Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-10-19

Secretary OF the Navy and Gen. Smed
the Quantico brigade before he as
failed to arouse the vast Marine asse
supporters had few chances to get q
All of the scoring came in ahe
minutes old when Johnny Groves.
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45-yard line. About midway of the
the ball upright on the 20-yard line
the bar.
There was nothing to brag about
In the attack of either eleven. al
though each gained a deal of ground.
Ten first downs were registered by
the Marines, while Georgetown
checked in with eight. The Hilltop
pers had considerably less driving
power than their opponents and
marred their play h.v fumbling. And
generally when a Georgetown tumble
occurred a Marine was at hand to
recover the ball.
Georgetown Held mt Bay.
Only once was Georgetown able to
advance beyond the Marines 30yard
line. That was in the first period
when a poor punt by Groves gave the
Hilltoppers the ball just within
Marine territory. Then some hard
plunging by Hegarty, DeGassis and
Plansky moved the oval to the Devil
Dogs 26yard mark. There three lipe
plays were fruitless and a fourth
down forward pass by Plansky
grounded, turning the oval over to
the Marines.
In the third period the Hilltoppers
long n
a dropkick. Then a pair of penal
ties that cost the Marines 20 yards
gave the Blue and Gray the ball on
it's opponents 43-yard line. Neither
running nor aerial attack got George
town much, 50 Tony Plansky tried
out his toe at the 45-yard line. His
kick was well directed. but lacked
height, and the ball passed under the
crossbar. The Hilltoppers never had
another opportunity to try for goal
from field.
The Marines also muffed a chance
to score by kicking, after they haH
twice sent the ball sailing over the
goal. Near the close of the second
period Hegarty fumbled one of
Goettge's punts and Braugher recov-
cred the ball for the Devil Dogs ON
Georgetown's 25-yard line. Ryck-
man went through the HilltopperS
sayed a Placement kick from the go
yard line. 1t was a weak effort. the
ball soaring just above the heads of
the players and passing to the side
of the goal posts.
Due to the stellar performances of
Right End Waite and Left Tackle
Bupsch, the Marines found 1T difficult
to gain ground until the latter part
'of the fray. Then Orville Neal was
int n ha Quo ol- te1 Il Il
he proved to be the only back able
TO get ground consistently in the face
of the opposition of the pair of
Georgetown stalwartS. /
Neal Proves Worth.
Meals ball-running was one of the
few bright bits in the contest. This
unheralded Quantico corporal gave
the crowd the thrills it had expected
TO get from Frank Goettge. The lat
ter, who was such a thorn in the
side of the Georgetown eleven last
year and the year before, was COM
pletely covered yesterday
After it had been bolstered on the
right side by substitutions. the Ma
rine line never permitted the Hilltop
backs to take any liberties except be-
tween the 40-yard lines. Liversedge
played splendid game at left tackle,
and SO did Braugher at right tackle
and Sanderson and Skinner at ends.
Had the Marine secondary been a
trihe more active, Georgetown's first
downs probably would have been re-
duced, for the Quantico line did its
work we'll
The kicking and forward passing
was nothing above the ordinary.
Groves and Goettge got more distance
with their punts than did Plansky
of Georgetown. Numerous forward
passes were attempted by both teams,
but few were successful. The Ma
rines were somewhat better at aerial
attack than the Hilltoppers, partcu-
larly on the throwing end.
The first scoring came on the seventh
play of the game. McQuade, kicking
OF for the Marines, drove the ball over
The goal line, and Georgetown started
its attack on the 20-yard mark Plansky
punted to Groves, who was forced out
of bounds at midfield. A forward pass,
McQuade to Henry, got Is yards for the
Marines, then line plays and forward
pass failed. So Groves dropped back
TO the 45-yard line and booted the ball
over the crossbar. .e
G. q. Pass Boomerang.
After Georgetown's brief threat in the
first period, neither team had crack at
the others goal until the second
period was about half finished. Then
the Georgetown team, with its back al
most against it's own goal, resorted to
forward passing, and a heave from
eastman was intercepted by Liversedge
on the 10-yard line. The Marines with
drew Groves and rushed Goettge into
the fray, hoping to have him crash his
way to a touchdown. But neither
Goettge's plunges nor his forward passes
netted anything, SO the star. Of other
years held the ball on the 20-yard line
and Ryckman kicked it-over for the
Marines second 3-point block.
Thrice thereafter the Marines deeply
penetrated Georgetown territory. They
were very close to the 20-yard Zine near
the end of the second period, when
Georgetown braced, and Ryckman, try
ing for third field goal. failed. In the
third period the Marines launched an at
tack from their 3syard line and reached
Georgetown's t15-yard line, only to lose
the ball when Hegarty blocked a for
ward pass that was sailing. straight
from McQuade, to Sanderson, standing
behind goal.
When the final whistle sounded the
Marines were again parading toward
tina Hilltop goal, having marched 80
yards to the 15-yard line
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