Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-10-24
Goddard Defeats the
Veteran Blue
Jeans,
A Large Crowd Witnesses
the Contest.

of St. Albans have been looking for
some team capable of defeating them at
football. During that time however
they have met with no defeat until last
Saturday they ran against something
which fairly took their breath away
and with which they were entirely in
competent to cope. Theresult was that
in about Is minutes actual play God
GARD scored six points against them
and proved herself to be clearly the
superior of the old and experienced St.
Adams eleven who failed to enjoy the
delightful experience Of making a
touchdown.
Quite an interesting story is connect
ed with the Blue Jeans. The last time
they came to Barre was in the fall of
81 when the men who played here
Saturday even 10 the umpire were men,
bers of the St. A. II. s. Goddard on
that day ran up the largest score that
has ever been made in the history of
football defeating them 1872 to 0. Since
that time the st. Albans boys have
steadily improved having played to-
gether for seven consecutive seasons
during the last four of which they have
not been defeated in single game un-
til now they have been one of the very
best teams in the State. !
.4 The game eSatarAsj sVe ssts sicwowiag
TO the continual "sparriug for wind" on
the part of the visitors who were con-
sfantly pretending to get hurt SO that
they could gain wind, and while they
were not doing this they were vying
with each other in each trying to do
more talking then his mate and there
were eleven captains on the St. Al oans
team.
During the first half which was sup
posed to be 20 minutes there were not
five minutes of actual play and the con-
nual "jangling" and "kicking" of Their
opponents tended to rattle the whole
team so they did not ply as
we'll as usual.
The game started by Goddard kick
ing off and stopping the ball from be-
ing advanced more than short distance.
The visitors were held for downs at
once and Goddard took the ball by
splendid dashes through the line by all
three backs to the five yard line where
St. Albans held them for downs. The
latter then tried their hand at it but
only gained four yards when Goddard
ook it again and were just about to
make touchdown when the overzeal
ous timekeeper from the railroad city
called half time and the first half was
over after five minutes play with the
ball in possession of the home team on
he opponents three yard line.
The second half was opened by the
Blue Jeans Kicking off and Goddard i'm
began to brace up. Clough |
was sent around the end behind perfect
for 80 yards and Tennev
was sent around the other end for an
other 80 yards. Clough was tried again
but Coate by a splendid tackle brought
him down with loss. Kimball stopped
the game to the officials long
enough to down Flagg the next rush
and the ball went to St. Albans. They
were unable to gain their distance how
ever and the ball changed back. Goddard
found no trouble after this in moving
through the opponents line and Lamb
was sent through right tackle for the
only touchdown of the game. FIagg
kicked the goal and the score was 6 to
The railroaders kicked off again, III.
Iloughton got the ball and made good
gain. Goddard made few rushes but
through the splended individual work
of the veterans on the other team they
were held for downs and. time was
called with the ball in possession of the
Blue Jeans on Goddard's 40 yard line.
The Goddard line was absolutely i'm
and in fact the visitors were
unable to gain their distance but twice
i'm the whole game while had Goddard
been given time they would doubtless
have run up large score. At no time
was the goal in danger and the home
team was evidently far superior to the
visitors.
The line up was as follows: