The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-26
Football Game On the University
Campus Yesterday.
PROVO MEN VS.. CRESCENTS
SOUTHERN GIANTS WITHDREW
ON AN ADVERSE DECISION.
20 the Half-Moons Claimed the vic
tory By a Score of Four to a
Goose Egg, But the Referee Gave
the Game to .Provo-A Bad Day
For Football and There Was a.
Whole Lot of Trouble.
About as badly nuddled and dismal

About as badly 1nudQieQ ana U.Sn1aI
a football game as ever narred the Sc
realty OF a Christmas afternoon was
the one enacted yesterday afternoon on
the university campus, between the
rival warriors Of the Provo and Ores
cent teams.
The game ended abruptly in the sec
end half, when Captain Hyde of the
Provo team gathered his southern
gladiators around him and withdrew
from the contest, as a physical and en-
phatic protest against a decision by
Umpire Smith. The Provoites had bat
tered their way through the Crescent
line until they were within two yards
Of a touchdown, when Larsen, who was
carrying the oval. got tangled up in
the embrace of O'Brien, and they fell
together. Both of them were holding
the bali with tenacious fingers, and
Just as Larsen released his hold I'M
pire Smith appeared on the scene and
awarded the ball to the half-moons.
A MIDDLE.
The trouble was that this was a
question OF which only the referee
could rule. The referee was Mr.. Call
of Provo, who promptly reversed the
decision, after he had disengaged him
self from a few fisticuff specialties on
the side lines.
Then the scorn and ire of the Ores
cents arose like the inception of an
amateur hurricane. Call here took adj
vantage OF a lun in the tumult, and
said Provo had won the game The
Crescent rooters did not take kindly to
Referee Calls remarks, and as soon as
he had descended from the high eleva-
ton from whence he had launched his
ruling, about IA of the rooters, as
nearly as car be estimated, seized the
Provoite AID painted several maps in
a Dromiscuous way on his face.
At the time the division arose the
Crescents had a, score of four to their
credit, and had the Provo men been
allowed to pursue their way a moment
more, they would have evened the
score.
TWENTY TWO MAD ATHLETES.
Then there were % of the most fur
ious gladiators who ever wore the
padded vestments of the gridiron
The players We're about the only ones
present who shed any tears of regret
over the sudden ending of the ameli-
ties. The snow was deep, the air full
of frost arrows, and the untameable
crowd. went romping over the field like
a herd of colts. Some of the crowd also
we're not members of any temperance
union, and enough fights occurred on
the side lines to have done credit to a
/. Queenstown holiday,
PROVO IN BETTER FORM.
The Creseents eidanot seem to be in
good physical form for such a combat
The hard brass of provo sinew was
proving too strong for them, and hao
the game continued for the allotted
/ time it is likely that they would have
/ dashed through the half moons an6
reaped a victory. Several times Ores
cent was left on the snow after one
1 of the swift, mad rushes.
PROVO'S GIANTS.
Hyde and Larsen beat their way yes
terday like a duo of fighting Cloths
Their ceaseless hammering was irresis-
/ tible, and together they make the hard
est, strongest, most puissant pair o.
halfbacks that the local gridiron has
| developed this season. lie FeYre, ystocky
and sturdy, beat down the famous erst
while unbreakable Crescent turtle-bacl
by the might of his muscle.
The Crescents' backs did some clever
work, and their interference was iron
but they apparently were weaker a
! almost every part of their line than thu
visitors. When the game ended Their,
were 20 minutes remaining of the sec
end half. The Crescents claim the gam,
on a score of to o. and are anxious t.
| meet the Provo men again and decid,
the contest finally. The lineup was
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