Furman at Georgia

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  The Birmingham age-herald, Alabama, October 9, 1921, page 20

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  GEORGIA DEFEATS FURMAN IN HARE GAME, SCORE 27–⁠7 Bulldogs Win In Second Half After Hornets Gained One Point In the First Athens, Ga., october B,-(Special.) ) The Georgia Bulldogs defeated the Furman Hornets here today by a 27 to count. The contest was grue!- ing one, and the Athenians were forced to use their strength to gain the victory by that score. Against the strong line of the locals, the Hornets could do little in the way of open football, and In the latter stages of the game resorted to an aerial attack that netted them some substantial gains. Georgia started q procession down the field in the early part of the first quarter that gave them the first touchdown of the game. The ball was advanced SO yards by the end running of Randall. the line bucks of Fletcher and the fine running of Spicer. Pew failed to kick goal. Hornets Score The Furmanites scored next, when one of their men recovered a Georgia tumble on the Furman S5-yard line. Through offsides penalties on Geor- Sia and series of completed passes, with Rhame doing the hurling, the GreenVillians worked the ball to the Georgia 3-yard line, where 1t was – N’NA py lNuhiIlSs MCLeOu Kicked goal and Furman was lead ing to- 6. As the first half neared It’s end, the Bulldogs started an ad- vance down the field to Furman’s B. yard line, only to lose the ball as the half ended. Bulldogs Score Again Georgia scored its second touch uoWn shortly after the beginning of the second half when they carried the pail for 80 yards up the field, chiefly through the instrumentality of spice- and Randall. who made 25-yard runs. Pew kicked goal. Wlth Reynolds contributing some nice gains through left tackle and randall tearing off a 20-yard end run the Red and Black scored It’s thlrd touchdown in the last part of goal. ~ The last touchdown of the day went to the Georgians as the result of an intercepted pass by Jim Reyn- olds, who ran with 1t for a dis tance of 50 yards. Randall kicked In with his share with some nice bucks off tackle, and the score stood at 27 to 2 when Pew kicked goal Georgia made a total of 20 first downs to Furman’s eight. Six of Furman’s came through forward passes and penalties. Stars for Geor- gia were Randall and Fletcher in the back field. Randall seldom failed to gain when intrusted with the ball. Fletcher weII-nigh wrecked the Furman line with his bucks through center and tackle. The entire Georgia line played up to it’s standard. For Furman the work of Rhame at halfback stood out, as did the plunging of Dempsey at full Mo Leod was a terror at tackle for the Greenvillans. He laid several Georgian men low with his deadly tackles. The lineup follows: Georgia sPosition. -Furman o. Reynolds .......,....... Bradley Left End. J. Bennett ................. Lanford Left Tackle. Whelchel ................... Cox Left Guard. Day ..,.....-..- dammett Center. Few ........... Mcleod Right Tackle. Murray Carter Right End. Randall ..-........... McMannaWay Quarterback. Fletcher ................ Chewning Left Halfback. Sptcer .....-............ Rhame Right Halfback Dempsey Tanner Fullback. Substitutions: Georgia--Clark for Fletcher, J. Reynolds for Clarke, P. Bennett for Murray. Pierce for Ram dall. Mulvihill for P. Bennett, Rich ardson for Mulvihill. Strupper for Tanner, Boney for vandiver. Fur man-Buyck for Lanford. Howard for Buyck. McCurray for McManniway, Buck for Howard, Lanford for Cox, Nelson for Carter, Hicks for Nelson. Rereree, Streit (Auburn). Umpire, Black (Davidson). Head llnesman. Flowers (Tech). Time of quarters, 15 minutes

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Georgia leads 20–⁠2 in 22 meetings, counting the 18 since this game.