Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-10-25
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tumn day truck ride to Georgetown
yesterday, the Virginia Athletic
Club football team defeated the NIGH
tv Knickerbocker Athletic Club grid
jroners by the score: Virginias, 6;
Knickerbockers, 3.
When a football team has to tackle
another whose weight averaged fully
forty pounds to the man more than
their own weight; same opposing
team having such a noble football
1 gladiator as Mr.. John Hagerty, OF
Georgetown University, as coach; not
only those advantages but playing
upon their own battlefield, and then
winning when the Knickerbockers
had a three-point lead which was
gained during the first quarter Of
play from field goal, surely the
winner must have been playing
great football game, and that was the
feat the Virginias had to perform to
beat the Knickerbockers.
The Virginias played hieh-class
football and used numerous trick
plays that fooled the Knickcrbockers.
The Virginias fought like Infatuated
tigers when the elephant-like Knick-
erbockers tried to conquer them, and
while several players from both
teams had to retire on account OF in
iuries received, nevertheless, there
were others ready to fill the gaps in
the battle lines A world-war, hero,
who fought in many battles in France
and was one of the first soldiers to
invade Germany as as member Of the
First Division, American Expedition
ary forces. was the hero Of the foot
ball game.
During the last quarter, when only
two minutes of play remained, Earl
Cornell captured the ball and made
a long run-with the Knickerbockers
chasing him like a pack Of wolves
and crossed the line for n touch
down, thus winning the game for the
Virginias. The play was a pretty
one and showed what can be accom-
plished if the verse of poetry that
runs thus: IF you don't at first sue,
ceed; try, try, again; time will bring
you your reward; try, try, again,
etc. Coach Lee Nails has worked
wonders with the Virginia lads, and
it is no boast to state that his foot
| ball warriors will compare favorably
| with any in the District of Columbia
or Virginia, averaging $40 pounds
/ per man.
The Knickrrbockers have a we'll
| working and powerful bunch of foot
ball players and play hard at all
times and treated the Virginias
| with every courtesy.
| Captain elect Dudack, 1920"
\ Georgetown University football team,
was referee, and his decisions to
both teams were rendered in a fault
| less manner.
Carl Mueller, umpire; Lamar Mum
roe, tinekecper, and Ross Fisher,
head lineman, were the other offici-
ais who served during the contest.
By carrying off the honors in one
Of the cleanest scholastic gridiron
clashes ever staged on Hoxton Field,
near this city, Techs football ag-
gregation Of Washington, hammered
another notch in its stock of victories
yesterday when it took the measure
of the strong Episcopal High School
eleven, % to 7.
A more or less antlquated style
of attack, featured by incessant line
plunging, which has marked the
manual trainers playing for several
years past, was instrumental in de-
feating the Episcopalans whose
line, under continual and irresistible
smashing and hammering, finally
crumbled, permitting tally in the
second and third periods and two in
the final.
! Playing with that same vim and
dash that characterized their play
last season the Dreadnaught steam
roller tactics continued yesterday
this time at the expense, of the Post
Team of Fort Myer, Virginia, who
were 'boxed barraged" and taken in
to the local camp by SO to 0, and the
latter incidentally maintained the
honor of preventing their goal line
| from being crossed this season.
The cayalrymen played consistent
football until the last quarter when
several fumbles on their part proved
costly as they were Immediately COW
cred by the Alexandrans and quick
ly converted into points. The ball
see-sawed up and down the field dur
! ing the first quarter, changing hands