New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-02
CLINTON MEETS
COMMERCE FOE
IN FINAL GAME
Old Schoolboy Rivals Meet at
Polo Grounds in Closing
Football Battle
By BRIGGS

De Witt Clinton and the High School
of Commerce will meet on the grid
iron st the Polo Grounds this after
noon. It will be the thirteenth annual
game between the schools. Play will
begin at o'clock.
Clinton is q favorite, and justly so,
perhaps, for at this writing the Red
and Black eleven is further along in
development and is running with
greater power and smoothness. But
Clinton will face mental hazard, as
it always does when playing the Orange
and Blue There is a tradition st Com
merce that the colors never have been
dipped TO Clinton twice in successive
years. The eleven will 90 out on the field
to preserve that tradition at all costs.
In years before Clinton has come down
to this final test with what appeared to
be the better team, only TO be defeated,
( or held TO a tie at best. Last year
Clinton won by score Of to U.
Commerce is badly crippled on the
eve Of the game. Captain Frank Col
Inns, the crack end and punter or the
team, is limping on strained knee
and Walter Cooper, first string quar-
terback and drop-kicker, is similarly
handicapped. To add 20 the woes Of
the Blue team Jack tombstone, right
tackle, and Mayer, one Of the half
backs, are nursing injuries of one sort
or another. and are hardly ready for
the hard game they will have to play
If victory is 10 be won. Clinton Is
ready for the game, with team that
is strong and well balanced.
Neither team has met with great
success this season. Comparative scores
will not prove of much assistance
either There are the games played
with Stuyvesant, for instance. The
Dutchmen beat Commerce by score
of Is 70 s, and week or 10 later
trampled Clinton into the dust by a
score Of 43 TO 0. Clinton played Nor
ris to a standstill. losing the game by
a score Of Is TO u because Of deci-
sion by the referee which dehed the
rules of the game. Morris walloped
Commerce TO the tune OF 20 to 0, and
proved itself to be the better team at
every move. Both Clinton and Com
merce defeated New Utrecht, the for
mer by score of 10 70 0, while Com
merce won at 3 to 0. Commerce played
its best game against East Orange,
holding the New Jersey team to tie
at all.
Past performances Of the teams
count for little when the time comes
to play this final game. The boys hurl
all they nave into the struggle and
fight for every yard. The physical
condition Of the teams to-day calls TO
mind the game of 1910, when Com
merce took the field with badly Grip
pied team, but fought to a scoreless
tie. In 1909 Commerce was all ready TO
be led to Clinton slaughter, but
turned TO and walloped the Red and
Black by score Of IS TO II. Every
Commerce man knows all this, and so
does every Clinton man. Psychology
plays its part
or the twelve games played between
the schools Commerce has won seven,
Clinton three and two were ties. Com
merce has scored IA points TO IS for
Clinton. Only once since 1904, when
the first game was played, has Clinton
run her score into double figures.
That was in 1909, when Commerce won
by score Of 10 to IL. Commerce has
piled up the highest score, winning in
1912 at IL 70 0.
The probable lineup OF the teams
will be: Commerce-Collins. right end;
tombstone, right tackle; Davis, right
guard; Falk, centre; Roberts, left
guard; sapsrstein, left tackle; Chear,
left end; Gold, quarterback; Mayer,
right halfback; Chalaire, left hslfback;
Lippner. fullback. Clinton--Stsrn, left
end; Gouldowsky. left tackle; Brodil,
left guard; Hoving. centric; McNulty,
right guard De Stefano, right tackle;
Fitzgibbons. right end; Fred Eisen-
berg, quarterback; Blair, left halfback;
Roy Eisenberg. right halfback; jamie
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