Fordham at Georgetown

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  The sun, New York [N.Y.], October 31, 1915, page 1

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  Big CATHOLIC FOES RENEW OLD FEUD Georgetown and FOrdham to Clash Again Tuesday After Two ScOreless Ties. FAIR SEX Is NOT BARRED The game between F’ordham and Georgetown on election day has aroused all the old time enthusiasm In the Ford ham students and alumni. Tho presidents Of both universities will be guests of the Fordham alumni and occupy the faculty box. a banquet win be ten dered them after the game and the alumni have prepared an evenings entertalnnient in Alumni Hall. Georgetown outweighs Fordham at every position. the overweight, amount ing to thirty pounds a position In the line. Dewhurst. tho Blue and Gray fuliback. will be In the contest. the first time in two weeks. and he Is counted upon to rip the Fordham line into lanes. Last year he was q sensation on the freshman eleven Of Univsrsity OF Pennsylvania and weighs 225 pounds. Barran. at guard. weighs 2s5 pounds and hns q nifty pound advantage over Benson. the Maroon player. Coach Vaughn ordered the Fordham varsity TO spend practice at forward passes and shift formations yesterday. Inc MdIObu mas “ tIstSt’Iy Vi tuls style Of open play that II counted upon to equalize Georgetown’s extra weight. Word was received from Coach Exendine OF Georgetown that his eleven will give the cleanest exhibition Of foot ball seen In the city this fall II that Georgetown is anxious to show the accounts of the Army–Georgetown contest and It’s rough work we’re greatly exaggerated. t’ordhim University students put their heads together during the week and figured the attendance at the Ho.y Cross contest and the gate receipts total. II was ommon talk on the cam pus that a dollar aud a half was too stiff a price to charge foy a reserved sea, on Fordham Field. A. the Column bia and New York University contests a similar sea can lie reserved for L third less. During q mass meeting there were murnurs :hat l. tho price was not lowered there would bc a marked absence OF :he fair sex In the cheering stand. Most Of the students decided upon this plan 10 touch the heart OF Athletic Director Lush and Manager Dodin. Such “A lack of femintnc color and atmosphere would mar tho Georgetown-Fordhaiu contest on election day. so Manager Dodin decided. and he accordingly acceded to the demands Of the studen; body. The revised price is seNenty-ave cents for general admission u one dollar FOR the best scat on the field. Four thou sand seats are ready for The largest crowd that ever invaded Fordham Field. which will include n representative nunber 90 the fair sex. The Bronx UNDER graduates are happy once more and Director Lush H. figuring that woman Influence ~ a factor even in arranging and conducting college football games in New York city. \ student member q. the sian OF the FOrdhdm Monthly, the official organ of the undergraduates, surprised the ann pus gossips by the statement hat Georgetown never had beaten Fordham on the football field In all the years the Two teams have opposed each other. Georgetown is 20 Fordham as Yale Is 10 Harvard. and the rivalry Is extremely keen and the feeling tense. According TO the only figures available on results OF tire contests before 1904 the T~rouXorians seem to have been the victors. From 1904 to 1905 the Maroon and the Biuc and Gray did not ‘nee;. In 1907 Fordham won. es TO o. ans the result OF the following contcs, Mas 80 20 q. The battle in 1909. when Ford ham had the hes. eleven in its history was n scorelesS tie. For -four years then the faculty ban was on football in the Bronx college. Last year anotlre scorelsss tie resulted. Since 1904 the Toifham goal line has not been crossed in any manner by Georgetown. The Maroon studcnts fear election day may tel! q different tale. but are hopeful for \ victor.

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  The Washington times, November 3, 1915, page 11

