The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-04
DECLARED IT A DRAW
The Result Of Yesterdays Football
Game Determined in Committee.
IT'S A MATTER OF SECONDS
Butte juniors and High Schools
Score TX Each In a OF Oon-
test-Then a ally Is Claimed
at the Last Minute

The football game yesterday after
noon between the Silver Bow Juniors
and the Butte High School team, had
a very unsatisfactory ending. While
according to the referees decision IL
resulted in a victory for the High
Schools by a score of 10 to g. IL is the
general opinion of those who are fami-
liar with football rules that 1t should
have been decided a tie game by
score of to 6. A protest has been en-
tered against the referees decision, and
IL is probable that it will be reversed
and that the game will be declared
tie Fully a thousand people witness
ed the contest. and up to the time OF
the final play. over which the kick was
raised, il was as pretty and exciting a
game as has ever been seen in the city.
George Mcmillan was umpire. l.. J.
Hartzell referee and w. h. Lassweli
and George Il. Dygert were linesmen.
The game was played under the Har-
ward Pennsylvania rules of 1895, which
permits mass plays. and holds that
when man catches the ball on a free
kick he must touch IL to the ground
before running with II. II he fails TO
touch IL to the ground the ball goes to
the opposing side where II was caught.
AT the end of the first half neither side
had scored.
III Tie SSNOnQ man, Will tnt SNoit %
to 6. and with the High Schools 10
yards from their opponents goal, Lass
well called time. After every one had
left the field and the players had start
ed up town Dygert, the other linesman,
ran up and declared that there were
five more seconds in which to play. He
and Lasswell then compared notes and
agreed that there were two seconds
more TO play. The teams lined up and
he hal In 10 nd sffa1
four yards by the High Schools and
downed In the down the ball was
fumbled and pulled across the goal line
and one of the High Schools fell on II.
When the ball was down Lasswell
called time. Hartzell allowed the four
points to be scored, however. and
great deal of kicking followed. The Sill
yer Bows protested the game and
agreed TO abide by the majority deci-
sion of the officials.
The four officials to whom the pro-
test was referred arrived at the follow
ing decision last evening:
Mr.. j. G.. Keefe, Manager Butte Jul
niors-In regard to your protest of the
football game between the Butte Juni-
ors and the High School team on this
day we, the officials of the said game.
desire to express ourselves and decide
as follows:
"First-we do not for a monument
question the decisions of the referee in
any particular whatever and uphold
him in said decision, but
'Second-Inasmuch as so many ques-
lions arose in the last few seconds and
the officials having such an unfair OPP
portunity of judging and rendering de-
cisions owing to the crowd pressing
around and interfering with the plays,
we deem IL best and advisable for all
that said game no dpCla red
a draw and recommend that IL be
played again at as early a date as pos
sible. This decision is final, and there
can be no appeal Very truly yours,
George b. Dygert. linesman.
George Il. Mcmillan, umpire.
''W. b. Laswell, linesman,
''T. j. Hartzell, referee"