The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-31
WINS ITS FIRST
GAME WITH ANACONDA
By q Score of Eight to Four = The Home Team Was in Nc
Sense a Match for the Visitors The Anaconda Team Did
Not Make the Most of Its Opportunities.
Butte. S: Anaconda. I.

City at the close of the football game
t,tween Butte and Anaconda At lie
Athletic park Hay evening. but
tie victory was not lue nearly "a nCch
la skill and work OF the Butte pIIyor3
as to generosity of the Anaconda team
who virtually presented Butte with the
game. The home team was in 10 sense
a match for the visitors, had they
played football as they undoubtedly
can play 1t, but Butte's proverbial good
luck stayed with her. Anaconda made
a few costly errors. which Butte was
quick to take advantage of. and an
other victory had to be recorded to the
credit of Butte, but the experience was
one that will teach the Butte men the
necessity Of turning out all their best
men and of Dracticing cons cientiously
If they expect To repeat yesterdays
victory in future games with Ana
conda.
The score that was made was due to
two expensive errors On Anaconda
part and the fast running of Bob Per-
ham of the Butte line. In the first half
the ball was punted by Anaconda across
Butte's goal line and Patsy Sullivan,
Anaconda's full back. secured it. In
an error of judgment, he attempted to
advance the ball back across the line.
but was forced back and downed with
the ball behind the line, giving Butte
TWO pOlntS on "A safety. 6du ne re-
manned behind the line with the ball
ii would have been a touchback and
Anaconda would have been entitl I'll TO
the ball on Butte 25-yard line. ana
Butte would, i'm all probability, have
failed of the score.
Again in the second half. MCCLELLAN
tried to go through a sof; spot in
Butte's line. but Brahm broke me rbe
play. Mcmillan fumbled and dropped
the ball; it rolled toward rerham. VINO
was quick to seize the opportunity,
grabbed the ball and ran like a deer fer
goal. A successful kick gave Butte a
score of s.
Anaconda made her score of 4 by a
series of line bucking plays, in which
she was never stayed from the moment
of getting the ball near the center till
IL had been forced over the line for a
touchdown. An unsuccessful kick for
place deprived the visitors of "A goal,
but even then Anaconda should have
won, or at least have tied hes score,
but for the great %sprinting powers of
Bob Perham. Mcmillan. aided by SUI
perb interference, went through Butte's
line SO successfully that he was five
yards i'm the lead of his pursuers with
no one between him and touchdown.
He sprinted for Butte's goal. but was
not fast enough to attain his object.
Perham shot out of the Butte line and
gave chase, overtakinE his man and
downing him before the doing point
was reached.
While these incidents of the game
were responsible for the score, there
were other features which undoubtedly
contributed to the general result,
notably Anaconda's failure to take adj
vantage of her opportunities i'm the first
half and the rare judgment Displayed
by Benson i'm determining the character
of the game he must play, If he ex-
pected to win. He discovered, early i'm
the game. the futility at attempting to
buck the Anaconda line. and after a
few Intellectual struggles. gave up the
thought of making gains by massed
plays n directed his efforts to quar-
terback kicks. His backs stood him in
good stead at this time and several
rains were made, or If the ball got .nto
dangerous territory it was carried back
by the same means BY judiciously adj
herring to this policy and by Perham $
great run. the visitors were kept from
scoring in the first half, while lutte
: made two points on S~ul!ivan's mis-
X judgment.
1t must also be said that Anaconda
seemed to go INTO the game very merry
Gus in the first half and did not avail
herself of the great strength of her lire
as might have been done, as was DEM
onstrated in the last half, when il was
proven that the mass assaults If the
visitors on the Butte line could not be
stayed. The visitors averaged at Last
10 pounds to the man more than :he
nome team. When they threw their
great weight against Butte's line and
bucked into the mass plays, which was
Undoubtedly their game. as they did in
the last half. the Butte men went down
like straw before a sickle.
In the second half Anaconda was i'm
the game from the outset. and il seemed
at times there could be but one result.
Soon after the half opened Anaconda
got the ball in her W territory a few
yards from the center line. and then
began the terrific bucking onslaught on
Butte's line. Tn burly forms of the
visitors would line up. the ball would
go To Mcmillan, Arlett or Lafontise. a
gap would open up in Butte's line. and
the man with the ball would go through
for a 5-yard gain or more every time.
In only one or two instances did il take
more than one down to make the five
yard gain, and the mighty visitors
never stopped till a touchdown was
reached. Con Benson again discov-
cred the necessity of changing his tao
tics. and switched from quarterback
kicks to punts. The punting was en-
trusted to Mahoney. who did IL so sue
cessfully that although the visitors
worked their way toward Butte's goal
almost as they willed. the ball would
he secured i'm time to save the day. and
a well directed punt would send il back
into 1.-THE visitors territory. and they
Nouiu nave 10 force tnelr way back
again by their line bucking tactics. BY
this means Butte glory was saved. and
this only. and had Anaconda com
menced her line bucking earlier in the
game there would doubtless have been
a different story to tell. Withal IL was
a most exciting contest. and aroused
the enthusiasm Of the spectators to an
extraordinary pitch.
II was in the strictest sense Of the
word a football day. and no ~Thanksgiv-
ing day was ever more favored with
ultra-football weather. As though
football could not be played in, weather
hat would allow spectators average
comfort. yesterday broke cold. cloudy
and windy. The Thermometer was away
down for the 30th of May. and the wind
was raw n piercing, and during a
part OF the game a genuine Thanks
giving sno storm prevailed. 1t was
uncomfortable to a degree during the