The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-12

tackle him from behind. Monahan was
Woefully weak on the defense, and
more than once when he had the run
ner all to himself for an easy tackle,
failed to take advantage of his OPP
rortunity. And when the backs did es-
say to tackle it was generally after the
style of an affectiOnate embrace around
their antagonists neck and often with
one arm. This was the glarng fault
with the Holy Cross play.
Yet good tackles were made at times
by the Holy Cross men, Kenney
O'Reilly and Sullivan shining forth in
this respect. Kenney, by the way, was
far off his usual color in his playing,
and used poor judgment at times. He
should have played more of kicking
game, as he clearly demonstrated that
he could outpunt Inglis, and the slip
perry condition of the ball and field
would have aided him materially. He
has not, however, the ends he should
have TO help him out Rudy and
Ryan play hard game, but are not
rugged or fast enough Spasmodic-
ally, Kenney did brilliant work, which
only made his listless work at other
stages more noticeable, but it is not
playing in fits and starts that makes
a man a good knight of the gridiron,
but the complete concentration of his
attention and energies throughout the
entire game. 1t was suggested that
Kenney might have been dreaming of
the Holy Cross Boston college debate,
to a position on which he was elected
by the board of judges, Friday even
ing.
Monahan was another player whose
work was not satisfactory but his poor
playing was far less noticeable than
Capt. Kenneys, inasmuch as he is adj
vail ~ In NnxFic al q n
foot ball player, and the same quality
was not eXacted by Holy Cross adj
herents. Powers played a hard, fast
game and got down the field well on
kicks. He literally played horse with
Montgomery. Toohig, the right tackle,
was far from WE'LL and played remark
ably well under the circumstances.
Wesleyan's tactics were a series of ag-
gressive line bucks which, on the
whole, gained fairly well for them.
They played mass formation and
generally won them their distance.
The old quarter back run was attempt
ed several times also and twice worked
for material gains, Sullivan, however,
made the prettiest play of the day by
catching c. Dodds on his second at
tempt for a loss. A noticeable defect
in the work of the Holy Cross men is
that they do not break through into
their opponents territory soon enough
but wait until their adversaries ball
bearer reaches the line of scrimmage,
and then, as a general thing, are
showed back for several yards.
Wesleyan outweighed the Holy Cross
collegians by many pounds, and Holy
Cross deserves great credit for the
plucky battle they fought against all
odds. In the second half the Connecti-
cut men reinforced their eleven by re-
placing the two substitutes who played
the first half and made cruel assaults
against the Holy Cross line. The visit
ors were somewhat weakened, and Of
ten good gains resulted, but the most
the Wesleyan giants could do was to
tally two touchdowns and one goal
during the second rs minutes period.
Coach Conner and Capt. Kenney were
we'll satisfied with the teams work
and count that 16 points in so minutes
Of play against strong team like Yves
leyan, speaks well for Holy Cross inn
provement since the disgusting exhibit
ton against Tufts, Nov. 4. Wesleyan
men, however, were discouraged by
their poor showing, compared with an
ticipations, and opened their eyes with
wonder at the defiant stand made by
their Worcester opponents.
Capt. Kenney trotted his men on to
the gridiron at precisely 2.30 won the
toss and gave the home eleven the
ball Brown kicked off to Kenney, who
returned about yards and then punt
ed back to Inglis. The latter funbled
but fell on the ball. A few minutes
later Wesleyan fumbled and Kenney
hid the spheroid under his stocky
frame. Monahan went through be-
tween Conner and Powers for yards;
but subsequent small gains of 1 to 2
yards by O'Reilley, Monahan and Ken
70 lad erli tod IiG5fa
and Wesleyan regained the ball Wing
and Lacey hit up the line for the re-
quisite 5 yards and Inglis explored
cavity at centre for a distance of 10
yards. Then Ryan, by nice playing,
nipped two assaults in the bud and
threw the runner back for loss. Yves
leyan failed to gain the necessary 10
yards, and Holy Cross got the bail.
Powers carried the pigskin through
a hole Toohig furnished and made
nice 20-yard lodging run. Kenney es-
sayed the other side of the line but
only succeeded in stealing yards
OReilley was next given the ball and
was downed with one foot to go. Ken
ney accomplished the distance through
Powers, but failed to gain ground on a
try at left end. However, an attempt
between left guard and tackle on the
next play gave him 5-yard gain. Con-
nor followed this up with 3.
O'Reilley, Kenney and Powers went
through the line for about ~ yards.
but Monahan was thrown back by Gar
rison for a loss of and s. Dodds in
creased it to yards.
Kenney punted and C. Dodds secured
the ball, but was downed by Powers.
Several line plays followed, with an
average gain of yards, until Wing
broke through and ran As yards before
he was downed by Conner from behind
Time was up on the Holy Cross 10
yard line.
During the second half Wesleyan
made frequent and good gains through
the visitors line and C. Dodds worked
the quarter back run for more than 30
yards Inglis and Calder worked hard |
and Holy Cross found great difficulty |
in tackling. However, they made one
gallant stand and held for downs oni
their own 4-yard line. Holy Cross
failed to gain and Kenney was forced !
to punt. Powers tackled Calder hard, |
but on the next play signalled Inglis |
who wormed his way through the en-
tire Worcester eleven for 20-yard |
gain. Calder followed this with yards |
and made the second touchdown in 80 |
minutes. Brown failed at goal
Conner Kicked off and Holy Cross
never once secured the ball until after |
a series Of line attacks by Inglis, Wing |
and Calder The first named was |
showed over the line between Lufkin |
and Montgomery for another touch
down, after 3l5 minutes of play Brown |
kicked the goal. McCabe had been bad |
ly used and Shine replaced him at this |
point Several short gains, runs of 81 |
and 10 yards by Calder and Wing, re-
spectively, and an odd assortment of
ground stealings varying in distance |
from ITO Is yards. carried the ball very
dangerously close to the Holy Cross |
line. Luckily for the Worcester men, |
Inglis fumbled in going through and a |
kick out Wesleyan was Unsuccessful |
in gaining their distance, and Holy |