The Penn's Grove record., 1923-11-09
Tigers Defeat Pitman
Joe Patterson Plays Great Game
After Being Out on
Injury

Last Saturdays game for the du-
Pont Tigers with Pitman was Ger
tainly considered by every one to be
the big game of the season and the
Tigers would bet nothing on the out
come. They went at the game with
determination to take what came to
them but they outdid themselves in
wonderful work by every man on the
team. So they took everything. by a
score Of 25 to 6.
From the moment Of beginning to
the final call the Tigers had every one
seeing how finely they knew the game
and what great work they could do.
There were star players and star plays
but not a man on the team fell short.
1t was after being out for month
with severe injuries Joe Patterson
played again for the first time and he
played wonderfully. He was the big
man on the offensive; he made long
kick-offs; he intercepted forward
passes; he made long punts; he was
the quarterback defense and twice ran
back punts as could seldom be done
He was the man of the day.
In the first quarter after there had
been several exchanges by punts the
dupont men began on their own 40
yard line and went from there to the
goal line without stop. Joe Patterson
Ed. Bennett and Reds Hendricks took
turns and advanced the ball by two,
nine and eight yards. There were no
spectacular runs and no forward
passes. 1t was a slow but sure work.
Reds carried the ball across.
Patterson then kicked off and the
ball went beyond the goal line On
the second play Testa fumbled and the
Tigers recovered the ball near the
thirty yard line as the quarter ended
Then as the second period began an
other touchdown was made. Joe made
this by twelve yard run around left
end.
Try as often as they would Pitman
Gledhill broke thru to throw Green
wood and Peterson for losses and
forced Newkirk to punt. From mid
field the dupont eleven again went
down the field by steady work but
upon reaching the twenty yard line
were held for downs. The Pitman
team then tried forward passes, one
after another. The first, R. Bell to
Myers, gained twenty yards, but the
next three failed. Newkirk punted
and Patterson did the same. This
time he made it just short enough not
to go over the goal line. Pitman again
failed to make gains and punted out
to the fifty yard line. The half then
ended and Pitman had not had the
ball in Tiger territory once.
In the second half Pitman did better
with the three fresh men that were
put in near the end of the second
period and they began by making
steady gains for the first time R.
Bell twice made eight yards around
left end and brought the ball to mid
field, but it got no further Dare threw
Greenwood for a loss and he was
thrown so hard he had to be taken out
of the game. After this, on an ex-
change of punts Pitman got on the
Tiger territory for the first time by
two yards, the forty-eight yard line.
They did not get much further for
Smith and Megary each took turn
at wrecking the play for losses.
On the punt that followed Patter-
son fumbled the ball on the goal line
and the folks from home held their
breath, but not long, for Joe recovered
it and sped like lightning for the
greatest kind of a run. With no de-
fense he reached the forty yard line
before he was stopped. The third
quarter ended with no scoring.
Early in the last quarter Gledhill
recovered a Pitman tumble, for the
third time in the game, and our home
boys started again. This was by a
fifteen yard forward pass from Pat
terson to G. Dolbow but then Patter-
son punted sixty yards to the one yard
line. The punt out was blocked and
a Pitman man recovered the ball. The
referee refused to award a touchback
and by a queer decision gave DUPONT
the ball on the twenty yard line. Pit
man then held for downs and punted
to Patterson on the forty yard line
The team perfectly covered every
pi+,,7an man and Joe did clever run