Evening star., 1917-10-28
Y.P.t. 0UTCLASSED
BY BLUE AND GRAY
Georgetown Eleven Marches to
Victory Without Making a
Single Substitution.
SCORE OF GAME is 20 TO o

Brilliant play by Gllroy and
McQuade yesterday enabled
Georgetown University to defeat
Virginia Polytechnic's foot ball
team in the big home game of
the formers season. score 2S to O.
Starting the contest by deliver
ing two runs which resulted III
a touchdown. Gilroy. aided and
abetted by the feet-footed Nc
Quade, gained ground consist
entity against the Blacksburg
collegians from the start OF the
contest until its finish.
In everything which concerns
good foot ball the Blue and Gray
had the visiting eleven outclass
ed. In not one department OF
play was the Tech team able to
cope with the aggregation
coached by Exendine. The Nir-
ginians played fairly good foot
ball, but it was not enough foot
ball for team expecting to beat
Georgetown. 1t was absolutely
useless for the visitors to strug
gle against the sturdy defense
put up by the Georgetown for
wards, and the backs of the Hill
top team proved alert and agile
enough to break up consistent
gains by forward passing
virginians Are outclassed.
Georgetown simply outclassed the Viz
4inians, just as it has been outclasSing
past few years. V. P. l. had no backs
Of the brilliant capabilities of Gilroy
and McQuade and its team generally
was not the nlachinelike combination
that represented the Blue and Gray
Georgetown had the better players, they
were more thoroughly drilled as a
team, and the natural result was de-
easfve victory.
Not only did Georgetown's team show
GOOD team play, but it was well trained.
During the entire contest not single
substitution was made and all the play
ors emerged from the fray fit and look
ing as II they could go through another
Immediately.
scored To start the game Gilroy
caught the kickoff and carried the ball
for nifty yards before being tackled. I'm
mediately following, Gilroy was given
he dad in
ming the remainder of the distance to-
the goal for the first touchdown Du-
dacl kicked a goal
Georgetown Bunches Scoring.
Georgetown did all of its scoring in
the hrst and last quarters. obtaining
two touchdowns and two goals in these
periods. After gaining ground consistent
", McQuade carried the ball over in the
first quarter. Dudack again kicked goal
In the second quarter Georgetown tried
forward passing, but several attempts
proved unsuccessful.
The first forward pass attempted by
Georgetown in the tlird quarter. when
GiIroy threw accurately to Whalen. net
ted substantial gain. Following. this
pass the ball was carried close to Nir-
xfnia's goal in three downs, but the
visiting eleven held the local boys safe
and obtained possession of the ball
after It was on their 5yard line.
Maloney made some pretty runs and
gained a great deal of ground. Gilroy
also added considerable ground.
McQuade was given the ball to start
the fourth period and gained con-
sistently. following which Gilroy added
more ground to his teams credit. Then
Gilroy made a pretty forward pass to
AcQuade, who carried the ball over for
Georgetown's third touchdown after a
goal. The Virginia eleven had hardly
enough time to catch it's breath before
McQuade again got possession of the
ball and placed the pigskin over the line
after a sixty-yard run. Gilroy kicked
goal which ended the scoring for the
day.