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THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER-SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 25, 1896. 9 PIUI PEi'S VICTORIOUS CAREER CHECKED Not Beaten Since 1893, the Quakers Fall Before Lafayette by the Score of 6 to 4. AST ON MONDAY MORNING FOR heimer through centre for 4, -Worthing-ton threw Gelbert before he could gain and Zeiser was through on Minds and threw him for a loss. K. Dickson kicked and Bray got the ball on Lafayette's 10-yard line.

Bray punted to his 30-yard line after failures by the back to gain, and Rowland threw Minds. MENACING LAFAYETTE'S GOAL. Gelbert gained 10 yards around his right end. Minds 8 through his left tackle, being thrown by Bray on Lafayette's JO-yard line. Uffenheimer failed to gain, Dickson passed poorly to Gelbert and the ball was Lafayette's on downs.

Lafayette got 10 yards for offside play, Barclay made 5 around Boyle's end and Worthington 4 through Farrar, Lafayette's first real gain through the line. Yost, Weidenmeyer and Worthington failed to gain and the ball was Penn's on downs on Lafayette's 30-yard line. Minds made 2, Gelbert 3 and Bt-st threw Minds, coming through the ineffective Pennsylvania interference with ease. Penn got 10 yards for off-side play. Zeiser threw Gelbert for a loss, the interference being very weak.

K. Dickson punted and Jones fell on the ball on Lafayette's lO-yard line. Bray and Barclay made minor gains at centre. The playing was close and massed and anything but pretty or exciting to watch. AT LAST PENN SCORES.

Bray fumbled and Boyle fell on the ball on Lafayette's fifteen-yard line. Wothington and Yost threw Gelbert for lost ground. Woodruff made 4 through low of a cot in the German Hospital, and he was enduring all the pains Incident to an acute attack of appendicitis. Captain Walbridge was attacked by severe internal pains day before yesterday, but believing that it was nothing more than a severe attack of cramps, he insisted upon accompanying his men to the Hotel Hanover, this city. There he grew rapidly worse, and physicians pronounced his illness appendicitis, and advised his removal to a hospital.

Yesterday afternoon he was removed to the German Hospital and taken in charge by Dr. John Deaver. Inflammation was far advanced at that time, and the doughty captain's worrying over his inability to lead his men upon the field served to further aggravate the disease. It was finally decided that an operation for the removal of the vermiform appendix was necessary to save the life of the patient, and 6 o'clock was the hour set for its performance. Before that hour arrived Lafayette had conquered its rivals of tne University.

The news was brought by courier to Captain Walbridge's bedside. This relieved him of a load of care and worry, and he took such a decided turn for the better that Dr. Deaver decided to postpone the operation at least until this morning, hoping that the inflammation of the Intestines would subside so as to either render the operation unnecessary or at least much less dangerous than if performed at the present time. At last reports Captain Walbridge, while suffering much pain, was steadily improving. He is robust and strong, and Thirteen Thousand People Flock to Franklin Field and Witness the Red and Blue Fumble Away a Victory The Eastern Kickers Are on the Alert, and, With the Score 4 to Against Them, Win Out at the Last Moment 56 THE SATURDAY RUSH Was at times so great that scores of applicants were obliged to leave without attention.

As a result, we have just 56 Sets left (from our allotment for advertising purposes) to distribute at less than half price on Monday morning. These will go to the first 56 persons who apply, either in person or by mail, at $19.00 and on easy terms; Forever tlieresifter our price for the very same sets will be $42.00 cash. To give out-of-town applicants a fair chance we shall honor all mail orders sent us not later than Monday noon, and these should enclose first deposit of Sl.OOjto ensure acceptance. After the close of the distribution we shall offer a few exhibition sets, somewhat damaged by handling, at special prices for cash only. THIS IS POSITIVELY YOUR LAST CHANCE minor college team, downed before a gala throng of 13,000 people, most of them her own adherents.

The great team that until yesterday had not been beaten since Thanksgiving "Day of '5)3; the team that Yale has thought it injudicious to play; that Princeton could not beat and gave up trying to; the team that has been thrashing proud Harvard; this mighty aggregation whipped, yes, and whipped by Lafayette, whipped because Lafayette played better football. It is a sad disgrace, the sorest of sore blows, with Pennsylvania hanging as she is on the narrow brink, on the eve of an occasion when no more big games may be her lot. Pennsylvania cannot afford to lose, no, not one game, and yet she has lost, and lost to a minor college team at that. Is it that the Pennsylvania system is at fault? Can it be that a way has been found to meet and master the all-conquering Woodruff tactics? No, decidedly no. It is that they do not play the game as they are taught, that there are those among them who have not their hearts fully in their work, that they do not play as a team, but more as individuals.

Without Brooke and Williams the team at its best would not equal that of '94 and '95, but it is capable of far more than it showed yesterday or has been showing this year. It was thought that yesterday the men would rise to the occasion and play as we know they can, but they did not, and they were beaten. Time has come when those in charge should act and act radically if needs be. Pennsylvania, barring a strong defense, played wretchedly yesterday. Fumbling was frequent, and goodness knows how many points it robbed her of, for the fumbles were made at critical times, times when she had the ball in menacing position of the Lafayette goal.

