Lafayette at George Washington

• 

  Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 29, 1949, page 1

  Read the text

  .Sororities and Frats .Co-Star as Lafayette Is Beaten on Grid counted Cnelr annual nOmecOming big success today in the wake of the Colonials’ 14–⁠7 victory over Lafayette last night at Grit fifth Stadium. The Weatherman did his best tc ruin a gala occasion. but Coach Bo RoWland’s mudders came through in grand style with Al Du Golf splashing 80 yards, free style. for the winning touchdown in the final period. Not to be outdone by the grid men, George Washington sororities and fraternities staged their half-time parade as scheduled with a snazzy float designed and literally carried out by the Sigma M boys taking first prize. 1t depicted leopard trapped in the jungle by an intrepid band OF hunters. Second place went to the unique Freeze ‘em Out” entry of Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority. The leopard in this case was frozen in a cake of “ice.” Third prize went to an attractive group of Pi Beta Phi girls, clad in leopard skins and handy ing footballs back and forth. Puts on Good Show. The demonstration was one of the most attractive and best planned the downtown school ever has offered at a football game and the participants deserved medals for defying pneumonia as well as for the entertainment they provided. The following sororities and fraternities also competed: Delta Gamma. Delta Tau Delta, Sigma Alpha Epsilon. zeta Tau Alpha, Delta Zeta, Alpha Delta Pi, Sigma Chi, Kappa Delta. Kappa Alpha and Independent Students Associtation. Another scheduled half time feature was rained in-kept in the grandstand-when the no. piece Lafayette Band had to abandon plans for parading. The musical leopards made up for it during the game. The heralded line-plunging duel between Du Golf and Lafaycites Gordon Fleming failed to materialize. Instead, the rivals staged a punting contest between IG. WIS Johnny Shullenbarger and the visitors Winston Williams. They kicked IS times. Williams booting “a, for what might have been a stadium record. Shullenbarger had an official 3-yard edge in averages, but it seemed much better from the press box. Clipper Smith. Lafayette coach, singled out Shullenbarger’s kick | ing and Andy Davis handling Of Williams punts as two important factors in the Leopards’ defeat. Davis handled a couple of punts recklessly when a tumble might have changed the games entire complexion, but he didn’t muff any. The Colonials went into the air in the first period, with Davis act ing as triggerman. He lofted one pitch to Charley Jones for 20 yards. throwing behind Joe Diamond. Right Halfback Jay Bar clay of Lafayette traded positions with Diamond and Davis promptly changed his tactics, pitching to the opposite side of the field over Diamond again-to Bill Szanyi for % yards and a touch down. Frank Cavallo added what appeared to be mighty big sew enth point. The Colonials. who completed 6 Of 10 passes for 81 yards, should have had two more scores. One pass was dropped in the end zone by a mud-spattered receiver. and another, Davis to Jone%good for IS yards and touchdoWn-was nullified by an offside penalty against the Colonials. Du Golf Romps 80 Yards. Du Golf, leading scorer of the Southern Conference. went 80 yards to score Immediately after Dick Durstein of Lafayette missed a 20-yard field goal attempt, which gave the Colonials the ball on their own 20-yard line. End Frank Close threw the key block, taking out two rivals that sprang Du Golf into the clear on the enemy 40-yard line. Fleming didn’t disappoint La fayette fans completely. for he piled up most of the 165 yards his team gained from scrimmage. The Leopards drove 73 yards for their touchdown, with a pass from Frank Downing to Fleming &C counting for 80 yards. A clipping penalty against the Colonials on the pass play, putting the ball back on the Colonials’ 1-yard stripe, set up the score. The victory, which gave G.. w. a 500 average for six games, was costly as Charley Gunner, Colo NAL guard, was carried off the field in the final period with a probably fractured leg. It was to

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Tied 1–⁠1 in two meetings.