Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-23
Business and Tech Fail to Use
Good Judgment at Crit
cal Times.
TIGERS AND DARTMOUTH
HAVE PLAYED II CONTESTS
Princeton Has Won Seven Games
and One Was Tie-0ther
Gossip.
BY II. C. BYRD.

Business and Tech each lost opportu-
mites 10 score in the championship foot
bail game yesterday by reason of poor
judgment on the part of the quarter
backs. mistake III the use of plays
cost the Stenographers possible
touchdown within the first five minutes
and later in the first half the. same fac
tor probably kept the Manual Trainers
from carrying the ball across.
Early in the game, after Business had
recovered the bail after its kickoff to
Tech, il began d straight march toward
the Tech goal. On straight plunges off
tackle and through the center Business
was gaining consistently, making first
down in two or three attempts. With
the ball on Techs 20-yard line, to which
point Business had carried it with
out d. halt. Cullfean switched his style
of play and attempted a fake plunge
into the line with Dowripk taking the
ball around end. His team was in IL
poor position to attempt the play, as
Dowrick was compelled to run out to
the side on which. the W hole. Tech sec
ondary defense had shifted And at
the time he had two downs ill which
to make three yards to obtain first
down. Safe plays should have been the
order, and the attempt to gain the
next first down the ball should have
been worked over to the center of the
field, where greater latitude for the
fake plays Business has would have
been allowed.
Roberts main blunder for Tech came
when his team had the ball on Bust
ness 2-yard line He gave the ball to
Ochsenreiter repeatedly when it would
have been better to use one of the other
backs. Ochsenreiter always has been
the big ground gamer for Tech, and
Business. naturally. was watching for
Tech to use him at such a critical time,
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almost before he reached the line of
scrimma gre. Had one of the other backs
been given the bail on direct play,
or had a split play been used, to create
the appearance that Ochsenreiter had
the ball. then some one of the other
backs probably could have taken it
across.
Both elevens made the mistake of not
punting enough They were inclined to
take too many chances in rushing the
ball down in their own territory. How
ever. mistakes are part of foot ball,
especially scholastic foot ball, and it is
not unusual TO see them predominant in
such contests. Neither quarterback
should be blamed for failing to do the
right thing every time, as the work of
both in the main was very good.
The result of the game, TO Q, was
not great surprise after the first ten
or fifteen minutes of play. The defense
of both elevens avs too strong for the
offense of the other to penetrate con-
sistently, and there were but few occa-
sions when either eleven was in a posi-
ton to score, and then the full advan-
tage of opportunities was not taken.
Business did not show strong an
oifense as in some OF its previous con-
tests. ma iniy because the defense of the
Technical eleven was stronger than the
defense of the majority of the teams it
had previously faced: or, rather, the
ofense was just the same. but it did
not seem as strong. for that reason.
With the exception of Ochsenreiter,
Techs backs could not gain consistent
~. In the middle of the field, where