The Washington herald., 1915-12-05
GALLAUDET LOSES
SIX letter men
But Five Regulars of Kendall
Creeners Eleven Will Play
Next Season.
RECORDS OF PAST TEAMS

Six letter men, five OF whom have
been mainstays Of the Gallaudet College
football team for three years or more
have played their last game for the
Kendall Green institution Green mate
rial must be developed to fill the places
left vacant by the graduation of Rem
dali. Martin. Classen. Kelley, and C.
Thompson Every one of these men has
been very near to stardom and their
loss means practically new team next
year.
Capt-elect Scott Cuscaden. Marshall.
Treuke. Peard. and Ferguson are the
men about whom the new team must be
built. They are all capable players. and
there is general spirit of optimism
about the college that enough of the
new men will come through to make the
1916 team formidable machine. The
disastrous record of the team this past
year was the result of a combination OF
unfavorable cfrcumstanceS and scarcely
fair test of the quality of the mon.
The players stood Loyalty by Coach
Wayne Hart all through a season Of
defeats and no one holds him RESPONSE
Bile for the showing the team made.
One Of the best individual leaders seen
at Gallaudet was lost when Fred Moore
graduated in 1915. and. coupled with the
loss Of Coach Fritz Crafts the Kendall
Green boys were left without the leaders
on the team and on the coaching staff
The record of the Gallaudet football
teams OF the past three years explains
well the situation of the team this year.
In itself the record is probably the best
any college of similar size in the coun-
try can claim. In 1913 Washington and
Lee won the only game Gallaudet lost.
"a to o. Baltimore City College was de-
feated by the record-breaking score OF
log to 0. Western Maryland. Wake For
est and NJ. A c. were defeated by large
margins.
In 1914 Fordham barely managed to
scrape through with to victory:
V. NJ. ]. won to o and the strong Roam
oke College team captured the long end
of a 10 to score. All of the games were
played on the opponents home field.
Rock Hill College was overwhelmed; T.
NJ. G. lost IS to s.: NJ. A. C. was a vic
tim, . to 0; neither team scored when
Gallaudet faced the Catholic University
eleven. Then came the big game Of the
season with Georgetown. The plucky
Gallaudet eleven. handicapped in every
department. held G. L. to twelve points
and scored seven herself
To fully understand just how splen-
did this record was it must be re-
membered that. altogether. Gallaudet
actually had less than sixty-five stu
dents to choose a team from Every
school played that even began to
with Gallaudet in enroll
ment of students was defeated by
scores. Here was a
college OF siNty-fve students ranked
very little below the greatest univer-
stiles in the country by comparative
scores
Two classes entering Gallaudet in
successive years. both remarkable for
their football talent. carried Gallaudet
to the crest of its football fortunes.
Fred Moore. a sterling all-around
athlete and quarter back: Ed Foltz.
who made the All-South Atlantic
eleven in several selections: Butter
baugh. Decker and Jacobsen were a
output of football stars for
4 single class numbering only eight
men This was the class of 1915.
1t was the loss of these men that
destroyed the splendid machine Fritz
Crafts had built up and lead to the
series of humiliating defeats in the
1915 season just closed. The fact that
these teams We're without exception
from far larger schoo!s than Gallau-
det did not relieve her disappoint-
ment at all. Several of the teams
played this season were completely
put of GaIlaudet's class and the sea-
son ended with but one victory to her
credit. She won from the Carlisle
Indian reserve team.
For the 1915 season there is to be
no effort TO schedule games with COL
eyes who rank far above Gailauder
in point of numbers O. W. McInturfr.
|, junior. who has been Manager SteG-
nerton's assistant for the past two
years. has been selected to succeed
mis- chief and is arranging a schedule
hat will give the men n chance to
show what they can do against teams
If their own caliber. Two of the
greatest individual players in college,
'uscaden and Marshall. are left to
he next years team and upon these
men falls the burden of building up
he new machine. II a few of the
iew men develop even reasonably
we'll the 1916 season will see Gallau-
let making 4 game little fight to re-
gain her lost laurels of the gridiron