Gettysburg at Bucknell

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  Harrisburg telegraph, Harrisburg, Pa., November 17, 1919, page 15

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  BUCKNELL WINS NLAST QUARTER Tears the Gettysburg Line to Pieces: Placement Kick Starts Score The reason is the victory Saturday over Gettysburg. score II to 0. 1t was not all Bucknell even # the Lewisburg boys did win out. Gettysburg was prominent for three quarters. The battlefield contingent play ed better ball than Bucknen. 1t was in the last quarter that Bucknell showed the form they should have demonstrated earlier in the game with the team they offered. With three minutes of play gone in the final period Bucknell began to fight and in five minutes more or play had torn the Gettysburg line to pieces and scored a placement kick and a touchdown. 1t was a great finish. Gettysburg went down with flying colors, fighting every minute until the final whistle blew. The crowd was the largest in the history of this annual contest. There was some kicking on the part OF spectators who had paid the prices advertised, and were asked to put up an extra fee to get numbered seat. Just who is to blame for the change in prices is not known posilively. A. Q. Worse, publicity man for Bucknell, who with J. f. Snyder, of Gettysburg, agreed to put two prices did not know that numbered seats were being sold until he reach ed Harrisburg. He kicked loud and long. V. Grant Forrer, assistant super intendent of parks, said he had no hand in it and wanted the public to understand that it was done without his sanction. He added, next year there will be an agreement in black and white. Harrisburg people have been good patrons to this game and deserve fair treatment” The gen. eral impression prevailed that the public should have been advised OF the change. For three periods of the college game on the Island Saturday, Get tysburg upset all the dope on the result of her battle with Bucknell by outplaying the Lewisburg col legians at every angle of the game. With the beginning of the fourth period Coach pete” Reynolds in serted Fat” Lauster into the Buck nell lineup for Rosenbloom, and then the tide turned. Whether Fat” did the trick or not, it is fact that was apparent to more than one spec tator, that with the entry of the former Tech star, Gettysburg never had a chance. 1t began to look as if only a fluke would give either team a score. But just at this point Gil” Ebner, last years Tech captain, pulled off a 35-yard run and brought the ball into n position from which Captain Johnny” Hendren, the for mer North East lad. kicked goal from placement, and Bucknell look ed a sure winner. But with the tally, Bucknell took on new hopes and Gettysburg began to fade. Two touchdowns were added in quick succession through brilliant running by Elmer, Mangan, Hendren and Dayhoff, of Steelton. Interest in a Gettysburg -Bucknell battle was never keener because of the large number of Harrisburg lads who were starring for the two teams. Elmer. Lauster, Bihl and Dayhoff played for Bucknell. while Midget” McGann was a substitute. 1t was the playing of the lads that brought Bucknell its victory. Gettysburg presented nothing more spectacular than the line plunging of Adam Houtz and Sam Phillips. This pair in the Battlefield backfield added more than one first down in the opening of the game, and really made the winners look as though they were in for a defeat. When this pair was not hitting the line, “Vic” Emanuel was snatching forward passes out of the air. Cap tain Martz at center and Vic” Emanuel opposing him had a bat tie all of their own, that resulted in draw 1t was a great game. The better team won, and the work of the Harrisburg lads did much to eri1 local inf hof brought 1000 people to Island Park.

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Bucknell leads 12–⁠5–⁠1 in 18 meetings, counting the five since this game.