The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-16
ON THE GRlDIRON.
Young ATHLETES CHASE THE PIG
SKIN IN THE SNOW.
An Exciting Game OF Football in
Which the Y. 81. c. A. Defeated the.
PIucky High School boys.

rootball; nevertheless, the hottest game
of the season was carried of on the Elk
position grounds. The High School and
Z. NJ. c. A. teams, after much parleying,
finally got together and settled their old
diff erences. The sgrowsfornl which was
raging all the afternoon, in addition 10
all reputation left to the High School
after their Thanksgiving game. The Y.
NJ C.. A. team demonstrated is superior
fty TO any other ream in the field this
season, and earned the title of champions
OF the territory.
This game, the final one of the year.
abonntled in brilliant plays. dong runs
The h9nors in every matter except scor-
ing Were pretty evenly divided. The
High School was stronger on offensive
than defensive play. but The red and
The Association lads, who found noles
about where they wanted them. ran
around the ends with fnptinity. and csr1l-
ptetely baffled Odell's men by. their
first time yesterday Every man in the
Y. NJ. c. A. line was given the ball and
generally manages to make the neces-
sary gain. The lfne-up, with weights,
was as follows:
High School Y. NJ. C. A.
Murphy, 30 =. Center. Reading, 165
Smith, 160. r.. Guard. :. Alton, l78
Lyngberg, 100. Il. Guard. :. Abel, 1870
Andrews, lS5 r.. Tackle. Barker, ls %
Peak, $50. r.. End. Taylor, I55
Stebbins $40 :. Il. End. -. .Latimer 14S
NtcGraw, 1876. !. Quarter. Gross. $40
Langton, I45 s. r. Half Rasmussen, 16S
Allen, 165 l.. Half .Mclntyre, l45
Tosai Nv weiights.High School las; = NJ.
s. A. l'1Si' SUBS:
johnson, Price,
Hudson Forbes.
Roberts. Il. Barker.
Referee, Downey; umpire, Doyle from
the post; lnesman, Oglesby: itouchdoWns,
Cross l. Rasmussen /, Mcintyre 4.
The contest was a clean one ana
showed that a football game Is mol nee
essarily smuggling match, and 1t can pc
played without Injury 10 any one Oh the
| players.
The outline of the game IS as follows
The High School won the toss and
chose the goal giving tf1s I. NJ. T. a. tne
bail. Mcintyre kicked off, and Iayaor
tackled the man who caught the ball !,
! In the next four downs the Fl. IS rail-
to gain and lose the ball. On account Of
the slippery condition of the pigskin 10
quickly alternated between the two s4des;
MCINTYRE was sent around the end, and
| skiffully evaIdlng several attempts az
tackle, made a magnificent run OF %
yards around the end and scored the hrs Z
play He also kicked goal, which gave
! the Y NJ c. A. six pasnts
! OFell kicked off for the II. S. and Lat
inner caught the ball. He was tackled
utes had elapsed when Mcintyre cr.ss-
! crossed to Rasmussen, who made a 40
| yard run to the goal post, scoring me
second touchdown. Me ga =, vo,. aY Y
The ball was again carried to tht
1 center of the field, and OdeH klckeo
Cross caught and passed 70 Rss IdoEs,ed
/ Several successful bucks carried the pai
well into High school territory, Wnen an,
other criss-eross melted % yarasi alu
bucks through center 10 more. Ta .s
made a long run and Rasmussen criss-
! crossed to Mcintyre. who scored a pretty
touch down but failed to goal. the ne = pa :,
! striking the cross bar. score-lo-V IL
Time was called and, much needed
! rest was taken by both teams.
| Odell started the ball moving, in tne
goal which the boys from the Y; NJ. G
4. were defending. Several small buck:
| followed, when Rasmussen bucked tht
| center for a clean %. Axton ana Barker
when Mcintyre made. his third toq nc
down by a magnificent run around tn
end. aided by perfect interference. H,
kicked a hard goal. Score-Z2-O in I. NJ
After f., the kick off, Moore, the Hoosier
captured the ball, but was violentl!
tackled by Murphy Rippeto hit tn
center for IS yards, much to the deiigh
| to gain.
Referee Dowrey cried out "Thlrd down
rine yards to gain The ball was tot
| slippery to kick and a sure play was nee
essary The surprise of the day followed
as well as one of the prettiest trick:
played on the gridiron this. season. Nc
| Intvre made a feint Of bucking tn
center. but passed the bail back to Cap
| tain Cross who showed his men how K
make a touch down. The other twenty
vicinity, and Prof. Smith and Center
| Murphy were carrying him toward his
! own goal, while the Y. NJ. G. A. quarter
back was Logging i down the field unpur
down into a goal, running. the score uT
In the next line up the y. NJ. c. A
| center was temporarily disabled, and
| Moore took his place. while Bassie Price
| went into tackle. The next few scrinl-
IMAGES were very interesting, as only five
minutes remained, and the High school
had the ball with a. chance Of scoring.
They Were materially assisted by the
off side play Of their opponents, who
means of several hard bucks the High
school forced Allen across the line just
as the whistle blew. Barker spoiled the
goal by running out as the ball touched
the snow and Jumping into midair,
For the. High school Murphy and Colum
bus distinguished themselves by their
hard tackling; Odell played his usual good
game, and Langton and Allen showed
excellent form in the halfbacll position.
brought down their men. Rasmussen and
Mcintyre made the longest runs ever
seen here; Rippeto bucked the line in
good shape, while the rushline was like