Rugby Team Crushes Montreal; Speed and Weight Bring Victory

The Crimson Rugby team slowly wore down the Montreal Wanderers Saturday afternoon, and finally crushed them, 12 to 0. Playing under the cloudy, drizzling skies of North Woburn, the Crimson dominated play from the opening kick-off.

Captain Hal Churchill scored two of the three point tries, while wing forward Ted Frembgen and hooker Albie Cullen accounted for the others. The score would doubtless have been higher had the makeshift field been equipped with goal posts to allow for the normal after-try conversions.

The Crimson players outweighed their counterparts man for man, and spent the first of the thirty minute halfs breaking down the Wanderers' resistance, pushing over all twelve points in the second half.

Churchill's first try started as a three-quarter movement with Charlie Rowe, outside center, taking the ball and then lateralling to Churchill, who sprinted the last 25 yards to the goal-line.

With Montreal wilted completely in the closing quarter of the contest, the Crimson pushed across the goal three tries in five minutes.

Churchill intercepted a lateral and ran twenty yards for his second. Then Frembgen bulled through the center for fifteen, and Cullen climaxed a long forward run in which nearly every player carried the ball.

An excellent defense led by Langi Kaviliku, and a very fast, mobile forward unit aided in the victory. Hank Keohane, Dick Holmes and Dick Baker, were outstanding among the forwards.

Despite intermittent rain, the playing field was in surprisingly fine condition, though poorly marked off and too narrow for the Crimson backs to show off their superior speed. Many times a runner, almost in the clear as he sliced around the opponents' wing, would be forced out of bounds into the milling throng of spectators.

The crowd, numbering close to several hundred spectators, often spilled out onto the field and tended to disrupt play.