New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-30
UNION DOWNS STEVENS
Schenectady Eleven Plays Well
and Wins with Ease.
BROWN PLAYS STRONG GAME
Captain of Victors Proves a
Tower Of Strength on Offence
and Defence.

Battering down their opponents rush
line with a powerful and wen-directed line
smashing attack. varied with nicely
Judged and finely executed use Of the for
ward pass and onside kick, the husky pig
skin warriors Of Union College Of
Schenectady defeated Stevens on Stevens
Field yesterday afternoon The score was
9 TO 0. Union won the game in the first
period when Captain Brown plunged
through right tackle ard carried the ball
across the line with half the Stevens
team hanging to him
Captain Brown Of the upstate team
was a tower OF strength in himself The
big right half back ripped and plunged
through the Stevens line, knitting through
hts openings and shaking or tackles until
brought TO earth by sheer force OF half
dozen men He did the kicking fOT his
team and ali his punts were over forty
yards. He kept them high in the air 50
that his ends had their men covered be-
fore they could gain at all Several times
Atkins and Riley downed the Stevens
backs in their tracks. IN addition TO his
excellent punting, Browne dropped a field
goal from the forty-yard line and kicked
the goal from touchdown from a difficult
angle
sarvey. at left half and Fairbairn. at
quarter back. were almost as effective as
their captain. Time and again the 1.-THE
left half back broke away around the ends
for long gains and was a streak on run
ming back the punts. Fairbairn ran his
team with the clear. cool skill OF a ger
u
made the most effective use Of the new
quarter back line plunge and electrified
the crowd in the final period by pIunging
through tackle on a masked pass play
and dashing from his own twerty-yard
line to the rorty-yard line OF Stevens.
The Union line played a fine game The
men charged low and hard and tackled
with fierce aggressiveness. They got the
turnp on the Stevens men and opened wide
holes for the backs The backs started
hard and fast and picked their openings
well. They were hard to tackle and as a
rule IL required the efforts OF two o. more
men to bring them to earth. AS the game
progressed they improved. and at the end
Of the game were in fine condition
For Stevens Meyers and Constock
showed 10 best advantage The former,
stock did the punting and IL was due &c
his clever boottng the leather out OF dan
ger that kept the score down
Stevens won the toss and defended the
north goal with a spanking wind at then
backs. Union kicked 20 the ten-yard line
where Crooks ran the oval back ten yards
before the fierce tackle Of Riley sent him
to earth. The Union line was irnpregnable
and Comstock tried q forward pass
Brown intercepted the ball
Brown and Sarvey bucked the line ror
a. first down. but on the next play Crooks
grabbed a forward pass and II was Ste
vens' ball On the very next play, how
ever. Crooks furnbIed and the alert Sarvey
swooped on the ball. A forward pass from
Brown TO Sarvey netted ten yards and Il
was first down on Stevens three-yarc
mark. Here Servey plunged FOR gain Of
two yards and on the next play Browns
took II over with five OF the Steven:
eleven hanging to him Union punte1 out
70 Aitken on the ffteen-yard line and
Brown kicked goa.
IN the third period Union worked the
ball down 10 Stevens fve-yard line by
free use OF the forward pass. but here the
HOboken eleven held for downs less thar
a foot from the line
After the oval had see-sswed up and
down the field until a few minutes before
the end OF the game, Fairbairn made
a sensational run OF fifty yards and placed
the ball on Stevens forty-yard mark
from where Browne sent the leather spin
ming over the bar for the Anal score
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