The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-06
A Tie Score at
Holy Cross.
GOOD, BARD PLAY.
Nevertheless Game Lacked
Interesting Features.

30 minutes both teams played a hard,
rough game; neither side was able to
score single point. and the game end
ed with the score standing: Holy Cross
@, Boston College 0.
Yesterdays game was the most inn
portant of the season with Holy Cross,
and the Wearers of the purple strived
with all their might to land a victory.
They STAYED off defeat but they did
not win The entire student body at
Holy Cross College was present at the
game. and cheered almost continually
during the contest in an effort to en-
courage their representatives to play
for all they were worth. Occasionally
the Holy Cross players responded to
requests from the crowd for faster ball,
but on a. whole Holy Cross played a
slow, stupid game. The visitors were
not much better. or they would have
scored a victory,
! A large crowd Of Boston College stu
dents and enthusiasts came to Worces-
ter with the team. end occupied posi-
lions on the south side lines. The Bos-
| ton supporters followed the game along
closely, and never allowed an oppor-
tupity go by to cheer the visiting play
ers, who during the first half Of the
game easily outplayed the Holy Cross
men. Three times in this period OF play
the visitors got the ball on downs Holy
| Cross only got the BAH once on downs
| during the same time. aus,
| Billy Holland, Boston Colleges star
| halfback, did not figure In yesterday S
game, and his absence severely handi-
capped his team. MaloneY, who was
substituted for Holland, played a good
game at right Eaifback, but he does not
! possess the excellent sprinting quail
ties of Holland, and was quickly
brought down after getting through the
Holy Cross rush line. Had Holland been
| in the game yesterday, and got the
chances that Maloney did, there Is not
| a man on the Holy Cross team that
could have brought him down before he
| crossed the goal line.
| 1t was 20 minutes past the time
scheduled for the game to begin when
| the teams trotted on to the field for a
| little preliminary practice to timber up,
and when Referee ]. ]. McGratty blew
| his whistle for the opening play, the
| first half should have been ended. Time
was lost in beginning the game and
| time was lost all through the game. The
rival captains agreed to play two %
minute halves, and before the first half
was over there were many persons in
ness would terminate the game, but the
second half was played with more life
and there was just time enough to play
full game before it was dark.
| Boston College had the ball on the
opening kick off and on this play Nc
| Dermott drove the ball to Holy Cross
| 10-yard line Powers caught the kick
and advanced the ball 10 yards. Holy
Cross worked the backs for a series of
rushes with small gains each time. Be
fore the game was long in progress it
could be clearly seen that Boston Coli
| lege had a, remarkably strong rush line
and that Holy Cross was outclassed in
many positions in the line.
Richards was by long odds AEcTfgue' $
superior as a snapper back. The Boston
center rush was several pounds heavier
| than his worcester rival. and he knew
how to use his weight to the best adj
vantage. Big Richards knows the game
and was great assistance to his guards.
Not q single time during the entire con
| test did one of Holy Cross plays get by
any of Boston's center men, but on the
other hand plays directed at that part
of the line were disastrous for Holy
Cross. Jimmy Sullivan was credited
with more than his share of fumbles,
| for Richards made it so warm for Nc
| Tigue that the latter did not get the
ball back to Quarterback Sullivan in
shape for him to properly handle it.
Holy Cross guards TIerrick and VIII
| liam Sullivan, had their hands full TAX
1 ing care of McCarron and Rourke. Her
rick was able to put up stiff argu-
ment with Rourlse, but McCarron knew
| his job better than, William Sullivan,
and the Holy Cross man was not much
of an obstacle in the way of Boston
! College, when plays were sent at that
part of the line. The entire LEFT half
of Holy Cross line was played to a
standstill,> and it was through Sullivan
visitors big gains we're made.
| Early in the game the Boston collie
gians discovered that Holy Cross was
weak or rather outclassed on the left
side of the centre, and Quarterback
Kelley kept sending his backs into that
part of the line for repeated gains Nc
Grath, Boston Colleges lightweight
fullback and McDermott carried the
| ball on the plays sent against StSllivan
and McDonough, and neither player
failed to advance the ball when called
upon.
The fact that Holy Cross WIS out
classed in the line made it easy for
the backs to get through for good gains,
but behind the line it was about an
even thing. The punting on both sides
was poor, and but little ground was
/
teams We're decidedly slow in handling
punts, and at different stages Of the
game the team that did the punting
| got possession of the leather after it's
players had been called "onside.''
| McHugh and Powers did the best
work for Holy Cross. Kenney and Mer-
GER played a hard game, but found it
difficult to get through the opposing
! line for big gains. At stages Of the
! game, when line bucking got IaOnoton-
Gus, Holy Cross worked a couple of
double passes, and they worked WELL
On one of these plays AIcHugh skirted
Rielly's end for 20 yards, and on an
other Kenney got through an opening
in the line for 10 yards more. In both
of those plays the second pass was I'M
noticed by the Boston College men, and
the wrong man tackled.
| The lineup:
| HOLY CROSS. BOSTON COLL IgCSE
NIdIldllall, e ''t'.....-........r e, Reilly
| McDonough, Observation-Disclosures t. Long