Muhlenberg at Lafayette

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  New-York tribune, October 15, 1922, page 20

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  Lafayette Team Swamps Muhlenberg ON Cridiron EASTON, Penn, Oct. 14-The scrappy Muhlenberg college football team was sno match for the powerful Lafayette college eleven on March field here this afternoon, and Coach DR.. “Jock” Sutherland’s wrecking crew registered a 62–⁠0 victory over the Allentown aggrecation. 1t was the work of Brunner and Ga zella, which spelled defeat for Mullen. berg. This great pair of backs dashed through the visiting team time after time in the two periods they performed Hrunner scoring three and Gazella two touchdowns. Gazella had the feature play OF the afternoon with seventy two-yard run through a broken field after emerging through huge hole at right tackle After Coach Sutherland had called 1T day for Brunner and Gazella. Mar hefka and Gebhardt carried the Lafayette attack with decided success Nav hefka scored several forty-yard rms while Gebhardt three times minced through the line for touchdowns. Muhlenberg could do nothing against Lafayette’s stone wall line and had To resort to the aerial rout. In the Anal minutes of play, with Lafavetta,. scrubs on the field, Muhlenberg com pleted four successful passes. The last carried the ball over the line, only to be called back because an ineiiSihio ~ player had caught the pass. The lne-up:

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Lafayette leads 11–⁠3–⁠1 in 15 meetings, counting the five since this game.