Sewanee at Tennessee

• 

  The Birmingham age-herald, Birmingham, Ala., November 19, 1916, page 1

  Read the text

  SPECTACULAR GAME WON BY TENNESSEE over SEWANEE TEAM Tigers Lost Brilliant Battle to Conquerers of Vandy. Workman and Vowel the Stars Chattanooga, November 1S.-rennessee defeated Sewanee here today by II to 0 in spectacular game that abounded in long kicks, long runs through the broken field. forward passes and pretty tackling. Tennessee outrushed Sewanee decisively on straight football. but the mountain team threatened to score repeatedly through the open field running of Workman and ClarlS’s bounding kicks which frequently were good for 60 and 70 yards without return. Tennessee carried the ball up field steadily toward the Sewanee goal in the first period and toward the close A. Hatcher kicked goal from place ment from the 22-yard line. Through out the second contest Sewanee was hard pressed in her own territory and A. Hatcher narrowly missed another place kick from the 35-yard line, the ball hitting the crossbar. Efforts to gain over Tennessee’s line or ends in the first half having proved entirely futile Sewanee tried an aerial attack in the third and fourth periods and while several of the efforts were successful two of them brought Ten nesSee’S touchdowns. Emory intercept ed one forward pass and ran 60 yards for the first touchdown and G. Vowel intercepted another on Tennessee S five-yard line and ran IS yards for the final score of the game WORKMAN made two 50-yard runs for Sewanee in this half, A. Hatcher saving the Ten nessee goal line each time. Workman S open field running was Sewanee’s best asset, while Emory was Tennessee S leading ground gamer. Punting honors were divided by Clark and A. Hatcher in a pretty duel. The lineup: Sewanee (0)-Edmonds, left end; Brawley, left tackle; Perry. left guard BEETLE, center; Means, right guard Moss. right tackle Clark, right end; Wortham, quarterback; Crudgington left halfback; Arnold, right halfbacki Stone, fullback. Tennessee DIG. Vowel. left end; M. Vowell left tackle; H. Lowe, left guard; Robinson, center; Henderson, right guard; Hamburger, right tackle Wolfe, right end; A. Hatcher, quarter back; Emory, left halfback; Luck, right halfback; Ring, fullback Score by periods: Tennessee ...... 3 0 Z Ill Sewanee ........... u Z Referee, Henry Kenyon; umpire, Cogdell, Auburn; head linesman. Jour nay, Pennsylvania; time of periods, 10 minutes. Tennessee scoring: Touchdowns. G Vowel, Emory; goals from touch downs. A. Hatcher 2; field goal, A. Hatcher. Substitutions: Tennessee. Hatcher for Robinson, Brinkley for Wolfe, Shelby for Luck, A. Lowe for Shelby, Should ers for Henderson, Morris for Ham baugh. Sewanee: Leftwich for Stone, Lyman for Arnold, King for Brawley, Sellers for Lyman, Byerly for King. Schatham for Leftwich, Moore for Sellers, Perry for Crud gington, Herring for Moore Andrews for Herring, Burton for An drews, Hayne for Edmond, Elan for Workman.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Tennessee leads 12–⁠6 in 18 meetings, counting the nine since this game.