New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-16
CORNELL TEAM WINS
HARD FOUGHT BATTLE
Finds Lafayette Defence Weak
and Makes a Straight
March Down Field.
A MUCH IMPROVED ELEVEN
New Arrangement of Players
Expected To Be Held for
Thanksgiving Day Game
with u. of Penn.
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Ithaca, n. Y, Nov. l5-Cornell tri-
umphed over Lafayette to-day. and By
taking advantage of poor defence sue
ceeded In pilng UP 10 points against
for the visitors. Both teams fought hard.
but after Cornell scored Lafayette appar-
emily weakened. and gave way for a
straight march down field for touch
down i'm the second quarter. Barrett feat
ured the work for the Red and White,
showing fine form in getting in many
long punts and end runs. Scheeren, for
the visitors shared equal honors with
Barrett, but his punts never equalled those
OF the Cornell quarterback.
The game to-day stands out In compar-
ison with the former games in that there
was less open field work. although dur
ing the last quarter nearly every third
play was a punt. One thing was demon
strated by to-day's showing. and that is
that COrnell's reorganized varsity Is a
success. Fritz and Shelton, at ends,
proved too much for Lafayette, as very
few of her end runs or forward passes
were successful. and only IN few cases
were Barrett's punts run back for any
! considerable distance. The new varsity
won because of it's ability to strike hard
when the time came.
Lafayette made its only score at the
end of the first quarter, when Scheeren
made pretty drop kick from the 25-yard
line In the early part Of the quarter
Barrett had tried similar play from the
30 yard line, but was somewhat handi-
capped by the Lafayette men breaking in
on him. The reason for Lafayette getting
so near to the Cornell goal can be at
tributed TO the fact that Cornell was PEN
allied twice for holding, one OF the times
being on a 20-yard end run by Barrett
BY the end of the quarter Cornell had
succeeded in rushing the ball TO Lafay-
cites 2S-yard line, so that at the begin
ming of the next quarter the way was
clear for Barrett to kick field goal,
which he did perfectly.
After the next kickoff either Cornalls
offence took decided brace or Lafayette's
defence weakened, for after exchanging
punts Barrett broke through the line for
a 30-yard dash and placed the ball on the
opponents 2O-yard line. Barrett again
featured in the next play, and by making
an end run rushed the ball to the 5-yard
| line Colyer then took the ball In j.
yard plunge through centre and paved the
way for Barrett to make touchdown o.
| poughing through the line. He also
kicked the goal. Another chance for Cor
nell TO score came later In the quarter.
| After exchanging punts Cornell nnaiiy
succeeded In rushing the ball to Lafay-
| cites 16-yard line. The visitors line, now
| ever, held like stone wall. and the pan
was lost on downs.
Brilliant Individual playing by Latay-
cite marked the opening OF the second
half. Kennedy, J. Diamond and Schee:en
each made long end runs, which LOT
, time seemed to threaten Corners goai.
Fumbles and failures at passes proved
costly to the men from Easton, and the
ball was finally lost to the home team.
At the last minute Fritz. assuming MS Ola
position In the backfeld. made a good
gain. and the ball was stopped IN MO
field at the end of the quarter.
The last quarter was mostly uneVentiui'
The playing, however, was hard, ana sew
eral of Lafayette's players had 10 De SUI
stituted on account OF injuries. IL was
also during this period that barretts
knee was injured and he had 10 oe
helped from the field Taber substituting
There was no end TO line plunging' neither
side seeming to have any advantage over
the other. Although the Cornell team as
a whole deserves praise. the work Oh
few individual players stands out pre-em-
lnently. Barretts work speaks for itsei'
but due attention must be given 10 COL
YER. the halfback. who was formerly
tackle. TO Lair and TO Phillippi. All
nlaved a smashing game from start 10
snish. In the work OF linemen captain
,Jnnns and Fritz were responsible TOT
good defensive work. From TO-DAY i.u
cations it is more than probable that 'he
present lineup will be the one u iae'
Pennsylvania on Thanksgiving Day
The line-up follows: