The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-24
Y. NJ. c. A, s; University. o.


yesterday preparatory to their disas-
trous attempt 10 battle with the y,
NJ C. A. athletes, The reply of an
irrelevent rooter that he was a hoodoo
caused litter along the side line, but
the remark gave a faithful idea OF the
sublime way in which the VARSITY II
had trained for the contest.
The University men we're giants. but
bucldng a line was not like holding
the handles OF q ploW, and getting
hold Of the pigskin was not like
gathering pumpkins down on the
farm They worked hard and desper-
ately against odds, but their wild and
delirious nlaneuYer5 with the ball were
about as systematic as the caVOrting
of a herd of colts on 4 Wyoming
| range.
TIE playing of the Y. NJ. C. A.
athletes was sharp DIS row Of BAY
onets, and they moved down their big
and Impractical antagonists with
about as much ease as a sheriff would
sh0w in forecloaing a mortgage. Wiry
Mort Allen and stocky Sam Porter, the
Y. NJ. Z. A. backs, filtered through the
Line at will, and Latimer found sap
ing hole in the large wall whenever he
wanted it.
When the rival teams came together,
the University column looked as i'm
movable as a hne of sycamore trees.
( But at the first shock they recofled.
and soon the big wall had tottered and
fallen.
The only brilHance that was at
tached to the q. Of u. game was given
to it by Paul Kimball- The position of
! full back was new to the old warrior,
but his tackling was speedy and ac
curate, and his timely punts several
! times saved the Varsity from total
wreck early in the game. Trip added
vim to the game by his pretty tackling
during the few minutes he played.
| Hedger was clever and active ON the
! end. Hyde acted valiantly and String
! fellow at center was a rock of strength.
And these We're the only green spots
| in the y. of y. battle. What the
| giants did show was that With good
coaching they would soon become
formidable.
The campus where the combatants
| We're warning looked like the battle of
| Gettysburg But the fight did not
! f1uctuate- 1t was merely slow process
of splintering the y. of U. line, and
pushing and pounding them towards
| the goal posts. The Christians made
their first touch down in less than
20 minutes, and during that time the
oval was not in the hands of the
Varsity men more than three minutes.
at the Y NJ. c. A. line, but each time
they were repulsed and in the whole
of the day the biggest runs they garn-
cred were from 4hree to five yards,
and most of them we're less than this.
The playing of Mort Allen at half
back was about as graceful a thing as
was ever seen on the local griddron.
The line fell on either side Of his
agile form like paper. Porter and
Latimer both did CALAMITY. and Porter
did about the prettieSt thing in his
football career when he picked up the
bah after a cross tumble near the close
of the game and carried it 20 yards
around the end.
No punts were tried by Latimer dur
ing play, and they we're unnecessary
for the team was at no time in a
critical position.
The crowd that witnessed the game
was about 500 in extent, and of these
about half swarmed on the campus
while the game was in progress. and
shut out the view from the bleachers
With such sublime success that seyera
ardent sports slept sereneIy while the
battle was at its hottest.
The game did not have all the pre-.
requisites of pink tea or a social game
of croquet. There were one or two up
to-date pugilistic speciaIties, and as {
result OF one of these Referee Joe Stan
ton ruled Hyde and Allen from tn,
field. But the scrapites did not suIk il
their tents and amenities came will
the close of the game. The contest wa.
THE GAME IN DETAIL.
Paul KimbaIPs kick off for the U. O
} y. was simultaneous with the scream
! ing Of the referees whistle The oya
went to Sanford, who mingled Will
the dust by courtesy of Parker on tn
25-yard line. The Y. NJ. C. AS at one
began a hot campaign that dazed th
giants Allen struck the line for fiv
: yards, and Porter wound off Is NOR
! before KimbaH got his graphing hook
on him. There was a tumble, but tn
> bali staid with the Christians, and tn
, backs we're pounding in small gain
when there was a tumble by Cross
and the bali was leaped upon by tn
many sighted StringfelloW.
This gave the varsity men a chanc
TO show what they could do at lin
> pounding. The first experiment va
Y with Reiser. who lost two yards in a
g attempt to sally around the end Hyd
was almost equally futile in his at
tempt. but Kimball came to the breac
and solved the problem by punting {
J the Y. NJ. c. A, 25-yard line, wfler
: Augustus lighted upon it so hard tina
y / IL bruised the cover on the bail.
i When they got together again Porte
stepped off five more yards, at whic
point the urbane KimbaII intercepte
him. Sanford's leg got tangled up I'm
{ der one of the giants in this scrim
D mage and a recess of three minute
was taken while he nursed it. Durin
this period band of Go rooters, a
nearly as may he estimated, entere
: the campus and refused to retire whe
urged TO do so with polite oaths.
the end Of the intermiSsi0n Allen mad
a small gain, and then Porter got tn
bah and did a very funny thing. Fl
:, was flowing ct an easy, rapturous pac
around the end, when suddenly he san
down as If he had been seized with
: sudden fit of ennui. Kimbal had loome
t UP in front OF him, and some husk
n voices on the side lines hooted. Ill
4 it was not fear that impelled Samu
!, to sit down. He had been seized, G
u near as could be learned with the L
: comotor ata3ia, and had sit down fl
n repairs.
! After Latimer had gone through II
II line 10 some purpose Cross, on q doub
n pass, CARVED the ball FIVE yards. an
Il followed IN this maneuvre by a 70
:. ward pass a moment later, which gay
~ the varsity the hall-
? The u OF &. men had not had II
ball for so long that they had forgo
ten how to manipulate it, and the
first strategic performance was a fun
BE by Reiser. Although Telford cal
/ tured the oval they could not recoV
y the lost ground, and the bah went baC
IS to the enemy.