Washington & Jefferson at Lafayette

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  Evening star, October 31, 1926, page 92

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  SENSATIONAL RALLY WINS FOR LAFAYETTE Rr tho Associated Presa. PHILADELPHIA. October 3o.-In a spirited battle on Franklin Field today. the Lafayette foot hall tea m defeated Washington and jefferson 16 to 10. 1t was W. and J,’s first defeat of the season Thirty.five thousan nd persons saw An inspiring rally on the part of I.afaywith the score 10 to @ against them. With 2 minutes to play the Eastonians were fighting on their 15yard line. Before the game was over they covered the S5 yards between them and the w. and ]. goal and won. Marching up the field they made nearly half the distance on one sweep. when kirkleslli threw a forward pass to McGarvey. a substitute. who darted to the w. and j. 3yard line before he was stopped. Here the desperate Presidents made effort to use up the few naming seconds. heing penalized several times for off side. but Lafayette would not he denied and Guest vaulted over for the touchdown that won. othra n kicked the extra point. Washington and Jefferson scored 10 points on a field goal hy Edwards and a touchdown by Heisel. Edwards then kicked the extra point. They held this hig lead until the third period. when Wilson of Lafayette crossed the line with the ball and CRUDE made an amazing field goal from the 45.yard line. bringing the score to within one point Of a tie.

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  New Britain herald, November 1, 1926, page 8 (results column)

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  ARMY AND NAV VYPLUNGlNG TOWARD 26 CHAMPIONSHIP Former Soundly Spanks Bulldog While Latter Avenges Itself On Michigan – Four Undefeated Eastern Teams Crash Into Casualty List Saturday – Haryard-Princeton This Week. New York, Nov. 1 P1 - The driving hoofs of an Army mule and the battering horns of Navy goat are steadily clearing the path of opponents who bar the way of Uncle Sam’s service elevens to the eastern football championship. The Bulldogs Of Yale on Satur- day could get no grip on the Mules thrashing Hanks and for the first time in 15 years the Cadets trounccd Yale soundly, B to 0. The western stampede of Michigan that crushed Navy last year under a shower of thudding passes was helpless against the man-for- man defense of the Middies at Balti- more as Navy calmly ruined the best efforts of Friedman to Oos- terbaan.’ The Sailors, in fpe condition aft CT the 10 to 0 victory, have noth- ing more serious on the schedule before the Army game than West to cross Boston colleges goal line for the first time it has been done this season, and Georgetown, the high scorer of the east with 231 points. Army can expect no serious opposition from Franklin and Mar shall and Creinus, and the outcome of the Notre Dame in the Yankee stadium November 13 will have no more than a psychological effect on the eastern ranking. Thus the Middies and cadets may journey to Chicago to settle the west on No- Nember 27 the championship of the cast as a side issue to their an- nual historic conflict. I Eastern Casualties Four undefeated eastern elevens crashed into the casualty list Sat urday. Columbia, aided materially by the sterling work of Captain Bill Madden. who jumped “Whippet” Carr of Syracuse to take the lead among individual point scorers with 63, slammed Cornell about for a [ to win, the first in 21 years. Penn sylvania made starting bow before the capable boot of Frost Peters, fireman successor of iceman Grange at Illinois, 10 0. and rugged Mis- souri flattened West Virginia 27 to 0. An undefeated team had to fall when Lafayette and washington and Jefferson collided but only the fly ing dash of substitute in the dusk of the final minute 10 play whipped the Presidents 16 to 10. Pennsyl- yania meets Penn State, Columbia faces William and Mary, West Vir- ginia tackles Pittsburgh. and Lafay cite plays Rutgers in notable con flicts of the coming week. Harvard Princeton Harvard. tickled over q husky football youngster that in three games has grown for a sickiy infant, plastered with defeat, to a figure of standing in any pigskin community, brides off the lid of the annual big three conflict with the goth Prince ton meeting. Harvard battered Tufts 69 to Saturday and tallied more frequently than any crimson eleven in a single game in 5S years. Prince ton walloped Swarthmore 27 to 0. Yale has an intersectional engage ment with Maryland before trying the Tiger claws. Nov. 13. New York Univcrsity’s undefeated team, after dispensing Fordham, 2l 10 ,. meets the strongest foe of the season in Carnegie Tech. victor over Detroit. ‘ to Q. Fordham plays Holy Cross, conqueror of Dayton. 20 to [ Little is left of the Dartmouth h. dian’s scalp after three straight de- feats, the last at the hands of Brown. 10 10 Q. hut Boston Gniver- sity offers a resting place Saturday. Brown has no game scheduled. but Harvard is waiting on Nov. 15 to test the Fears title possibilities. Soft spots and real dangcr are mixed on the upper New York state schedule. While Cornell Is tangling with St. Bonaventure and Colgate with Providence College. Syracuse has Georgetown to contend with, Colgate mastered Michigan State Saturday. 3S to S and Syracuse had little trouble with Johns Hopkins, winning 31 to 0.

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Washington & Jefferson leads 8–⁠6–⁠2 in 16 meetings, counting the seven since this game.