Georgetown at Syracuse

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 3, 1940, page 36

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  Hoyas Run Wild, Beat Syracuse 28–⁠6 Scrubs Yield Score As Unbeoten String Is Run to n Games SYRACUSE, N. Y, Nov 2.-Striking sharply through the air and on the ground with their first and Sec ond string elevens, Georgetown University’s high-riding Hoyas made rout of an expected test here today as they overwhelmed a fumbling, bewildered Syracuse team, % to 6. Georgetown put on show with in the first six minutes as it extended its streak of games without defeat to % in a row. dating from the start of the 1888 campaign, and after piling up a 28-to-0 lead mid way of the third quarter Coach Jack Hagerty retired his first two teams and ran in his scrubs, who apparemily got the idea and who were pounding away at Syracuse’s 5-yard line as the final gun barked. The clock, better than the sta tistics and the score, told the story of this game Two minutes and Is seconds after Right Guard Augie Lilo of Georgetown spun the ball on the opening kickoff, the Hoyas were ahead. 7 to 0. Five minutes and Is seconds after the start the score was IA to and it’s was evident to the 1900 spectators at Archbold Sta dunn that it only was question Of the size of the final count. Battling Is Rough. For all of Georgetown’s marked r,,va,-inrifxy tho fnonn urhinh blasted Columbia from the ranks of the unbeaten and united week ago, the men in orange fought doggedly and, at times, roughly. They were picking on somebody their size, however, and several times it appeared that the game would wind up in free-for-all among the play ers. At the end, though, the only real fight of the afternoon broke out between a couple of patrons. Syracuse gained net total Of 179 yards, but most of these were made through Georgetown’s third-string team, which played the final quarter and which begrudingly yielded the Orange touchdown. Against the front rank Hoya lines the Syracuse attack was bottled up while the parade of Georgetown backs. featuring Jules Koshlap, Jim Castiglia, Lou Ghecas, Joe McFadden, Lou Falcone and Johnny Barrett, was brilliant to behold. Georgetown kicked of behind a brisk west wind and when Syracuse failed to gain, Bunky Morris, star punter, was forced to boot into the face of the breeze. Ghecas ran the ball to the Oranges AZ and, on the Hoyas’ first offensive play, Koshlap dropped back and whipped perfect pass to Ghecas for touchdown. The second kickoff brought Syra- (See G. u, Page B-14)

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Georgetown leads 2–⁠1–⁠1 in four meetings.