Hobart at Syracuse

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  The New York herald, New York, September 24, 1922, page 46

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  Syracuse Eleven Wins From Hobart; Score 2S-7 Losers Put Up an Excellent Game In First Half of Play. Special Dispatch to THE New YORK HERALD. SYRACUSE. Sept. 23.-Putting up a game fight the little Hobart College eleven of Geneva was defeated. rs to Z. in the initial football game of the season at Syracuse University to-day. For two periods the Hobart lads held their own. At half time the score was tied at z points. In the third quarter the Orange crossed the Hobart goal line twice and again In the final period another Syracuse touchdown was scored. Anderson and Mcbride played whirlwind football for Syracuse, but on the whole the play of tho others injected into the game by Coach Meehan was rather ragged. Hobart presented two good backs In Shell ton, a freshman at Syracuse last year, and Casper, quarterback. and two good linemen in Krauss, a. former Colgate player, and German. a former Fordham center. The lineup:

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  Evening star, September 24, 1922, page 73

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  SYRACUSE IS PRESSED TO WIN FROM HOBART SYRACUSE. N. Y. September “a Under broiling hot sun this after noon a gallant little band of foot ball warriors came down from Hobart College. played Syracuse to a stand still for two quarters and then sue cumbed, being defeated. % to Z. Chick Meehan’s orange-coated men did not come up to expectations. The line was weak and time after time the light Hobart men smashed through and stopped runners IN their tracks. The Orange back field lacked pep, Anderson and Mcbride being the only two men who could make gains The superior weight of Syracuse forwards began to tell in the second half and Anderson and Mcbride toward the end ripped the Generans line to pieces. Hobart’s touchdown came by straight smashes at the line after Syracuse had been penalized fifty yards when Pete McRae ‘kneed’ a Hobart man. Lineup:

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  New-York tribune, September 24, 1922, page 17

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  Syracuse Beats Hobart % to 7 i’m Last Half SYRACUSE. N. Y. Sept. 23.--Under broiling hot sun this afternoon gallant little band of football war riors came down from Hobart College. played Syracuse to standstill for two quarters and then succumbed, being defeated % to 7. Chick Meehan’s men did not come up to expectations. The line was weak and time after time the light Hobart men smashed through and stepped runners in their tracks. The Orange backfield lacked pep, Anderson and Mcbride being the only two men who could make gains. The superior weight Of Syracuse line began to tell in the second half and Anderson and Mcbride toward the end ripped the Gencvans line to pieces. Hobart’s touchdown came by straight smashes at the line after Syracuse had been pensfized fifty yards when Pete McRae “kneed” Hobart man.

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Syracuse leads 21–⁠0 in 21 meetings, counting the nine since this game.