New-York tribune., 1918-10-27
Blue and White
Eleven Defeats
Merritt cam
Shaw Makes Only Touch
down Of fGame-Robb Also
Stars for Winners
By Charles A. Taylor

The college football season finally
opened in greater New York yesterday
afternoon when the S. A. T. C. eleven
of Columbia defeated the Camp Mer-
ritt team by a score of to 0. Charley
Staw, member of last years varsity,
was the player who, with a fierce
rlunge through the line in the fourth
period of play, brought victory to the
Blue and White.
The lone score of the game was the
result of a sustained attack on the
part of the Columbia men which car
ried the ball distance of sixty yards
IN the third period and which ended
with the pigskin on the Merritt twenty
tSe-yard line. After the brief rest in
terval, the Blue and White returned to
the assault with the same feroci'ty, and
after Robb had sped around right end
for eight yards the irrepressible Shaw
tore straight through the centre for
twelve more.
First Down for RObb.
Robb ploughed along to the three
ward line for a first down and then
Snaw banged his way across. carrying
The ball directly behind the goal posts.
stevens booted it over for the extra
point. Fifteen plays, ten in the third
perod and five in the fourth. had
ripped through the visitors for total
of eighty-tive yards and the touchdown.
1t had been several years since a CO.
lumbia eleven had DISPLAYED such
power on the offence as this, and the
three thousand rooters in the stands
drowned out the blares of their band
by their roars of delight President
Nicholas Murray Butler added his mite
20 the din by rapping the side of the
box in which he was sitting with his
walking stick
The measure of Columbia's superior
lty can be judged by the fact that the
Camp Merritt boys made only six first
Gowns, only one of which came from
rushing, whereas the Blue and White
gained their distance thirteen times, in
each instance through rushing. Five
of the Camp Merritt first downs we're
the result of forward passes, which
we're hurled with great accuracy by
" ats, former Dartmouth quarterback,
Usually into the hands of Sullivan, the
I'D Colgate end.
SO successfully did the visitors work
these plays in the last FIVE minutes of
the game that it seemed nothing could
prevent a touchdown and a consequent
tie score. 1t was Shaw who won the
game and also saved it by intercepting
enc of these long hurls on his own five
yard line.
The Camp Merritt team excelled in
only one department of the game and
that was in punting. McGay. the for
nler Amherst star. did the kicking for
the visitors, and had they used him
more frequently in this way early in
the contest there might have been a
different story.
One Columbia Punt.
Wesley was the Columbia kicker. but
he was called upon only once toward
the close of the game, following the in
perception by DAILY of one Of the Mer-
rtt forward passes. Wesley's effort
WAS weak, the ball sailing only about
twenty yards. Columbia rightly tabooed
the kicking game.
Aside from the ground-gainng abil-
ity shown by Robb and Shaw, the
strong playing Of the Columbia centre
trio deserves commentator. Fargo,
the big centre, was especially aggres-
i've and broke through the line time
after time to shatter Ncrritt's forma-
tons. The best playi.F, on the part Of
The visitors was done by Klinger and
Sullivan, the ends, and Watts. the quar-
ter back.
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