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...Caseymen's little fracas with the first-year men was purely defensive as far as the Varsity was concerned. Using typical Rockne plays and some assorted specimens brought back by the scouts from the Crusaders' recent engagements, the Freshman outfit swung into action in a way that was quite a surprise to Casey and his aides. The Varsity coaches were unanimous in judging this year's Freshmen considerably better than the 1937 team...
...opening plays, then the Varsity clicked again and plowed from their own 30 into Jayvee territory. The last 30 yards for a touchdown was covered by George Ford's pass to Leo Ecker. Still another tally was added by a steady march from the Jayvee 40, where the Caseymen were given the ball, to the goal line...
...nine of those yards were made by rushing. Resorting to deceptive plays that had the Caseymen running in circles, Bates kept driving through whenever their attack clicked in smooth fashion. Casey's 1934 team definitely showed that it will need a week of very hard drilling and a lot of lectures on defensive play before it is going to be able to send the Brown bear back to Providence in disgrace...
...other hand, while the Caseymen displayed a lack of football experience, an ignorance of what was going to happen next when the opening moves of a play were well obscured, at the same time they pulled together as a team far better than was expected. Three or four days' practice as a unit was all the starting eleven had had, yet the result was not chaos...
...long gain was made when Chet Litman got loose on the Varsity's 35 yard line and ran 05 yards for the tally. Previous to that the Jayvees had been given the ball but had been unable to gain any ground against the Caseymen. It was a big day for the Varsity both offensively and defensively...