The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-12-11

lantic City sending the biggest dele
| cations: Baltimore, Norfolk. Newport
coming next. Cleveland and Pitts
burg, were well represented.
Hold Open House.
Wednesday night the van guard OF
pleteiy s%ampng the 20 Whitelaw ao-
/ tel and rooming houses. The night
previous to the game the. Howard AL
umni and the student body held a
Rankin Memorial Chapel and the Al
pha Phi Alpha and other Greek let
ter fraternities held open house to
all visiting brothers and friends.
Early Thanksgiving morning the
big crowd began to gather, The Lin
coin eleven who had spent the two
previous days at Morgan College in
Baltimore. arrived closely followed by
Of thousand strong from Philadel-
| phia led by Lincolns Old Guard, a
| society of graduates from that school
| of years back.
With Lincoln's eleven was Paul
| Robson, former star end on the Rut-
| gers eleven, now a student in the law
schools Of Columbia University and
| William Matthews assistant U. $. dis
| trict attorney of Boston during the
| Republican administration and himself
a football player of note from Har-
yard. Both men We're engaged in a
Lincoln alumni to stop Howard. Pol
| lard who has been coaching Lincoln
for the past two years did not put In
| an appearance.
The game itself was one of the
| most brilliant social events in the his
tory of Colored football. Never before
| has such a crowd of women and men,
| and ii might be said too much credit
cannot be given DR.. Emmett j. Scott.
| secretary of Howard Unlver-
sity who is WIDELY responsible for the
remarkable turnout. In days gone by
| this annual struggle between the two
| universities has been played on How
ards campus when that school acted
| as host but DIR. Scott saw clearly
that the grounds there were not
| enough, and sought the use of the
| Washington American League park
and after several refusals on the
| part of the management, he finally
| succeeded in winning over those in
| charge to his way of thinking ana
the park was turned over TO him Tor
the days game.
Then came the real test. Two of the
biggest Washington Universities want
| cd the park for the same after
noon and every pressure was brought
! to bear to get it, Mr.. Scott again
| set to work to carry out his original
| plans He won. The two Universities
made their final effort. They asked
for the park and for morning
Howard First on Field.
The Howard eleven was first on the
| field, arriving at one thirty followed
| by their band and enc thousand sing
| ing and cheering students. Lincoln
| trotted out twelve minutes later. The
| Lincoln followers paraded the field
| headed by their band which stopped
| in front of the Lincoln cheering sec
ton where, with barred heads, they
| sang Lincoln's Alma Mater"
The Howard squad was presented
with hugh floral H, a gift Of the
Durkee. who urged the boys. to go
| into the game bent on winning but
| cautioned them to be gentlemen as
section rose in a body and sang 20,
| Howard we Sing to Thee"
Captain Lawrence of Howard won
| the toss and chose to defend the
n goal with the wind at his
Lincoln Receivers Tumble.
Lincoln kicked off to Williams on
| tempt to run IT back Howard fumDied
coin recovered. The visitors cheer
| ing section went wild. Lincoln found
Howard line strong, for in four rush
| es they failed to make the necessary
punted and Lincoln worked the ball
| by a series and end runs to Howard S
| territory. Lincoln tried an on side
kick when the blue and white line
Howard worked the ball into Lin
coins territory only TO lose 1t on
| downs.
Howard First to Score.
Lincoln tried the Howard line and
on the third try Williams broke
! through, recovered tumble and ran
| twenty yards for a touchdown. Linz
coin came back strong and made
| Il 90 hold fhefp a. lie
In the second quarter after Coach
| Morrison had sent in six substitutes
Lincoln worked their way down to
! the Howard five yard line when the
| whistle blew. Between the halves, mo-
| ton pictures were taken of the crowd
who used this valuable time to re-
| new social acquaintance with friends
from other cities whom they had not
Williams Runs so Yards.
Lincoln kicked off the Williams on
Towards twenty yard line and the
| slippery fellow ran. through the en-
tire blue and gold eleven, eighty
| yards down the side line for a touch
! down. This took the spirit out of the
| visitors who fought then. not to win
the game but to keep down the size
| of the score. Downing, Payne, Car
| ter, and the Howard backfield pulled
| with terrific line plungos, mixed with
an aerial attack that swept the Lin
coin eleven off their feet Howard
was penalized for rough play in the
| final quarter but on the first play a
| forward pass by Lincoln fell into
| Downing's hand and another, march
for the goal was started: Lincoln
fought braveIy on, despite being. out
| played in every department of the
| game.
| Howard Has Wonderful Team.
Coach ,Morrison's men showed not
only good Judgment in the second
| Americas finest college sport, The
| game will go down in history as hav-
| ing been one of the best played
| games in the history of Howard. The
| visitors were modest. When Morri-
son was asked If he had anything to
say he simply answered, We played
| the best we knew how" Morrison
comes from Everett, where he played
| on the Everett high school eleven and
| from Tufts College, Medford. Miss.
| where he played three years on the
| varsity squad. He was ably assisted
] by Penderhughes of last years blue
and white eleven. The Summary;
Howard Positions Lincoln
Williams. f. .........J. wilson
| Fuiler-L T. ...'...-'....'...'.' C fMa
| SMITH. G. ..................W Wood
LawrenceacCenter .......... Garter
| Brooks--R t. ............ Hopkins
Hurt-R. e. ....,.........G Capt; Nix
Carter----Q. y. ............B. Wilson
DoneRey-R II. B. ...........i Carr
| Payne-F Is. ....,.,......... Law
Score. by periods: ., 40
| Howard .t........1.l ~