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...yard line. French attempted a tackle play but was thrown with no gain. On the next play Guarnaccia went through left tackle for twenty yards. A pass, French to E. T. Putnam '30, failed, but French raced around the left wing on the next try and, evading the scrub half backs, covered the intervening distance to the goal line. Putnam kicked the extra point...
After the ball had changed hands several times, the scrubs punted. Guarnaccia made a leaping catch on his own 39-yard line and dodged and side-stepped his way through the entire scrub team for the second score. The kick for extra point was not tried...
Gilligan made the score 16 to 0 when he dropped back from the scrub 20-yard line and booted a clean field goal...
...yard line. A pass from Gilligan to O'Connell was grounded, but on the next play Gilligan circled the left end and was not brought down until he had reached the 10-yard line. G. C. Holbrook '30 pierced left tackle for five more yards. Here the scrub defense stiffened and it took three line bucks by Putnam and Holbrook to cover the remaining five yards, Holbrook carrying the pigskin over. Gilligan's try for the extra point by drop kick fell short by inches...
...weather and the fact that divisional examinations kept the Seniors from mustering their full strength on more than one or two afternoons prevented the completion of the full number of scheduled league games. Those who reported for class baseball, however, were given plenty of chance to play, either in scrub games or in tilts with high school nines...