The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-16

II was cold and clear with but little
wind, and fully $4,000 football enthu-
siasts saw the conquarers of the
Navy outplayed almost from start to
finish Twice they threatened serious
ly. The first time tumble lost the
| chance and the other time Techs line
held as few lines ever hold and the
powerful blue and gray backs failed
to go eight yards for a touchdown in
four desperate attemptes. They played
a hard fighting game throughout. how
ever, at which sMcQuade led the at
tack.
Techs famous Jump shift" discarded
for the Washington and Lee game, was
back in use today and to many spea
| tators, it was the thing that the il 1
vaders could not break up. Hardly al n
other formation was used and to tuneI
of Dixie, ragged" numerically by thd
student band, the Tech backs smashed
their way to victory. Most of the gains
were made just outside tackle.
free exchange of punts marked the
game with honors about even, but
Techs advantage lay in the ability of
, the Yellow Jackets to down the Georg-
town runner in his tracks as he caught
the kick.
The first period was scoreless, al
| though Flowers tried field goal from
Georgetown's "a yard line He was in
jured few minutes later in making a
hard tackle and retired Phillips, Tech
center, was hurt on the next play and
retired. Thearn of Georgetown also
was injured and had to retire. Nc
| Quade for Georgetown featured this
period with a 81 yard run.
| With Flowers gone and no one left
to skirt the ends in his spectacular
fashion, the Tech backs in the second
period took to smashing the line.
{ Harlan, Ferst, McDonough and Bar
ron, with Harlan the star gamer,
ploughed their way through the line
| for three first downs in succession, the
touchdown falling to Barron. Fincher
failed at the goal Tech started another
march but failed and punts were ex-
changed several times
Much of the same play marked the
| third period, except that Georgetown
found hole in the right side of Techs
| line and with McQuade, Gargan,
Leighty and Livers taking turns at
! bucking the invaders marched down
to within IS yards of the coveted goal
A forward pass Gargan to Harry Sulli-
van added IT yards, being one of the
| few that Tech failed to breakup.
There were then eight yards to go.
Gardan bucked three over right tackle
I.ivers gained one through left tackle
| and McQuade took the ball with four
yards to go. He was downed against
/ a stone wall defense with a one yard
gain. Unable to get the touchdown by
| bucking, the visitoA tried a forward
| pass. Gargan tossed the ball over the
| goal line toward McQuade but Webb
| of Tech rushed in the way and the
| spheroid struck his shoulder.
| In the final period it was all Tech, and
! the Golden Tornado of 1917 appeared back
| on the gridiron. Harlan and McDonough
got touchdowns that came from a smash
! ing attack against the Georgetown line.
Barron and Forst and McDonough and
Harlan, with the latter playing one of
| the best games of his career. formed
for the Jump shift one time after an
| other until the two touchdowns were
made Fincker kicked both goals.
| Kenyon for Georgetown booted the pig
skin IS yards after the third touchdown
and Scarborough, who had gone in for
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