The Washington herald., 1922-11-08

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Twenty years ago the schools
opened a series under the au-
spices. of the Board of Education.
but never before in that span has
such a crowd seen the two teams
in action One hour before the
time Get for play hundreds
stormed the gates in the hopes of
getting In in time to see the bat
tie and by the first kickoff every
seat in the huge concrete stands
was taken and the overflow was
five rows deep against the ropes
that extended down the southern
side of the stadium.
The Penn State-Navy game last
week was criticised because there
was not enough of the stirring to
enthuse the spectators, but from
the time the teams came on yes
terday to the close, when the Gen.
trail student body swept on the
field and celebrated with a snake
dance. there was an uninterrupted
din 5000 students of the two in
stitutions being augmented by a
pair of bands that outrivalled
each other in seeing that their
favorites did not suffer from lack
OF vocal and instrumental sup
port.
Launch Aerial Attack.
From the outset the jammed as
semblage received just what it
wanted and seats were useless ex-
cept as standing places, for Gem
trail started out on a determined
plan to forward pass itself onto
the football throne and there was
no cessation until two touch
downs had placed the team beyond
reach.
In the games up to yesterday
no scholastic rival had been able
to neCOtiate successive first downs
on Central and the team was
praised for a stubborn defense.
but was criticised as having no
attack worth mentioning. Against
Western the plan was to punt un-
til within striking distance and
then try for a touchdown but go
to a goal from the field If there
was question as to holding the
ball Wicked puntinS kept the
Central team bitterly defending
its. goal throughout the first half
against Western. but in the sec
ond half the team got one touch
down and two goals.
Central went in to beat Bust
ness. by running the ends but the
team was sluggish and Business
fought so hard there was only one
score and that came from a sweep
of the flanks.
,. Central Crosses Foe.
Yesterday. however. it was a diff
ferent Central team. Instead of try
ing the ends. pounding the line or
kicking, the Blue and White started
rom the first whistle and forward
Itsznd in way that was excellent
and q 'oralized the Tech defense
The lin ~as one formation. and
th.t was .led time after time for
heSGes as long as thirty yards. with
tfst triple pass injected every
tine Tech dropped back in expec-
tetisn a forward pass.
- he of its games had Central
shS either the forward forma-
tfon. or the three-man toss, but with
Birthright doing the throwing and
Childress. Hall, Rauber. Brinkman
and worley down the field it swept
along until Central was far in the
van, with dozen points to the good
In the second half Central once
more carried the ball to within a
ward of a touchdown. but the for
ward pass worked irreGularIy and
the expected six points failed.
Thoroughly beaten. Tech tried
hard to catch up in the second half
and ran in man after man until the
eleven got the hall into position
for tries for goals and got two of
these. which nettcd the half dozen
tallieS
While not as smooth as Central
in the first and second quarters.
Tech had good success with the
passes. and four different times was
deep In CentrarS territory. hut the
final passes failed and Central's goal
line. via touchdown. remained in
violate
In addition to the enormous crowd
estimated at 10OOO-and the mod
ern tactics. there was another dis
tinct feature Of the day. Seldom in
the history OF interhiGhschool foot
hall matches have eleven men who
started a contest finished 1t. Forced
to give way because of exhaustion
or injuries or withdrawn to send in
instructions or bolster up a weak
position substitUtions are the rule
rather than the exception in this
series.
No SubstitutiOns on Central,
But yesterday Central started
eleven men and the final rush found
his same eleven in the game.