Evening star., 1901-11-18
Georgetown Defeats University Of
Virginia at Foot Ball.
BRILLIANT RALLY IN LAST HALF
With Score II to o Georgetown
Makes Three Touchdowns.
RECORD-MAKING GAME

In one of the fairest and most notable
| contests in the history of American foot
| ball. battle creditable alike to winners
| and losers. Georgetown University defeated
| the University Of Virginia Saturday after
| noon by score of Ii to 16. More than 5000
persons. evenly divided in their favor for
| the two teams, hemmed in the gridiron
with a U-shaped. cheering. tensely absorbed
mass Of humanity. When the game reached
its unexpected climax and the local instltu-
tion turned into victory defeat apparently
| inevitable, the partisans of Georgetown
University made the campus echo with a
demonstration of exultation and relief that
has probably had no prototype in the career
of Washington athletics.
By common consent the Georgetown play
ers were outclassed in the first half. With
score Of IL to against them. their most
stanch supporters had manifestly given up
all hope. Even when by touchdown and
goal they had earned six points to oppose to
Nlrglnias siXteen,the Georgetown followers
viewed the contest as practically ended and
their own defeat as assured But misplay
on the part of their opponents, the capture
OF the ball, and a long run half the length
OF the field by one of their own men. SEEM
| ed to put new life into the Blue and Gray.
From that time onward they assumed the
aggressive, fought as no Georgetown men
| ever fought before, and finally-during the
| last ten minutes Of play-plunged through
| Virginia's line down the length of the field
and wormed the ball between the goal
posts.
Wide Interest Excited.
Rivalry between Georgetown and Char
| lottesville has for many years made this
| foot ball game the most notable and i'm
| portant athletic event in the entire scholas-
| tic year of the two schools Except for
| a year two, when foot ball contests with
| other schools were forbidden the students
| of the local college, teams from the Uni
| versity of Virginia and the University of
| Georgetown have met and contended with
| the most earnest zeal Of which the men
| were capable. AS this rivalry has grown
| public interest has increased until Satur-
| days foot ball game the gridiron in
West Washington surpassed in the inter-
| est Of capital city enthusiasts even the
more celebrated contests between Yale and
| Princeton and Cornell and Columbia.
| Several thousand followers of the two
colleges were assembled along the side lines
and at the southern end of the field.
Georgetown and Virginia Both Loyal.
The western grand stand was by tacit
| agreement the headquarters of the Blue
and Gray, and blue and gray floated in the
! air from hundreds of canes and over a
| thousand feminine shoulders. The ominous
] silence with which that section of the field
| watched the game at first the frightened.
| hesitating, almost desperate cheers with
| which the home team was encouraged to its
| first score. and the surprised, eager, wild
| demonstration as the sturdy champions of
| the school fought their way to a victory
| none the less acceptable because 1t was un-
| expected, make up one of the strangest as
| poets Of game distinctive from every pos
| sible point of view.
| Across the field, gowned as handsomely
| as the woman patrons of the Winchester
| horse show and decorated with huge yellow
o6 fhfarr, nyrnrao iar hx low
| sons Of old Virginia of every age from six
| to sixty, and assembled in throng of sur
passing picturesqueness. were the young
| women for whose favor Virginia was to
| dare too much in the beginning of the
game and fight with unflagging determina-
| ton against sudden and overwhelming re-
verse. AS the visitors first met George
| towns rushes manfully, then held their
ground firmly, then slowly and brilliantly
| worked their way to the enemy's goal, the
| enthusiasm of this concourse exceeded all
| expression. Virginias partisans cheered
| applauded and stamped their feet and then
| lapsed into the complacency of assured
| confidence But in the second half all this
| was changed. At first the men shouted
| encouragement to their team, then came
| silence, and at the end, when the impcnd-
| ing defeat became a certainty, lae girls of
| the old dominion rose to their feet. waved
| their flags of orange and blue defiantly and
stood their ground with tears in their eyes
| Virginia was beaten, but no one wno look
| ed into the faces of her supporters after
| the struggle of Saturday afternoon could
| think the loss of the game had diminished
| the ardor of her friends in the slightest de-
| gree.
| Welcomed to the Field.
| During the welcoming cheers which
| greeted the twenty-five brown, dirt-cover-
| ed warriors the older foot ball followers OF
| the grand stands were gaugins the two
| teams. Virginia's men seemed taller than
| their opponents, lighter by several pounds
to the player and built like runners. The
| Georgetown eleven were of the typical foot
| ball fgure-heayy, apparently of excep-
tional strength and rather short for their
| weight. In the end these physical quail
| ties decided the game. although Virginia
| opposed the greater weight of Georgetown
| intrepidly and Georgetown displayed an
| agility hardly surpassed by her fieet-foot-
ed opponents.
Capt Barry of Georgetown won The toss
and chose the north goal to obtain the
| northwest. The first four or five plays
| were practically unproductive and unindic-
| ative. Both fullbacks-Edmonston Of
| Georgetown and Harris Of Virgiuia--punt-
| ed several times. When the ball reached
| the middle of the field and Georgetown lost
| it on a tumble Virginia developed her first
| brilliant play. Left Tackle Walker. one of
| the strongest men Charlottesville has ever
obtained, was sent through the George
| town line again and again. This move was
| so continuously successful that Capt. Bar
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| stop Virginia's gains, and was put out of
| the game by injury to his side. He was the
first Of eight Georgetown men to be hurt.
although in all the other instances the
players were revived and sent back to
| their places The orange and blue LOST or e
man-Tutweiler.
Virginia Scores Twice.
When Virginia lost the ball at this point
in the game Georgetown found herself
unable to advance 1t against the opposing
line. On poor kick by Edmonston it
passed to Virginia, and the visitors plowed
| their way down the field for the first touch
down Of the game. Walker was pushed
over the line at the extreme northeast cor
| ner of the field, amid much cheering. Cole
man. left half back ana captain of the Vir-
ginia team, punted out to Moore, his right
guard. and kicked goal easily. The score
was then Virginia. 8; Georgetown. o. For
the remainder of the half Virginia fought
the ball down the field. until with six yards
| to gain on one down and only a minute to
| play Captain Coleman signaled for a try
| at a goal from the field. Slipping back to
| the twenty -hve-yard iine he caught the ball
| ~ drouped his w q