Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-20
First Engineers Defeat Camp Vail in
Fast Grid Game Before Large Crowd

Fort du Pont. Nov. 20.--The First
Engineers driving eleven tore. ripped
and plunged their way to two touch
downs here Yesterday afternoon. over
me black jerseyed, fighting eleven
from Camp Vail, in the first Of the
elimination series Of games for the
Second Corps Area championship. The
Camp Nail>eleven scored touchdown
about the middle Of the fourth quar-
ter, the result OF a beautifully exc
Cutcd forward pass, Mack TO Portney
Mack was standing on his own 20
yard line and tossed the pigskin far
down the field TO his feet footed left
end, Partney, who caught the ball on
the dead run and was not downed
until he had reached Fort du Points
one-yard line. Camp Vail caUied il
across on the next play.
The day was ideal football weather
and a crowd estimated at 5000 fans
enjoyed the game. The b,eachers
were moved during the past week
from the baseball field. and put up
along the north side Of the football
field. The bleachers were packed and
| the crowd extended in rows several
deep around all sides OF the field. A
large number Of Wilm!ngtonians were
down, a great number Of them wo-
| men. The First Engineers band of 80
pieces was seated on the home side
OF the field directly in back of the
players bench and entertained the
! throng with numerous selections be-
| fore the game started, between the
halves and during intermissions.
! The First Engineers proved too
strong for Vail in the rushing end OF
| the game, making a total of 20 first
! downs from sCrimmage as against J.
! for Camp Vail. In the first and third
quarters and during most of the
fourth quarter, Camp Vail was on the
defensive, and only prevented a larg-
er score being run up by holding for
downs in the shadow of their goa
posts and by recovering several FUN
bles. In the second quarter and
fourth period, Camp Vail showed theil
most consistent offensive and, except
for the long forward, which resulted
in their touchdown, their gains were
short line thrusts which they woulC
begin in their own territory and con
tinue until they had reached dl
Points 20 or 30-yard line, where the!
would lose the ball on downs.
For the First Engineers the who'll
line proved a stone wall, Tripp ant
Condons work standing out especial.
well. In the backfield. Nickens an
Henry made a number Of good gains
: Madore and Otte did the bulk of IN
, | line bucking work and seldom failed I
. gain. These two stars are bears 70
: work and are bo;h hard men TO stoT
, For the visitors, Little, at righ
, tackle, Mack, at quarterback, an
Portney, at end. performed well.
The game was rough and har
fought, but free from any dirty wor
and fighting. A good spirit prevaile
between the two service eleven
? Charlie" WEIGH. popular Wilmingto
! football official, refereed, and mis- wor
: was very pleasing to the spectators.
E First Quarter.
Otte kicked off for Fort du Pont, I
! Witt, VINO was downed in his track
: on his 25-yard line. The Camp Va
: backs plunged 8 times at the liz
- without gain and Hildebrand kicke
to Otte, who fumbled but recovered O
. his 40-yard line. Madore made
: yards through right tackle. OF
n made it first down through cente
|, Madore made yards through le
tackle and Otte again hit center #
a first down. Madore plunged var,
:, .hrough left guard, bu5 Fort du POI
:. was renalized 5 yards for holding
l. Henry ,ost yards on an attempt.
end run. Madore then punted oy'
Walls goal line, and the ball was pl
in rlay on the 20-yacd li=e
: Gum made II yards around rigl
o end. Hildebrand hit left tackle for
l. Gum tore off and Witt made it
u first down through center. A forwaI
was grounded. Gum made var,