The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-13
A SHUT-0UT
olyCross Did
Not Score
WITH WESLEYAN
Harvard Varsity Runs Up
a Big Score on Amherst.

a Big Score on Amherst.
YESTERDAYS FOOTBALL SCORES.
Wesleyan u, Holy Cross 0.
Worcester Academy s. Groton 6,
Harvard So, Amherst 2
Pennsylvania 49, Univ. of Va. 0.
Princeton 81, Lafayette 0.
Bowdoin 20, Univ. of Me. 0.
Andover 5, Tufts O.,
Exeter r. Technology 0.
Union 6, Williams o.
Middletown, Conn, Oct. 12-The Holy
Cross foot ball team of Worcester took
very hard trip today, coming here
from Worcester to play Wesleyan. The
visiting team left Worcester at S.S5,
and stopped over for dinner at Spring
field, going on to Middletown at Has,
where it arrived shortly after 1.
There was misunderstanding be-
tween the two managers about the
hour for starting the game, as the
Wesleyan manager insisted that the
game could not begin until 4. while
Manager Thompson asked for an early
start, on account of the necessity Of
leaving Middletown for home at $50
o'clock, The Wesleyan manager
brought up faculty mandate against
beginning the game before 4. so the
Holy Cross boys were forced to loaf
around two hours before preparations
for the game were in order. They had
plenty of time in the meanwhile to
look over the field, and it is to be hoped
that Andrews field will not be in
such shape for other teams as it was
today The west half of the field was
a mass of soft, oozy mud which made
1t very nasty for the players and es-
pecially worked against Holy Cross
as her team was the lighter All the
scoring and most of the playing was
done on the soft part of the field, so
that % very wet foot ballists quit at
4 AS.
AS for the game, it was not well
played, although the field was respon-
sible for much of the fumbling and
missed tackles which characterized the
game. For Holy Cross, McDonaugh,
Kenney, McTigue w c. Sullivan and
Mercer played the best, while for Yves
leyan, Townsend, Yale, Raymond, In
glis and Lane did by far the greatest
share of the work.
Holy Cross is surely very weak on
the defensive and Coach Conner should
take immediate steps to strengthen
the team in this respect. The same old
difficulty as characterized the teams
play In the Brown game showed up
again today, though not so markedly.
It is the ease with which the WESLEYAN
/ interference put the ends out of the
| play and then let the half back dodge
in around tackle. This is the way end
| interference is being run this year.
and the sooner the Holy Cross men find
! TINS out, the closer they will keen the
| scores.
| The fault lies with the numerous
players. First the ends stand straight
! instead of diving into the interference.
| secondly the tackles try to break
| through their men on the inside in
stead of the outside, and finally the half
| backs wait behind the rush line instead
of diving in before the opposing back
| reaches the line. In fact, the whole
| Holy Cross team shows fatal weak
ness in waiting for the runner instead
| of diving In and tackling. The runner
gains many yards because of this meth
cd of tackling. Kenney is fair back
for offensive work. but is very weak on
defensive work, as are all the backs.
| Wesleyan had a much heavier line
and has very snappy team. All in all,
Holy Cross played very creditable
game and should give better account
| OF herself when some faults in the de-
| fensive works are corrected.
The line up Of the teams was intact
! throughout, not a man being laid off
and very little time being taken out
for injuries
The game began at o'clock with
| Wesleyan kicking off. The understand
ing was TO play one 20 minute half
with five minutes intermission, and
then play q second half, which was to
end at AS Kenney caught the ball
and rushed it back 20 yards Mercer
made slight gain, but Wesleyan Sc
| cured the ball on holding by HOLY
Cross. Raymond and Lane advanced
the ball five yards apiece and then
| the ball was fumbled Holy Cross fail
ed to gain and Powers kicked, Lane
catching the ball. Steady gains by
Lane and Reynolds around the tackles
! inside of ends, and line drives by In
glis brought the ball to Holy Cross 40
yard line. Here 1t was lost to Holv
Cross on tumble, and Kinney made a
nice run of 30 yards around left end
| No further advances were made and
! Raymond punted. Powers made a very
bad mess of catching the bail and then
trying TO pick it up. The result was
that b. Dodds of Wesleyan secured the
pig skin. On the next rush Lane took
the ball around Holy Cross right end.
and aided by very fine interferepce,
which put McHugh and Kenney out of
the play, ran 40 yards for touchdown.
! 1T was fine piece Of work and won
merited applause from the small crowd
Of Wesleyan supporters present. Ray
mond kicked a very easy goal.
Powers kicked off for Holy Cross and
Raymond caught the ball and rushed
ii back IS yards. Steady gains around
McDonaugh and COnnors for three, five
| and ten yards at a down brought the
ball to the centre. Here Holy Cross
secured the ball for holding. and Ken,
ney got in another run aided by per-
feet interference by Mercer He was
downed on the 15-Yard line. Steady
gains by Powers. Kenney and Mercer
brought the ball to Wesleyan's 5-yard
line.
Here Holy Cross lost her besr
chance to score by bad judgment Mer-
Ger was sent into the line twice against
| Wesleyan's veteran pair. Townsend
and Yale, with the result that Holy
Cross was obliged to Ielnquish the
ball on downs. Raymond Immediately
kicked out Of danger. and again
Powers fumbled the ball. Lane and
Raymond began again their pretty
lodging runs around tackle inside end
until they reached Holy Cross thirty
yard line. Here Holy Cross got the bah
and Kenney was making grand run
when the whistle blew for the half.
At 4.3O the teams lined up again
Powers kicked to Raymond, who re-
turned 20 yards. Raymond and Lane
!, repeated their runs for five and ten
yards, while Townsend, Yale and In.
glis kicked the centre Finally Lane
was tackled for a loss, and Raymond
was obliged to kick Holy Cross gained
q little In short rushes, but it was
plain the halfbacks were tired Powers
was obliged to kick to Wesleyan's 40