Virginia at Georgetown

• 

  The Richmond Virginian, Richmond, Va., November 16, 1913, page 18

  Read the text

  GEORGETOWN WINS ! FROM VIRGINIA IN GRIL[|NG CONTEST POOR PASS AND SLIPPERY BALL CAUSE SAFETY AGAINST UNI yERsITY, TURNING TIDE. Though outplayed and q outgeneraled during nearly the entire contest, Georgetown uni versity scored safety in TIE last minute of play and snatch ed victory from Virginia T. grasp in their annual footbalia| struggle on Georgetown field 4 the final score standing 8 to A cold, drizzling rain fell coilr tinuously throughout the tens battle, turning the gridlro4 into quagmire and rendering ~ anything like good football| an impossible affair. ss When it came to a question: of straight football, Virginia though, defeated, excelled lt1 opponents. A referees decision occurring as the battle drew te close proved disastrous to th4 | Old Dominion team. Penalty imposed on the Orange ann Blue eleven with but thirty seconds left to play brought the ball to the goal line after aS twenty FIVE yard gain on quarterback run. But for thin penalty, the result would have been 7 to 6 victory for the Charlottesville collegians. Virginia Scored First. u Both teams managed to send a man across for a touchdoW1s| in the second period Of the game, but Georgetown failed to succeed in the try for goa, while Carter made good in his \ kick for Virginia. Virginia scored its touchdown first. The l good work of the Orange and Blue backs, coupled with the brilliant running of Gooch, cars. ried the ball well down the field, and a cleverly executed forward pass for seventeena yards, Maiden to Landes, pus| the ball over CORRECTIONAL line. Carter booted the ball over the bar for the added point. \ | Georgetown counted near tha end of the period; sensations : runs by Captain Costello brii1 ing the ball to the two-yAr = line, from where, on the fouTf try, Murray was sent throug the Virginia line for a touc down. Costello’s kick-out Wa1 poor, going over Moriarty head, and the chance for tyi1 the score was lost. Penalty Brings Defeat. When the safety was score in the last period, Georgetor had been penalized half t distance to its goal line for u necessary roughness, 49, working the ball to Virginia lthirty-yard line. Costello pun ed and Gooch ran the ball b6e fifteen yards. The Virgip quarterback swept around q Blue and Gray’s right end q the next play for twenty-fy yards. On this formation. hon ever, one of the Virgjnian was detected holding and t resulting penalty turned a. Iparently certain victory for t Old Dominion eleven into q feat. / The referees decision ca ried the ball back to Virgins one yard line, and Ray droppe back to punt from behind N own goal. Creekmore’s pa was low and the wet ball sllf ped through Landes’ hand The Orange and Blue fullbaS dropped on the ball, but bef1 he could recover himself On slippery field, Moriarty, Georgetown tackle, had broI through and pouneed u him, thereby. gaining the points that meant defeat Virginia. Lineup. Georgetown. Position. virxt1 Donnelly. .. l.. E........*.. Moriarty $500. L. T-.......... Curry 900. h..........* Kelly ...........C .........S.3sssv sSs Barron ...s. r.. s.-Y

• 

  The evening world, November 17, 1913, page 11

  Read the text

  STUDENTS CAUGHT BY new LAW WHILE CELEBRATING VICTORY More Than 100 Pay $40 Each in Washington After Virginia. Georgetown Game. WASHINGTON. Nov. II. - Students from Georgetown University and the University OF Virginia and some Of their enthusiastic friends know to-day Just what the Jones’ Works Excise law means. There was a football game at George town Saturday between the Georgetown and Virginia teams. Georgetown won by . score OF s to z. but both sides celebrated at night into the wee small hours. Before the Jones-works law went into eject q person was not arrested In Washington for being intoxicated unless he was so far gone that Il was dan gerous for him to be on the streets. II he dropped In an out Of the way cor. ner and went to sleep. he was left alone But q great change has come about 1t In now the duty Of policemen to ar. rest any person on the streets In an intoxicated condition. He must pay q fne Of SO for an ordinary drunk. or b tried and sent to the WorkhouSs :ol thirty daya The fines 90 to the pension fund Of the hremen and policemen. Tha, fund 10 $3.50 larger to-day than Il VA before me 0eorsetown-virginia gamt yesterday. most Of II being collected from students and their friends. When the bars closed At msdnigh Saturday II required all Of the reserv patrol wagons to handle the boys VII, fell victims to the Jonss-Wor law More than one hundred boys wsaEtni ohrysanthemums were run IN. In on party were several girls. who insistet on dancing the tango on Pennsylvania avenue. The few students who could b fount to-day said suoh . gNme was worth th, extra money.

• 

  Atlanta Georgian, Atlanta, Ga., November 16, 1913, page 28

  Read the text

  GEORGETOWN BEATS VIRGINIA IN GREAT FIGHT VNIASHINGTON, Nov 16.-The wv University OF Virginia grudg- ingly handed the South At lAnutic Collegiate football champion ship TO Georgetown University at Georgetown field to-day Score: Viz gina, z; Georgetown, S. In the dying moments of a game hard fought from the kickoff to the last whistle, the doughty Georgetown quarterback, Harry Costello. plunged through Virginia’s line and tackled Landes. the Virginia fullback, behind his own goal lire, scoring the two points which his team needed to give them the victory. The field was wet and the going was treacherous and slippery. The touchdown which babe fair to decide the game was made by Vlrginia near the close OF the second pc Rod Carrying the ball to within 20 yards of Georgetown’s goal line by consistent line plunging, Landes final ly crossed the line around right end, and Carter kicked the goal During the fourth and last period Georgetown worked up to within a comparatively short distance of Nirginia’s goal when Bergen. George town right end. was put out of the game for slugglng Gillette Virginia’s right end, and Georgetown was pen allied half the distance to her own line But by a series of punts and hard line plunging the ball was work ed up the field again. The most spectacular football ever presented upon the Georgetown field was played when, after Virginia was penalized for being off side and sent | back to her goal line. Costello broke through the interference and tackled Landes back of the goal posts. Then | the whistle blew.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Georgetown leads 4–⁠3 in seven meetings.