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Freshman Football 1923 OR the first time in her history, Western Maryland College pro- duced a Freshman Football Team. The team was an experi- ment, but its success gave it a permanent place in athletics on College Hill. A squad of twenty-four men reported to Coach H. B. Speir, twenty-two on the first day of practice. From that time, the only man who left the squad was Weigle, who left to fill a position on the Varsity Squad. Several other men reported to augment the squad from time to time thruout the season. The first time that the team had a chance to prove its worth was on October 13th when they met the Quantico Marines second team at Quan- tico, Va. The end of the game found the Freshmen on the short end of the score, but the experience they gained was incalculable. The next two games were played on Hoffa Field against Charlotte Hall Military Academy, and the Guilford A. C. of Baltimore. The Freshmen captured these games with the respective scores of 32-0 and 19-0. The next game was played at Frederick, Md., against the Frederick A. C. In spite of their advantage of size and weight, Frederick was defeated 7-0. The following week, the Freshmen went to Laurel, Del., and defeated the Laurel High School with a score of 18-6. They followed this with another victory over Gettys- burg by the score of 33-0. The final game of the season was played on Thanksgiving day at Emmitsburg, Md., when the Mt. St. Mary's Preps de- feated the Freshmen 7-0. During the entire season the Freshmen scored 109 points to their opponents' 87. FRESHMAN SQUAD 1924 Coach H. B. SPEIR Manager Captain L. F. HIGH R. G. STONE Letter Men Stone Hitchens Reynolds, R. W. H. Price Flaherty Trice Bennett Hurley Stewart Gruber Bona Merrill Grace Bowen Weigle Rest of Squad Dorsey Stoner McMillan D. T. Price McKinstry Elliott Veasey Burroughs Ports One Hundred and Seventy-two