Lafayette at Pennsylvania

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 8, 1908, page 58

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  PENN IS VICTOR OVER LAFAYETTE Scores at Will After Fathoming Opponents PIay-HoIlenback the: Star in Nearly Every Play. Special Dispatch to The Star. FRANKLIN FIELD, PHILADELPHIA, Pa, November 7.-Pennsylvania display ing wonderful attack and perfect defense humbled the strong Lafayette team that tied Princeton. by winning on Frank lin Field this afternoon by a score of 81 to 4. Lafayette scored first, when the opening half was almost over on a perfeet goal from placement by its fullback McCaa The Quakers sprang to the attack at this, and in seven minutes remaining to the half scored three touchdowns on the most vicious and varied attack that has been seen on Franklin Field in several years. In the second half Pennsylvania doubled its score. though the greatest part of the time the team was filled with cripples. Bill Hollenback, Pennsylvania great est captain, gave an exhibition of full back play that has never been equaIed here. He scored the first three touch downs, two of them on runs half the length of the field. He never failed to gain ground, and several times ripped OF at least thirty yards. He also held his own in the kicking with McCaa, LaFaycites star punter. Pennsylvania entire line was impregnable, while the ends and backs played superbly. CoZzens, a young recruit at center, played phenomenal ball, being all over the field. McCaa and Edwards were the stars for Lafayette. but they were SO badly beaten that they did not last out. Scoring Starts Late. Twenty-three minutes of the first half passed in a beautiful kicking duel before either team broke into scoring Then the change came with the suddenness OF lightning. Pennsylvania had worked the ball to Lafayette 5-yard line only 10 lose 1t. McCaa sent beautiful punt to midfield, where it dropped between iollenback and Miller. Gross, LaEayette’s end. came down the field like flash, and snatching the ball started for the goal. Hollenback nailed him on the 5-yard line. Pennsylvania obtained the ball on a forward pass and kicked out to the :J-yard line. Edwards made fine catch and McCaa kicked a boal from placement This stirred Penn. and within seven minutes the Quakers had smashed through Lafayette for three touchdowns, owing almost entirely to Hollenback’ S wonderful work. McCaa fumbled, PENIS kick off on the 25-yard line and Braddock fell the ball. Hollenback and Means made 10. and then Hollenback circled III Scarlet kicked the goal. making the score Penn. q: Lafayette. 4. Hollenback ran the next kickoff 90 yards to LaFaycites 45-yard line by brilliant lodging caught kick on his 45-yard line and ran 30 yards. Touchdown After Great Run. Means placement goal failed and Nc Caa kicked TO midlield. Hollenback, on fake kick. then ran half the length of the field for another touchdown. Scar lett missed the goal only the third of the year and the score was Penn. IL; LaFaycite. 4. McCaa again kicked off. and after Penn had fumbled McCaa tried for a field goal. Draper blocked the kick and recovered the ball in midfield. On the first play Hollenback shot through tackle and ran 30 yards for his third touchdown Scarlet kicked this goal and the score was Penn. II; Lafayette, 4. Hollenback ran the next kickoff 40 yards before time was called for the first half. Penn Keeps It Up. Lafayette kicked off in the second half and the ball changed hands frequently, when Penn tried tricks until Penn OBJ tanned 1t in midfeld on McCaa’s punt lHcH nudiiei ran Wluc anu LUX McdHS forward pass and dashed 90 yards for a touchdown. for which Scarlet kicked goal. Penn. %; Lafayette, 4. Pike then came into the game and ran the kickoff so yards to midfeld. Hollen back ran 23 yards on a fake kick. Means and Manner contributed Is. but Penn lost 20 yards on failure of forward pass. Means then hurled another forward pass to Manner and he scored another touch down. Cozzens helping him over the line. and Means kicked the goal. Penn, %: Lafayette, 4. Hollenback went out, but Penn still gained ground. Penn rapidly ran the ball down the field. Reagan, Continued on Third Page)

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  Los Angeles herald, California, November 8, 1908, page 1

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  PENN FINDS 1T EASY TO BEAT LAFAYETTE At No Time After Scoring Goal Did Visitors Become Dangerous, and Never Could Make Much of Showing PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 1.-THE Uni Lafayette today, “a to 4, in an unexpectedly easy game. With the excepton of the one time that they scored, the visitors did not menace Pennsylvania’s goal. Lafayette’s score, the resuit of a goal from placement was made before Pennsylvania had regis tered single. point. The Pennsylvania team braced inn mediately and carried the ball half the length of the field for q touchdown. Hollenback carrying the leather over the line. The same player scored two more touchdowns in this half. In the second half the Pennsylvania team resorted to the running game using forward pass continually.

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  Waterbury evening Democrat, November 9, 1908, page 11 (results column)

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  OTHER FOOTBALL GAMES Harvard IT, Indians O. Yale 10. Brown 10. Dartmouth 10, Princeton 6. Pennsylvania 34. Lafayette 4. Cornell 6, Amherst O. Colgate 6, Syracuse o. Trinity 42, Wesleyan o. Andover 12, Exeter 0. Rutgers 6. Delaware 6. Michigan 62. Kentucky State 0. Stevens Is. Jefferson Medical 0. At Indianapolis-Notre Dame II Indiana 0. At Omaha-Nebraska 23, Ames IT. At Pittsburg-Univers of Pitts burg II, University of West Virginia 0. At Pittsburg Wooster 13, Car. negie Tech. 6. At d-virginia Poly 10 North Carolina o. At Worcester-Holy Cross 6 Tufts o. At Ann Arbor--Michisan s2. Ken

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Pennsylvania leads 55–⁠21–⁠4 in 80 meetings, counting the 51 since this game.