Carnegie Mellon University - Thistle Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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 V KST E R N M A R Y LAND line bucks, double and triple passes, and aerial plays. In fact, loledo was so demoralized by the second half, that the Highlander second team continued to roll up the score. Substituting for Mefort, who was out with minor injuries, Mike Goodwin gave an excellent demonstration of football “As It Should Be Played, scoring the first three touchdowns of the game (one on a blocked punt) and proving a veritable Belgium on the defense. This 55-0 victory proved the worth of Coach Bob Waddell, who tutored the team in the absence of Judge Steffen. WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON On October eighteenth the Carnegie Clan, pledged to a man to back its doughty warriors, made the annual pilgrimage to Little Washington, there to hear the first rumble of the big guns that were to test her courage and strength in the weeks to follow. Facing a team of behemoth proportions, who used tactics that may be likened only to the tactics of the Big Bertha guns in the World War, the Tartans fought with super-human efforts, and came out of the game beaten only 10-0. In the first quarter the Presidents, aided bv fortune, got the ball within our five-yard line. The Tartan line, playing superbly (as it did all season) stopped this onrush. Captain Newman’s hurried punt from behind his own goal line fell short, however, rolled out of bounds on the twenty-yard line, and in a second fierce drive, W. J. put the ball across the line. It was quite evident that the Wash.- MARINE Page 166

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VV. J. THIEL In the second game of the season, Wally Steffen’s so-called “green” team practised straight football at the expense of the Thiel eleven, coached by Carnegie's old friend Tommy l lolleran of Pitt. Wally’s proteges showed decided improvement in this game, playing with more finesse and teamwork than in the opener. T hey carried the hall over for a touchdown in the first eight plays, and at no time were in danger of being scored on. Bastian, and the fleet Rill Donohoe, who substituted for him, skirted the ends time after time in a fashion recalling the days of our beloved Jimmy Robertson. Bastian added a chapter to Tech’s history when he hooted a perfect goal from T hiel’s 35-yard line, with Captain Newman holding the hall. This was the first field goal ever scored hv a Carnegie eleven, and made the score 22-0 in Carnegie’s favor. TOLEDO T oledo, highly touted In Dame Rumor, had the hard luck of striking Carnegie when she was in her prime. No matter how the Ohioans varied their attack; despite numerous substitutions to strengthen their defense, rhev coidd nor deny the Tartans. who were armed with a seemingly inexhaustible assortment of short end runs. TOLEDO Pagt 165

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Jeff, publicity agents had carefully hidden her real strength. Her potentialities were much greater than had been anticipated. The Plaid fought hard, at one time carrying the ball to the five-yard line, but losing it there on a bobble, seemed never to find their strength again. The play as a whole was more ragged than in the preceding games, being marked by numerous costly fumbles, and Carnegie lost considerable ground in the exchange of punts. PITT “Forbes Field crowded to capacity, and all Pittsburgh intense with anxiety, waited for the news of the last minute of play on that momentous twenty-seventh (twenty-fifth) day of October to decide the Collegiate Championship of Pittsburgh. One minute after the smoke had cleared away a raving, dancing, shouting, victorv-crazy mob of students had turned Forbes f ield into the scene of one of the most hilarious celebrations ever seen. Every grad, grad-to-be, prof, and every person even remotely connected with the school became a wild and care-free celebrant, shouting and singing till Machinery Hall rocked in sheer ecstacy.” I hus ran the legend of the Pitt game in last year’s Thistle, and well may it be repeated, for it is a perfect description of the setting for this year’s game. As for the game itself— no words can adequately describe it—the moments of hope, fear, actual terror, ecstacv, and dejection every emotion in rhe gamut of human feelings played a DAYTON Page 167