Gallaudet at Lafayette

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., September 27, 1902, page 11 (results column)

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  THE FOOT BALL SEASON Opening Games With the Big Colleges. TWO LOCAL CONTESTS GEORGETOWN AND COLUMBIAN MEET oUT-oF-ToWN TEAMS. Gallaudet to Play at Easton, Pa Harvard, Yale, Cornell and Penn f. sylvania On the Gridiron. TWO LOCAL CONTESTS The foot ball season opens today. In this city two of the local college teams play teams from colleges elsewhere, while all the big college teams OF the east will be seen on the gridlron. Georgetown will play the Maryland Agricultural College eleven on Georgetown field. Columbian will play Western Maryland College at Y. NJ c. A. field, and Gallaudet plays Lafayette College at Easton, Pa. The Georgetown team will line up as follows: McGettigan and Morse, left end; Rus sell and Thompson. left tackle Kerns. left guard; Gibbons and Fitzpatrick, center: Rorke and Mahoney, right guard; Joe Seitz, right tackle; owens and Preston Edmonston, right end; Stevenson and Buckley, quarter back; Carver and Hayden, left half back; Reilly and Hart. right half back: Sammy Edmonston and Graham full back. The Columbian team follows: Sneed and Smith, right end; Church, right half back; Eddy, right tackle; Heine, right guard; Cowan center; Kelly. left guard Cats, left tackle; Mclean and Lewis, left half back; Musgrave, left end; Machen, full back, and Leach, quarter back. Gallaudet’s players are: Richard, left end: Gale, left tackle; Hewetson, left guard: Winston, center; Lovelace, right guard; Garrett. right tackle; Escherich, right end: Phelps, quarter back; Erickson, left half back; Robertson. right half back; Melon ough. full back. Substitutes, Ringnell, W1nemiller and Mayer. Harvard and Williams. Harvard and Williams meet at Cam bridge. Mass, In a game that promises to be interesting. Alfred Hines, an old Yale player. has been coaching Williams again this year. Harvard has been in the hands OF several graduates with Mike Farley as head coach. Last year Harvard defeated Williams 16 to o. Princeton’s first scrimmage is scheduled for today. For the first time this fall two teams will line UP for action. The cardidates from the freshmen class can then be sized up for the first time, in the soriInmage their true merit will be evident. Princeton and Columbia are two of the large universities whose teams do not play today. Both open their season next We’d nesday-Columbia at the Polo Grounds. in New York against the Brooklyn Institute of Technology, and Princeton, at Princeton, against Swarthmore. Yale and Trinity. At New Haven Yale and Trinity meet today. Last year the Hartford College went down before Yale-23 to 0. If Trinity proves easy in the first half Yale will put In q large number of substitutes In the second half, 10 see what the new men are good for. Cornell tackles Colgate on Percy Field. Ithaca. Colgate was first to meet the Ithacans a year ago, and at that time held them down to ITO. This was an excellent showing against team that was defeated by Princeton only S-6 and afterward beat the Indians, Columbia and Pennsylvania Cornell is stronger this year than last and should experience little difficulty in defeat ing Colgate by a substantial score. Pennsy and Lehigh. At Philadelphia the University of Penn sylvania will play Lehigh- Last year the Quakers won out $50. This year there will probably be a closer score. for DR.. New ton, Lehighs new coach, has whipped a team together that It is believed will come nearly scoring on Pennsylvania. If Cap tain Gardiner returns to take part in the game the team may show better form. Brown, formerly one of the best foot ball teams in the country, starts today with the game with Colby at Providence. Fordham plays Union, and Syracuse the Onondaga Indians The Indians. after their big victory over Lebanon Valley College week ago. are confident Of their ability to defeat Gettysburgs team at Carlisle today. The Indians have the memory of a defeat-5-G-nfiicted by the same college last year to make todays game hot battle. The Indians are stronger than they were last year. Army and Navy. Annapolis and West Point DO not start their schedules until one week from today, the former playing Georgetown. the latter Tufts. In both cases the Army and Navy teams play. as usual. on their own grounds.

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Lafayette leads 3–⁠0 in three meetings, counting the two since this game.