Wesleyan (CT) at Brown

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  New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], October 13, 1912, page 1

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  ONE POINT BEATS BROWN Wesleyan Takes Quick Advan- tage of tumble and Wins. Providence. Oct. l2.-Poor generalship and tumble cost Brown the game with Wesleyan to-day by the score OF = to g. Wesleyan scored toward the end OF the third period. II was Browns ball near midfeld, but In the snap back from CEN tire the ball lost direction and Henry failed to hold II. Quick as a fash Eustis, Wesleyan’s speedy right end, recovered 1t. and got away on brilliant dash I’d the field for forty-fve yards and a touch down, a moment later kicking a goal Brown earned six points in the second quarter. when. after Crowther had made beautiful run of twenty-seven yards, lodging in and out adroitly through broken field, he and Tenney, who got into the game for the first time this year. gained steadily on massed rushing until the little quarterback went over the line. Instead Of punting out and then making kick, Captain Ashbaugh essayed a DIFF fcult goal from a bad angle against a cross wind and failed. Again, early in the final period, Brown carried the ball on swift rushes. and Crowther was over, but Carl Marshall. the referee. penalized Brown for holding and the touchdown did not count.

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Brown leads 12–⁠2 in 14 meetings, counting the three since this game.