The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-19
LAST FOOTBALL GAME
The Two Junior Teams Were
Evenly Matched.
NEITHER COULD SCORE
The Butte High School and the Business
College Teams Put Up a Hot
Game-Neither Side Made -
q Touchdown.
COULD SCORE

The last football game of the season.
that between the Butte High School
and Butte Business College teams yes
terday afternoon was the best game
ever seen here between two junior
elevens. The two eIevens were SO even
ly matched that neither could score
and the game ended with neither side
having made touchdown and the ball
never having crossed the center line in
either half. There was much more
football about the game than there has
been about any of the previous games
between the lesser teams, and it was
undoubtedly the most interesting game
of the year outside of the Reli-
ance contest, although neither side
scored, goals were seriously threatened
at times. but in every such case the
defenders of the goal rallied and pre-
vented their opponents from crossing
the line
The weather was much too cold for
the 200 or 300 spectators to take any
satisfaction or comfort, but they were
football enthusiasts and braved the
weather rather than miss the game.
The gridiron was covered with snow
fully six inches deep, which prevented
as good playing as would have been
seen on good field and was the cause
of many fumbles on both sides. The
good at times and at others poor, being
the better on the whole on the part of
the High school. while the defensive
work of both teames was of a superior
order.
The play was almost wholly confined
to buclSing the line in mass plays, on
which all gains were made. The ends
were tried occasionally. but without
success, and the few kicks attempted
proved of little avail except in one or
two instances The star features of the
game were the blocking of High
school kick by Nadeau of the Business
college, the good quarterback kicking
of Coretette of the High school and the
line bucking of Dawson of the High
| school and Boyer, Nadeau and Johnson
of the Business college.
| Play commenced at 3 o'clock when
| Johnson, for the Business college,
| kicked off to the High schools 50-yard
| line. Elmer fumbled, but Dawson
| saved the ball for the High school by
| falling on 1t. After gaining 10 yards
! the Business college got the bail on
| downs, and Holland, taking the ball,
| tried the enemy's tackle for q three
| yard gain. On the next lineup he
| fumbled. but Royles saved the ball and
| advanced it two yards Johnson gained
| two yards more through tackle and
| guard and Farlin gained another three
| yards by q guard play, when the ball
A quarterback kick gained 10 yards,
| but Broderick falling on the ball. Sc
cured it for the Business college, who
| lost it on a tumble without making a
| gain. The High school did the same
| thing and then the Business college
getting the ball, carried it by a series
| of line bucking plays to the High
| schools two-yard line. 1t looked very
much like goal, but the High school
rose to the occasion and held their OPP
| ponents like stone wall until they got
| the ball on downs. A gain of five yards
! was made through the line and Is yards
We're awarded the High school for an
| off-side play on the part of the Business
college, which left the ball on the BUSH
ness colleges 22-yard line when time
was called for the end of the first half.
/ Dawson kicked off to the Business
colleges 15-yard line. Farlin got the
! ball. but lost it in a tumble and Nc
| Leod secured it for the High school.
/ BY a series OF line bucking plays the
| ball was advanced seven yards and lost
by bad tumble by Mclean. Broder-
lex securing the pigslSin for the Bust
ness college.
| A fullback kick by Boyer was blocked
and the High school got the ball. They
tried the ends for no gain and then as
saulted the line. bucking it so fiercely
that the ball was carried to the 15-yard
| line of the Business college before 1t
was finally lost on downs.
1t was the Business college ball and a
charge at the enemys line lost ground.
| Then Nadeau kicked 20 yards, landing
| the ball back on the Business college $
1 50-yard line. Broderck saved the ball
| once more by falling on it. but the coll
| lege lost the ball on a tumble o moment
| later. The High school advanced the
/ ball steadily down the field to the col
| lege's 20-yard line and lost it on a
| tumble.
Boyer took the ball for the college
| and went through the line for three
| yards. Again he tried the same scheme
| for gain and moment later Hopkins
tried the end. He was tackled. fumbled
| and lost the bali on the colleges 30-yard
| line. Kyle. for the High school. went
| through the line for five yards. then
| attempted to repeat the operation, but
| failed of a gain. Dawson took the ball,
failed to make a gain and the ball went
to the college on downs, who made four
| yards and lost the ball on a tumble. Ii
! was an off-side play and the High
school got Is yards, which placed the
ball dangerously near the colleges goal
| The college boys rose up and held their
opponents. as they had themselves done
before. They got the ball on downs
| time was called. with the ball on the
colleges 20-yard line. and the game was
| over.
/, Score: Business college. 0: High
school, 0. Referee. Homer Richards;
| umpire, p II. Mcpherson: iinemen
John Wolf and r. Matlock; two 25-min-
ute halves.
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