Evening star., 1914-11-22
v. AND !. IS GIVEN
ATERR|F|C BATTLE:
Georgetown Makes Remark
able Showing Against Pow
erfuI Eleven.
MUCH ROUGH WORK MARKS
EVENLY CONTESTED GAME
Exceptional Number Of Penalties
y
Given Both Teams, Visitors Suf- !
fering Most-Score IA to 6. :;
BY H. @. BYRD.

ia AhiS DiiAiiaiiAir ha wv ~
partment. and much better than
was expected. the Georgetown
University foot ball team held
the powerful Washington and
Jefferson eleven to score of 6 to
IA here yesterday. The splendid
showing OF the Blue and Ora,
was not f1uke-not because
Washington and Jefferson was
especially off color-but was due
to nothing other than one of the
greatest exhibitions of gridiron
prowess a Georgetown team has
evidenced in years.
To have judged by the play OF
the two elevens in the first half it
would have been impossible to
pick a winner. There was yer,
little to choose between the lines
OF forwards, and there was not a
great deal of margin for either
backfleld. That first half was
about as much in favor OF
Georgetown as it was Washing
ton and Jefferson, because if ever
two teams battled on even terms
for two periods they did. There
was not a department in which
the Blue and Gray was inferior
to the Pennsylvania eleven, and
in one at least it proved superior
G. q. Makes Mistake.
In the second half mistake I'm jude
ment gave Washington and jefferson
the bail in a position from which il
scored, but Notwithstanding
that it had the better of the play iu
these periods. In the third and fourth
quarters the Pennsylvania team seem
ed to find itself on the offensive anu
did much more creditable work.
Nork and Kelley. who did the puntin.
for Georgetown, gained many yards
over Bovill, who booted the bail in TIL.
Of cases for the visitors. Time
alter time they sent the oval Wen uoWi.
the field out of the danger zone, anu
there were not many instances in
which they failed to make their kicks
go farther than those of their oppo-
nents.
Had it not been for the good use
and Jefferson made of the
forward pass II would not have found
as easy as it did, and even a.
II was II got the long end of the score
only after desperate battle. The Ions
fling was not attempted SO much, but
many times the ball was thrown just
beyond the line of scrimmage to on.
of the ends, who had scarcely gotten
beyond the rush line more than five
yards. Georgetown broke up most OF
the long passes.
When Washington and jefferson took
the field it looked like a great team.
The players, to a man, were a clean.
well built set, and there were few ac-
that thought Georgetown was in foi
anything other than a decisive defeat
But the game had not been on for fiv.
minutes before it appeared that the
Blue and Gray was out to play the kino
of foot ball that seldom loses.
Georgetown kicked off at the start
and it was about half expected that
and Jefferson would begin
a procession QOWn tne ueIQ q score.
AS the teams lined up for the first
rush. there was almost holding O
breath on the part of spectators. But
the Blue and Gray held that first rush
of the Pennsylvanians, and the next,
and the next, until the latter was
forced to kick.
The ball went we'll down the field
Calnan received the punt and brought
it back yards. On four plays ths
had make a first down, and
,a1 tn hn mir nCiS tan
Then il was that the crowd awoke 10
the fact that the Blue and Gray wes'i
going to make u great fight out of a
game that was almost admitted to be
lost even before ii began. And it did.
There was never a time when eleven
men were not In every play, and 1t waSt-
with a spirit of determination thh.-
has always marked Georgetown elevens
when powerful opponents were to- 6ss
faced.
Play Is Very Even. ,sv
From that time ON during the first Iial$
the ball see-sawed UP and down thoo
ield between the two 20-yard Anesby
with the odds favoring neither eieysq, :
Georgetown had the be1s-c
ter of the punting. while Washington
md Jefferson was more effective with
The forward pass. Spiegel. the crack
nalfback of the visiting team. failess
ime after time in the second quarter
% gain on run after a fake forward
PASS Once he went about Is yards, but
,ne of his teammates was penalized foi.
nolding, which caused the gain to
count for nothing.
iantly in the first half. had held to
| team that had scored two touch
Towns on Yale. the enthusiasm in its
stands was pronounced. A thousand
students formed in snake dance ~
he beginning of the intermission, ana
,eaded by a band marched around the
eld time after time.
vital mistake after the play had
zone only a few minutes in the second
'aIf was the key to the first touchdown
# the game. Georgetown started To-
ush the ball in it's own territory. gain
ne about yards in three downs.
n stead of punting on the fourth. Ca
an elected to send his backs into ths
enter of the line. with the result tha;