Washington and Lee at Rutgers

• Richmond times-dispatch. (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, Virginia, October 16, 1921

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  GENERALS ARE NOSED 20. :. OUT IN LAST PERIOD Washington and Lee Loses IB’‘ Rutgers, Id to ID, at News.. Brunswick. CONTEST PROVES THRILLING virEIninns Maintain Thirteen Point. Advantage Until Fourth Quarter. Open Style Playing Used by 10th F.icrcnS-MissrL Coal DIsnstrous NEW RRUNSWICK. y. J.. oc, - mRMtsets rallied today In the mai quarter and nosed out Washington from touchdown in the second period Wnen trew’s Kick bounded back ofe inc sonl posts. was the margin by when the Virginia eleven lost. OutplaSed until the final uuarter. Rutgers made thrilling come. pack and ovcrcamc IL thirteen pojnt ia IA dicnp by scoring two touchdoW.ns. me, nc locai eleven resortcd to forward passes. four of which came in succession and nettcd eighty ward. pass by Rcdward. II substitute. to Dickinson. was good for n fortv-jlyeyHra gain. Benkert. who relieved for the first Rutgers score. on wbirG Gardner kicked the goal. Gardnor’s Inc pluneinE, coupled with forward passes, resulted In the second touch, u ,.9n Ior rutgers. Gardner also The. visitors took tho lead In tho. second period on Il brilliant forward pass by MattoS: which Thomas ear Ecu lev across INC line for q touchdowna washington and Lee had to mako three attempts at Rutgers one-yatSl, me , before crashing through Rutecrs” kicked the goal. In the final perio,l the T, x’sltors appeared to weaken, rutgers tp position w. & L. (f1I Dickinson ..left end ,. Reniis Smith left tackle Moore. Ecckwith -. left guard ...Walters j.. Schudder ..center ........ Hall kingman fright guard .ReinRlc Lincoln -. right tackle -. Potts Sunmcrrill fright end ...Herndop’ Maloney -. quarter back -. 4. ErsW Duffy, 49,. left half back. Tucker Terrill fright half back. =. Mattox Waite 49,: full back -. .McDonaid’ BY periods: 5sft Washington and Leo % G Ola, rutgers ............. 0 14--1sf Rutgers scoring: Touchdowns-- Benkert Substitute for waite), Gardc ner Substitute for SMITH. Goals from touchdowns – Gardner (al Washington and Lee touchdowns-‘ MattoS. Thomas Substitute for Bemis). Goal from touchdown--Frew. Referee-H. Fisher (Columbia). TIM pire-C. Williams tPennsylvania). Head linesman-C. Corvell (PennsYirr vania). Time of periods-16 minutes.

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  The Washington herald, District of Columbia, October 16, 1921, page 1

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  RUTGERS RALLY BEATS GENERALS Two TOuchdowns in the Last Quarter Defeats Wash ton and Lee, 14–⁠13. NEW BRUNSWICK. N. j.. Oct. IA soul-stirrfng finish by Rutgers in the final minutes of play snatched victory out Of the very jaws of defeat here this afternoon, and Washington and Lee was beaten by Ia to Is. With the score 10 to o against them in the fourth period. Rutgers tore loose a brilliant aerial attack and went into the lead with two touchdowns. With most of the stars on the bench with injuries, the Rutgers substitutes made a poor show ing in the first three periods, but Turk” Gardner. who had been nursing badly injured leg. was hurled into the breach in the final period. and his savage attack. ably seconded by Benkert. put new life into Rutgers. while the Southerners appeared to wilt.

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  Norwich bulletin, Connecticut, October 17, 1921, page 3 (results column)

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  NAVAL ACADEMY DEFEATED I7s 1920 CONQUEROR. PRINCETO! New York, Oct. 16.-Employng a dash ing, varied attack the Naval Acacdemy eleven yesterday defeated Princeton, it’s 1920 conqueror, and marched to the fore front of eastern football teams. The Tigers were outplayed at every angle, losing by touchdown, a goal and two field goals. Navy’s hard and direct off tackle were the most effective of it’s well planned as sault on the Tiger line. Lourie and Gar rity were absent from the Princeton line up. However the Princeton team was so completely outplayed that it is doubtful of the presence of Lourie and Garrity would have had an material effect on the result. University Of Georgia surprised liar yard and gave her one Of the closes calls she has ever had in an inter-sectional game. The Crrinyon luckily scored it’s only touchdown in the fiji st quarter and later stayed off defeat with a field goal from the boot of Pfaffman. Georgia, al ways general, broke through in the final quarter for touchdown and goal. a great play. The Army eleven played scoreless for a half, launched q desperate drive against the little Wabash eleven from Indiana in the third quarter and scored three touch downs. Yale fought hard and it’s line held when the Bulldog goal was threatened several times by Williams Yale scored three touchdowns and a field goal to win, 23 to O. Pittsburgh won in the final quarter of it’s game with Cincinnati scoring a touch down to win q to fl. Rutgers rallied in the closing moments of the game against Washington and Lee and won by a single point 14 to 13. Brown was unable to pierce the Syracuse line while its own gave way to Syracuse. Brown fumbled often and lost 2S to 0. Heisman’s Penn eleven was saved from defeat at the hands of Swarthmore on a i long forward pass in the last quarter The game ended in a 7–⁠7 tie. The seasons high score was made by Cornell, which scored 16 touchdowns in a. one-stded af. afr with Western Reserve. .Dartmouth’s sturdy eleven defeated the | Mountaineers from Tennessee 14 to 3 l Pennsylvania states more flashing of fensive carried it to 2S to victory ] over Lehigh.

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Rutgers leads 1–⁠0–⁠1 in two meetings.