New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-03
Lieutenant Brown, Formerly
of Ursinus, Scores Lone
Touchdown of Game
BY Fred Hawthorne

The Kaiser would have tossed on his
cot at Potsdam last night and his
dreams would have been ike the small
boys green apple" ones had he seen
the game at the Polo Grounds yester-
day afternoon between the football
teams from Camp Upton and the Min
cola Aviation Field, which Upton won
by score Of Go.
The. manner in which the soldiers
and the wing men" wenut at each
other all through the game, brought
to mind the old days Of Frank Hinkey
at Yale, when football was not listed
among the parlor sports. The playing
was clean, but very, very hard, SO much
so, that Sergeant PoynebuF, Of the
Aviators. was carried OF the field in
the last quarter, suffering from T. kick
in the head. It was necessary to sum
mon a Red Cross ambulance to bring
the hardy sergeant around again.
There were other casualties sustained
by both sides during the fracas, but
the Upton men seemed the better able
to stand the Bullets
The teams We're evenly matched in
most departments, although Lieuten-
ant Wayne Brown, Of Camp Upton, q
former Ursinus star, scored the only
touchdown by terrific line plunging in
the first quarter. Thereafter neither
side could gain consistently through
the line, and although several long end
runs were made b. both teams. these
gains generally came to nought be-
cause Of fumbline or interference.
Many College Players
Former college players We're plenti-
full in both line-Ups, but Lieutenant
Brown was the star of the game. He
was q. demon at going through the line,
and it always required the efforts of
two or three aviators to bring him to
earth once he had gained full head
way.
Brown, who played at left half. had
plunges, and it was he who carried the
ball straight down the; field, ten and
fifteen yards at a time, from almost
mid-ield. until he catapulted across for
the score from the six-yard line. Hor-
gan mufied the kickoff for a try at
goal and no more scoring was done for
the rest of the afternoon.
Little, the former Yale warrior. who
played at quarter for Upton; Sheppard,
at left guard; Brandt at fullback, and
Horgan, left end. formerly of Colgate,
were the others who showed to advan-
tage for the soldiers. Todd, at quar-
ter; Ellison, at left half, and Michel.
the former Carlisle star. at right half,
did the best work for Mineola.
In the last quarter the aviators tried
desperately for score, and it was
Todd's fine work at heaving forward
passes that kept the playing almost
through out this period In Uptons ter
ritory. The fiiers worked the ball down
TO the rival eleven's l5-yard line by
these methods before their advance
was stopped by fumbling. The game
ended with the ball on Camp Upton's
2o-yard line, in her possession.
though the Mineola team was headed
ed by an Upton man crashing through
the line, to nail the man with the bow.
The infantry seemed stronger at mass
plays, while the aviators excelled Mt
the open game.
Small Crowd on Hand
The crowd was very disappointing,
scarcely more than two hundred civil
ians and probably twice as many men
in uniform being i nthe stands. A
band did much to keep things
clipping, however, and three aviators
sailed over the field at height of
about fifteen hundred feet, trying to
get peek at the score.
Captain Frank Click, now at Camp
Meade and formerly famous Prince
ton gridiron hero, was az interested
spec'ator on the SD" l'res. os 7pas