The Washington times., 1922-12-03

he fans remained to pay testimony
ayers.
Georgetown won by 13 to 7. The
victory was well deserved. Hard
fought. bitterly contested was every
inch Of Red" O'Dea's turf In the
ballyard.
The Hilltoppers won because they
nominated the opportunists. And
these opportunists in the supreme
test delivered with telling effect.
Evidently coached and instructed to
concentrate on defense, the Blue and
Gray lads played out their string
with this intent.
Trusting to the breaks which
came, these opportunists-Malley
F1avin, Wertz and Adams-have
their names written quite legibly on
Georgetown's honor roll. 81
Georgetown won. The score II
the thing. In comparison to the
Eastonians In practically every de-
partment of the game, the Hilltop
pers were at a disadvantage. George
town made but four first downs in
the entire contest to sixteen for La.
fayette.
GOT ONE FIRST DOWN.
After forty-two minutes of play.
Georgetown got but one first down.
and at that time was leading by n
score of 10 to Z. In the fourth ne
riod. when Lafayette was apparently
beaten. Georgetown got three firs,
downs in row. But once were the
Hilltoppers able to sustain an ATTACK
ana that was shortly before the
! close Of the game.
Flavin and Byrne had the edge
on Brennan and Drummer who.
punted for Lafayette. Georgetown
tried five forward passes and mad,
but one. Lafayette tried thlrteei
ana got three safe. Georgetown wa.
penalized thirty-five yards and La
fayette forty.
Here's how IL happened
After Florence kicked off and o.,
an exchange OF punts Drummer an,
Gazella managed to get inside
Georgetown's 30-yard line. 1t look
ed for all like the Eastonians wouI
score until on the fourth down and
with three yards to go a forward
pass attempt was tried and the bal
| surrendered. An astonishingly dunn
play was this.
The teams fought on even term
for quite a space until Flavin kick
ed over the goal line. Lafayett
| made march toward midfielt
The period ended and then Bre-
nan punted to F1avin on the QeorK,
town 40.yard line.
OPPORTUNITY COMES.
Opportunity number one presen
ed itself to that worthy and n
got in one of his famous and bri
liant runs for thirty yards. =
momentary halt and Adams clicke
off seventeen yards, through tn
line.
Opportunity number two made a..
appearance to Gus Malley and TIM
worthy kicked a goal from plac
| ment as true ps a die. The ha'
ended with Georgetown in u
| van.
At the start of the second ha
Lafayette gave evidence of its power
Prendergast brought the kickof.
back to the 30-yard line. On a. d.
layed pass Gazella ran the left en'
for thirty-seven yards, putting tn.
bali on Georgetown's 34.yard linc
Four line plays got a first dowr
Gazella made nine yards on q dc
layed pass. Brennan made first dow
on the 11-yard line. A triple pas.
was foiled. A double pass shot Ga
zella out Of the pack and he eluded
two tacklers for a touchdown. Bren
nan kicked goal.
1t was here that the fightinr
Georgetown spirit manifested itself
Here the great break Of the gam,
came. Lafayette began another tri
umphant rush for the Hilltop goa
line and got to the 3o-yard line. \
forward pass by Brennan was al
tempted.
wERTS GRABS BALL.
Carl werts snagged the BAN /,
mid-air. Lafayette forwards fafle,
to cover and Werts set sail dowr
field. Millman came across to tackf.
and elected to drive werts out o.
bounds. The big fellow slippey
around Millman and set sail for tn.
goal line. Gazella dove into Vert
from behind but failed to halt him
werts then outdistAnced the pursuers
and sprinted twenty-five yards, scor
ing q touchdown. ttg lt
The run was actually sfxtystwy
wards and put Georgetown ahead
Opportunity number three was cashe<
by the Hilltoppers and on the tr,
| for point Malley made good on op
portunity number four.
For the remainder OF the hall
Lafayette made desperate ana fnef
fective attempts to score by forward
passing. Neither well timed MOI
well directed the passes failed, but
one dropping IN Berry's hands after
Lowe had tipped H.
Later n the period and toward TN
end Of the half Malley intercepted I
/, forward pass. Flavin. who had beer
rushed back into the game to take
Dufour's place. stood on IAfAyette's
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