Colgate at Army

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  The times dispatch, Richmond, Va., October 18, 1914, page 14

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  .M|DD|Es LOSE TO PENN; ARMY Wins FROM COLGATE Quakers Celebrate Resumption of Football Relations With Navy, Winning Game. CADETS PROFIT By TUMBLEs West Pointers Meet Aggresiveness With Straight Tactics-Forward Pass Tried Only Three Times. Benedict Quite a Kicker. PHILADELPHIA. October 1.-THE University of Pennsylvania celebrated the resumption Of football relations with the Naval Academy. to day by defeating the Middies 1S to 4. While the football play was not Of the highest order. the game bristled with sensational plays by members of both teams. Forward passes led to both touch through superior kicking, goals from the field breaking the 6 to tie which existed from the first period to within FIVE minutes Of the final whistle. Blodgett and Overesch executed down from the forty-yard mark. The try for goal failed. Pennsylvania erened the score in the same period by two goals, one a place kick from the thirty-three-yard line by Yreeland and the other field goal by Matthews, who was put in the game for this purpose. An intercepted forward pass in the final quarter gave the Quakers the game. Avery captured the ball, and, aided By q splendid interference, went eighty yards to the Nays goal Both lines played n great defensive game, Pennsylvania making only seven first down and the Navy five. The lineup: Penn. Position. Navy, Russell. ..... left tackle .Deroode Witherow. left guard. Hicks Sorwald ..... centre ,........ Perry Journey. right guard. Jones Harris. right tackle. Kennedy Urauhart. right end. ...... Graf Merrill. quarter back. Mitchell Vreeland left half back Failing Wray. right half back. .Blodgett Tucker. ....... full back H Harrison Summary: Substitutes – Pennsylvanin. Murdoch for Hopkins, Journey for Norwald, Deorizas for Journey. | Rooms for Urquhart, clothier for koon. Parker for Clothier, Rockefeller for Freeland. Mathews for Wray, Moffet for Mathews, Avery for Tucker; Navy, Woodward for Hicks, Smith for Perry, Mills for Jones’ Il. Harrison for Graf. Alexander for Failing, Westfall for Alexander, Failing for Blodgett, Bates for H. Harrison. Touchdowns-Pennsylvania, Avery; Navy, Mitchell. Goals sell Goals from Observation-Disclosures Goals from tield-Matthews. Referees, Tufts and Brown. Umpire. Murphy, Harvard. Lincman. Sherlock, Harvard. | Periods, four OF fifteen minutes. follow tho BALI tactics of tho cadets count pisyed an aggressive game. but fumbied at critical times. and In each instance n cadet was on top of tho ball. Twice touchdowns resulted from this play. Tho two teams appeared evenly matched ! In the first period. when each scored a | Tho cadets forged ahead in tho second pc riod. however; when tumble By Colgate final period Mitchell crossed the Colgate goal: Bs n,ni kicked al three goals | Ing the forward pass but tbrco times. Only | one OF these WAS successful Hodgson and Ecld for Colgate. Line -up

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  The sun, New York [N.Y.], October 18, 1914, page 1

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  COLGATE’S FUMBLING HELPS ARMY TO WIN Two Misplays by Visitors Ara Followed bv TOuchdowns for the Cadets. FINAL SCORE Is 81 To ? WEST PotNr. oct. 17.--Stic<inE almo,, exclusively to old fashioned football t.,. tics and following the bali Ike houn /, during the whole Of the afternoon M. Army eleven trounced Colgate here to.Is, by score Of Fl to I. Three touchdown, and three goals were the sum total Of the Army’s scoring. Colgate was strong. ami except for miserable handling “ tho han probably would have fought the Arm, q, a stanfoff with the score at : to :. The Army’s alert forwards pouuccd on a loose ball twice. once early IN TO r.s, quarter. when McE:wdn broke through inl grabbed fumb.ed pass on Colgates yard line. and again i’m the last period. when Butler fell on a muffed punt ON the 10 yard line. poth OF these PLAYS ,evdtel I’m easy touchiowns a moment later col. gate swept the Army team before II after it’s misplay IN the first quarter, carrying the ball hfty yards to the cadets ward mark on fine plunging football inter. spersed with end runs and forward passes. West, Robinson. Swartout and Sparfed al! starring. with their backs to the wall the cadets made one Of their character. istic stands. hut n pretty forward pass Swartout to Sparfeld. who was ready be. hind the goal posts. did the trick Hodgson and prichard got away to lors runs in the second quarter. and tho latter scored the Army’s second touchdown after a fine hfteen yard dash around Stewa.ts end Benedicts goal kicking was perfect, to-day. The Ariny’s fine physical condition wore down the visitors in the second half and the playing during this period was all IN Colgate’s territory. With the ball on col. gates 20 yard line, where Prichard mad taken II on nifty yard run after inter. ceptng forward pass the whistle sounded, ending the fray. The Army was going fast at the finish Ollphant and Merri.lat, two Army stars, did not get into the game at all. The

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  New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], October 18, 1914, page 1

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  ARMY FINDS PROFIT in OLD FOOTBALL Cadets Fight Their Way to Victory Over Colgate i’m Mud. West Point, y. Y. Oct. 17.-Playing a slashing game Of old-fashioned football and taking advantage OF Colgate’s misplays, the Army eleven fought its way to a victory over the upstaters to-day, winning out by score of 81 to !. The cadets by their fine offensive work showed they had the punch, al though Colgate outplaycd them in the early stagtes OF the game. The Armys first score came within Jew minutes after the kickoff, when West, IN the Colgate back feid, fumbled a pass from Gensse. and McEwan, the big Army cen tire, broke through and secured the oval or the visitors l0-yard line. Hodgs9n and Benedict took il through stiff OPP position, the latter going over the line or a plunge through tackle. Benedict kicked the goal. Colgate’s tally came after a fine eXhinition of line plunRing, when they wore down The Army’s defence and went straight down from mldheld TO the cadets 5-yard mark. Here the Army made stand. but a pretty for ward pass. Swartout 10 Sparfeld, behind the goal posts, did the trick, and Abel kicked goal. Hodgson, for the cadets. in the sec ond quarter made a pretty forty-yard dash TO Colgate’s l0-yard line and then went over on the next play for the touchdown. Mitchell rang up the Army’s third touchdown in the lest quarter. Hodgson. Prichard. Benedict and Weyand were the Army’s stars, while Swartout, Abel and Sparfeld were best for Colgate. The field was heavy and the cadets made only three attempts at forward passing. Only one was good for a short gain.

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 18, 1914, page 64

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  EASY FOR THE ARMY Defeats Colgate by the One Sided Score of 21 to 7. VISITORS TUMBLE OFTEN Army Gives Fine Exhibition of Line Plunging in Last Quarter. WEST POINT. N. Y. October H. The Army defeated Colgate today by score of 21 to 7. Fumbling by the visitors led up to two of the Army’s touchdowns. McEwan, the Army CEN ter. got the ball when Warren fumbled a pass early in the first period. With the ball on the 2-yard line Benedict went through for the score. Colgate came back strong and march ed straight down the field to the cadets 5-yard mark, from which point 1t went over for a score on a pretty forward pass The Army scored again in the last quarter on a fine exhibition of line plunging. The cadets third touch down came when Mitchell Tailed after Butler had secured a fumbled ball on Solgate’s 10-yard line. The game was played on wet field. The lineup:

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Army leads 24–⁠5–⁠2 in 31 meetings, counting the 22 since this game.