Springfield at Georgetown

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 13, 1917, page 18

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  Technical goes to.Baltimore to meet the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. The Man ual Trainers will be without the services Of two or three OF their regulars because OF injuries. They are hoping. though, for good showing against the team Central defeated week ago by % to g. Business Hall Military Academy. Nothing is known OF what kind Of team the latter posse ‘ses Ga11audet opens its season against West ern Maryland. The Kendall Greeners appear in their 1917 inaugural under Coach Fred Moore. at o’clock, against a fast and capable combination. The Western Marylanders are strong extensively at this time Of year, as they usually get an early start in practice. Gallaudet’s lineup will be Osborn and Wilson ends: Burns and Showl. tackles: Roboril and Ferguson guards; Heupel, center: kannapel. quarterback: Peard and Willman, ha1fbacks and Deer, fullback. Indications are that Georgetown will have just as successful a season as il went through year ago. Not only has the Blue and Gray started the year sue cessfully, but it is welding together a machine which probably will run up big scores again against the majority of elevems it faces. The line is heavy. though not so experienced as the combination which wore the colors of the school last year. However, there is a backf1eld which Quade are two halfbacks the like Of whom is possessed by no other institution il the south except Georgia Tech. Yesterday the Blue and Gray won from the Springfield Y NJ. C. A. Train ing School by 26 to 0. 1t was a clean cut victory and not a big surprise either. 1t was thought that the Hill toppers would get away with the game by a couple of touchdowns, and that they got four instead of two does not make the surprise very great. Be | cause Springfield held the Dartmouth

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  Norwich bulletin, October 13, 1917, page 3

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  GEoRGETOWN DEFEATED SPRINGFIELD Y. M. c, A. Forward Passes Gave Georgetown Two Touchdowns. Springfield Mass, Oct. 12-George- towns more seasoned brand of football proved more than Springfield Y. M. c. A college could cope with here this afternoon. and the Washington cole gians gained a 26 to 0 victory. Neat turning of the ends, coupled with for ward passes, gave Georgetown two touchdowns in the first period and run ming accounted for another in the sec Gnd, and a recovered punt on Spring fields five yard line followed by a HAe plunge provided the fourth touchdown in the third period Scoring by periods: Georgetown .... ..- 13 v o-26 Touchdowns, Conne11, Gilhoy, Whe- Ian, McQuad: goals from touchdoWns. Dudack 2; referee, Tufts, Brown; una pire. Fitzpatrick. Princeton: head lines man. Carpenter, Harvard; time, four 12-minute periods.

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Georgetown leads 1–⁠0 in their only meeting.