State during the entire game, and but for the inexcusable
slowness and fumbling of State's backfield the score should at
least have been tripled.
State hit the line as she always does, with that irresistible
force, while its line and ends were practically impregnable
against the repeated onslaughts of the Middies' backfield.
In the first half the ball passed back and forth, both teams
kicking on third down. Near the end of the half Whitworth
got in a dandy run of fifty-five yards, but a blocked place kick
spoiled State's hopes of scoring.
In the second half State twice had worked the ball up to the
Navy's thirty yard line when they would lose it on a fumble.
Two exchanges of punts then followed ending with State in
possession of the ball in midfield. Smith then dropped back
and punted to Strausberger on the Middies twenty yard, who
fumbled it and Yeakley, the lone Freshmen on State's team,
fell on the ball with but three minutes to play. State, by the
fastest kind of work carried the ball over for a touchdown,
Smith getting the honor. Forkum kicked a pretty goal. The
tackling of the Middies, Smith's line bucking and Whitworth's
run were the features of the game.
LOCK HAVEN, 0; RESERVES, 10.
The game on Beaver Field, November 1, 1902, resulted in
another victory for the "Scrub." The Lock Haven Normal
boys, though somewhat handicapped by the absence of two of
their regular players, put up a good game, and made the Scrub
work for all they got. Either team was able to make good
gains when it had the ball, but the Scrub always held when
the danger line was reached.
Lock Haven kicked off and " Scrub " got the ball at the
twenty yard line. From there they took the ball to Lock
Haven's thirty yard line where they lost it on a fumble. Lock
Haven then carried it•back to the "Scrub's" fifteen yard line,
where the attempted drop kick was blocked, and it was
"Scrub's" ball. By line bucks and end runs the ball was
taken to Lock Haven's twenty-five yard line. It was then