanford’s ‘‘rational1y developed” football team was beaten by Syracuse in the course of Election Day festivi- ties at the Polo Grounds yesterday af- ternoon. Tie Rutgers eleven, in jerseys that famed as giddily as the shirts of a veteran fire hose company, reduced the nationality of their defense to practical terms, but their offense scared blithely in the realm of theory and never was brought to earth. Buck O’NeilTs warriors eked out two touch- downs and called it a game with the score at II to o. After a scoreless first half in which the Orange found the opposition i’m previous to line smashing, Ackley, Abbott and Schwarzer introduced 2 flashing series of passes, combining the lateral with the forward to such good purposes that the pigsl1in was across the goal line before the sec ond half was two minutes old. A 3O-yard heave by Ackley, stand ing on the 40-yard line, gave the ball to Schwarzer, who was camping un- der the shadow of the goal posts. The Syracuse end had a free romp to a seven point tally. Just as the fourth quarter opened two long end runs, one by Abbott and another by Erwig, after a double pass, took the pigskin from Syra- cuse’s 40yard line to Rutgers 15- yard mark and a series of strenuous lin 2Sbucks pushed the ball over, Err wig getting the touchdown. Syracuse did not show the power critics had been led to expect after receiving all the slowing reports that had filtered down from upstate. While outplaying Rutgers, gaining 162 yards by rushing to 55 for Sanford s team, there was nothing dynamic about the assault. The Orange fail ed to develop a sustained rushing st- tack on the Rutgers ramparts af was compelled to fall back on oIc~ play to force the issue. The exceeding skill of AckIey gave the up-Staters 53 yards on aerial losses Rutgers, on the other hand was unable to get any further with the open game than with straight running tactics, and though attempt ing six forward passes, five in the 1 second half, none of them advanced the ball a yard.

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  The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram, Richmond, Ind., November 5, 1919, page 1

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  SYRACUSE BEATS RUrGERs NEW YORK. Nov. 5.-Suracus University defeated Rutgers College in their annual football game here this afternoon. 14–⁠0. The Orange eleven proved entirely too strong. both often sively and defensively. for the New Jersey combination and the Syracus’s goal line was never in danger except on one occasion.

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Officially, Syracuse leads 29–⁠13–⁠1; as played, 30–⁠13–⁠1 in 44 meetings, counting the 40 since this game.