Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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X I -7 A . 2 Thrilling conTesTs ThaT has ever been played on Jasper Field. ATTer almosT sixTy minuTes oT hearTbrealcIng play. The Jaspers were on The Tail end oT a 6-7 score. AlThough The VarsiTy Time and again placed The ball in scoring posiTion some Triclc oT TaTe seemed To carry The ball baclc inTo Their own TerriTory. The ball sped Trom one end oT The Tield To The oTher wiTh exciTing rapidiTy. l-lowever, on one oT Those Trealc plays ThaT so oTTen decide The TaTe oT such conTesTs, Two huslcy ManhaT'Tan line- men swooped down on The ST. John's baclc as he was recovering a bad pass Trom cenTer and swepT him across The line Tor a saTeTy. Even Then The play did noT cease To have iTs Thrill. Twice again did The Redmen march wiTh deTermined vigor To wiThin scoring posiTion buT The lv1anhaTTan line held and The Jaspers won 8-7. , ill, 266

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?2jg+?ZJ T pi Z T if 1 M, -s --- 1lL ff' Ti: Tl' 'fin' 5 1S'L.il'1 ' I f '-'L -5 id- 13' X l : 1--1, - Q 1. Lwilf 'fs' 1 iff Y A V. s fav -1 2 . ' r f f ' f f , ' f y ra. rx x upsfafe wifh a large following, one of fhe largesf ever fo represenf Manhaffan. Despife a sfiff baffle fhe Jaspers refurned from fheir firsf venfure info fhe camp of fhe gianfs on fhe fail end of a 33-O score. The game was played in fhe worsf pos- sible weafher-a cold, muddy field, for fhe Nofre Dame sfyle of play. The Varsify resfed a liffle foo long affer fheir disappoinfmenf in losing fo Col- gafe and as a resulf only succeeded in holding Cify College fo a O-O fie. The Lavender Coach, Parker, musfered all fhe sfrengfh of fhe rafher limifed maferial fhaf was available and succeeded in making one grand gesfure by holding a sfrong lvlanhaffan feam, wifh one of fhe weakesf feams fhaf Cify College produced in years. To do fhis he employed a novel defense which seemed fo complefely fool fhe Jaspers unfil if was foo lafe fo score. The Lavender feam lined up wifh an eighf-man line on fhe defense, relying upon fheir punfs fo keep fhe ball as far from fheir goal as possible. Cafholic Universify, which was a rafher mediocre feam a year ago, rapidly de- veloped info a sfrong fhreaf. Affer fhe discouraging fie wifh Cify College, Man- haffan fans hardly expecfed fhe fine game fhaf fhe Jaspers puf up againsf fhe Washingfon feam. Againsf unforeseen sfrengfh Manhaffan played one of ifs besf games of fhe season and should have come off vicforious buf for a few breaks. The Jaspers came fhrough fhe following week fo down Bosfon Universify Il-O in Bosfon. The spirif displayed by fhe Green and Whife roofers in fhe supporf which fhey gave fhe feam on fheir frips was a fine demonsfrafion of fhe loyalfy fhaf is always characferisfic of Manhaffan men. Wifh fhree vicfories, fwo defeafs and a fie fhe Jaspers prepared fo beffer fheir average and incidenfally even an old score wifh Sf. John's. The Brooklyn feam came fo Jasper field wifh a grim deferminafion fo make fhis, fheir lasf baffle on fhe gridiron, a memorable one. The game was one of fhe mosf ' yillf Iii Ill ffl, .11 Q .TQ1lii'. 'lf . ,'l.f.1f1f'Lii? iifgvi ijii Sjllav S .Tj V -,,-. CE U 'V U 265

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.M f..ef41-A-14,4-3,1 ,Q-fififii T an fi i I I 1 ' Wg l 1 l is Four vicTories, Two deTeaTs and one Tie-ThaT comprised The record oT The season. T ExcepT Tor The Tie wiTh CiTy College, The lv1anhaTTan TooTball Team Tor The year oT l ,..--Qc l93l did all ThaT could be expecTed of iT. ln The number oT games won, losT and Tied, '51 iT ouTraTes any Team in recenT years. AlThough Coach Johnny Law will noT be wi+h A 4 us nexT year, we can loolc back upon The record ThaT he leTT Tor his Two-year sTay aT lvlanhaTTan wiTh a Teeling oT graTiTude Tor a iolo well done. i i l l - i i I l I l l l Q . T . y T Xfgi 'x xx 1 i l i T 267 '