Swarthmore at Lafayette

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 17, 1909, page 1

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  Lafayette Defeats Swarthmore. EASTON. Pa. October 16.-Lafayette played a surprisingly strong game against the Swarthmore foot ball team today, defeating the latter % to o. The second half was stubbornly contested and once Swarthmore came near scoring. McCaa for Lafayette got the ball and fell bacl. to his own goal line, presumably to kick. Instead of kicking, he tucked the ball under his arm and was off like a shot down the field. He did not stop until he had scored touchdown, making the long est and most spectacular run ever seen on March Field.

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

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  swARTHMoRE BEATEN BY LAFAYETTE Easton, Penn. Oct, 16-Lafayette PLAYED a sur lrisneN strong game against the Swarthmure Football team to-day, winning by the score Of % Ia McCaa played spectacular game for LafaV cite In the second half he got the ball and fell back To his own goal line. presumably To kick In stead OF kicking he tucked the hall under his arm ana was on like shot down the field He did mai stop until he had scored “a touchdown making the March Field ~” y”

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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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Lafayette leads 12–⁠4 in 16 meetings, counting the seven since this game.