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  Georgetown’s victorious varsity eleven, holder Of the 1915 Jesuit championship, will now begin work for the approaching clash at the Hilltop with Jack Hegarty’s North Carolina Aggies, who defeated the Middies last Saturday, IA to II. The Blue and Gray will battle the Raleigh eleven on November 13, thus giving Coach Exendine plenty Of time to teach several new formations. Fortlham never had a chance to win the big Election Day contest in the Bronx, Georgetown outweigh ing, outplaying, and outgeneraling the Maroon outfit. Only at the very end of the game when Coach Exendine had sent in many substitutes, were the foe able to score on a for ward. The final score was 33 to 7 in favor of Georgetown. The Blue and Gray squad arrived in the Capital at S:i5 today. not a man in the Bronx Last night the entire squad, with the coaches, were guests Of the New York city alumni at a bcefsteak dinner at keen’s on Forty second street. Then. when the festiNlticS were concluded, they took the Baltimore and Ohio train from Jersey CitT for the Capital. Georgetown showed New Workers. the prettiest Interference of the season. 1t 1nfn .L,t n that was q revelation. So lon- as the regulars were In the lineup. George town was invincible and the backs were foolinG Fordham at all times. Almost before the crowd knew it.. Georgetown had scored. making the first touchdown against Fordham since 1901, Wall swept around the end behind perfect interference. hiking to Fordham’s l-yard line. Gilroy plunged across for a touchdown. Fitzgeraid’s s goal from touchdown making the score TO for the Hilltoppers. GilroN, running through the entire Fordham team, slipped around left end for the second touchdown. running fifty preceded him In the compact interference and behind ran Smith and Cor coran. cutting down would-hc tacklers. \ forward pass gave another touch down. Wall to G’lroy shortly after the third period opened Georgetown. after upsetting Fordham’ = forwards again and aPan. ran the ball 10 tho enemys 5-vard line. Wall ran ont OF split formation that had F\dham guessing and made touchdown. A forward pass brought the final touchdown for tho IIilltoppers, Gilroy hurling the ball to Leighty. Fordham was weakened carly in tho game when Mulcahy. the hig guar rd was injured and had to retire Dave Dunn replaced him and Fordham lost team. However,. line for line, Fordham was outclasscd The New Workers charged slowly and. therefore. made lit tie impression on the husky Hilltoppers Fordhan’s ends ware boxed time and time again bv the Georgetown men and whenever trick plays swung out toward tho wings. tho Fordham ends wero al most always buried and showed out Of tho play. This weakness on the wings was costly. too. It was doing the unexpected at all times that Georgetown achieved its triumph over its ancient rival. Fordham never seemed able to diagnose the shifting. ranid attack Of the Blue and Gray. The runner seldom appeared where the Maroon PLAYERS were crowd ing. but almost always shooting ont In some direction whore but backneld man or two would he waiting. Roth In line plunCinG and forward passing Georgetown Outcla ssed Fordhnm. The Hilltoppers gained 1877 wards In the first half in line plunginC to. 36 for tho enemy. Forward Da sSeS succeeded best when GilrOv hurled to Leightv or Wall shot to Gilroy. These players never dropped the ball

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 1, 1915, page 1

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  GEORGETOWN GOES TOPLAY FORDHAM Blue and Gray Will Meet Pow erfuI Team in New York Tomorrow. PRINCETON DEVELOPING RAPIDLY FOR HARVARD Eleven the Crimson Meets Saturday to Be Stronger Than One Which Defeated Dartmouth. BY n. c. BYRD. Georgetown is scheduled to play in New York tomorrow the annual election day contest with Fordham, which featured the seasons Of both elevens some years ago. Fordham has a powerful team, and the Blue and Gray is not going to find itself opposed to combination which will allow it to win easily. There have been many rumors of shifts in Georgetowns lineup. and it is difficult to say just what will be the final dis position Of the men tomorrow. George town has a great many candidates, and all the best Of them are pretty sure to be given q. chance to show what they can do. Georgetown has an eleven Of great be watched by hundreds of alumni in and around New York who wish it we’ll The Blue and Gray probably is as we’ll rep resented n New York as any other SOUTH ern institution. and perhaps better, which usually is shown by the big turnouts at the contests it plays there. The Hilltoppers’ team leaves here today at o’clock and will spend the night in New York. The team, as a whole, Is In good condition. though some of the men have not fully recovered from the bruises sustained In the gruei!ng battle with the Army little more than a week ago. The aftermath of the Princeton-Dartmouth game, as seen by Donald Grant Herring, who writes for the Alumni Weekly, indicates that Harvard will have to meet much stronger eleven than that which beat the big Green aggregation SO easily. Herring gives it as his opinion that Princeton was not at the top of its game, and that two more weeks are needed to put the finishing touches on the running game. 1t is significant NAT just two weeks will have transpired between the time Princeton met Dart mouth and this coming Saturday, when Harvard is to be played Here is Her rings general criticisms Of the contest: Princeton won in general by playing more alert and intelligent foot ball; in particular, by playing the finest kick ing game I have ever seen. Mention of kicking game to those who saw the contest will of course bring to mind the names of briggs and Tibbott But giving to these men all the credit due them it must not be forgotten that briggs punts were well covered by the forwards and that no line ever held better for drop kick than the Prince ton line held for Tibbotts three at tempts. The size of the score, however, should not tempt adherents OF the

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  The Bridgeport evening farmer, Connecticut, November 3, 1915, page 8

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  GEORGETOWN BEATS FORDHAM ELEVEN IN EASY FASHION New York. Nov. 3.-Fordham was forced to bow to 33–⁠7 defeat at the hands of it’s great football rival, Georgetown, yesterday, before the largest crowd that ever saw an ath- letic contest on F’ordham Yield. With the loss of the game went Fordham’s 8 hopes of the Catholic college cham pionship. The outcome was apparent in the first few minutes of play, when the visitors resorted to straight football at which their powerful line and crashing backs gave them an advan- tage and Gilroy, easily the star of the game, crossed the Fordham goal line after a continuous march down the field. The Blue and Grays forwards opened big gaps in the Maroon line, through which Wall, Gilroy and Leighty made big gains. It was the first touchdown of the year made against Fordham and Gilroy scored another on a yard dash from a kick formation in the second period. Fordham fought to the finish an1 tailed in the last few minutes of play Taking a page ‘m GeorgetOwn’s book, the locals took a fling at the passing game and three short hurls put them on the 25-yard line, where a beauty of a pass from Morcaids to Butler put the Maroon across the goal line.

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Fordham leads 20–⁠12–⁠2 in 34 meetings, counting the 30 since this game.