The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-02
YIN. C. A. The VICTOR
DEFEATED SAVANNAH SUBS AT
FOOTBALL BY II TO 8.
GAME WAS A CLEVER ONE.
BOTH SIDES PLAYED HARD, Bur
VICTOR's TEAM WORK WON.

Launey Scored Two Touchdowns
for y M. c. A. and Did the Best
Playing on the FieId-Adams
Scored for the savannah subs
Good Playing Done for Savannah
Subs by l.. Kelly and j. Kelly and
Powers, and for Y. NJ. G. A. by
Cubbedge and w. H. Doty-The
Play Rough at Times, but Result
ed in No Rad Accidents
The Y. NJ. C. A. won from the Sa-
Vannah Subs at football yesterday
morning by the score of II to in a
fairly clever and hard-fought game.
The teams were of about equal weight
but the Y. NJ. C. A. had had the most
practice, and it told; and then again
they had in Launey a player that the
other team simply couldn't handle, for
he rarely failed to make gains when
given the ball. In fact, all of the men
played good ball though Launey, Cub
hedge, w. H. Doty and Bernhard
carried off the honors.
For the other team Powers and the
two Kellys, Joe and Lawrence, played
the best game, particularly a defen-
sive game; in offensive work the
whole team was slow and practically
all their gains were made on kicks.
Even in making kicks they were slow
for more than once the Y M c. A
players got through the line and tack
led the man with the ball before the
kick was made. The best cast of this
quick and aggressive work on the part
of the Y. M. c. A. was made by Cub
hedge in the last few minutes of play
The ball was passed back to Jette for a
kick, but before it could be made
Cubbedge broke through the line ran
ten yards and downed him.
The play was pretty rough at times,
and much delay was caused by the
men on both teams getting laid out"
for awhile. None of these accidents
proved serious, however, not even Sc
rious enough to put any of the men
out of the game.
The Savannah Subs won the toss and
choose the south goal to defend This
gave them a distinct advantage, for
the wind was blowing strong from the
south, and was of material assist
ance to their punts. The first touch
down was made in four minutes. The
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got the ball. but kept it only a few
seconds. when, on a tumble, it was cap
tured by Bernhard for the Y. M. c. A.
1t was passed to W. T. Doty, who
made gain of three yards and then,
after another down, in which no gain
was made, because of Cubbedge's
slowness in handling the ball, gain
of five yards was made by Launey, and
the ball being passed to him again, he
went through Savannah's left tackle
for a touchdown. The goal was kicked
by Bernhard.
Savannah kicked off and the Y. NJ. c.
A. got the ball. After a series of
downs, during which the ball was
changed from side to side through fun
bles and for other causes, the ball was
kicked to within a few feet of the goal
line. where it was touched by one of
the Y. M. c. A. players, who failed,
however, to stop it, and it then rolled
across the line and was downed by
Adams for touchdown. The goal was
missed.
In the second half Savannah kicked
off and the Y. M. c. A. got the ball
and with short gains through the line
and kicks at opportune moments, car
ried the ball to within six yards of the
Savannah goal. over which Launey was
sent for a touchdown. This goal Bern
hardt failed to kick.
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