The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-25

guard and tackle three successive times.
gaining about Is yards. The ball was
next passed to Starlight for a tandem
play. and he was sent at Butte's right
tackle. but Griffin and Comstock stood
like a stonewall and held him dow TO
only a yard and q half Of a gain. In
| the plays which followed Anaconda lost
| the ball on downs. but Immediately re-
| covered II. Butte being unable to make
the necessary gains.
The ball was on Butte's 20-yard line
when the visitors started I'm again with
the ball in their possession and went
straight to a touchdown. Arlett went
through center and tackle for two small
gains. netting. I'VE yards. Thierkauf
made two around the right end and
Searight two more through the line.
Again Starlight was given the ball and
he literally plunged over Hooper for
five yards. Arlett went through right
guard and tackle FOR a yard and Sea-
right over left tackle and guard for
another. Thierkauf hit the line for one
more yard and landed the ball three
yards from Butte's goal line. Butte
braced heroically to stem the tide, but
her defense was not equal to the emer-
gency and when Arlett tried the line
again he made another yard. A mo-
ment later he was forced Over the line
for a touchdown. The play q occu-
pied % minutes OF time. Patsy Sulli-
van kicked a neat goal and the score
stood 6 to o in Anaconda's V Ana
ond had had things so much her own
way up to this time that the Butte sup
porters begun to feel discouraged. while
the Copper City contingent went Wild
with Joy.
The ball was put in play and Ma
honey kicked to A~naconda's Vineyard
line. where Patsy Sullivan got under
the ball and carried 1t back 10 yards
AAFAa. HaRtnnn xxsat hin. and AFnn.
ping down in front Of him. downed the
runner In the lineup Thierkauf gained
two and one-half yards through left
guard and tackle, being downed by
Mahoney In a splendid tackle. Thier-
kauf was again given the ball and
was literally carried over the Butte line,
annexing 10 yards before the combined
efforts OF Dygert and Mahoney brought
him to the earth. Searight hit the line
a ferocious smash. but Griffin stood
like a rock In his way and a yard was
all he was allowed. Arlett next dived
between right guard and center for two
and a half yards. A check cam at
this stage of the proceedings and the
ball went to Butte on downs.
Bean hit the visitors line for two and
a half yards and Mahoney scudded
around left end for three more.
conda again rallied and wrested the
ball from Butte on downs. Searight
opened by making another long gain,
going over the line and being carried
along by a tremendous rush OF the
visitors till 10 yards a been covered.
Thierkauf wen through left tackle and
end for two yards and looked. when
h started, as though he was surely in
for a long gain, but McKinnon made
one OF the star tackles of the day and
prevented IL. Starlight went over right
tackle for fou yards and again broke
.I . AL El FOR
four more. Thierkauf annexed two
more through left tackle and Starlight
one and a half more through his IA
vorite Spotlight guard and tackle.
He went through the line for a small
gain once more. when time for the
OF the first half was called. Score:
Anaconda. 6: Butte, o.
The Second Half.
Mahoney opened the second half by a
clever play. Feinting a long kick. he
rolled the ball gently Is yards out INTO
the right. while Bean shot out like a
rocket and fell on the ball. This was
the start OF a steady system Of gains
that never ceased till Dygert went
over the line for a touchdown. Dygert
plunged through right guard and tackle
for five yards. Similar line plays
five more and then Mahoney
shot around Anaconda's left end and
seemed DOunu lOT u ionk iuu, but ~ /
was met by Patsy Sullivan In a low.
hard tackle which brought him down
with fve yards to his credit. Griffin
went through right tackle and end and
the ball -four and a half
yards and Dygert hit left guard and
center for two and a half more.
Ice Wagon Bill" Slater plunged
through left tackle and end and chop |
ped of Is yards more of the distance
to Anaconda's goal. Bean negotiated
for one and a half yards through left
tackle and end and almost before the
crowd could realize IL was again car
rying the ball. Like a javlin he damned
his way through right tackle and end
and planted the ball seven yards fur
Their on. Dygert shot through left tackle
and end for the next five yards and
then Mahoney fumbled and lost a cou-
pie of yards. In the next pass, Brown
made his bad tumble. He simply drop
ped the ball and only by sheer good
luck was IL saved to Butte by Mahoney
falling on IL. Butte lost three yards
more by the play bringing the ball ON
Anaconda's 10-yard line. but by good
fortune for Butte. Anaconda had gotten
Butte was presented with the lost five
yards for the offense. The ball was
now on Anaconda's Vineyard line and
'Ice Wagon Bill was again given the
ball to make the necessary gain, which
he did through left tackle and end, hut
by an unfortunate decision, Butte was
allowed the touchdown. and the
ball was called down a foot from the
goal line. The decision made no par
ticular difference. however. as Dysert
jumped through center a second later
for the touchdown which had been ac-
complished in just Is minutes Of olay.
Mahoney's kick for goal was blocked
by Patsy Sullivan and the score stood
Anaconda 6. Butte 5.
During Butte's ~unstayed progress
the half commenced the crowd
had worked itself into a frenzy of de-
light. and sue a riotous tumult as en-
sued when the ouchdow was made
has rarely ever been equaled by a foot
ball crowd in Butte. At this time
Hooper. who was not at all fit. retired
and put Paustian In his place. When
the ball was put in play Thierkauf