Georgetown at Fordham

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  The Washington herald, District of Columbia, November 3, 1909, page 1

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  PLAY TO NO SCORE Georgetown and FOrdham Put Up Hot Battle. NEW WORKERS ARE SURPRISED Blue and Gray Team Proves to BE n Tartar, and UDsets All DOPe-HaIf Back Carrignn Puts Up “A Great GHme-Acting Captain Daley Is Hurt In the ScrImmase. New York, Nov. I’m a game in which there was vast amount Of broken field running, and in which the pigskin was carried from one end Of the field TO the other with suddenness and rapidly hard 20 follow, but never got across the goal line. the FOrdham and Georgetown foot ball elevens played a tie at American League Park this afternoon. The result was a painful surprise to Fordham. The Bronxites. feeling their oats after their good record. expected 70 wipe up the field with the Washing tonians. They we’re talking about 40 TOO victory before the game. Instead Of a cinch, they caught a tartar, and the game ended in a O-tO-O score. otto Barnard, Republican nominee for mayor. did not find the strain Of await ing the days election outcome so trying that he could not take in the football battle He sat over In the bleachers with the rest OF the crowd. and was warmly cheered, both when ne came and when he left white Runs Fifty Yards. He did not stay for the finish. and did not see the most stirring play Of the day-a remarkable lodging run OF 50 yards by Harry White. the crack Ford ham half back. White, who has been on the injured list lately, was put in in the second half as last resort, Tut even then Fordham could not win. Whites long run landed the ball al the 1O-ya-d line just as time was up. The Fordhsm team gained more ground than Georgetown. but the attack was stroally and erradic. The Georgetown people were too alert. plucky. and active 20 allow Fordham 20 keep up it’s gains long enough TO make “a touchdown Georgetown wasn’t content with playing a defensive game. either. There We’re long runs and lire plunCes on their side which had Fo-dham in distress. ENcellent individual playing stood out prominently on both sides. and two backs. G. Walsh and Carriglu. were in the lime light by their hurricane dashos with the b3I. Had either team had consistency there would have been scoring. but something always cropped out just when one side was tearing through the other az Goortive forward pass. “A tumble. or stineuing of the defensive line. and the consequent STOPPING or play Just AFTER the same defensive line had been torn apart f0r a gaping hole. AL things considered. the Fordham team PLAYED as II ia a slump. and made “a bad mess OF the forward pass whenever tried. but for an that the UNI expected strength OF Georgetown worried the local players all through. Daley Is Hurt. Acting Capt. Daley, Of Georgetown, had to leave the conflict in the second half. in the scrimmage attendant upon a Ford ham end run, DALEY ran into heel or a toe or something hard and his head was cut over the eye. The wound bled profusely. but was not serious. The cut was sewed up at a nearby hospital The affair was entirely accidental. for hard SIS the playing was, It was sportsmanIike and free from any intentional roughness. Lineup.

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  The Newark star and Newark advertiser, Newark, N.J., November 3, 1909, page 1

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  FORDHAM FAILED TO BEAT GEORGETOWN ELEVEN. NEW YORK, Nov. 3.-The annual football duel betewen the elevens of Georgetown University and Fordham College was fought yesterday at Amer lean League Park in the presence of a crowd of 5000 enthusiasts. The game ended with a draw, neither side scoring. Georgetown was once in striking distance of a goal from the field in the first half. The opportunity was neg lected, however. and the ball was lost to Fordham on an uncompleted forward pass. In the second half Georgetown made an Intellectual attempt to overcome the weight advantage of their opponents by forward passes, two of which netted gains OF 40 yards, but the Fordham Collegians We’re superior in line work. Captain Daley, of Georgetown, was injured and had to retire from the game. In the last few econds of play Tad White, Or the Fordham, electrified the crowd by running through the entire Georgetown eleven for nearly so yards. but the whistle blew on the next scrimmage and the game ended with the ball on Georgetown’s 15-yard line.

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  Norwich bulletin, November 3, 1909, page 3

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  Carrigan’s Tackle Saves Georgetown Brings Down Fordham Runner on Yard Line-A Score less Tie-WesIeyan in Close Game with N. Y. U.- Langford Puts Out Big Klondyke-Other Sports. abolishing football at Harvard are very plainly stated in my annual re- ports while president of the univer- sity.’‘ This was the reply of pr. Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of liar ward university. when asked what eff feet, if any, he felt that the death of Cadet Byrne would have on the sport Of the eastern colleges. and more es- pecially at Harvard. While the Yale Daily News asserts that football is not worth the life of Cadet ByrEe. it is not prepared to de- mand the abolishment of the game. Yale football officials do not favor sweeping revision of the playing code. although most of them are for ruling out diving tackles, just as hurdiirg the line has been barred. Trainer Mack of the Yale team has been gigch strict orders to remove promptly from the play any member on the team who seems exhausted during the rest of tho games on the Yale schedule.

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  The Birmingham age-herald, Birmingham, Ala., November 3, 1909, page 1

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  GAME is A DRAW Between Georgetown University and Fordham College. New York, November 1.-The annual football duel between the elevens of the Georgetown university and Fordham col lege was fought today at American

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Fordham leads 20–⁠12–⁠2 in 34 meetings, counting the 32 since this game.