The Washington times., 1917-10-17
WITH BATTERED LINE
GEORGETOWN FACES FOE
By LOUIS A. DoUGHER.


Itis with a Battered bunch Of for
wards that Gsorgetown VIII face Ls-
high Saturday at South Bethlehem.
Pa The heavy Springfield Y. n c. A.
Training School eleven pounded the
Blue and Gray line to q fare-you-weu
last Friday. and not Q man escaped
bruises that handicap his work to-
day.
Dudack and smeach. the George
town tackles, who withstood the
brunt Of the Springfield attack, were
hardly able TO move yesterday when
Coach Exendine called his giadiators
out for practice. Neither was COM
PEELED to do. more than timber M for
practice tomorrow.
Little Heaphy. who apparently bas
taken the job away from Alex Ander-
son at center. was knocked out thrDe
times IN the sprinkfield game, but
he played through. A . result Of the
battering he got. he r. black and blue
from knee 70 shoulder.
Bob zuger and big Ahern. thA fresh
man guards. have their injuries to
nurse for the remainder Of the week,
and John O'Reiliy n the busiest man
at the Hilltop, trying to get the first
string players into condition to face
the heavy, hard-playing Lehigh eleven.
Mike Thompson. former graduate
manager Of athletics at GsorTetown,
and now director Of all athieties at
Mt st. Mary's College. Emmitsburg.
Nd, is coming to the front once more
as q football official He acted as
referee In the Pennsylvania- Georgia
Tech game at Atlanta, and last sat
urday refereed the L.ehieh-P Pittsburgh
clash
Thompson Is one Of the Oldest ana
most capable Of referees in the East.
but in recent years has been side
tracked for the benefit Of other Off
cials. It has been his luck to figure
In many situations bringing about
needed changes In the rules, and, with
few exceptions, his decisions have
been ratified BY the central board
Although the Carlisle Indians lave
established some Of the largest scores
of the season. the Indians are unusu-
ally young and inexperienced The
years of age. there being but two Of
them Two are but twenty years old,
and the others are ninetsen years old. |
The substitutes range from sixteen 70
twenty years OF age. Casey Jones
has the distinction OF being the |
youngest In the squad At Carlisle
Penn Stats made fftesn touchdowns
against ST Bonayenture Saturday, the
score being 90 to 0. After the second |
half started only one regular appeared |
for Penn tate. thiFd-string players |
doing most OF the work. Georgstown |
could probably run mp An equally |
high % re against Western High |
School
cramer, former Fordhan star, Ag-
ured prominently Saturday in the VIC
tory of the Army Ambulanco bunch /
over the Seventh Infantry team from |
Gettysburg. He tore on . number OF /
runs from twenty !. to dfty yards. /
Lamphisr, former West Point back
neld player, now . lieutenant in the
army, was the Gsttysburg teams best
man.
McCreight. fullback on the W. ana
J eleven. is proving the same reliable /
man this season that he was last. He
xicek two placement field goals
against West Virginia Wesleyan, and
. goal from touchdown
Fordham Is developing q formidable
on the gridiron. Judging BY
Is scores. The Bronx OUTFIT thinks
nothing Of running up nfy or sixty
points, and both Holy Gross and George
own will have their hands fun 70 win /,
rom the Maroon this year.
Claude Thornhill. former tackle on