The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-10-04
EXCITING FOOTBALL.
The Local Season Began
With Well Played
Contests,
CATHOLIC CLUB WON
Defeated St. Peters College BY
20 to O-Big Crowd at Yester-
days Ball Game-H G. W.
Race Meet.

NtoSS ASSbs
The football season was in~augurated
Saturday. and pigskins were a distinctive
implement Of warfare in the hands of
countless. numbers of ~long-haired enthus-
lasts in all sections of the county. Clubs,
schools and colleges figured conspicuously
in the struggle for fame, and for a be-
ginning the opening was certainly a grand
success. Many openings have been re-
corded but non with more interest thai
this one. This city was almost as promi-
nent in the game as other place, and some
interesting contests were decided. One
that interested the most people was the
first game of the Catholic Clnb, which was
for the purpose of deciding the local
championship. 1t was played with St.
Peters College, a wonderfully skillful
team, ON the Pacific Athletic Club ground
in the presence of over 800 people. The
Catholic Gu is working to make the
game popular here and has gotten to-
gether a very strong eleven. which be-
sides having a thorough knowledge of the
game, possesses the necessary weight to
back it up. Among the crowd which saw
the game were a number of. ladies, Rob-
ert Davis. City Clerk N. j.. O'Donnell.
Judge John Nevin, Assistant Prosecutor
Joe Noonan and other prominent citizens.
1t was the first effort in the game, n
Saturdays experience will result in the
next contest having a number of improve
ments to the facility for playing. Side
lines will be used inclosing the field, which
was badly needed on Saturday, as the
spectators crowded On the field n left
hardly room in which to line up The
game was free from smuggling, n very
little r~oughness was introduced. st.
Peters and the Catholic Club were strong
rivals, and both played a stiff game. st.
Peters was pounds lighter than the
Catholic Club, which, of course. was a
bad handicap to begin with. The col
lege boys showed the effects of more
careful training, and were the more scien-
tific. They were unable to gain against
the line, but made some Roadway by get
ting around the ends, but it was of little
advantage as the ball was generally lost
on Alowns. There was very little
fumbling. Both teams played a rapid
game. and in the first half, although max
ing fast progress with the ball, the Catho-
Ole Club lost it by a breach of the rules
when within a distance of 10 yards from
the goal. st. Peters was unable to gain
and tine Catholic Club getting the ball on
downs, made some fine ground gaining
through the work of Bannon and VIII
Davis, and with only three minutes, Ban
non was pushed across for a touch down.
He failed to kick h goal, and the time
ended with 4 points to 0 in Catholic Clubs
favor. 1t had been a bitter struggle,
and the efforts told on the strength of
st. Peters boys, who were less able in
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broke holes in their defense, through
which Davis, Bannon and Parsing went
for large gains, netting TWO touch downs.
non. i Who was Ma pu HE'D o. out t. 81 Fac 4 crowd oy by
Will Davis. In all three attempts for a
goal the kick failed. The final score was
Z to o The best play for the College
left end for % yards through the crowd.
He was well tackled by Hetllerington At
no time was the Catholic Club line in dam
ger. 1t pleased every one, and the
game will pull out a larger crowd. The
score.-
ST. P-eter's-Higgins, left end; schalk,
left tackle. Freitag, left guard; Egan,
tackle; Gaynor. right end; Griffin, quarter
back; Connolly. left half back; Finn,
right half back; Sullivan, full back
Catholic Club-Hetherington, left end;
Curley left tackle; Entwistle, left guard;
McCarty. centre; Libbet, right guard;
Maggie, right tackle; Crosas, right end;
oQi1tt Al, Qud1tCI DdCh, bdIl1tUU. lpII Qdil
back; Pansing, right half back; Davis, full
back.
AT West Bergen, Saturday afternoon,
the Alerts and the Richmonds played a
remarkably hard game of football, which
lasted two halves of 25 minute They
battled over the ball and the distance in
a manner that might be followed by
some OF our larger players. The rivalry
In the first half by hard driving at the
line and a view good runs around the
end, Coles made a touchdown for the
Alerts. This spurred the to
more work and in less than five minutes
Shaw got the ball in a pass and running
a distance of so yards for a touch down.
Keene, who played a star game back of
the line, made a break in the line through
which he squirmed, and won the sec
ond touchdown for his team. The Alerts
with defeat staring them in the face, got
ing the team close to their own line, the
ball was fumbled and rolling BACK of the
line Lee fell on it for a safety. Ee was
f9llowed BY Hermann who plunged
through the line for a touchdown, which
won the game by IA to s. The score
Alerts-TVarren, left end; King, left
tackle; Belts, left guard; Barnes, centre;
Humphries, right guard; Thomas, right
back; Carter, left half back; Hermann,
right half back; Coles, full back.
Richmond-Little. left end; Philips: left
Powell, Fight guard; Smith, rig" right tackle tackle;
Travis. right end; Dixon, quarter back:
Jennings left half back; Keene, right half
back; Shaw, full back.
The Waverlys put UP a star game OF
football Saturday at Marion with the
Orions and won by a touch down just as
time was to end. In the last three min
utes Hoffman made the winning touch
down by breaking through after a double
pass and running the gauntlet for a touch
down. In the first half Thomas made a
touchdown by a beautiful play in the
early part of the game. He ran back of
splendid interference for over 70 yards.
For Waverly Hoffman got in the only
point of the game, winning with a score
of A, to which was added the others, which
made it 8 to 4. The line Up was as follows:
Waverly F. C.-Brown. left end: Ken
drick, left tackle: WoIfson, left guard;
J%5naicott, centre; Bell, right guard; Moul-
ton. right tackle; Shaffer. right end;
Durston, quarter back; Thomas, left half
back; Sterling, right half back; Hoffman,
full back.
Orion F. c.-Wilson. left end: Sidney,
left tackle; Barclay, left guard; Raymond,
centre: Dodds. right guard; Clark, right
tackle; Greene. right end; Howard, quar-
ter back; Martin, left half back; Stone.
right half back; Evans, full back.
HOB0KEN LOST TO BALTIMORE.
Over 6sO0O People Greeted lhe Lea-
uue Team NJ the FFfetx@f Ground