The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-14
Gettysburg and Buck
nell Furnish Harris
burg With Football
Atmosphere
STUDENT BANDS
PERFORM WELL
Topham, Lewisburg Fullback, Who
Was Seriously Hurt in Practice,
Starts Game-Gdanic Out With
Injuries Eddie" Plank Rooter

In the game between Bucknell aud
Gettysburg on the Island this afternoon
neither side had scored at the end OF
the first quarter.
Bueknell kicked off, Scheffer making
so yards before he was stopped. Schef.
fer missed the ball on the next play,
Bucknell recovering it.
On succession of PLAYS Bucknell
could not make first down. Topham
tried for goal from placement, bul
failed. Bucknell tried twice more to
make held goals but was unsuccessful.
Play IN the rest of the quarter was in
GettySburgs territory, Bucknell being
on the offensive.
The largest crowd of the season wit.
messed the game, There were abous
$500 fans on the Island.
Harrisburg witnessed college foot.
ball game to-day with all the usual
trimmings. 1t was the annual struggle
between the Gettysburg and Buckncll
teams and the respective colleges left
nothing mturned to give Harrisburg a
taste of the real football atmosphere
Before II clock this morning the
city was in possession of the college
hordes who invaded in great numbers
to music furnished by student bands.
More than 500 Gettysburgians, follow.
ing a band under Robert Philson
senior, marched up Market street SInp,
the railroad station to the Common.
wealth hotel where the team was qUar.
tered.
They had no sooner got settled when
Bucknell, with yell and a college
band said to be as good as any college
band in the business, came on the
boards. They marched to Market square,
countermarched to Third street and then
went to the Columbus hotel, the Buck
nell headquarters, where a concert was
given from the postoffice lawn. Fred
Farringer, a Bucknell senior, as lively
and vivacous as Creatore ever was,
led his thirty-fve musicians through
maze of late music.
Eddie Plank With the Rooters
Gettysburg won out early this morn.
ing in mastering up celebrities. "Get-
tysburg Eddie Plank, who Just now
occupies more space on the sporting
pages than any individual outside of
Charles Weeghman and Garry Herr
mann, accompanied the Gettysburg
team here. He was uncommunicative
about the visit of Arthur Irwin, the
Yankees scout, who saw eddie" at
his home yesterday.
George Cockill, the coach of the
Bucknell team, was perhaps the most
noted of the Lewisburg crowd. He is
manager of the Harrisburg Tri-State
baseball club. He mustered his football
crew in the hotel, away from the noise
and hustle of the cheering sections, and
waited for the time for his men to dress
for the game.
Coach COckill said he had some Grip.
pies on his team. Before the game the
manager said Topham, the fullback,
who was injured in practice Thursday,
would start to play, but he was not
expected to last out the struggle. 1t
was announced Davis would 90 in at
fullback in case Topham had to retire.
Gdanic, too. was seriously crippled be
fore the game, being unable to use his
left arm. 1t was planned for him to be
in uniform, however, ready to get into
the game if it was deemed necessary.
Edwards was picked to start the game
in Gdanic 5 place at left halFback.