Wiley Woodruff was the worst offender and King Dickson also made some costly fumbles. The interference was poor. Occasionally it worked fairly, but only fairly. Time and time it let the Lafayette men through on the runner and he was thrown from behind for a loss, but it was the fumbling that was the most costly. On the whole, the defense was excellent.

True, towards the close of the second half two kicks were blocked and had time remained one of these BUYERS swered by a vigorous "Rah! Rah! Pennsylvania!" from the other side of the field. Then as the ball got nearer and nearer their goal posts the Eastonites tried to cheer themselves with song. Their chorus ran like this: She had never seen the game of football; On the Midway she had never strayed; She had never seen the Lafayette Play, Poor little country maid. Suddenly the singing was interrupted with a mighty shout. Uffenheimer had carried the ball over the line, and four points stood to Pennsylvania's Only 56 sets of our famous Encyclopaedic Dictionary remain for distribution at less than half price and on easy terms.

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centre and Minds, interfered for by Gelbert. grot around Worthinsrton's end COACH DAVIS EXPLAINS IT and was thrown by Barclay on Lafayette's four-yard line. Uffenheimer bucked the centre for the touchdown. K. Dickson punted out poorly and no goal could be tried for.

Score: 4-0. It was 3.38 P. M. K. Dickson received Rinehart's kick-off and was downed on Penn's forty-yard line.

Woodruff was dropped by Lafayette's Heady Leader Tells Lnfayette Pennsylvania 4 The victorious pennon of red and blue that has waved triumphant over football field for three lone years is lowered in defeat. A new giant has been born to the gridiron, and it flaunts the maroon and white of Lafayette. Thirteen thousand people saw the Quakers meet their Waterloo on Franklin Field yesterday afternoon. They saw and wondered. With dismay they noted the fumbles and mistakes of the once mighty warriors and thought of the glories of other days.

There was a story in connection with the game that few knew. Time and again when a fleet footed runner from Eastor. would rush the ball up the field there were cries of "Walbridge," "Walbridge." The merits of Lafayette's sturdy captain -were well known' and fully half the crowd thought it was his well-knit form that was leading the visitors to victory. But the man for whom the cheers were intended heard them not. WALBRIDGE' SAD ILLNESS.

Up or. a cot in the German Hospital he was lying unconscious. Over him About the Game. To the Kditor of the Inquirer. Lafayette won because she presented a reliable and standard system of team wortnington Detore ne could get arouna his end.

Lafayette was given the ball for holding. Barclay could not get around play, executed by superior individuals. Boyle's end. Best fumbled and B. Dick- Penn's system of interference sprung son was on the ball with a clear field upon a team for the first time, like De- noT'opportun famous wede.

mlSht be fell on the leather! Bray punted to i successful. Every other time it would Penn's 40-yard line. Minds punted, Bray faiJ" muffed and B. Dickson fell on the ball on Having studied this peculiar play we Lafayette's thirty-yard line. Woodruff laid our defensive plans especially might have resulted in Lafayette scor ing again.

As a whole, however, the credit. Then did the lusty-lunged Quakers yell themselves hoarse, and after the last Rah! Rah! had died away the Pennsylvanians began to sing: "Oh, me; oh, my; Won't we- black the Tiger's eye," But little they knew that they were crowing before they, were out of the woods. The kick-out failed and the half soon afterwards ended. Then in the intermission the enthusiasts had time to think. Those who reviewed Pennsylvania's playing were disappointed.

Her defense had been strong, that was true, but her fumbles were atrocious, and her interference was of the seventh-rate order. LAFAYETTE SCORES. The second half opened with the conditions changed. Now the wind favored Lafayette. It was to be do or A Perfect Dictionary defining 25,000 words more than any other, including the latest terms of 189tt, such as "radiograph," "cryptoscope," and hundreds of others that were actually unknown one year ago.

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Anv svstpm nf inter' 8 around Worthington, Bray tackling. nttie kick Dy jviinas mat resulted in Lafayette's victory. One frightfully bad point in the Quaker play was the slow ness with which captain Wharton gave the signals. This retarded the Quaker cause, as in tne Amherst game last Wednesday. Wharton does not seem to be the man for this work.

OVerfield, Gel-bert. Minds and Boyle seemed to be doing the best work for Pennsylvania. Four massive volumes, each Zelser's tackle lost Minds three yards. The quarter-back kick caused Lafayette to touch-back. Rinehart punted from his twenty-yard line to mid-field, where Speer got the ball on Woodruff's muff.

Pennsylvania was given the ball for holding and Minds punted to Lafayette's thirty-yard line. Pennsylvania gained the ball on downs on Lafayette's fifteen-yard, line Just as time' was called. Score: 4-0. SECOND HALF. At 4.05 the second half started, Lafayette having the west goal and the wind.

Woodruff kicked off to Lafayette's ten-yard line. On the first down Bray punted to mid-field and Rinehart threw Minds on Lafayette's forty-yard line. K. Dickson punted and Oeiaert nabbed the ball inside of Lafayette's twenty-five ference which 'weakens the line to strengthen the backs is false. We met this play thus: Jones was instructed tP play to the right of Over-field, and Rowland between the latter and Wharton, and these two men to pin together the adjacent legs of these three men, thereby forming an impregnable bulwark, which was not once broken.

Best and Weidenmyer were instructed to force Stannard out, thereby allowing Reinhart to break through unobstructed, and smash the interference before fully in motion; so superior, however, was Jones to Overfield, that time and again did Lafayette's centre down the runner with a loss. This system as an end play is equally useless, because It leaves the tackle men on tiA opposing side free from being boxed, and no end play wherein the ends are 9 in. wide, 11 1-t in. lona, in. thick, containing naaes, 16,000 column of clear type matter, 3,000 illustrations; 250,000 moras aejinea, 50,000 encyclopaatc topics.

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Minds kicked and Bray soon punted, the ball going out of bounds at Penn's ten-yard line. Tost was used up and Gates took his place. Minds made eight through his left tackle and Gelbert ten around his right end. Bray tackling. SLOW SIGNALS.

The signals were being given particularly slow at this time. Minds made four through his left tackle and Gelbert four through the right. Rinehart threw Woodruff without gain. K. Dickson kicked and Bray got the ball on Penn's fifty-yard line.

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Home Address Business Address Inquirer 10-25. P. 0. and ALL EASTON IS JOYOUS News of Lafnyette's Victory the Signal for Hot Times. Special to The Inquirer.

EASTON. Oct. 24. The news of Lafayette's victory was the source of general rejoicing in the Triple City this evening. Crowds of people had surrounded the telegraph office and bulletin boards to learn the progress of the contest.

Students and the alumni of Lafayette, whey they heard of the University being unable to score more than four points in the first half with a strong wind in their favor, were confident that the Lafayette eleven would win the game. When news of the second touchdown and goal, giving the local college two points the lead reached the city, threw their hats into the air, citizens of the city- congratulated each other, and everybody was happy. No one Gelbert six around his right end, Best I tacKiing. Pennsylvania was given ten for off-side play and Gelbert made ten through his right tackle, being downed on Lafayette's twenty-yard line. K.

Dickson but saved the ball. Then Woodruff fumbled and Worthington fell on the ball. Bray soon kicked and Speer threw thought that would be Minds on Penn's 35-yard line. Minds ahlp. to score asrain and were rati.

was forced to kick and B. Dickson I iraino that rjifai-Pito wnnM Butler. Goals Conkin. 4. umpire Dr.

Mar-vll. Referee Professor Wilson. Time 20-minute halves. downed Bray in mid-field. Barclay got the game had ended students of" Lafay-around Boyle end for a 15-yard run, ette ran through the streets to the hill, putting up the score of 16 to 0.

The goals were secured by Kennevan, Tull, Kolb and Griffith. The referee was J. O'Donnell; umpire, Emhardt. Time of game 25-minuta halves. the college bell was sounded and preparations were commenced to give the xjaiajriic 111SU Ilia.

Ltri liu 11I1 UL lilt) day, and Minds tackled. Bray's kick was blocked in mid-field, but Lafayette fell on the ball. Bray punted to Penn's goal line and Minds ran the ball out 20 yards, Rowland tackling. THE FATAL PLAY. team a right royal welcome home.

The universal opinion here is that had-Captain Walbridge been able to playL the Pennsylvania team would not have scored a point. Mlllville, :57 Independent, O. MILLVILLE, N. Oct. 24 (Special).

Mlllville Y. M. C. A. tearrt shut out the Independent team, of Bridgeton, to-day by a score of 37 to 0.

The features were the tackling of Dunlap, the bocklng of F. K. Reeves and the interference of Andreas. Th RUTGERS DOWNS SWARTHMORE line-up: Y. M.

C. A. Positions. Independent. end Husted tackle H.

Wallace. F. C. Right Princeton Fresbies, 14 HiU POTTSTOWN, Oct. 24 (Special).

Princeton Freshmen defeated the Hill School 14 to 4 In a game that was pluckily contested by the Hill boys, who were greatly outclassed In weight. Princeton scored 10 in the first half and In the second half, the Hill boys improved their playing and secured a touchdown. Sharpe, of Princeton, who played a very brilliant game, had his nose broken in the second half. Lord's bucking was a feature of the Hill's playing. The line-up: Princeton.

Positions. Hill. W'aggener Left end Lloyd Left tackle Lord Dal Left Benry Mitchell Centre Charwtok Jesup guard. Mills tackle. Cadwalader Right end Parshall Fincke Capt.) Reed Sharpe Right half-back French Lothrop back Kiefer Touchdowns Sharpe, Burke, Reed, Kiefer, 1.

Goal Lothrop.l Umpire Reed, Princeton. Referee Stearns, Hill. Timer Kimball, Hill. Time of halves 2 minutes. H.

Adame Horton D. Reick guard. N. Lober, Barber. Left LAFAYETTE'S SUPPORT PRINCETON'S GOOD PRACTICE Rons I'p 30 Points on State With But liittle Opposition.

Special to The Inquirer. PRINCETON. N. Oct. 24.

The Pennsylvania State College team was defeated by Princeton this afternoon 39-0. State was much weaker than was generally expected, and this fact accounts for the lanre score rather than any extra fine work of the Tigers. In the first half the Princetonians made sixteen points, Baird missing one goal from a touchdown. The usual rule of being able to play better in the second half again proved true with the Tigers, and Captain Cochran and his striped athletes added twen-tv-three points In the latter half, making the total of thirty-nine. Princeton's play this afternoon was a decided advance over the work of the last few days, and the pigskin was fumbled but once during the progress of the game.

Considerable off-side play was Indulged in by the Princtons, but in both particulars the team showed marked improvement. The visitors worked repeatedly the old style and sometimes with good results following, but as a rule the Pennsylvanians were thrown back with small gains. In the first half the visitors had the wind in their favor, but this availed them but little, as Full-back McChesney punted across the gridiron with short gains. Only once was the Princeton goal threatened, and then not very dangerously. Bv bucklner the Tigers' far- F.

Beeves. Hensley J. Hlnshall Minds was called on for a kick, he fluked and Barclay fell on the ball on Penn's 25-yard line. This was the play that lost the game. Barclay made two through centre and then on a "fake" kick ran around B.

Dickson's end, carrying the ball to Penn's 5-yard line. Best fumbled, but Rowland fell on the ball. At 4.40 P. on the next line-up, Barclay started around Penn's left end. Minds almost raced him out of bounds but he got over the goal line and planted the ball back of the goal.

Then he kicked the goal and the score was 6 to 4 in favor of Lafayette. Hill came in for Speer. Bray returned the kick-off to. mid-field, where Rinehart threw Minds. Weidenmeyer broke through between Uffenheimer and Stannard and blocked the quarter-back kick, but Penn saved the ball by falling on it on her 30-yard line.

Minds punted to mid-field and Bray kicked back to Penn's 10-yard line. Minds running the ball back fifteen. Again Weidenmeyer broke through in the same place and this time blocked Minds' kick and Worthington fell on the ball on Penn's 15-yard line just as time was called. The teams etc J. Dunlap Right half-back.

Hettinger H. Left Hettinger- F. R. Full Somergale Touchdowns Dunlap, Reeves, Chehcp, Whllden and Barber. Kicked goals F.

R. Reeves, 3. Kicked goal from field F. R. Reeves.

Timekeeper J. C. Doughty Lines- men Yeiter and E. Rumpf. Umpire Hampton.

Referee McMurry. VS. PENN'S TEAfA Closely Contested. Game, the Score Beinsr 16 to IO. Special to The Inquirer.

SWARTHMORE, Oct. 24. Rutgers College football eleven this afternoon defeated Swarthmore's team, In a closely contested and exciting game, the score standing 16 to 10 at the end of the second half. Both teams played better when on the offensive. Owing to the much heavier weight of the visitors, the home team's line was repeatedly bucked for heavy gains, while nearly all of Swarthmore's gains were made by running the ends.

At the end of the first half the score stood 16 to 0 in Rutgers' favor. The first touchdown was made by Cook, three minutes after SwarthmPre kicked off. Haddon kicked a goal. The two other touchdowns were made in a similar manner, by steady bucking of line for three and five yards gains. The line up: Rutrers.

Positions. Swarthmore. 2 9 In Bordentown M. Oj Rutgers Prep, BORDENTOWN, N. Oct.

24 (Special)." Bordentown Military Institute and Rutgers College Preps Football teams played a tie' game here to-day. Score, 6 to 0. Line-up B. M. I.

Positions. Downey Left end iHummel Wittke Left tackle Brown Styer Left guard Tonneil Walls Centre' Clark guard -Stanton i i- Vi i it Vi fankU 1 t' Itival Soutb Camden Elevens Play. South Camden Is equally divided on the football question. One half rooting for Stevens A. A.

and the other for Crescent. The two teams came together at City Hall Park yesterday to decide which was the better and neither side succeeded In scoring. Several men were laid up during the hot contest. Stevens was within four yards of the goal when time was called. The line-up: Stevens A.

A. Positions. Crescent. nueu up as iouows: Lafayt (6). Positions.

Pennsylvania (4) Worthinston, Zeiser. 1. e. r. B.

Dickson Some of pehi' lost, tjates 1. t. r. Farrar Rapilja Left end Wilson Harper) Cap, Rowland EFFECTIVE tNTERfFRETNCE I. g.r.

Wharton Mohn. Left tackle wards and battering the guards. State reached Princeton's 30-yard mark, but lost on a fumble before anything in the Farquhar Jones Centre. Centre Overfield Gromley Mills GREAT MM A.Verlenden McMahon. r.

g. 1. Weidenmeyer r. t. 1.

t. shape of a score could take place. SDecial features of the game were the Stannard Boyle tackle rspeer. mil r. e.

1. e. Best Quarter-back Moore Right end Conger. Ivins (Capt.) Lacey Left half-back Warnken Pllcher Right half-back Hoffman Nicoll Full-back Oliver" Touchdowns ILcey, Hummel. Goals Nicoll, McGann.

Referee Captain T. D. London. Linesman and timekeeper Schoonmaker. Tim Twenty-minute halves.

K. Dickson Cahall Larison Way Hollingshead Right Cook. Left half-back. Mason Right half-back. Drury Halrlo-nr Full-back runs of Reiter, Smith and Church, the blocking of kicks by Armstrong, and the goal from field by Baird.

State's work was devoid of features, except, perhaps, their frequent fumbling. The line-up: Mean apt. Barclay .1. h. to.

r. h. Minds Zeiser, Worthington. r. h.

b. 1. h. Gelbert Bray full-back WoodrufT Referee Laurie Bliss. Yale.

Umpire W. H. Corbin, Yale. Linesman R. D.

Paine, Yale. Touchdowns Uffenheimer and Barclay. Goal Barclay. Touchdowns Cook, Mohn, lla.il (low, Mears, Princeton. Positions.

Penna. State. A. Verlenden, Goals Haddow, rioiungs- head. Umpire Striker, K.ut&ers.

ereree Brokaw Left end Curtin Church Left tackle Smith Clothier. Swartnmore. Liinesraen nuuuaru, Tyler Left guard Glaasmire Swarthmore; Heath, Rutgers. 25-mlnute halves. Trinity, Stanton, O.

r. The Trinity A. of Jackson Park, Broal and Jackson streets, defeated the Stanton A. 19 to 0. Trinity A.

A. Positions. Stanton A. A. AVest Chester, 18j Villa Nova, O.

wi-bt rrreSTER. Oct. 24 (Special). nuj; it xiip, ii enu in DMrlleboplt Riirht tackle Tjavia. Tim toom renresentinsr Villa Nova College Galley uentre iieers Armstrong Right gruard Hillebrand Right tackle Ensmlnger Cochran Right end Diehl Smith Sellers Kelly, Schwartz.

Left half-back Reiter, Wheeler. Right half-back Baird Full-back McChesney Touchdowns made by Reiter, Smith, Church. Schwartz, Wheeler, 2. Goals from touchdowns Baird, 5. Goals from field Baird.

Umpire Clinton Wood, Princeton Seminary. Referee Dr. Newton. tackle Mccuj Left Dooner Centre Thorpe Allen Right guard LIpptncott Fenton Bight tockle Moore Right Fearon Quarter Jackson Matthews Right Left Gomey Pitman Full back. A.

A. 30; Penn A. O. Norrlstown sent another team to Camden yesterday and A. C.

gave them a worse walloping than their fellow townsmen received last Saturday. The defeated team is Pennsylvania A. A. and the Camden boys piled up 36 points to their 0. scoring the first touchdown in five minutes' play.

Van Hart did his usual clever running, car. rying the ball across four times. He was ably assisted by Highley and Avis, the latter kicking four goals out of seven chances. The line-up: A. A.

C. Positions. Penn. A. A.

Sewell Left end McElhatten Early Left tackle Kulp G. Highley Left guard O'Nell Oliphant Centre Harrigan F. Highley Right guard Espenship Geiger Right tackle Canfield Bergen Right end Arnold Peterson Quarter-back Long Avis Left half-back Lightenberger Van Hart Right half-back Hanawan Lemmons Full-back Evans Touchdowns Van Hart. 4: Avis, K. Highley, 1.

Goals from touchdown Avis, 4. Referee Mr. Hayes. Umpire Mr. Barnitt.

Floyd guard Bailey, Smith Centre Simpson Miller Left guard Chatam Dlekel tackle Melcher Left end Ruti' Carroll Quarter-back Wood Right half-back Cadinger Left half-back Walker Tnrr-am TTi 1 1 1 -ha ilr Slnlr came here thl3 afternoon and was defeated in the best game seen here this season, 18 to 0. The college boys played a plucky game, but the home team was too heavy for them and broke through their line almost at will. West Chester. Positions. Villa Nova.

Roberts -Left end Hayden Mack Jeri laciwe James bett guaru Association Football. r.jm n.c fa tnrc TnnRtlv frnm "Rich- Referee Mr. Townsend. Umpire Moore Touchdowns Morley, Ruhe, Slack. Goal from field Slack.

Corcoran rv.hmnn Right guard a i roi i uw ir.nolp-tnn flprmflntnwn. wit nessed the initial association football game of the season at Wrayne Junction yesterday the opposing teams being the Manz RiCh Right tackle Wright Harknesa Right end Shannahan Dicks Quarter-back W. Johnson. J. Johnson half-back Despite these faults Lafayette deserves all praise.

Her work was plucky and untiring. She withstood the attack all during the first half with the ball menacing her goal, and with the score against her won out at the finish. She played gamely and deserved victory. Her men tackled hard and kept at it, and as a whole the men used hteir heads in the play. Bray at time displayed poor judgment, but tackled well and nipped a number of budding Quaker runs.

Rinehart was a tower of strength In tackling and in fact all the Eastonians played hard and effectively. Lafayette had a system to meet the Pennsylvania attacks, devised by Coach Davis. This ex-Princeton end is one of our rising coaches and will bear watching by any big team in need of a coach. Before taking the Lafayette team he coached the all-conquering University of Wisconsin team, which "Phil" King now has in charge. Pennsylvania forced the play well up In Lafayette's territory all through the first half, but only cPuld score once, when Uffenheimer went over for the touchdown toward Its close.

King Dickson made a poor punt-out. and no goal could be attempted. Here were two points lost that would have averted defeat, and then Pennsylvania would have been no worse "off than Princeton, a tie score. This touchdown resulted from a fumble by Bray on Lafayette's 15-yard line. Pennsylvania forced the play during the first part of the second half, but toward the close Lafayette pushed the Quakers.

A poor kick by Minds gave Lafayette the ball on Penn's 25-yard line. On the old "chestnut," a kick, Barclay went around B. Dickson's end, carrying the ball to Penn's 5-yard line. Then he went around Boyle's end ftr the touchdown and kicked the goal. and Klcnmona elevens, vi iub jusuvmnuu Foctball League.

The Manz team was held down to three goals by their opponents, who played a fast, aggressive game, especially in the second half. Kerr, of the Manz team, captured two goals during the first half, and it was left for Carmtcbal to Increase the number- to three in the second half. The Johnson itigni Dreouu Wunder Full-back McDonald Touchdowns H. Johnson, Mack. Goals kicked Cashman, 2.

Referee L. Delaney, Villa Nova. Umpire Herbert Pratt. LinesmenFor Villa Nova. Kirsch; for West Chester Murtagh.

Time Two 25-minute halves. Phoenix, Eddystone, O. PHOENIXVILLE, Oct. 24 (Special). The members of the Phoenix A.

A football team covered themselves with glory this afternoon by defeating the Eddystone team, of Dela-" ware county, 6 to O. Line-up. Eddystone. Positions. Phoenix.

H.Clark.......... Left end T. Left tackle -Davis- G. Small. Left guard J.

Hallgren. Centre L. Ousey. Right guard T.News....... Right tackle Stock Clark Right end Band C.

Goeltz. Quarter-back O'Donnell W. Left half-back Beard Right half-back StaufTer (Dunbar) D. Cheetham Full-back Yarneli Referee W. Harvey.

Linemen O. and W. Ward. Umpire A. W.

Lloyd. Touchdown Yamell. Goal kicked Stauffer. Twenty-minute halves. line-up was as ronows: Manz Positions.

Richmond. die with the visitors and their 175 shouters were lustily cheering them on. The Princeton boys and the two lone youths from Cambridge were bringing up the van. The Pennsylvanians opened up with a little show of vigor. For a time they kept the ball well in Lafayette's territory.

But suddenly conditions changed. The visitors became aggressive. As they increased their efforts the Quakers seemed to weaken. Suddenly a fumble by Minds gave the ball to Lafayette on Pennsylvania's 25-yard line. Then, sad it Is to tell, the Quakers seemed to go to pieces.

Lafayette worked an old game, a trick as old as football itself, nothing less than a fake kick. And it worked. The result was that Barclay took the ball, darted around Pennsylvania's right end and was only within five yards of the goal. Then maybe the Eastonites didn't cheer, and the Princetonites dance with joy, while the two lone lads from Harvard gave a series of caustic comments that run like this: "Call that championship football? Wow! Wow! Rah! Harvard Lafayette. Oh, my, we won't do a thing to them." A moment later the rest of the story was over; Barclay ran round the end and a goal was kicked, giving the visitors six points.

The cheers that followed were enough to awaken the dead. There were only a few minutes of play left and during this brief time LaJayette came near scoring again. Suddenly the whistle blew and the Eastonites knew that victory was theirs. BEDLAM BREAKS LOOSE. Then did Bedlam break loose.

In a minute the field was a howling, shouting mass. Men otherwise sane raved like maniacs, threw their hats in air and yelled side-splitting whoops of joy. The members of the winning team were picked up and literally carried from the field. The Pennsylvanians were not much in evidence. Most of the shouters had business elsewhere.

And so the day ended, but Lafayette's joyous celebration lasted far into the night. Kennett II. S-, IO; Martin Academy, Beaumont Goal Danley SQUARES. Oct. 24 (Special).

The Kennett High School defeated the Mar Mackenzie uu-Dacic Brown Full-back Youngjohna Cooper Half-back R. Dennin Gold Half-back T. Willis Richmond Half-back W. Nuttall tin Academy team in an exemng game 01 football here this afternoon. The score was solerrn-faced surgeons were preparing to perform an operation to save him from death from appendicitis.

He had been ill for several days, but he insisted that he was going to play. And when the special train that bore the team and 175 shouters from Lafayette came to town he was in the Yesterday morning he grew rapidly worse. A physician was sent for and he at once ordered his removal to the hosptial. So Lafayette may practically be said to have won the game without a captain. Literally this is true, though as a matter of fact Barclay handled the eleven in a manner that did not leave much to be desired.

