Ursinus at Lafayette

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  The Washington times, October 3, 1915, page 20 (results column)

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  BIG ELEVENS GET . GENERAL SURPRISES Early Season Gridiron Games Find Little Fellows Stronger Than Usual. There ts reason FOR quiet renection today among many football coaches. and while yesterdays gridiron reverses so common among the so-calied big teams might be laid to slippery fields. many Of the mentors will have things to say and do to the charges tomorrow. with Yale beaten. the Navy humbled.’ Harvard scared to death by being held scoreless for three periods. Princeton lucking out at the start of its battle. and Penn hard pressed for victory. there is little or no consolation remaining for the coaches OF the big teams today. Many good men were held out OF yesterdays games. 1t Is known that the smaller colleges booked for the first season games always point up for the initial trays with the idea OF springing genuine surprise. Rain soaked fields MAJ have had something to do with reverses yesterday. but In the main the smaller colleges are today due their large need OF praise for the stirring fights they put UP yes terday. and the genuine manner in which they either disposed Of tho larger rivals or scared them clean out OF the pads. The worse setbacks and most unlooked for surprises were those eSward took on the MASSACHUSETTS, AZ gies, always a strong contender. for an carly season game. The Aggies would have cotton a scoreless tie OF the contest had not Harte. the Crimson end. Tucked out In grabbing . forward pass intended for one Of the. Farmers. and dashed across thirty yards OF mud Tor a touchdown, from which Rollins kicked goal. Yale was beaten. as Is elsewhere de. scribed. while Penn narrowly escaped O. defeat at the hands Of the Franklin srd Marshall team. After romn on Wednesday In defeating Albright; Penn f.. players yielded only after series OF line plunaes and short forward passes nctted a touchdown and goal Quiglcy kicked a goal from placement for Penn. while Nyl!n: F. and M. quarter. ran team for h touchdown. going sixty-nine yards. The final score was 10 to D. Foster Sanford’s Rutgers eleven made Princeton hustle along for l0-to-O win. and the Tigers were lucky to have Tibbott. who ran eighty-fivc yards for n touchdown In the opening period. and kicked goal. and then droppcd one over from tne coward lluP. All tnlS ndDDenCV at the start OF the game. and after the upstate lads got going Princeton was not only checked. but had all II could do to stop the RUTGERS boys from scoring. Armv got a deadlock with Holy Cross. the end OF the game finding both teams with fourteen points each Forward passing scored for the New Workers.. while the Army eleven got in behind tho goal limo n sfraiVht fppthnn Dartmouth got away nicely to n 3-to-O score on Maine. while Cornell defeated oberlin BY “a TO 7; Brown and Trinity scoreless ties of the afternoon. Buck nell surprised Syracuse by holding the Salt City lads to single touchdown. Pop Warmers Pittsburgh team. which meets the Navy on Saturday. walloped Westminster by 80 to 0. Lafayette won from Ursinus by 13 to 2. while Lchigh took Carlisle Indians to task for a 14-to-0 score. this being the second game scoring. Penn State and Muhlenburg had a 9-to-6 battle. the State team win ming out. or particular interest to Washing tonians was the fact that Jack Gass. Paul Maeoffin. and Korty Church ran the Washington and Lee-Virginia Wesleyan game yesterday. In which the Generals impressively opened their season with a 20-to-0 win. The veteran w. and L. team allowed the visitors but two chances to score at Lynchburg. and those were on forward pass and an attempt at a drop kick. Branch Bocock’s Virginia Polytechnic team defeated Randolph Macon by a e0-to-3 margin. the youngsters getting a drop kick on the scrub team sent In toward the last Of the game. The Virginia Military Institute team defeated William and Mary by 10 to g. while South Carolina won from Newberry by 80 to O.

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  Arizona republican, Arizona, October 3, 1915, page 2 (results column)

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  COLLEGE FOOTBALL Virginia, 10; Yale, 0. Army. n; Holy Cross. fl. Lawrence. Q; Wisconsin. S2. Montana, 15; Idaho g. Multnomah. G Whitman College. Q. oregon. 47: Pacific University. o. Vermont. Q; Worcester Polv.. O. University of California, 19; Olym- pic Club of san Francisco. 9. Purdue. :; Wabash. :. Nebraska, iS; Drake. 15 PennSylvania State. II; Lebanon Valley O Minnesota, II: North Dakota, 0. Kansas, 20; William Jewel Col lego. o. Brown. O; Trinity, O. Swarthmore. 42: Dickinson. Q. Phillips Exeter Academy, 27; Dart mouth Freshmen, Q. Haskell Indians. Q: Illinois 36 Kentucky. 8: Butler College. O. Georgetown, 21; University of Gin cinnati :. Northwestern. ?; Lake Forest. O. Harvard. :; Massachusetts Agricul- tural College, Q. Georgetown. 9: Navy. 0. Pennsylvania, 10; Franklin Mar shall. & Princeton. 10; Rutgers. .. Cornell, S4; Oberlin, z. BicknelL. 0; Syracuse. 6. Dartmouth. 24; Maine. 0. Lehigh. II; Carlisle, Q. Ursinus. 2: Lafayette, 13. Amherst. 6; Bowdoin. O. Colgate, Al; Susquehanna, 0. Union. 14; Williams O. Stanford, 43; Olympic Club of San

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  Harrisburg telegraph, Harrisburg, Pa., October 4, 1915, page 10 (results column)

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  Federal League Results of Saturday Football Contests Penn. 10: r. and NJ. 6. Princeton, 10; Rutgers, o. Virginia. 10; Yale. o. Harvard. Z; Massachusetts Aggies, 0, Cornell. 81; Oberlin. !. Dartmouth. “a; Maine, 0. Lehigh. Il; Indians. 0. W. and J., 6; West Virginia, 6. Lafayette. 13; Ursinus, 2. Army. “A; Holy Cross, IA. GEORGETOWN. 3; Navy, 0. Brown. 0: Trinity, o. Gettysburg, ~; Western Mary land. 0. Syracuse, s; Bucknell, 0. Rochester. 6: st. Lawrence, 0. Stevens, IA: Connecticut, s. Swarthmore. ~: Dickinson. o. Haverford, :; Maryland A. C. 0. Villanova, Q; Muhlenberg. s. Colby. s: New Hampshire. o. Penn State, Il; Lebanon Valley, o. Colgate. A; Susquehanna. o. Union. Il; Williams. 0. Carnegie. SIS: Waynesburg, 0. Purdue. I; Wabash, Z. Indiana. :; Depauw, 0. New York. %; Rensselaer,. o. Pittsburgh, 32: Westminster, o. Wesleyan. l2; Rhode Island, 0. Conway Hall s Indian Reserves, 0. Mercersburg. :; Lafayette Scrubs. O. Washington and Lee. 20; West Virginia Wesleyan, o.

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Lafayette leads 15–⁠1–⁠1 in 17 meetings, counting the three since this game.