Fordham at Cornell

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  New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], October 17, 1909, page 1

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  CORNELL MEETS DEFEAT FALLS BEFORE FORDHAM. NeSc York Backs Plag Havoc 10Th the Line and Score T1uce. Ithaca “ Y Oct fs-Cornpletely outplaying Cornell all through the game. with the exception of the first few minutes OF the second half. Fordhau defeated the Ithacans here to-day by the score Of IL to 6. Fordham scored the first touchdown after minute of play. After the kickoff Gargan and Geary carried the hall TO midieId and Walsh punted to Baker, who fUmbled. and Mccarthy fell the ball for touchdown. Again. in the second half Walsh punted to Tydeman who fumbed. and Mccarthy recovered the ball at nnidfeld. MacCaffiery then ran for a touchdown receiving the ball from onside kick Geary kicked both goals. Cornells touchdown came at the beginning of the second half. The team rallied for time and a forward pass from Owens to Tydeman put the ball Fordham’s 17-yard line. Successive plunges into the line by Krutsch and smson brought a touchdown. Tydemsn kicked the goal The outcome Of the game was not unexpected. The Cornell team played poors and Walsh went through the tackles for consistent gains until Stude and Weeks sent in Bakers funbling Of with the speedy recOveries Of Mccarthy and Mac Cafery. Of Fordham. cost Cornell good deal Of ground. Macarthur and Eurburt did not cover punts well and the tackling of the whole team was poor and far below the standard The Fordham players. on the other hand. fought every minute and the fast and varied attack was good for gains at almost any time. Walsh. CSeary and White made several long dashes and Geary’s of eighty yards after intercepting forward pass feature Of the game. Cfargan handled his team excellentIy returned punts like whiTlwind and guilty Of only one tumble. The Fordham line a unit got the Jump the Cornell forwards, putting them out of the play. while the splendid interference boxed Mac Arthur and HurIburt time and again SIuson’s line bucking and defensive play were good, and HIS ffty-yard run with the whole Ford ham team at his heels in the first half was spec tacular in the extreme Stude played strong heady game after he was sent In to replace Monk, and seagrave played real football all the time. His passing faultless and he dropped C;arsan several times when the Cornell ends missed him when receiving a punt.

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  The Bridgeport evening farmer, Connecticut, October 18, 1909, page 7 (results column)

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  FOOTBALL The tendency of the present season to produce a tumble of all kinds of scores, with a share of upsets. was continued Saturday. A happening or the Fordham eleven Yale won from West Point by a biggerfscore than was looked for and the Princeton Tigers tgot away with the Sewanee eleven !handily Harvard made the same tnumber$ of points against Maine that Yale did against the Army. Pennsyl- :. vania beat Brown in a close contest. the Brunonians making the first score registered against Pennsylvania this iseason Yale and Dartmouth are still mot scored on. The Daftmouth-wil1iams battle did . not provee2 the tt1ssle expected, Dart mouth winning with much to spare. One of the keenest fights of the day was between the Indians and Syra- cuse, scoring game in which a goal from the field supplied Carlisle with Army and Navy both met with de- feat, villanova taking the Navy’s measure. An old time score was piled up by St. Johns. which eleven made g points. The scores follow: Fordham. 12; Cornell, 6. Princeton, 20; Sewanee. 0. Harvard. IT: Maine. 0. Carlisle. IA. Syracuse, Il. Pennsylvania. 13; Brown. 5. villanova. Il: Navy. 6. Dartmouth. IS: williams 0. New York University, 29; Haver- ford, 0. Amherst, 6; Tufts. 3. Lafayette. 22: Swarthmore. 0. Lehigh, II: Virginia. 7. Wesleyan, 5; Vermont, 5. Holy Cross. 5; Trinity. 5. Pittsburg. IS: Bucknell. 6. Georgetown IT; Richmond, O. St Johns, .92; Eastern 0. Michigan. 8; Ohio State. 0. Captain Coy played for Yale the first time this year. He jumped into the gameFa while in the second half,, and it was he who engineered the forward pass that gave the second touchdown to Eli He did not do any tacklng on the defense scrimmaging. Yale had scored by the time Coy had en- tered the fracas, thanks to the block ing of Philbin, and the fast work of Savage, so that her brace was not caused by the presence on the gridiron of Coy, but he was a help by his inn proved bunting and onside kicking alone. The biggest score of the day was run up in Annapolis, when St. Johns Col 1ege defeated Eastern College of Hampton. Vt, 92–⁠0. Two of St. Johns touchdowns were made after receiv ing the ball on the kick off. After getting the ball each time, the victor ious eleven averaged three plays before crossing the Eastern line.

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Fordham leads 4–⁠1 in five meetings, counting the three since this game.