A TREMENDOUS CROWD. That there was great interest in the game was attested by the crowds that gathered about the field long before it was time for play to begin. By 3 o'clock almost every available inch of srace was filled. The south grand stand seemed to be in favor with the shouters. Six thousand enthusiasts packed it from top to bottom, and six thousand hands waved aloft the red and blue.

The liberal sprinkling of ruddy cheeked young women gave it an air of life and beauty. The shouters from Lafayette were In one compact mass In the north grand stand. They were few in numbers but loud in voice. And the loudness of their voice increased as the day went on. Near the Easton contingent was a company of Princeton-ltes whose sympathies were decidedly anti-Pennsylvanian.

And back of them all were two lone youths from Harvard. As one of them put are only two of us, but we can yell, Just the same." And this fact they demonstrated. Both teams were given a hearty welcome as they came on the field, and when they settled down to play Pennsylvania had the west goal, which gave them the advantage of the somewhat stiff wind. The Pennsylvanians forced the play from the start and kept the ball well on to Lafayette's territory. Time and again she had the ball dangerously near the fatal line, only to be repulsed.

FUMBLES GALORE. But the enthusiasts, the critical, cool-headed judges, took no comfort from this. They saw the Quakers make misplay after misplay and feared the worst. Still there was little for the Lafayette contingent to cheer at. They gave college yell after college yell, and each time were an- 10 to O.

wennpt TT s. Positions. Martin A. W. Mercer Right end Megargee Carmichael Rignt wing ywuwu.

Wilson Right wing Whiteman Steele Centre Jimson Kerr Left wing A. Ennls GLOOM IN PENN QUARTERS The Trainlngr House as Still as a Grave Last IViglit. At the training house after the game all was quiet as the grave. Slowly the luckless players tramped heavily in. Tears moistened every eye.

Tears shed for fumbling, tears shed for bad playing. None accused the other. All took the fault to themselves. Students in general were heartsick. Dr.

J. William White, Dr. Horatio C. i Wood, "Pop" Thayer Carl Williams. George Brooke, and Coach.

Woodruff gathered together in the training house parlor. George H. Brooke, year's star full-back, being questioned, at last, with much reluctance, said: "It was a piece of most unexampled luck for Lafayette. For a team which had only seven first downs the entire game why, it is unheard of. Fumbling and sluggishness account for it.

Almost forgetting myself, I started to get in the game and tackle the runner. Jack Minds' short kick at such a critical point in the game was most unfprtunate." Captain Wharton retired to his room immediately after the game. Regarding the result, he said: "We were fairly beaten, but I do not think the score shows the relative strength of the two teams. We acknowledge defeat with as much grace as possible, and will redeem ourselves in the remaining games of the season." Silent- Carl Williams lay stretched at full length upon the table, both arms over his face. He was crying.

Dr. White's genial spirit showed Itself when he said: "Well, bpys, it is all over. We must now brace up, win from Harvard and Cornell, and defeat -Lafayette next year." Coach Woodruff said nothing only thought. Now and then, a deep sigh escaped, as, possibly some bad play of the day passed through his mind. He and John Bell locked themselves in a room and talked, and they said things that may bear fruit, it is to be hoped very speedily.

WALBRIDGE'S CASE Lafayette's Captain Removed to the German Hospital. The' fact that Lafayette won yesterday's intercollegiate football game alone saved Captain George Walbridge from feeling the touch of the surgeon's knife. While his men were struggling" for victory against the sons of Pennsylvania on the FSranklin Field gridiron, the curly head of Lafayette's sturdy captain was tossing restlessly about on the piK McCartney Left wing A. Colsey Norwood, 40; l.lmlen, O. Norwood defeated the strong Linden team, of Philadelphia, yesterday at Norwood by a score of 40 to 0.

It was of course a Very one-sided game, but there was some fine plays by Norwood. The line-up Norwood. Positions. 1 lnden. Murray Left end Bonsall tackle Pugh Bull Left guard Stoughton C.

Hofraann Centre Beck Westenburg Right guard E. Hofmann Right Hogg Galloway Right end Wieland Corson Price Hazzard Left half-back Martin Right half-back Roll Lodge Full-back Dority Touchdowns Murray, Bull, Galloway, Martin, Hazzard, 3. Goals from touchdown Lodge, 4. Referee Moore. Umpire Fullmer.

Linesman McCay. Time of halves Twenty minutes. COURSE OF THE BALL Vesper, Sf Merc ban tville, O. The Merchantvllle Field Club's team met its first defeat yesterday at the hands of Vesper, of Philadelphia, by the score of 8 to 0. Th-llne-up: Vesper.

Positions. M. F. C. O.

McLaughlin Left end Baird Left tackle Wilder J. McLaughlin Left guard Colby Tyson Centre. Kleins Right guard Brewr Cadwalader. tackle. Nash, Slumm Peters.

end Cragln Malpass Quarter-back Boyer Kendrick Right half-back Millinger Catarach Left half-back. Wallace White r. Full-back. Toujc-hdowns Peters and White. Husted.

