Georgetown at Waynesburg

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 12, 1940, page 16

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  Hard-WonGame Proves Costly To Hi||toppers Five on Hospital List After 26- II Victory Over Woynesburg Chuck another line coach on the fire. Throckmorton, and we’ll celebrate Georgetown’s 26–⁠12 victory over Waynesburg last night at Griffifth Stadium-if that calls for q celebration. Didn’t look as though there would be anything to yell about for while, rdid it? What happened? Well, everybody undereStimated Waynesburg from the waterboy to the towns leading grid expert and Georgetown wasn’t ready for the blistering brand Of football thrown at it. AS a mat ter of fact it wasn’t ready for a fast game of spin -the-bottle, mentally speaking. Certainly the boys were warned about Waynesburg Jack Hagerty and his aides talked themselves blue in the face, wagged warning fingers and showed them past performance records but the squad thought they were practicing for a hog calling contest and laughed it off. Waynesburg beat the greatest team in Georgetown’s history? C’mon, pal, act your age Hoya’s Line LifeIess. Well, that wasn’t the greatest Hoya team out there last night nor even a fair imitation. If anybody wanted to press the matter they could have the squad arrested for impersonating. The line didn’t charge-simply leaned against opposing linemen as though very. very tired, and the blockers seemed to be working for Waynesburg. The secondary hung back rather shvlv waiting for its name to be called before rushing in TO plug a gaping hole or collar stray ball carrier. And the way Waynesburg shook loose potential pass receivers, tch, tch. But enough of criticism. George town paid for its sins-paid through the nose. Fullback Jim Castiglia is in the hospital with a torn ilium muscle and will be out at least two weeks; Augie Lio’s right knee Is pulled up like penny balloon, Mike Kopcik has charley horse, Jules Koshlap is hobbling around on a twisted ankle, Lou Ghecas is nursing couple of bruised ribs and the entire squad has fine assortment of bumps and black eyes. 1t was not exactly tea party. Three Georgetown touchdowns do not appear in the summary because they were nullified by penalties and that was the blow that almost killed poor Poppa. One came early in the fray-Kopcik taking fast peg from Koshlap and going over unmolested. Another happened in the last few seconds when Bill Mclaughlin gathered in a Waynesburg pass and galloped half the fields length to pay dirt. Nice plays that didn’t mean a thing. Kopcik, Perpich Okay. Kopcik, incidentally, shared what honors the line receives with George Perpich, a rookie tackle. Mike made catches that would have shamed Ossie Bluege and Perpich dug in to salvage what he could of George towns line prestige. 1t was large order the way the line was miSbehaving. “Mush” Dubofsky wouldn’t have recognized his pupils. Waynesburg had a fair r-to-midding passer in Bernie Mazer, who spread woe and CONSERVATION throughout Georgetown ranks when his arm was right, and Paul Brooks, a halfback who could play on any body’s football team, and they did most of the damage. Brooks scored the first touchdown midway of the first period on a screened pass, then marshaled an 81-yard parade for the second, Crawford going over for the score. Waynesburg’s most potent weapon was simple reverse, and the way 1t picked up yardage you’d think the Hoyas were having their first glimpse of it. And they selected their stuff wisely, catching George town off balance or out of position quite often. Defensively, it was Waynesburg’s sliding line that caused Georgetown the most grief. The visitors refused to charge straight but drifted to either side and always were in positon to harass the Hoya blockers. Jack Doolan, rookie back who looked very good extensively and fair on defense; Bill Mclaughlin, Jack Spencer and Bill Wixted accounted for Georgetown’s scores. Wixted recovered a Hoya tumble in Waynesburg’S end zone for his touchdown.

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Georgetown leads 2–⁠0 in two meetings.