Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-09-26
Goddard
Wins
FIRST GAME D THE
SEASON.
AN NEXC|T|NG GAME
In Which Goddard Shows
Up Well.
Shows

The foot ball season opened on the
Goddard campus Saturday afternoon at
3 o'clock when the home teaiA lined up
against an aggregation supposed to lie
from Burlington High SchSol but in
reality consisting of the picklof the best
men from the U. V. Nj. eleven of last
year. When it was learnedsbefore the
game that these college additions had
been made there was slighk kick but
Captain Flagg finally decided that he
was about ready TO meet anything the
state could produce SO the contest be-
gan.
Flagg won the toss and took the south
goal, Burlington kicking of. Tenny
caught the ball and by skillfIl dodging
made a gain of about twenty yards,
II. Houghton was put in ss offensive
quarterback and Clough end.s The first
play started around the right end and
the first obstacle the opposing team came
in contact with was Tenny. who by
magnificent blocking bowled his man
over like nine pin. Houghton was
right behind him and went At. his man
like catapult. Flagg had the ball and
although tackled two or three times he
wriggled through the whole HE like an
eel and not until he had advanced the
sbalh 10 yafis wsre tkay SbIe' e stop
him.
Tenny followed by a brilliant run
around the left end and by the splendid
blocking Of Flagg, Clough, and Viau he
advanced the ball another 10 yards
The visitors now saw their visions of
victory vanish rapidly before the on
slaught of Goddard's hacks who kept up
their good work until they reached
Burlington's rs yard line where they
secured the ball on tumble.
Burlington now tried their hand
against Campbell but the latter was
right where he belonged and he and
Tenney stopped them after yard gain.
They next tried Houghton's end but he
was through their interference like a
shot and they Soon realized that his end
was impregnable. They next began
bucking the line and succeeded in gain
ing their distance twice after which they
were held for downs and Goddard by
steady gains and long run by Camp
bell followed by dash through the line
by Tenney scored the first touchdown.
Viau failed to kick the goal and the
score stood to 0.
Burlington kicked off again and the
same routine was gone through with
again but the visitors held for downs
at their SO yard line and succeeded in
carrying the ball down to Goddard's
goal until they were within one foot Of
the line.
Here was where the feature OF the
game was seen when with one foot to
gain on the first down Goddard held
them like a granite wall and threw them
back to the 5 yard line on the fourth
down. For this brilliant achievment
Tenney was largely responsible for he
tore through their line like mad bull
and downed the half back in his tracks,
throwing him backwards. Time was
then called with the bail in the possess
sion of the home team.
The second half opened by Goddard
kicking off and it was repetition Of the
first. AT no time was the ball inside of
Goddards 80 yard line except for an in
slant after the opponents kicked off
when Bushnell carried the ball ahead
25 yards almost to the center of the
field.
This half was more exciting than the
first and the home team was complete
puzzle to the visitors. There was
series of brilliant plays by III. IIoughton.
Campbell and Flagg. Houghton
fumbcd the ball once and quick as a
cat jumped over pile Of men and land
ed on the ball before anyone else could
touch it and almost before it reached the
ground. Soon after this there was an
other tumble but young Campbell had it
in his possession in an instant and was
off for a 10 yard gain. Flagg broke
through the line and by phenomenal
dodging succeeded in battling the efforts
of nearly every man on the other eleven
and like flash of lightning he was
dashing towards the goal when Strong
accidently grasped his Jersey and after
being dragged some 10 yards further
finally threw him. BY steady gains the
ball was carried to within few feet of
the line where the visitors held well but
they were not equal to the occasion and
Flagg on the fourth down placed the
ball directly over the line and the score
stood 10 to 0 in favor of Goddard.
Flagg tried for goal but failed.
During the remainder of the game
the ball lowered about the center Of the
field and when time was called it was in
possession of the visitors.
The home team showed up better
than was expected and although the
line men eed a great deal of coaching