Dartmouth at Georgetown

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 24, 1916, page 15

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  Two big games hold the attention of the general foot ball public this week. One is the first meeting OF the year between two Of the big uni versities, Cornell and Harvard, and the other is to take place between the University Of Pennsylvania and Pits burgh. The former contest is to be played at Cambridge and the latter at Pittsburgh. Notwithstanding Harvard’s failure TO show the strength of former years. the situation at Cornell does not seem TO promise an easy victory. In fact, IL a reported statement by Coach Al Sharpe is to be taken as a true criterion OF the outlook. Cornell is looking forward to q real struggle. Here is what Sharpe is quoted as saying: Il am not at all optimistic over the resuit Of the Cornell Harvard game Saturday. We are far from the level OF last seasons condition and the team Is not what 1t should be physically at this time of the year. The late start this year, fuiiy two weeks behind Harvards get-on. did not do us any good and the squad has been slow in rounding into shape for the crucial game of the year. l do not consider the eleven / have at this time the equal Of the team that won from Harvard last fall. Though | think the team will give a good show ing for itself after we get through with the weeks work” The game wilt give better line on Harvard and will show something of what Princeton and Yale may expect when they face the Crimson in November. Cornell won the game last year by 10 to 0 and that 1t will do its best to repeat the per formance is certain. Sharpe Is one of the best coaches in the country and all his son to two games in the main-Harvard and Pennsylvania OF course, the battle with Michigan is all-important also but it does not assume the magnitude struggles with Harvard and Penn. Haughton has had active charge OF Harvard’s squad for about ten days and VIII have been directing its energies for two weeks prior to the contest with Cor nell. What Harvard shows Saturday in superiority to its work Of previous weeks VIII be attributed in great measure to the Haughton system. While the foot ball public may not think 30. Harvard prob ably is right now just as strong as 1t was brilliant backs. despite the loss Of Mahan. and is not suffering for a lack Of material in any respect. Pennsylvania wants to trim Glen War wiping up of the gridiron of Syracuse by Pitt last week 1t appears that Penn’s task is all the greater. Folwell. though, has come out with the statement that he considers his team to be about as good as that OF Pittsburgh and thinks the game to be about an even chance for both. For the first time since athletic relations between Penn and Pitt were begun the for mer will appear in Pittsburgh for the game. Last fall, in PHILADELPHIA, Pitt defeated Penn by IA to :. That it viii want to win on its home field this year goes without saying. ~ With two such halfbacks as those on the Pittsburgh team and with that neavy line. Pittsburgh has at least an even chance to win from any eleven. Penn. with the return Of Berry to its pack neld. also has a powerful, versa tile combination. Those two half backs. De Hart and Hastings, carried Pftt through victorious schedule a been able to stop them. Penn must build defense to prevent these two men gaining ground consistently, which fs easier said than DONE The Cornell Harvard and Pittsburgh-Pennsylvania games will attract great at tention Saturday and should deyelop some brilliant play by all four elevens The first game Of the championship high school series IL to be played this afternoon at American League Park at 3:15 o’clock. Western and Central being much heavier than the former and is touted to win without q great deal of trouble. Western is represented by the 1ightest eleven 1t has put out in years. Jack Gass will referee the games and Hunter MCGUIRE will be umpire. Harry Harris. former Business High School and Dean Academy quarterback, is playing brilliant foot ball on the Dartmouth freshman eleven. Harris was at quarter for the Green when 1t met the Worcester Academy team last week. and this mention Of him was CIV en- in the account Of the contest: Harris, at quarter. was the individual star Of the contest. making a numreference and displaying fine judgment in handling the team” Cavanagh. coach Of the Dartmouth varsity squad. recently told friend quarterback within three years. and perhaps might attain that distinction next season. This goes to show that Harris Is living up to predictions made about him while in prep school-that college quarterbacks. The George Washington University squad is scheduled to go out to Cath olic University this afternon for a scrimmage with the Brooklanders. Such a workout was taken by these teams a week ago and did both elevens much good. The Brooklanders and Hatchetties plan to put in a busy week in prep aratfon for hard games Saturday. the former being booked to meet Lehigh and the latter Johns Hopkins. Coach Exendine of the GEORGETOWN eleven IL free in expressing his opinion of tho capabilities of Gilroy. his star halfback. In talking over the Dart game this morning. Exendine said this: “oilroy played even better foot ball against Dartmouth than he did last year at any time. His work was bril- Last of Mr.. Suuihh. IL

