Centre at Harvard

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  South Bend news-times, South Bend, Ind., October 22, 1922, page 9

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  CENTRE DEFEATED BY HARVARD TEAM IN THRILLING GAME With Battle Lost, Centre Out plays Crimson in Latter Periods of Came. CAMBRIDGE Mass. oct. 81 Overwhelmed by a first period coll lection Of 81 points, Centre college was defeated by Harvard in the stadium here this afternoon by final score Of % 30 10. but the cold figures do not tell the courageous battle staged ay the southerners in the latter p.r ll OF playa battle which lifted Tie game from a drab defeat into a thrilling struggle that. / c,amped fifty thousand spectators until the closing seconds Of the contest Three times in the first period OF / Is minutes actual play Harvard / crossed Centres goal line, due in / part 10 the Colonies inability 10 hold the ball and 10 the Crimson’s almost Uucanny sense of sphere following, + plus Judgment as TO when and / how to strike for scores. The team which a year ago defeated Harvard. I 6 10 o, saw the Crimson score with JIM two minutes after the opening ( kickoff, almost a gift touchdown at / the very beginning OF play Yet, In the face of this gridiron / disaster Centre came back and not only outplayed the Cambridge ma | chine i’m the final periods Of the game but scored a tou hdown i’m adj | dition to an earlier field goal 1t / was wonderful spirit of courage / and battle 10 the end that thrilled ] and caused them time and AGAIN 10 | emit the rebe, yell. or at least the best int.mation of the real southern / article that an enthusiastic north- ] erner could produce in roofing for a lost cause. / Play started at 2:35 Harvard kicked off behind the / Centre goal line and the ball was brought out 20 yards. Snowday skirted around right end \ for hree yards on an attempted F left end run. Snowd5v fumbled a j + Fits recovered for Harvard on / Centres 5-yard line owen then carried the ball over for a touchdown AMI Buell. kicked goal score: Harvard Z; Centre o. Roberts kicked off 20 Harvard’s . 20-yard lire and the Crimson failed 90 gain on two line bucks and lost the ball when Chaplin fumbled on Harvard’s 35-yard line Shadoan recovering the bali foS Cen re. ON the fourth down. Centre at tempted q pass and 10 was intercept cd 10y Gehrke on Harvard 20-yard . line. owen gained five yards off left tackle. Buell. then skirted right end for FIVE yards and first down. / Gehrke made five yards on a de layed pass through left tackle. + Chaplin made three yards through right tackle. be.ng broTght down by Lynch. Gehrke pun,ed back o. . Centre goal line Gehrke made u yards through left tackle owen made three yards through left tackle ana Gehrke followed with a gain of f0ur yards il the same place. bringing The ball TO Centres 20-yard line owen made 10 yards on a cross buck through right tackle. Chaplin slipped through left tackle for three yards owen got away round left end for three more Yards .n front OF the goal posts owen smashed tnroush centre 20 the SouiheFhers l-Yaru me. Gem n : went tnroush center TOT ‘ooCh = down. bueA N.cKed IRE sodL Score. harvard II. Oeh-ie u. Centre resumed play ON nef 80 yard line. Centre was peh1l-zed iVs wards on me hrsJ play ana hooeFts 1 go. 10 back through center. Coving- ton slipped through rght tackle FOR SIX yards ana mrs. ooWh IoF-h5,oh made two more yards on tne same play Roberts go; through r’gh- 7 tackle for seven yards ana another first down. Centre was ON Harvard 5 35-yard line. CovinE-on got away for 2 yards on q trick play OF leI’ tackle E1barth replaced L\nch Tor Centre Harvard kicked off 10 Centres lo-yard line Covington ran the an back u yards. Coving- Ton FUN 3-ed on the hrst attempt and owen recovered the pau Tor mar ward on Centres ai-yard line. co. burn replaced owen for Harvard Harvard scored another touchdown

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  Bisbee daily review, October 22, 1922, page 5

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  HARVARD WINS STRUGGLE WITH CENTRE, 24–⁠10 Crimson Eleven Collects 2l Points in First Period of Courageous Battle CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Oct. 21.-(By The Associated Press s.)-Overwhelmed by first period collection of 21 points, Centre college was defeated by liar ward here this afternoon by final score of “A to 10, but the cold figures do not tell the courageous battle staged by the southerners in the later periods of playa battle which lifted the game from drab contest into a thrilling struggle that clamped 50,OO0 spectators to their seats until the clos ing sesonds of play. For more than two hours, lapses considered, the two elevens batled in furious mixture of bad and brilliant football and it was part careless han ding of the ball in crucial moments that brought about the downfall of the Danville, Ky, combination. It was the valedictory of the south erners in the Harvard stadium for some seasons to come, yet in their passing, all thoughts of looseness in the play which paved the way for a Crimson victory will be forgotten in a brighter recOllecllOn or the llSnClnS spirit and sensational charges which Centre flung forth in the face of al most certain defeat. Three times in the first period of the 15 minutes actual play, Harvard crossed Centres goal line, due in part to the Colonels inability to hold the ball and to the Crimson’s almost un- canny sense of ball-following plus su- perior judgment as to when and how to strike for scores. Te team, which a year ago defeated Harvard, 6 to 0, saw the Crimson score within two minutes after the opening kickoff almost giant touchdown at the very beginning of play. Yet in De face of this gridiron dis

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  The Birmingham age-herald, Alabama, October 23, 1922, page 3

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  Atlanta. October 32.-The fighting spirit that the gridiron game is sup posed to inculcate in the undergrad uate and the fact that the forward pass. despite It’s years of use still may prove a boomerang was demonstrated in Saturdays series of brilliant foot ball games. The spirit of the lost cause” that enables it’s possessors to imitation long after fate has decreed their defeat was never better exem- plified than by the doughty Centre eleven in losing 24 to 10 to Harvard. Georgia Tech. in It’s 13 to defeat by the Navy. showed something of the same spirit in the last half and held the Middies scoreless. while Washington and Lee, Sewanee. Vir- ginia Military institute, and David son. despite tho fact that they were engaged in games that lacked the glamor of the Centre Harvard battle were just as worthy opponents of the fighting type. Cadets Fought to Win Victory over its ancient rival vir- ginia university, came to V. M. l.. as refusal of the Cadets to believe in defeat. and the other three obtained tie games with elevens which had been regarded as almost certain vic tors. It was a day of aerial play and the Washington and Lee Generals made use of the air attack to tie, 12 to 12 with the powerful West Virginia eleven. Sewanee and Davidson made

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Harvard leads 2–⁠1 in three meetings.