Boston University School of Management - Syllabus Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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FOOTBALL Season of 1921 The 1921 football season at B.U. was the best in the history of B.U. athletics. The team having a hard schedule of eight games with such teams as Harvard, Boston College, Tufts and Wesleyan made a fine showing, winning six out of the eight games, losing only to Harvard and Boston College by low scores 'in closely contested games. B.U. scored 1 I5 points against its opponents' total of 44. Sixty husky men reported to Coach Whelan at the beginning of the season for a lot of heavy work. Among them were Capt. O'Hare, Washburn, Miller, Wheeler, Spencer, Barrett, Scinto, Cochrane, Worcester, Perry, Williamson and Lione, veter- ans of last year's squad. Coach Whelan and Capt. O'Hare had plenty of trouble in picking the team to start the game against Harvard. The first game was played at the Stadium against the strong Harvard eleven, which was only able to score a lone touchdown against the B.U. stone-wall line, that held the Harvard backfield for downs time after time., In the second half Harvard scored a field goal, making the final score 10-0. O'Hare, Wheeler, Lucas and Santosuosso played well in the line while Williamson, Spencer and Cochrane starred in the backfield. The second game of the season was played against the highly touted Boston College machine at University Heights, which was outplayed by our team in the way of forward passes and first downs. But, nevertheless, they managed to score two touchdowns with the aid of B.U. fumbles and poor kicking. Score--B.C. 13, B.U. O. Our line proved a stone wall in this game with Fredey, Lonergan, Williamson and Cochrane starring. On October 8 the Whelanites swamped Worcester Tech with a wonderful display of forward passing, 52-0. Everyone got into this game with the exception of the assistant managers. Cochrane, O'Hare, Feldman, Harris and Levenson starred. The hard fighting Wesleyan aggregation was our next victim by the score of 7-O. The Nutmegers were tough customers but we managed to subdue them when Worcester todk a pretty forward pass out of the air, thrown by Williamson, and ran for a touchdown. Cochrane's punting was the feature of the game as were Babe Tonry's battering ram plunges. Williamson, Worcester, Cochrane, Tonry, Washburn and Levenson starred. On October 22nd our footballers again invaded Connecticut, where the B.U. steamroller took the Trinity football into camp, I4-O. With Cochrane and William- son running the ends, the B.U. team kept their opponents moving. Our interference was perfect and the line played a wonderful game. Cochrane, Tonry, Williamson, Harris, O'Hare, Fredey and Lucas played a ripping good game. On October 29th we played our first home game at Braves Field, hammering the R.l. State defense for a I4-O win. Tonry's line smashes and Cochrane's open field running gave the Rhode Island team plenty of trouble. O'Hare scored the first touchdown after scooping up a fumble and Cochrane smashed his way sixteen yards for the second touchdown. Miller's playing on the line was the outstanding feature. Wheeler, Lonergan, Spencer and Fredey played a good game. 139

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M. SYLLABUS 1923 j On November 5th the team traveled to the Tufts Oval, where the wind helped Tufts out in keeping the score as low as 8-7 in B.U.'s favor. Tufts scored their touchdown after the wind blew a B.U. blocked punt over B.U.'s own goal line and a Tufts man fell on it. Due to the heavy wind B.U. was unable to make use of its forward passing game. In the third period Tonry's line smashes brought the ball to the Tufts 25 yard line, Cochrane then made a pretty reverse field play, carrying the ball to the two yard line, and Tonry carried it over. In the same period, after holding Tufts on their own five yard line, Washburn blocked a punt and a Tufts man fell on it, giving B.U. their two points. Cochrane, Tonry, Fredey, Miller and Santosuosso played well. The Hnal game was played at Braves Field on November I2 against the strong Norwich eleven. B.U. made it their sixth straight victory by winning, 20-14. This game, with the exception of the second period, was the best exhibition of football played this season. B.U. opened up with some of Coach Whelan's trick plays, which bamed the Norwich eleven. The Norwich shift in turn fooled our men in the first half, after which period Norwich had the lead, I4-7, but our fighting players came back in the second half and scored two touchdowns. Cochrane was a triple threat to Nor- wich, baffling them with his plunging, end running and kicking as did Tonry's line plunging. Washburn played a good game, blocking a punt behind Norwich's goal line, Fredey falling on it, giving us our winning touchdown. Due to injuries Capt. O'Hare was unable to play tlIe final game. Cochrane, Tonry, Washburn, Fredey, Santosuosso and Worcester starred. SCHEDULE 1921 B.U O HARVARD B.U O BOSTON COLLEGE B.U 52 WORCESTER TECH B.U 7 WESLEYAN B.U I4 'TRINITY B.U 14 RHODE ISLAND B.U 8 TUFTS B.U zo NORWICH SCHEDULE 1922 SEPT. 30. COLBY AT WATERVILLE, ME. OCT. 7. BOSTON COLLEGE AT BOSTON. OCT. 14. UNIVERSITY Or VERMONT AT BURLINGTON VT OCT. 21. HOLY CRoss AT WORCESTER. OCT. 28. BROWN AT PROVIDENCE, R. I. Nov. 4. DARTMOUTH AT HANOVER, N. H. NOV. II. PROVIDENCE COLLEGE AT PROVIDENCE, R I NOV. 18. NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE AT DURHAM, N H NOV. 25. TUFTS AT MEDFORD. 140