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  The Washington herald, October 22, 1916, page 12

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  GILROY PAVES WAY FOR HILLTOP team Georgetown University Trims Dart mouth at Haverhill in Great Game, 10 to o. Haverhill, Mass, Oct. H.-Jack Gilroy, Georgetown left half back, whose home Is In Haverhill, showed his fellow towns folk that he is a real football player. play ing on a real team, by stellar work that had a large part IN the unexpected defeat OF Dartmouth, 10 to 0. With the homefolk and two governors looking on. Mccall, Of Massachusetts, and Spaulding, Of New Hampshire, both Dart mouth men, the doughty Georgetown half wasted no time but dashed OF a run Of 3 yards, followed by a forward pass to Wall for a touchdown in the first period. Dartmouth regarded this as pretty much Of an accident until well into the second half, when Duhamel and Cannell, who were on the injured list were rushed into the game in desperation. Then Jack Maloney proceeded to put the game on ice for the Southerners. they come from the South in name only, as many Of them are from New England, by booting a 2Syard drop. Dartmouth had several good chances to score that were spoiled by fumbles, but all the experts agree that the big green team was outplayed and well deserved defeat From a financial standpoint the game was not the success 1t was expected to be. The Hayerhin board Of trade brought the teams here to dedicate a new school stadium and expected a monster throng because Of Gilroy and other New Eng landers and because Of the great New England body of Dartmouth alumni who don’t get much Of a chance to see the team, but the attendance was only about 5,OOo Dartmouth started down the field after the kick-ofr. but Capt. O’Connor recovered a tumble in midheld Wall proceeded to tear on a 2S-yard run round end. Or-side play put the ball back, however, and then Jack Gilroy did the same thing. landing the ball on Dartmouth’s 25-yard line after being handicapped by a poor pass. Then two forward passes resulted in a touchdown. The first went from Gil roy to Cusack for fifteen yards and the other from Gilroy to Wall, who received II behind the goal line Dartmouth was held for downs on GeorgetOwn’s 3O-yard line then, and AT the first Of the second quarter lost the ball the same way on the 40-yard line. Intercepting a pass forty yards from the Georgetown goal. Dartmouth started another advance in which Can nell ran thirty-seven yards to the last line, but stepped outside on the way. Gerrish fumbled on the next play and Wall ran the ball out forty yards. Maloney got a chance at a 2S-yard drop kick before the half ended but missed. In the third period Georgetown took the ball away from the Green on downs thirty-hve yards from the Georgetown goal After Gilroy had been hurt and forced to leave the game, Dartmouth, by a pass and line bucks. worked the ball again to within Georgetowns 1O-yard line, but Wall intercepted a pass. Later McQuade grabbed another Dartmouth pass that gave Georgetown the ball in Dart mouth territory. Wall tried a drop kick that was blocked. but he recovcred the ball and then Maloney booted It over. The lineup:

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  New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], October 22, 1916, page 18

