The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-17
Frank Morgan and Frank W. Cav
anaugh Had a Successful Sea-
son in Denver Foot Ball
WORCESTER MEN
THE STAR PLAYERS
Athletic Club Team Won All Its
Games and Was Scored
Against But Once.

Frank Morgan, left halfback on the
Denver Athletic Club foot ball team
has returned to his home in this city
after the most successful season. Den
yer foot ballists have ever witnessed
Morgans running mate was Frank w
Cavanaugh, a Worcester boy who dis
tinguished himself at Dartmouth and
as foot ball coach at Cincinnati univer-
sity last year. Cavanaugh left Gal
weston. Tex. yesterday by boat and
will reach New York the latter part of
next week.
The westeSn foot ball world had eX-
citement enough to last several sea-
sons in the appearance of the two Wor-
.cester men. Cavanaugh went as coach
and the seven games played by the
team were victories. This was exact
ly opposite of the '9S record, when ev-
cry game played by the team was a
defeat. Doucette coached in '9S, and
the old Harvard centre and North
Shore Athletic Club crack wasn't in it
for a minute with the Worcester coach
in the estimation of the western foot
ball cranks.
The first game played by the Den
Yer Athletic Club was with Colorado
college, and the score was II to 0, with
CaVanaugh'S prOtegeS on the big end.
That game was enough to make the
Worcester boys solid with the Denver
enthusiasts. CavanaUgh went in at
right halfback and with his friend,
Morgan. at left half, it was like pelt-
ing stones through paper to make
gains through the college line. The
fullback of the Athletic Club team,
Collins, an old West Point man, did not
possess sand enough to buck against
the brawny westernc~. and Brown. a
Denver man, was substituted. Cava-
naugh, although an end at Dartmouth,
played a superb game behind the line.
He was relied upon for the punting,
and every time his boot came in con-
tact with the ball, the leather sailed
at least As yards into the opposing
teams territory.
In the second game with School of
Mines, Morgan had the ligaments of
his knee torn, and was laid up with
water on the knee for five weeks. The
game resulted % to 0 in favor of the
Athletic club. and that was another
honor to the Worcester coach. The
game with Washington college of Kan
sas was the most peculiar the Worces-
ter boys ever entered.
When the elevens came on the field
it looked a cinch for the hustling Ath-
letic club men to wipe their opponents
off the earth. but it wasn't The raw
boned Kansas men held fercely but
legitimately, and Van Stone, who was
substituting in Morgan's place, won the
game by goal from the field The
Washington college men represent the
poorest of the western college attend
ants. None of the students have rolls
OF wealth, and such thing as an ex-
pert coach is an impossibility for fl
nancial reasons. The college boys had
no foot ball toys, and to the specta-
tors they presented scraggly appear
ance lined up with padded overalls and
jumpers for uniforms
The Kansas City medics, who had
trimmed everything in sight the year
previous, and We're acknowledged
champions of the west, fell before the
prowess of the Denver Athletic Club
by a score of 20 to 0. The Haskell In
dams Of Kansas, stocky specimens of
the red mems western tribe, tackled
the Denver boys. The game was stub
bornly contested. The red men were
compact masses of grit, and they sailed
into >he Denver cracks with ferocity.
Twelve points were scored by the Den
Yer athletic Club men, and the red
men had to roll themselves in their
blankets and take uD the homeward
trail without crossing the Denver
teams goal line.
There was great interest in the gsroe
with the Denver Wheelmen, the Satur-
day preceding Thanksgiving day. and
although Morgan was in poor shape,
he got back into the game The bike
men were easy for the Athletic Club
team with its infusion of Worcester
cracks, and the score was SO to 0.
The game of the year, and the one
h esla ffsfF rTa11
championship, was played Thanksgiv-
ing day. The Athletic, clubs opponents
were the University of Colorado cracks
who had been coached by Fusom. a
former Dartmouth end. 1t was a bat
tie royal, with Dartmouth coaches
pitted against each other
CaVanaugh went into the game all
battered up from the previous contests
but he was determined to land his team
a winner over the university team with
If Dartmouth coach Fulsom PLAYED
and scored early in the first half. the
only touchdown made against the
athletic club in it's season. The score
was to Q ia favor of the visitors wher
Cavanaugb called upon his men t.
plug for victory Morgan was given the
ball, and in an end run cleared a
yards and crossed the goal line.
The score was tie at each wher
the teams came upon the field for the
second half The struggle was one ot
the sharpest ever contested on west
ern gridiron, and 1000 frenzied Den
Verltes yelled encouragement to Their
idols. Cavanaugh bucked the line
steadily and never failed to gain his
length. Five minutes before time was
UP he carried the ball across the line
for the touchdown which won the
game. and the shout that went up was
so strong that Denver critics modestly
believed that it could be heard al
Cavanaugh's home in Worcester.
Kirkoff, guard on the Denver
Athletic club eleven. was one of the
best players on the team. With the
Worcester boys he shared honors as 9
ground gamer. Cavanaugh received 3
gold watch at the close OF the season
from the Athletic club and foot bal
lovers, as show Of their appreciation
Of his services. Every member Of the
team was presented a solid gold souve.
mir ring.
Upon invitation Of Manager r. w
ParVin, Morgan, Coach Cavanaugf
and Capt. Clay, who is q nephew Of
Gen. Cassius Clay, the famous Ken
tucklan, visit was made to a rancl
at Alanlosa, is miles from the line
separating the state from New Mexico
The train upon which the Worcester
men and their Denver friends were
travelling crashed into narrow guagt
train. near Pueblo. Dec 9, and efght
persons We're killed and many Injured.
The ranch bordered on the Rio
Grande and Canejos rivers, and here
the Worcester boys were guests foi
more than a week Ducks were plenty
and rabbits in that section are so nu.
merous as TO be considered a pest. SC
shooting was the favorite pastime
Cayanaugh and Morgan We're asked Il
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