Providence Technical High School - Review Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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60 T E C H R E V I E W years would bring victory over Tech, was sorely disappointed on Hallowe’en, since in the bitter cold of October 31 we travelled, with a few supporters, to the academy, and on their own gridiron shut them out with a 27—0 score. The marvelous runs of Ellis easily made him the star in this game. Then came our championship game with Pawtucket. The 1013 football pennant might now be hanging in Tech hall. It isn’t. If it were, we would have gained nothing but the pennant,—a very slight distinction. Now we may profit by our loss. We went into the game with everything to lose and nothing to gain. We lost, not because we were yellow, not because we cjuit when our best men were disqualified, not because we did not know what was expected of us, or did not try to do as much, but because we were not at our best, because we were outgeneral led, because we were handicapped by disqualification, and because we were, as a team, inexperienced. Too much credit cannot be given the Tech line men in this contest. Kimball. Price, Mahoney. McDowell, Hopkins and Kciley formed the formidable Tech wall. Time and time again they held the Pawtucket plungers for a loss only to have to repeat their work a few seconds later when the unexpected again gave our opponents the ball. In the final league contest we broke the hoodoo which Classical had exercised over us for so long by beating them 45—0 in an uninteresting game at Tech field. Our game with Taunton, the last game of the season, will not soon be forgotten, espe- cially by those who played. With Westphal and Boyle in the lineup the team worked like a great machine. Roth of these stars realized that never again would they be in the ranks of the red and gray, and each played a wonder- ful game as the last in his remarkable high school career. Through the failure of the 1913 team to win the pennant, the school has been brought to realize that such an occurrence is possible. Rut with an eleven built about Conyers, Hickey, McLeod, and those of this year’s squad who are to remain in school, nothing but the championship should be expected next year. A. W. J. 1 lie Journal all-star men chosen from Technical are: Greenhalgh—Halfback. Rurton—End. Westphal—Tackle. Football scores: Tech 0 Alumni .. 6 Tech... . .... 27 Durfce .. 0 Tech... . 6 Morris Heights.. .. 0 Tech 77 Cranston .. 7 Tech 0 . .36 Tech. . . . 18 H ope .. 0 Tech .. ..24 East Greenwich.. .. 0 Tech. . . . 7 Pawtucket . .26 Tech. . . . ... 45 Classical . . 0 Tech 28 Taunton .. 0

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TECH REVIEW 59 H three veterans, a handful of ist ear’s subs and a few re- mits. after constant disap- ointments in our schedule and r tin held, disappointments crowned by the lost of Hoyle, and thru one of the worst playing seasons in years, we emerged last fall with a squad of men who, knowing the sting of defeat, are bound to avenge last year’s champions and start anew our series of football pennants. Far from elated over our three weeks of preliminary practice, during which “Bunny Rogers, playing for the Alumni, made the first football score that had ever been regis- tered against a Tech team on our field, we started the season at Fall River, trouncing Durfee 27—0. We gave them to understand that our low score of the previous year was a poor foundation on which to build hopes of future victories over Tech elevens. From (ireenhalgh’s first terrific crash into the red and black line the game was never in doubt. We gained at will, ami with a line strength- ened by Macrae, put up an impenetrable de- fence. The Morris Heights and Cranston games excited but little interest. The former was practically a scrub game between the mem- bers of the Tech squad, whereas the latter. our first league contest, was a distinct fight for time. Stalling in a most abominable way. Cranston endeavored to hold us to a low score. How far she was successful may In- judged from the final score of 77—7. With four weeks’ practice and the benefit derived from our preliminary games, hoping for the best, expecting the worst, we jour- neyed. October 12. to Waltham to try once more our strength against this seemingly invincible team. The result of the contest and the cause of our defeat were well sum- marized the following day by this newspaper quotation: “The Watch City boys were too much for them.” Burton. Wood and Boyle were our only salvation. Playing like demons, they withstood the fiercest Waltham attacks and were largely responsible for the com- paratively low score. 36—0. Because East Prov idence had unexpectedly dropped from our schedule, our second league game was with Hope. Since an evenly matched contest was now before us. and since Boyle had ! een declared ineligible by Hope less than two days before our game with that school, we entered the conflict with a serious and determined spirit. Its result was appar- ent: Tech, 39; Hope. 0. East Greenwich, like Durfee, holding the opinion that home grounds and succeeding

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HOCKEY Front row- Smith. .Morris. Knox. Kettelty. .Middle rotv—McDowell, McGinn. Free thy, Orton. Hritton. Back row- Green (assistant manager). Price. Butler (manasor), Red fern, Barnard (assistant miiniiKcr).