The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-02
SHOWEDUP WELL
Holy Cross Did Creditable
Work at Brown.

saries of the diamond Thirteen of
them found a chance to rub up against
the crack Brown eleven. They lost,
these infants at the game, but the de-
feat they received was honorable.
Holy Cross surprised her admirers.
The Worcester players had the pluck
and determination to hold their ground,
come what might
In the second half, when Brown had
replaced her fagged-out ends, full
back, left half back and tackle with
fresh men, Holy Cross substituted a
right half and tackle, and not only
kept them from scoring, but worked
the ball from their own 15-yard line to
within three yards of their adverse
ries' goal. If but two minutes had re-
manned to be played, Holy Cross might
have had a touchdown to her credit.
| The eleven, as a whole and individu-
ally, showed a marked Improvement
over their form a week ago. One poor
pass at critical moment Is the only
! cause for complaint
! Good feeling existed throughout the
game, and no rough work marred the
| play. 1t is very seldom that less hard
| feeling is shown than in today's game,
l q IdCl tudJ dug ufS we'll 1UI Ill aIlHudI
contest between Holy Cross and
Brown
| Coaches Robinson and Emory will be
obliged to spend many days on the
Brown team before 1t is up to last
years standard The team has fine
prospects for good line, as all but one
of last year line are back, but back Of
the line is weak, owing to the loss of
| Gammons and Fultz and much work
| 10 70 a1fa Too
| Holy Cross owes the really good
stand which she made against a team
which far outweiShed her, to the con-
| scientious work of Coach Maurice
Conner, who has done wonders with
q set of green men. If Holy Cross had
played anywhere near the foot ball in
the first half that she did in the sec
/ ond, the score of the game would have
been far different AS it was. Brown
scored three touchdowns, kicked two
goals and forced Holy Cross to make
a safety, 10 points, all in the first half,
while Holy Cross nearly ecored at the
very end of the game after a series Of
plucky, hard rushes down the field.
| The game started with Holy Cross
kicking off. Powers kicked to Bates,
who came forward fifteen yards be-
! fore being tackled. Then by hard,
steady rushes down the field by Rich
|
| Bates, the ball was showed to Holy
! Cross's eight-yard line. From here lit
| tie Richardson was showed through be-
| tween left tackle and end for a touch
down. The goal was only moderately
difficult but Richardson missed.
Again Powers kicked off and Rich
ardson caught the ball, running back
over fifteen yards before being tackled.
| Brown began a series of the same
f1Ic 70 MIA "
was to rush the halves, tackles and
ends through between Holy Cross ends
| and tackles. The halfback and big
Bates would put the Holy Cross ends
way out of the play, while the quar-
| terback, tackles and other end swal-
| lowed UP the Holy Cross line half
back, The Holy Cross ends made the
play easy to make by playing out too
far They should have seen the difficult
ty earlier in the day, for it was too
late in the second half when they dis
covered the way to break it up. Brown
took the ball steadily down on such
plays to within yard of the Holy
Cross goal, where the purple held
them. The ball was passed back for
a punt by Powers, but the quarterback
fumbled it for seconds and Holy Cross
was forced to, make touchdown.
Ten minutes intermiSsion was given
and the battle was on again. This time
Holy Cross was the ground gamer
| Richardson kicked to McHugh on the
15-yard line, and Pete" by a pretty
] run, carried it centerward rs yards
Powers, Kennedy and Mercer rushed il
forward for about 20 yards Brown then
took the ball. and after several unsuc-
cessful attempts to break the Holy
Cross line, punted 80 yards to Powers
THE Worcester boys made several fruit
less attacks against their adversar-
les, and then followed their example by
punting. Powers projected the ball AZ
yards, and Monahan and McHugh were
right there to down the Brown man in
his tracks. Reilly made fine gain
lSedgwick lost eight. Brown fumbleC
again, and Monahan captured the bal
for H c. C. Kenney, Mercer and Pow
ers took turns hitting up the Brown
lire for gains from two yards to nice
IA yard run by Mercer. Sedgwick was
caught off Sides and Holy Cross was
given five yards. Powers added three
more, and time was up on Browns three
yard line.
A lust criticism of the team woulo
be that there are too many captains
as every one takes upon himself to act
in that capacity. The ends played out
too far, and the quarterback gives toe
many signals. With snappy set OF
SIGNALS Holy Cross would have scored
as She only needed half minute il
which to cross Browns line. The team
is snappy and shows fine spirit, a fea
A ture which augurs well for her later
success.
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