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  GEORGETOWN IS BIG SURPRISE TO DARTMOUTH Southern Eleven Smears 10 to 0 Defeat on the Fumbling Green Warriors Haverhill. Mass, Oct. 21.-Georgetown sprang a surprise at the haver’ hill Stadium this afternoon by defeat ing Coach Csvanaugh’s Dartmouth eleven. The score was 10 TO 0. A touchdown, as the direct result OF a forward pass, the following goal and a goal from field accounted for the Green’s defeat. Captain Gerrish, Of Dartmouth, and GilrOy, of the South ern team, were the individual stars OF q bitterly contested game. GEORGETOWN kicked off to S. Holbrook, and the Green quarter got back FIVE yards. Thielscher at once punted and the Dartmouth ends nailed the receiver in his tracks. Two fake kicks failed, and Msloney punted to ). Hol, brook, who ran to the Southerners 45-yard mark A tumble in midfeld gave George town its opportunity. Gilroy made thirty-fve yards through broken field and followed it by perfect for ward pass 10 Cusack, who was downed on the Green’s S-yard line. Two tries at the line were Of no avail, but Gil roy threw another pass 70 Whalen, the former Dartmouth freshman payer. The ball settled in Whslen’s arms over the line for a Georgetown score. Gil roy made the goal from touchdown. FREQUENT punts featured this period, with Thielscher having a decided advantage over Maloney, the Georgetown kicker. Dartmouth threatened to score in the second quarter, when CAMEL skirted left end for thirty-five yards. A tumble prevented a seemingly inevtable score, and the remainder OF the half resolved itself into q punting duel. Beginning the third session Dart mouth outrushed Georgetown considerably, but was unable to cross the line. Captain Gerrish and Thielscher bore the brunt of the attack and pierced the line for good gains, save when in the shadow OF the goal posts. An intercepted forward pass paved the way for drop kick by Maloney which sailed over the goal from the 25-yard mark. In an endeavor TO tally the Green opened an aerial at tack. but without much success. After McDonough had raped off several good runs the half ended with the ball IN midfeld. Tho Imam and summaries follow:

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  Norwich bulletin, October 23, 1916, page 3

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  GEORGETOWN SPRING BIG SURPRISE ON DARTMOUTH Southern coIlegians Score 10 Points and Win. Georgetown furnished a surprise to a large football crowd by defeating Dartmouth 10 to 0 in the new High School stadium at HaverhiIl, Mass, Saturday. Gilroy a Haverhill youth, who played left half for the visitors distinguished himself in the first pe- riod by making a 28 yard run. throw ing off four men and later hurled a forward pass to Wall who was stand ing behind the Dartmouth goal line. Gilroy kicked the goal. Dartmouth came near scoring in the second period, but Thielscher fumbled on the Georgetown four yard line. Georgetown scored again in the last period, when with the ball on the Greens 28 yard line, Maloney drop kicked a goal, after severel attempts at forward passes had failed. Lineup: Georgetown 1O) Dartmouth (0) Cusack Dussosolt Left end Mccarthy Tr1er Left lacNle Showalter .............. Medley Left guard Anderson ..............s... Glle Center F. Green Baxter Right guard O’Connor SOCIOn Right tackle Whelan ...........-..... Emery Right. end Maloney .............. S. Holbrook Quarterback dllroy Gerr1Sh Left halfback McQuade ................. Thtelscher Right halfback Wall R. HoIbrook F’ullback Score by periods: GGeofge60Wn Ge e2fged1,Th “ -. .. Q Q Q SCl Cl0 Q Referee, Tom Thorpe. Columbia Umpire, Fred Burleigh. Exeter; head lineman, J. J. Ha1lahan. Boston; time of periods, 15 minutes. Scoring Georgetown Touchdown, Wall: goal from touchdown. Gilroy; goal from field, Maloney. Substitutions: Georgetown. Leighty for Wall; Wall for Leighty; Ward for F. Green; OaBrien for Showalter; F. Green for Ward: Cronin for Cusack; T. Green for Cronin; Cornell for F. Green; J. L. Sullivan for Gtlroy. Dartmouth-Cannell for s. Hol- brook: Tyler for R. Holbrook, Youngs trom for Baxter; Coggswel for Dusso- soft, DuhameI for Tyler; Healey for Trier. Cunningham for Gile, McDon- ough for Cannell. Putnam Defeats All Stars

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Dartmouth leads 2–⁠1 in three meetings, counting the two since this game.