Evening star., 1944-12-02
Westerns 10Th Victim
In Streak Marked
By Consistency
BY BOB MCLEAN.

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pion for the first time in seven years,
today looked back on an undefeated
season rarely equaled for consist
ency in local scholastic history. In
running up string of 10 victories,
eight of them in the interhigh
round robin, the Ramblers have had
no off days, and have shown true
championship class BY playing 40
quarters of flrst-class football
Their scoring pattern followed a
blueprint that rarely was varied.
Yesterdays grand windup of the
schoolboy season in the Central
Bowl, where Eastern trampled
Western, 27 to 13, for the 1914 title
was the topper to the Ramblers'
great record. The Eastern scoring
was just one point higher against
the Red Raiders than in the first
game of the season when Eastern
swamped Western, rs to 0. If West
ern had not capitalized on blocked
kick and a tumble in the closing
five minutes of yesterdays game to
score pair of touchdowns, the
score would have been almost ex-
actly parallel.
Eastern's Interhigh Record.
Eastern, 26; Western, 0.
Eastern, 20; Wilson, IA.
Eastern, 6; Tech. 0.
Eastern, %; Coolidge, 7.
Eastern, 13; Anacostia, 6.
Eastern, 13; Central 0.
Eastern, a. Roosevelt, 7.
Eastern. 27; Western, 13 Cham
pionship game.
Tech Toughest Victim.
The Rambler steamroller in eight
interhigh games rolled up a point
every two minutes for a total of 167
against the At opponents scored.
Only eleven against which Eastern
was held to solitary touchdown
was Tech, defeated, to 0, in a sea
of mud that mired the galloping
Rambler backfield quartet of Bobby
Lyles, Sonny Settle, Jack Bobb and
Eddie Charnock. Eastern recorded
the highest score of the year in a
34to-7 triumph over Roosevelt ana
came close to matching it with a
28-to-7 win over Coolidge and the
800 and 27-13 victories over
Western.
Western and Wilson are the only
teams that could score twice against
the champs, Wilson taking top hon.
ors with IA points and Western reg
lstering l3. Tech and Central were
shut out and Coolidge, Anacostia
and Roosevelt each managed to
push a single touchdown across.
Yesterdays title tilt was a repeti-
ton of the 1887 championship game,
in which Eastern won the title with
victory over Western, and as ex-
pected the 1914 flag was won by the
smashing infantry attack of the
Fasteners, who held in check the
aerial offensive of a lighter team
until the final five minutes when
Westerns passes began to click.
An estimated 5000 chilled fans
were warmed in the late going when
Bob Baxter, dependable Western
center, smashed through to recover
a blocked kick on the Eastern 40.
On the next play, Buddy Hart,
Raider left halfback, slung a 33-
yard pass to Quarterback Don Lich-
ty, who went across untouched. Bob
Guillot's attempted placement was
wide.
Western Seizes Break.
Then, with the game almost over,
and many fans leaving the stadium.
Eastern fumbled on the kickoff, and
Western had the ball on the enemy
35. Gene Gould, veteran Raider full
back, Tipped fiat pass 10 yards to
Halfback Jack Castro, who picked
his way through most of the Eastern
team to score. This time Guillot's
kick was good.
The spine -tingling last minute
western scoring came as a climax
to a game in which the smashing
Eastern running attack ran over the
Raiders for three quarters, scoring a
touchdown in the first and second
quarters and racking up a pair of
six-pointers in the third.
Settle, Eastern's candidate for all
high honors, scored No. l when he
went over from the Western 4 on an
end sweep after the sturdy work
horses of the Eastern line had broken
through to block Hart's kick. Char
mock marked up No. 2 in the second
quarter when he slashed through
center from the Western 3 after a
70-yard touchdown drive highlighted
by Bobb's brilliant 20 and 80 yard
gallops. No was notched by Lyles
from the Western l, and No. 4 was
marked up in the same period, the
third, by Dixie Howell, star Eastern
right guard and point after touch
down booter, who scooped up a
Western tumble on the Raider 30
and scampered across.
Howell kicked three out of four at
tempted placement conversions.
Pos. Eastern. western