Umpire Cole. Hamilton Right tackle jacKson Mercer Right guard Shelmire Strong Centre Donahue Valentino Left guard Marshall Milhous Left tackle Richards Kavanagh Left end Taylor Grace Quarter-back fCapt.) Sinclair (Capt.) Left half-back Graham Right half-back. Sweets Swayne Fuli-back Davis Touchdowns Graham, Valentine, 1. Goal Hamilton, 1. Umpire M.

Grady. Timer-Mercer: Referee Milhous. Linesman Robinson. Central A. 20; East Falls, 2.

The Central A. A. defeated the Bast Falls at Tacony yesterday, by the score of 20 to 2. E. P.

Bond was seriously hurt and had to retire. The line-up: Central. Positions. East Falls. A.

Jamison. Left end Ford Henry. Left tackle Bancroft Flood Left guard Centre Kelley Griffith Right guard Golden (Schuman) Feairhelter Right tackle Robertshaw Daniels Right end Walker Powell (Edgar) Quarter-back Atkinson Fnrd Right half-back Cannon Score Manz, menmonu, v. ton. Linesmen Cochrane and Joseh Banks.

Goals Kerr, Carmichael, 1. Anxious to Join a Team. Harry Shaw, the famous centre half-back of the Bootle (England) Football Club, is in Philadelphia, and would like to join some first-class association football team in this city, or within a reasonable distance. Mr. Shaw can be seen or addressed at John P.

Lawler 664 North Tenth street. Philadelphia. Harerford, 24 Delaware Coliegre, O. HAVERFOKD Oct. 34 (Special).

Haver-ford shut out the Delaware College eleven this afternoon by the score of 24 to 0. In the first half the home team played a fast, snappy game against a strong wind; but owing to the substitution of four men from the scrub eleven, were unable to score in. the second Conklln kicked the four goals In spite of a very strong wind. The line-up: Haverford. Positions.

Delaware. Hallett Left end H. McCabe Detwiler (Murphy). Left tackle K. McCabe Else (Webster) Left guard Marvel Swan Centre Mulllnes Embree Right guard Morris Stadelman Right tackle Scipple (McCrea) (captain) Butler Right end Baldwin Vajrnev Quarter-back i Elmore, 8j Central A.

O. A very exciting game was played at Darby between the Elmore and Central A. Jr. Score, Elmore, C. A.

0. Central. Positions. Elmore. Gilmour Left end George Gale Left tackle Yocum Waralowt Left guard awrence Knorr Smith McOuire RiKht guard Friel THOUSANDS OF CURES.

NEVER A FAILURE. How the Quaker Host Wmi Downed on Franklin Field. It was decided to play the first half thirty minutes and the second twenty-five. A strong wind was blowing from the west. Captain Wharton won the toss and availed himself of it.

Rinehart kicked off for Lafayette at 3.03 and Gelbert fell on the ball on the 20-yard line. Minds kicked and B. Dickson threw Bray in mid-field. Penn got the ball on a fumble. K.

Dickson kicked and Bray fumbled the ball, but a Lafayette man fell on it on Lafayette's 30-yard line. Bray and Worthington failed to gain and Bray kicked out of bounds at Lafayette's 35-yard line. Minds went around his left end, carrying the bail to Lafayette's 12-yard line. Gelbert gained 4 around his right end. Bray tackling.

Woodruff could not gain through the centre and Rinehart threw Minds back for a loss and the. ball was Lafayette's on four downs on her 4-yard Jine. Bray kicked to the 20-yard line. Minds went around his left end for 4. Uffen- Right tackle tiarset Flood 3Vo operation No detection from business Right end half-back.

Right half-back. Woodington Summerneld Laird. Oldfield Patohel Hughes Guedt Perfect cure. Perfect comfort. Foulkrod.

Heard (Daniels) Left half-back Walker Painless, without laughing gas or ether1. Referee Wood. Bond (Heard) Full-back McTarland Touchdowns Griffith, Feairheller, Jamison, Ford- Goals kicked Bond and Osborne. Safptv Heard. Referee Wiser.

Umpires HOW IT ALL HAPPENED Criticism of the Play in the Bis Football Ojviii e. Ha! ha! ha! Lafayette, Pennsylvania, 4. It's too funny to be true, but it is true all the same. Great, that is, once great, Pennsylvania rubbed in the mire of her own field. Franklin Field, by a Positively different from all other treatment.

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ROW NING, 1325 pru St. HemmorThoiaa, Fistula, Fissures. Ulcerations. Edgar and Snyder. Linemen Walker and Rittenhonae, 16; Y.

M. League, O. The football team of the Rittenhouse A. of Germantown, by superior playing, took into camp yesterday afternoon the second team of the Young Men's League of Germantown, Hess. Halloway (Wilson) Left half-back Trotter Haines Right half-back Vansant Conklin Full-back Pierce 22, 23.

Touchdowns Detwlleri Haiiowav. Haines. Other Sports on Page 8, 10,.

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