The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-10-23
WENTWORTH VICTORIOUS.
Defeated the Midland College Team by
aScOPe of % to T..

The game between the foot ball eleven
OF Midland College, Atchison, Kansas,
and the Wentworth Military Academy
team was witnessed bv a large crowd here
last Saturday. The day was an ideal one
for the game the temperature being about
right to cause the players to put forth their
best efforts.
The Kansas boys played a stiff game but
were no match for the Wentworth team
who showed greater strength and quick
er work than the Midland's on both the
offensive and defensive.
The ball was kicked to the Academy
team on the kick off and they made a touch
down and kicked goal in less than five
minutes. The ball was theirs at the next
kick off and they were rapidly advancing
it toward the Kansas goal when they lost
1t through a tumble. The Kansas team
then pushed them slowly down across the
field and made a touch down but failed to
kick goal making the score 6 to 4 in favor
OF Wentworth. The rest OF the game was
all Wentworth's, they running the score
up to rs to A..
The Midland College boys played hard
ball and had the pluck and spirit, but
they have been unable to get a good coach
for this season and are consequently u
little weak on team work. They were as
gentlemanly a crowd of players as were
ever grouped on a football field and while
here made friends both for themselves and
their college.
The Academy boys deserve special
praise for the showing they made in this
game as it was their first for the season.
Their team work was splendid and Capt.
Ryus can we'll assure himself hat they
will make a creditable showing in every
game they enter into this year.
Follmer and Menefee as ends were fine.
They did good work in stopping end plays
when the opposing team had the ball and
put up good interference when their men
carried the pig skin. Follmer made some
good runs with the ball. He is a hard
man to tackle and for some reason his
and McAlester's playing is spoken OF as
"Gunlackey."
Patterson and Sawyer played a game
that was hard to beat. They did some
effective work. Sawyer runs lower than
any man on the team aud is a safe mar to
intrust with the ball.
Allen and Kapper made strong guards.
Their part of the line was well held up
and they sustained some pretty strong
bucking.
Young was fine as center. The Mid
and's made but little gain at bucking
that point in the line. He stopped a num-
Der of mass plays On the part of the Mid
and's by his low tackling and when they
would pile up On him it looked as il sin
life's dark pathway" that son would no
longer shine, but he never failed to come
up smiling and ready for another mix up.
The manner in which the ball was han
died behind the line could not have
been better. McAlester played an ideal
game at quarter back. He passed the
ball quickly and in a manner that made
it easy for the runner TO catch it. He
put up some of the strongest interference
for the man with the ball that has ever
been shown on the field here. He is one
of the best men on the team.
The w halves Stark and Ryus did
splendid work throughout the game,
They played we'll together and when one
carried the ball the other would come
pretty near making an opening in the op.
posing line for him to go through. They
are both DID foot ball players and under
stand every move of the game. Stark car.
ried the ball past their opponents goa
several times and made some good
goal kicks. Capt. Ryus played the stal
game of the day. He was in every mix VI
and the Midland's were aware of his pres
ence. His coaching the team has brought
them up to their excellent standing and
he deserves great credit for his work.
Holman as full back was the right mar
In the right place. He did some very
clever playing and il possible excelled the
showing he made on the team last year
In one instance the Midland's had made g
play around the right end and had gotten
clear through with the interference and
the ball when HOLMAN ran into the in
reference and piled it up and got the
man with the ball. He is a phenomenal
kicker and a heady player.