The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-13
That Goal By
Hagbergg
MEANT VICTORY.
Red Hot Game With Boston
High at Oval.
YESTERDAYS COLLEGE GAMES.

YESTERDAYS COLLEGE GAMES.
Harvard II, Brown 6.
! Pennsylvania IS, Carlisle 5.
| Cornell AZ, Lafayette 0.
Dartmouth 10, Williams 6.
| Massachusetts Tech 8, Tufts 6
Chicago s. Wisconsin 0.
Michigan Il, Illinois 5.
Wesleyan 50, Rutgers O..
| Bowdoin H. Colby O..
Chicago A. A. 5. All Stars 5.
! Union II, Colgate 5.
Annapolis 6, Lehigh 6.
Full back Hagberg Of the high school
foot ball team more than retrieved
himself yesterday for his work at
Williston the preceding week. In the
game with the Boston English high
school eleven, at the oval, Hagberg
kicked the goal that meant local vice
tory.
Each side had made a touchdown
and the prospects were that neither
side would be able to get the ball across
its opponents goal line again, during,
the game. The visitors, after making.
thelr touchdown, had failed to kick the
goal. 1t was therefore Hagberg's turn.
Ii ne could send the ball between the
goal posts and over the bar, Worcester
hlgh would have one point to the good
NOT a very big margin, to be sure, but
Just enough to win. Hagberg did the
tllck, and so the final score was 6 to
in favor of Worcester high school.
FOR school boy foot ball, yesterdays
game was good exhibition. OF course
neither team possessed the finishing
eouches nor the ability to make the
hnely executed plays that would char
acterize a Harvard or Princeton
eleven. But, at the same time, it was
GOOD, hard foot ball and showed that
the men had some knowledge of the
game and, what was more. that thew
were acquainted, with only a few ex-
ceptions, with their signals. The con-
test, however, was not without its I'M
pleasant features to the impartial
sport.
In the first place, the high school
team was not composed entirely of
high school players. The team was
playing against lot of bona fide stu
dents of the Boston English high
school, the visitors lineup yesterday
being the same as the one the school
1nlEISCuOl3SIlc
games for the championship of Boston
and vicinity. But, while the boys from
Boston were playing a straight team,
the Worcester high school eleven was
composed of only seven high school
students. The remaining members"
OF the high school team do not attend
the school, Some have been played as
high school men in former games.
others were rung in for this special
Of
to the evening high school is not suffi-
Gent reason to give them places on
the w H. S. team.
Again, the two men who officiated in
the dual capacity of linesmen and
timers were at best incompetent. Frank
H. Bigelow of this city and j. r. Rich
ards, WHO was last year playing centre
on Boston Athletic Association, were ref
cree and umpire alternately, and their
work was above criticism. The line
officials, however, had to be frequently
cautioned by these men, and once the
charge was made that the line had
been shortened, and was not full five
yards. Investigation by Referee Bige-
low showed that it was full foot short.
Toward the end of the second half,
when the ball was DANGEROUSLY near
Worcester highs goal line, it was found
that there was two minutes difference
IN time. Linesman Thompson claimed
that time had expired, while Sheehan,
Who was supposed to look after Bos-
tons interests, asserted that two min
utes still remained. This came within
an ace of causing the game TO end in
Wrangle. Surprising as it may seem,
however, the visitors magnanimously
agreed TO abide by the home officials
watch, and after cheering each other
the two teams left the field.
Each team was stronger in defensive
than offensive work. They could hold
for downs a great deal better than they
could advance the ball into the terri
tory of their opponents. At times the
eleVens would seem to rally, and for a
time succeed in pushing the ball for
ward But every rally was followed
by an equally effective response from
the side on the defense. Boston Eng
lish high school made most of it's gains
through the Worcester line, while the
local boys had to depend on runs by
Adrian and Moran at critical stages.
The high school team should have
done more punting. Isn't there a
kicker on the high school side?" was a
cry that very often came from the side
lines, in lieu of suggestion that an
attempt to punt would not be in poor
Judgment. Several times Worcester
high had six, seven or ten yards to
make in a down, but instead of punt
ing out of danger, the ball would be
given to either Moran or Adrian in the
hope that an end play might result in
the acquiring Of the necessary distance
Hagberg tried to punt just once, while
the visitors fullback repeatedly put his
toe into the pigsl1in.
The individual stars of the high
school team were Moran, Daily and Hal
| pine. Rebbol was badly knocked out
early in the game and after that could
cot 10 I, oil In tnn
would have been one of the bright
stars. Moran was valuable chiefly owing
to his ground gaining abilities. With a
| sprained ankle and a wrenched knee ne
was in pretty tpoor condition to play,
| but he kept gamely at his work and,
aided by the excellent interference,
made number of good gains, as well
as scoring the only touchdown.
| DAILY as usual played hard and at
times a rough game, but he was in
every play and was a tackle who did
taekling. Days only weakness is that in
his great desire to break through the
| line he often gets into position
where he cannot help his team. If he
J was in front of a mass play instead of
| behind it, Daily could use his weight
| and strength to better advantage. Hag-
berg guarded his end we'll
| For the visitors, Alexander, a gentle
man OF, color, on the left end was every
where, all the time. He tackled low and
| hard and when he once got his man,
there was no getting away.
WORCESTER HIGH. BOSTON HIGH.
Haiplne, | e.......- e, Allen
Knibbs Davis) t...-....,...r t, Harrison
| Johnson, | g...,...-............r s, o Brien
McGourty, .....-....,......-...... c, Pray
stone g............'........,.......l g, tracy
Kebbol; e....................l G, Alexander
Hibbard, q b..,,.........,........;,q b. 7. Ball