The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-14
HOLY CROSS-TECH.
The Annual Foot Ball
Game Today at
the Oval.
TECH MEN EXPECT TO SCORE.
Holy Cross viii Try for a
Big Score and to Blank
Their Opponents.
TECH MEN EXPECT TO SCORE.

Three school teams of this city will
play today, but there will be only one
game in Worcester. That will be be-
tween Holy Cross and Tech, at the
oval Worcester high school will play
Holyoke high at Holyoke this after
noon. Worcester academy had game
with Boston English high Cancelled, and
could not make arrangements with Nor
wich academy
The game at the oval between Holy
Cross and Tech is arousing great in
terest For several years there has
been strong rivalry between these
teams on the gridiron, and until the last
two years 1t was a warm struggle. Last
year Holy Cross developed a strong
team, going out of Techs class, and
won by a big score. This year the
same is expected. But the rivalry ex-
lists just the same, and each side will
have enthusiastic supporters on the
grounds.
Although it is generally conceded that
Holy Cross win win the game, there
is as much interest in the contest as
If the result was in doubt. The in
terest centres in the scoring that the
teams will do. That Holy Cross will
score several times, is the general ex-
pectation, but there is considerable
speculation on the number of touch
downs the purple team will make. An
other point which is freely discussed is
whether Tech will cross the Holy Cross
goal line. Tech students are confident
they will, and will do it more than
once. They figure they can get
around the Holy Cross ends despite the
most strenuous efforts of the wearers
of the purple
Students of Holy Cross are not sure
they won't They hope to see their
team shut out Tech, and in some in
stances have formed opinions of which
that wish is parent, yet they fear Tech
will score.
In figuring on what they can d. Tech
students take the Trinity team as a
basis for comparison with their eleven.
They think their team is stronger in
all departments than Trinity showed
against the Holy Cross team last SAT-
urday. In this they are right, for Tech
is certainly better on both defensive
and aggressive play. But no such COM
PARSONS can be made, as results of foot
ball games have proved again and
again. Tech could undoubtedly go
through Trinity without trouble, but it
Holy Cross. And while the Teen lads
could undoubtedly stop Trinity, the
Holy Cross men may not have more
trouble going through the Tech line
than they did through Trinity.
Some of the long runs which we've
made around Trinity ends may ne
nipped in the bud today. With Birge
and Wood on the ends Tech has a
far better pair than Trinity could pro-
duce, and they will undoubtedly round
up some of the Holy Cross backs who
frx fn c1x irt no 10 will
probably play line bucking game. and
If it does, may not be able to roll up
a very high score, as line plays do not
net as much ground as end plays, when
the latter can be worked successfully
Tech will put it's strongest team Ia
the game Some of the men have been
injured recently but the management
realizes it's best team will be needed and
the men have shown a game spirit
They Will start in and play throug bout
if fresh injuries do not prevent.
Holy Cross will play the team it had
against Trinity, with two exceptions
Hanrahan, who came out this week for
the first time, got into the game so fast
that he displaced Hogben, who was used
instead of MeTigue, expelled from the
team for failure to obey orders w
Sullivan, who has been laying off on
account of injuries, will be at left end
instead of Barry. The lineup of the
team will be: L. e., w. Sullivan; l. t.,
Powers; |. g., Conner; c., McCabe; r.
g., Hanrahan r. t., Toohig r. e., Lin
nehan; q. b., j. Sullivan; |. h., O'Reilly;
T. h., Kenney; f. b., Monahan.
Tech will line UP as follows: L. e.,
Wood, Norcross; /. t.. Simpson, Emer-
son; l. g., Trail; c., Perkins; r. g., Nut
ting; r. t., Maynard r. e., Birge; q. b.,
Spence; l. h., F. Walsh; r. h., H. Walsh
E. b., Brooks.