Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-10-17
DELAWARE SHUTS
OUT \. Y. AGG|ES
University Football Team Made
49 Points in First Victory of
the Season.

Newark. Oct. 17.-without the
trouble makers, who have apparently
been handicspping the progress of the
team all season. the Delaware foot
bal eleven on Saturday defeated the
New York Agricultural College eleven
by the score of 40 to 0. IL was the
first time this season that Delaware
has crossed their opponents goal line.
While the victory is especially
pleasing, It is not by far the most .m-
portant feature of Saturdays game
from the standpoint of the student
body and the faculty. The game de-
veloped the fact that the team showed
more fight without the would be stars
than has been demonstrated at any
previous time this season.
1t also developed the fact that at
least a great majority of the student
body. although they have been slow
TO come forward and especially the
alumni, are out to support Coach Der
by and give him a fair chance. II
lis now conceded that the successful
football team has to be made up OF
loyal players; that the loyal so called
fair player, who is out there fighting
all the time for his team to win. is
worth twice as much as the so-called
star. who gets an idea that he is so
good that he does not have TO oven
obey the orders of the coach.
IL can be safely predicted that Della
ware is through with the latter class
Of players for at least this year II
a player expects and hopes to make
h L. - a.
ders of the coach. There will also
probably be showdown for some
closely connected with the game other
than players, who, il is thought, are
probably at least partly responsible
for the attitude of some of the squad
who evidently became of the opinion
that they We're good football players
Petition signers who try TO undermine
the coach in that way will also no
doubt be taken care of in the proper
way.
The above facts as to the causes
leading up to Delaware's poor shoty-
ing up until Saturday on the gridiron
are given at this time because they
are of much more Importance than
the actual playing of Saturdays con-
test.
Delaware won on Saturday because
at last Coach Derby, notwithstanding
his many handicaps was able to get
together a team that would fight To
win. That is exactly what the team
did on Saturday and they won.
IA there was any particular star II
was jackson. the freshman. He
played whale" of a game in the first
half and was allowed a rest in the
last half. Jack" Williams. Joe
Rothrock and Schaeffer, making up
the backfield, all did excellent work.
Several of the sub backs also played
well
Captain Holton was a power Of
strength on the line and 1t was large
~ his judgment in helping out tn
less experienced players with sugges-
tions as TO their playing that made it
easy to get through the "Aggies'
line Howard Young and Bob" Foulk.
both of whom several years ago were
stars at the Wilmington High and who
have played some football here. got
in the game for the first time this
year. They are both ends and both
looked good. They got into the game
last week, when some Of the would be
stars are said TO have started the old
time stuff of getting up petitions to
the president of the college. apparent