Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-11-29
LEHIGH BADLY BEATEN,
Three Thousand Persons Saw George
town Win.


| town Win.
! In a dress rehearsal kind of a game.
| Georgetown University defeated the foot
ball eleven from Lehigh University on the
| Georgetown field yesterday afternoon by a
score of % to 0. In the early part OF the
| game the result seemed to be somewhat in
| doubt but after the end of the first half
| Lehigh was outclassed. The Bethlehem
| students brought southwark a team made
up almost entirely Of freshmen, few Of
| whom understood the methods of united
| team defense and many Of whom were Grip
pied. The local men played vigorously and
| quickly, but at time brilliantly. Such q
contest earlier in the season might have
| been of great practice value for the blue
and gray. AS yesterday marked the close
! of the season for both teams, however, 1t
served only to enliven Thanksgiving day
| for about 5000 spectators.
| Along the side lines and in both grand
stands were stationed a good number OF
Georgetown partlSans. who cheered the To-
| cal players vigorously until the result OF
the game became foregone conclusion. A
closer contest might have awakened that
crowd to some demonstration of genuine
enthusiasm, but In view of Georgetown'S
recent victory over Virginia, the Lehigh
game was a secondary consideration. On
the gate house at the entrance to the field.
high on the wall at the north end of the
campus and over the emblems of base ball
which decorate the old grand stand the
students had painted in long red letters.
Georgetown. II: Virginia; 1t" and that
sentiment excited almost as much cheering
yesterday as the victory over the Pennsyl-
vania athletes.
Lehigh's contingent numbered fully 1000
persons-several hundred students who &C
companied the team, about half as many
young ladies and q considerable number OF
Washington alumni. who stood by their
alma mater loyalty and cheered as vigor-
ously at the end of the game as when 1t
seemed possible for Lehigh to win Indeed,
brown and white, the Bethlehem colors,
mingled with Georgetown's blue and gray
all over the grand stands. and the support
shown for the visitors was one of the sur
prises of the contest.
Both elevens appeared to be light in
weight. Capt. Mackay of Georgetown
brought on the gridiron several men who
had not appeared regularly in the Virginia
game. He had evidently followed Lehigh's
foot ball career and knew that two days
before Lafayette had beaten her by a score
of 40 to 0. Lehigh's men manifested the
injuries received in that contest. Waters,
the strongest man in the line. came on the
field with his left hand in splints to pro-
tect two broken fingers. Louis Farabaugh,
the left half back, suffered from some In
ternal injury which weakened him sadly.
Brush. Washington man, who received
his early foot ball training on local high
school teams, played end In spite of a
grievous stiffness and many bruises
The game started with Georgetown at
the south goal and playing against strong
wind. For half dozen plays Lehigh made
rapid gains; but even those gains served to
indicate the visiting teams weakness and
the comparative certainty Of Georgetown's
victory. Every play by the brown and
white emphasized the individual prowess
OF the man who had the ball. There was
apparently no team work at all. The ball
was fumbled frequently. there was little In
reference and on line plays A Farabaugh,
Capt. Fuller and Full Back Butler went
through alone to fight for gain until their
associates finally massed behind them.
Those first Ave or six plays are the key
to yesterdays game At first individual
strength sufiiced; but as the game grew the
Georgetown men, with less than half as
much apparent effort, made more and more
Roadway. Lehigh's left end was very
weak. Capt. Mackay soon discovered that
fact and played first his backs and then
the line men on his own left way about
Kelly and Burrows for gains Of sometimes !