Bucknell at Gettysburg

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  Harrisburg telegraph, Harrisburg, Pa., November 20, 1916, page 11

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  ROTE WINS GAME FOR GETTYSBURG Scores All Points Against Bucknell on Saturd “; Eman- uel Another Local Star Gettysburg for four years has been trying to take Bucknell’s scalp. They Aot 1t Saturday. winning over the Bucknell team by a score of II to 0. This annual game has been a regular football classic for this city since 1912. Heretofore Backnell has had an easy thing with the battlefield boys. Things were different in Saturdays battle. There was a Harrisburg boy in the Gettysburg lineup. His name is Rote. While Gettysburg played a fast and aggressive game, Rote was the whole thing, scoring all of the seventeen points. Rote went out of the game near the finish with slight injuries. Rote Scores Early The game was caleld at 2.4O o’clock and ten minutes later Rote crossed the Bucknell line for the first score of the game. He later kicked the goal. TWO minutes before the close of the Ilrst half Rote again scored a touch down by zigzagging his way through the whole Bucknell team. In the sec cnu half, with the assistance of Cap tam Stratten and Halfback Meyer, Rote Kept the ball in Bucknell terri Tory by successive end runs off tackle and line plunges. The Buckneil line held and Rote kicked field goal, the last score OF the game. Captain STRAIT ten and Emanuel pulled off nice for ward pass in last quarter Time pre- SUMMARY.

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Bucknell leads 12–⁠5–⁠1 in 18 meetings, counting the seven since this game.