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. ,', Resume of 1923 Football Season a minor, preliminary g-ame with the Guilford A. C. of Baltimore, the season started off in earnest. The Guilford game only served to show that the team was in first class con- dition to battle its stronger adversaries to come. Then it was that the team journeyed to dear old "Dixie Land" to do ~~~~~ battle with the Washington and Lee Generals. It was while there that the team and its members did several notable things that will stand the hour-glass ad infinitum; and that was the fact that Clayton es- tablished a world's record for the longest run after a blocked kick, and the fact that "Green Terrors" was added to the name of the team as a fitting monicker for a rugged, battling crew. The following game with George Washington proved to be victorious, but disastrous. This game was early put on the ice, but so was Peiffer and Holt. These two men were severely hurt, and were only able to get in again during the last few games. On one of the hottest days of the year, barring none, Gallaudet of Washington was met and handily defeated. Cuneo personally testified that he lost twenty- five pounds in that game. The Davis-Elkins game proved to be a heart- rending affair. Errors of both, commission and omission were in order, On a field consisting of one part dirt and four parts stones and glass (no sod), the hardest battle of the season was staged. This game was lost by a close score, but in testimony of the fact that we scored a moral victory, let it be said that the Terrors made 21 first downs to Davis-Elkins 5. The Johns Hopkins' game was another heart-rending affair. The Terrors went on the field slightly in favor of coming out victorious; but for some reason unknown and indescribable if known, the team seemed to lose their pep and confidence. The Terrors lost, but another testimonial that another mor- al victory was won was the fact that the Terrors made 8 first downs to Hopkins' 3. Juniata College was the next visitor to Hoffa Field, and to show that they didn't much like the idea of being trimmed, they had to leave Flannagan in a very crippled condition. The whole game was marked by dirty playing. St. Johns was met at Annapolis, but the best that the Ter- rors could do with their ancient rivals was to run them into a tie; and at that, an evident look of relief came over the countenances of the St. Johns players when the game was over. Drexel Institute of Philadelphia was put away with the slightest of trouble. The entire second team held the Temple institute to a standstill, and then piled up fourteen points. And then came the climax of a gloriously, successful season, a season' marked with thrills abundant, with stellar performances of All-State men, and with the fact that Western Maryland College has a recognized and respected football team, recognized and respected by the Northern and Southern and the Central Eastern States. A team that has won the ad- miration of its thousands of supporters, and the glowing attributes of the sport writers throughout the Eastern United States. And this climax was the defeat of the prestiged Mt. St. Mary's team. Before the largest crowd that has ever witnessed a football game at Hoffa Field, the Western Mary- land Terrors crashed and tore their way to a great victory. A wonderful coach, a wonderful team, a wonderful personnel, a wonderful season, the most radiant in the history of the college. One Hundred and Sixty-five