George Washington at Georgetown

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 26, 1905, page 57

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  GEORGETOWN WINS THE FIRST GAME Bruising Contest With George Washington University Witnessed by 1900 Persons-Dutcher’s Head Cut But He Pluckly Resumed Play-Bocock’s law Broken-Half Dozen Scrimmages casions Stevenson saved touchdowns by beautiful tackles For Georgetown, it was ! butcher. butcher played the game as she ! should be played, according to the loudly and oft expressed opinions from the | bleachers. Early in the scrap butcher bumped into something real hard, and came out of the scrimmage with his scalp | cut open. This was fixed temporarily, the wound bandaged and butcher was again in the game. On three different occasions he knocked the bandages off and made the cut worse but butcher played straight through to the last touchdown. Bocock, quarter back for Georgetown, put up a swift and conscientious game but toward the middle of the second half he retired with a fractured jaw. To MCGOWAN and Lux belongs the rest of the glory for the Blue and Gray victory. LUX was painfully persistent from the George Washington point of view, and when he and butcher got off together il was u sin and shame the way they went through the opposing line. The Game in Detail. Georgetown won the toss and chose the north goal. MCGOWAN kicked off to Beard on George Washington’s ten-yard line, and the latter had made twelve yards gain and was coming strong when he encountered Fitzpatrick. There he stopped. In the next lineup Monahan was looking dreamily at the bleachers and consequently got offside. Georgetown was penalzed five yards for this and was so surprised that she allowed one of her men to hold a Buff and Blue warrior in the next sCrimmage Result: Georgetown was penalIZed ten yards more. This was followed by another offside play by Georgetown, making total loss to the Blue and Gray in three consecutive penalties of twenty yards. All of this put the ball on George Washington’s forty two-yard line. Beard, Linthicum and Fields started a stampede across the field, and in jumps of three and five yards landed the pigskin on Georgetowns thirty-three-yard line That was going some, and the G. w. rooters MADE themselves heard. This reminded the Georgetown band of an encouraging strain and 1t butted into the proceedings with Hold the Fort or something that sound ed like that. Georgetown took the cue and stopped the mad PUSHES of her opponents, | forcing STEVENSON to punt. Lux missed the catch and the ball rolled recklessly around in the vicinity of Georgetown’s goal until Pallen of the Blue and GRAY fell on H. If a George Washington man had recovered the ball at this time there would have been different story to tell as far as results are concerned. The ball was down ed on Georgetown’s fve-yard line. Nc Gowan punted to Linthicum on George towns thirty-yard line. Iinthicum return ed five yards, was tackled fercely by Fitzpatrick and dropped the ball. Pallen recovered, and it was Georgetown’s ball on her twenty-tive-yard line. butcher Begins Work. Here butcher began his promenade He walked through the line for four yards, followed by MCGOWAN for three. Lux was greedy and skirted left end for twelve yards. This put life into the Blue and Gray and she Ioosened up noticeabN. Brennan gained a few and then butcher gal loped through tackle and end for fifteen yards. passing the center of the field Nc Gowan pushed EN- over for five yards and Georgetown kept up the pace until they had the ball ON George Washington’s eight-yard line This caused chills and fever on the east side bieaChers, where reposcd the root ers for the Buff and Blue, but Dave Houston passed few high signs to Steenerson | and he seemed TO understand MCGOWAN and Brennan in two plays put the ball on ! George Washington’s courtyard line, but | the rooterS were not worried. They had seen Dave Houston’s high sign, and they knew that the tables must turn Turn thew did. and the Buff and Blue held for three downs, getting the coveted ball as a reward BabCock, for George Washington started to retrieve by making five yards through Gcorgetown’s line Linthicum made a ward but fumbled the ball Bergman. George Washington’s end, dropped In time and saved a humiliating situation. Beard as sayed a trick play but was thrown back for n loss OF four yards. getting a gentle poke in the nose at the same time He seemed to mind the loss more than the rest of the crowd. With the third down and ten yards to gain, Stevenson punted to Lux. but an offside play by Georgetown brought the ball back and gave George Washington five yards and first down. The grueling began anew. Fields mozied along for ten yards and Linthicum put FIVE more TO the credit of the Buff and Blue Gains were easy. Linthicum came along with two yards, Field with two, Morris with seven, Ltnthicum with three Gibson with six, Stevenson (by Quarterback trick with one and Morris ended up by hurdling for few. The ball was now on George Nashington’s forty-seveu-yard line. George town held for three downs and got the pig skin. lAnthicum tackled Brennan behind the une and Morris got Lux behind the line on tne next play, netting loss of three yards With the third down and eight yards to gain Berryman caught Lux again behind the line and the ball went over to George Washing ton, amid much joyousness displayed by the rooters. Progress was difficult and

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  Waterbury evening Democrat, November 27, 1905, page 9 (results column)

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  OTHER GAMES. At Swarthmore. Pa, the heavy Swarthmore team beat Wesleyan, 50 to 6. The game was too oue-sided to be Interesting. Wesleyan’s single touchdown was due to a tumble Trinity and Haverford played an ex- citing game at Haverford. Pa. The score was 2S to q in favor of Haver- ford. Each team scored the same number of touchdowns. but Trinity missed three out of four possible goals. TrinItyss team was lighter than Haverford’s. New York university beat Union in New York. II to O. At Annapolis the Navy beat vir- ginia Polytechnic. 12 to 6. The Army trimmed Syracuse at West Point. IT to O. At Ithaca the Cornell freshmen beat the Pennsylvania freshmen. IT to O. The Carlisle Indians beat Washing ton and Jefferson at Pittsburg. ii to 70. At Washington the Georgetown team beat George Washington univer- sitv. 12 to O. Forfbam beat Rutgers at New Brunswick. \. J.. IT to 6. Lafayette showed Lehigh under at Bethlehem. Pa. 53 to O. At Beloft-Beioit IS. Knox 5 At LincolD-Nebraska 43. Doane {. At Ann Arbor-Michigan T5. ober- lin Q. At Bloomlngton-wabash 52. De pauw o. At Miuneapolis – Minnesota T2. Northwestern a At Harrisburg. Pa. Satursiav Buck nell defeated viIlanova by the score of 1T tn q. In 6 ganle between Marshall and Bellmcre High schools at BeIImore. Ind. Saturday. Carl Osborne. 12 was instantly killed a rib being pushed through his heart during a scrim- maze. The ouskerS and Colts played a tie game at Riverside park yesterday af- ternoon- The contest ended In a dis uute. the Colts leaving the HeId. % it is said. because of an unfair decision hy the referee. There were oniy few minutes ieft to play when the dis- nntn arose

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Georgetown leads 9–⁠3–⁠1 in 13 meetings, counting the 10 since this game.