The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-30
Tech w Out
Classed
BY HOLY CROSS MEN
Birge's Brilliant Run Made
Only Touchdown.

outgeneralled, ortweighed and out
played the Worcester Polytechnic In
stitute eleven was defeated and badly
defeated, by the Holy Cross team, yes
terday afternoon, at the Worcester
oval.
Tech saved herself from falling to
score by q brilliant round-the-end play
by Birge, in the middle of the first half.
With bit of the grandest interior
ence ever offered by local eleven,
Birge skirted Holy Cross right and
scampered off for the Holy Cross goal
line, SO yards distant The Holy Cross
fullbacle and one or two other tacklers
were quickly disposed Of and Tech had
scored her first, her last and her only
touchdown of the game. From this
touchdown Birge kicked an easy goal
Brilliant as was this play, Tech men
can find little cause for satisfaction
Where TechA crossed the Holy Cross
goal line single time, the representa-
tives of the purple succeeded in plant
ing the ball behind the two Tech posts
no less than eight times. The first
half ended with the score 20 to 6. In
the second period of play, shortened
i considerably on account of the on-com-
ing darkness, Holy Cross successfully
guarded her own goal, at the same time
p1l1ns up enough more points to swell
her total score to As points.
The game proved very conclusively
that. whatever may have been the rel
past seasons, this year, at least, the
Tech men have not the slightest bust
ness with Holy Cross. 1t was hard,
straight foot ball and the best team
won Although hard fought, it was
clean fought contest. None of that
bad blood which has too often charac-
terized the meeting of the two institu-
tions on the athletic field in years past,
was manifest yesterday afternoon. The
% men upon the field played friendly
game, and eended up by cheering for
each other. The three hundred stu
dents in the grandstand cheered in
friendly rivalry. The weather, and for
the Tech men the defeat, were the only
disappointing features.
The size of the score was a surprise
TO the victors and to the vanquished
alike. Holy Cross entered the game
fairly confident Of victory but never
pated so large Il score. Tech, on the
other hand, weakened by the presence
on her eleven of two or three subs
and weak subs at that-was none too
sanguine at the start, and lost what
ever lingering hope remained before the
game had progressed very far.
Holy Cross students and players are
naturally elated over their victory. This
is but natural and praiseWorthy. Never
hn ctr b,1+
ly the players, should be careful that
the victory does not turn their heads
Holy Cross has two games this week.
one with Tufts on Tuesday, the other
with Boston College on Saturday. The
Boston College game is the most I'M
portant contest in the schedule. The
Boston team held Brown down remark
ably we'll a week ago, and Holy Cross
II she would win next Saturday must
not rest upon her laurels of yesterday
Rather she should remember her defeat
by Andover last Wednesdays Incl
dent that a single victory over Wor-
cester Polytechnic cannot wholly erase
The offensive work OF Holy Cross was
excellent. With two very weak spots
in Tech line filled by the regular play
ers, Holy Cross men undoubtedly would
have found greater difficulty in making
so big gains. But at the same time no
Tech team of recent years would have
been able to withstand that terrific line
hammering which Holy Cross did with
such evident relish The favorite HOLY
Cross play was directed between guard
and tackle and generally the man with
| the ball, whether 1T was Kenney or
Baldwin, made anywhere from three to
flfteen yards. A good hole was always
opened UP and the back generally had
eight or nine men behind him when he
struck the line
Holy Cross wisely aimed the majority
OF her plays against Techs line. Once
| or twice she tried the ends, sometimes
for gains. but more often for losses
Berge and Wood, the Tech ends, are not
in the habit of letting many men get
away from them. The winners had but
| little opportunity to show what they
could do in the way of defensive play
| ing. for only five times during the en-
tire game did Tech get the ball. But
from that little playing it would seem
that there are places in Holy Cross de-
fensive work that need toning up.
Through the absence Of Page and
| Walsh, both of whom We're laid up with
| injuries, although able to watch the
game from the side lines, the Tech
team was weakened. Davis, who went
| into Pages place at tackle, is built on
the elongated plan, being 6 feet 4
inches tall, and no man of Davis
height, unless weighing considerably
more pounds than Davis can boast of
ever made a success of foot ball Men
! of that build can not get low enough
and are too easily bowled over. Loft
former high school player, played in
| Walsh's place behind the line but had
| little opportunity to distinguish him
self.
| The individual star of the game was
Kenney Of Holy Cross When bucking
the line he seemed right in his element
and would wiggle along undel. Techs
( inferior tackling for several yards
/ when less game man would surely
/ have dropped Kenney bore the brunt
Of the work, but it was too much to ex-
pect of any man. In the second half
after having time called several times
| for him, he was forced to quit the
game, suffering from badly wrenched
| leg His place was filled by Murphy. a
substitute.
| Next to Kenney the most brilliant
playing on either side was done by
Brooks, Techs full back His special
ty yesterday afternoon was his tack
| ling and, although on several occa-
sions the Holy Cross ball bearer would
break through the line and find a clear
| field ahead of him with the exception
| of only the full back, Brooks made his
tackle and brought him down hard and
quickly.
The lineup and summary follow:
HOLY. CROSS. POLYTECHNIC.
McDonough, lt.....................rt Davis
sullivan | g.....-..............r g, Bucknam
He es g....i e Thrail tN rafk5e5
Connors, t...................l t, Simpson
Mc,Hugh, ,e....................~1 e, Wood
sullivan, b;.,.--.,....,....,.,-.q b., Willis
Kenney (Murphy), 7 h b..l h b. Rebboli