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the ball bounced back into his hands by the opponents. The best break of the game for Boston came late in the third quarter, when Sullivan, intercepting a pass, broke loose for a 55-yard run and a touchdown. The game consisted mainly in punting duels and short ground gains. The following Saturday, the Green Terrors took their last trip of the season to meet the Bucknell Bisons at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. The Terrors once again scored first. They led until near the close of the first half, when the Bisons tied the score with their first touch- down. After the half, the Bucknell team came back with a strong offense and, scoring four touchdowns, closed the game on the top side of a 32-6 score. Frank Funair, Bucknell halfback, led the individual scoring with four touchdowns, all made in the second half. were Captain Stropp, with two touchdowns, and McPike and Smith with one apiece. The Dickinson team rarely saw beyond its own fifty-yard line, and constantly made goal line stands against the Terror attack. Thus the Terrors wound up the season with 38 points against 149 points for the op- position. In nearly all games, Western Mary, land led in number of first downs tallied and was left trailing at the half only in the crush- ing Wake Forest game. A Reo.erv.s-Eye Vi.w Two members of the team were accorded All-Maryland team honors: Bob Stropp and Mack McPike. Stropp and McPike well de- Homecoming Day featured the final game served their recognition since they were un, of the season, played against Dickinson Col- doubtedly the top players in their particular lege of Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The Terrors position. Captain Stropp was included in t.he trimmed the Red Devils, 26_0, in the only Football Annual's All-American Check List v1ctory. of. the season. Western Maryland at the beginning of the season. kept Dickinson constantly on the defensive This season cannot be said to -h ave been throughout the game, and forced them to a totally unsuccessful, since Coach Havens took razzle-dazzle offense for any gains at all. full advantage of all opportunities to give his Coach.Havens used the entire squad, with the reserves much-needed experience in big games exception of Henry Holljes, who was still out in order to prepare them for greater action with a twisted knee. Leading the scoring next year.
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