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THE MAROON TIGER
! Athletics !
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J. H. Rirme
MOREHOUSE DEFEATS KNOXVILLE
Coach Ray Vaughn’s big Maroon team won its first
game of the season by turning back the strong Knox
ville Tigers by the score of 12-0. The Maroon team
showed up exceedingly well on the offense and gave
notice to all football teams that they will be hard to
stop this season.
The Morehouse team scored early in the first quarter.
On a series of fast off-tackle plays Morehouse carried
the ball to the five-yard line from where Sheppard, a
new halfback, on a reverse play carried the ball over
for a touch-down.
The second quarter was scoreless. Morehouse having
the ball in Knoxville’s territory almost all of the time.
In the third quarter Edmonds, the midget halfback,
ran wild. He swept the ends, hit off-tackle, and passed
like a demon. On several off-tackle plays, Edmonds
advanced the ball about fifty yards and then passed to
Sheppard for the second touch-down. Morehouse
again failed to score the extra point.
There was no scoring in the fourth quarter. Knox
ville made several long passes but as the Maroon line
tightened they failed to score.
Edmonds and Sheppard were the offensive stars for
Morehouse while Hubbard was Knoxville’s shining light,
on defense the stars were Capt. Mann, Robinson and
Davis for Morehouse. For Knoxville, Capt. Odom was
outstanding.
MOREHOUSE ANNIHILATES HOWARD
The Morehouse team made its first home appearance
of the season and the 3000 fans who gathered from dis
tant cities were thrilled when Morehouse emerged the
victor 19-0.
Morehouse started scoring in the second quarter, when
Jeffries intercepted Marshall’s attempted pass and ran
87 yards behind interference for the first touch-down.
A try for the point after touch-down failed.
There was no scoring in the third quarter, although
the ball was brought close to each team’s goal. Jef
fries again brought the fans to their feet as he dashed
57 yards to Howard’s 10-yard line. Every Howard
player w’as taken out of the play with the exception of
the safety man, who saved Howard from having another
touch-down scored against her. The Howard line rose
to great heights by holding Morehouse for downs in
side her 10-yard line.
In the final quarter, the Morehouse team began to
open up and swept the Howard team off its feet, as
Edwards aided by a superb line dashed for two touch
downs. The Howard players were unable to find the
man with the ball, in fact they seemed dazed by the
Morehouse offense. The only point after touch-down
was made on a pass from Edwards to Hawkins.
For Howard, the features were the line play in the
third quarter, when the line twice held Morehouse with
in the 10-yard line. The all-round playing of Marshall
on offense and defense and the playing of Adams, Mack
and Harris on offense, were features.
For Morehouse, two spectacular runs by Jeffries, and
the running of Edmonds were easily the outstanding
features. Sheppard’s punting, Robinson’s line-plung
ing, the fierce tackling of Capt. Mann and Davis, the end
playing of Ellis- and the skillful manoeuvers of Cain
at quarter were the high spots of the game.
FISK BULLDOGS EKE OUT 7-0 VICTORY OVER
MIGHTY MOREHOUSE ELEVEN
Tough Break Results in Lone Fisk Touch-down
Hugh Gloster, ’31
Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 26.—In one of the most gruel
ling battles ever reeled off under a Tennessee sky, the
Fisk Bulldogs emerged victorious over Coach Vaughn’s
current edition of heretofore undefeated Maroon Tigers,
score 7-0.
The lone Fisk touch-down was registered in the first
quarter when Sheppard, versatile Morehouse back, fum
bled within twenty yards of his goal. He attempted to
fall on the ball which eluded him and rolled across the
goal line. Then Slaughter, Fisk right guard, with a
movement as lithe and precise as a panther’s lunge
swoop down and fell on the ball for a touch-down. The
extra point was kicked from placement.
After this unlucky break, the Maroon Tiger showed
its hacking, slashing, tearing claws, and led by Edmonds,
Jeffries, Sheppard and Robertson, pounded, battered and
crushed its way to the shadow of Fisk’s goal-post num
erous times, there to be blocked by a dogged, determined
Bulldog line.
Being unable to put over the touch-down punch
through the powerful Fisk forward wall, the men from
the “House” uncorked a dazzling, deceptive aerial at
tack that again sent the oval to touch-down distance,
but there the desperate Fisk line again checked the flood
that swept from the Red Hill.
When Morehouse was not on the offensive, Fisk was
content with sparring in the midfield and doggedly hold
ing on to her slight advantage. Even that great Fisk
backfield of Yost, Wiggins, Cox and Whedbee was com
pletely outclassed by the flashy, powerful backs from
the “House” and was held in check by the formidable
Tiger forward wall, which repulsed all their scoring
threats after the first quarter.
Instead of the Fisk terror, Yost, it was Edmonds,
Tiger half, who was the offensive star of the fray. He
punctured the Fisk line many times for long gains and
made quite a few dazzling sweeps around the Bulldog
ends. Then too, there were Jeffries, Sheppard, Robert
son and Brown plunging and lunging through the op
posing defense for nice gains. The Morehouse line,
built around Captain Mann in the pivot position, played
a corking good defensive game.
The score, the yardage and the all-round closeness