The record-union., 1898-12-27
1T STOOD SIXTEEN TO FIVE.
SACRAMENTO AND CHICO LADS
ON THE GRIDIRoN.
The Locals Won a Hard-Fought
Battle, and the Wounded Were
Numerous.

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Sacramento Comus team and Chlco
High School team wrestle with the pig
skin and jump on one another IN ther
efforts to win at football.
Before the game almost everybody
who claimed to know anything about
1t said the Sacramento boys would not
stand the ghost of chance with the
husky youngsters from Chico, but as
It CHANGED the knowing ones were mis-
taken, as usual, and when the last
down had been made and the last
bruise had been nursed and rubbed
the score stood Sacramento 16, Chico ..
But the arrangements were bad.
There We're no ropes up, and the crowd
of 500 or GOO men and boys invaded
the grounds and remained there until
the close, regardless of the supplica-
tions and tmprecations of the players
TO be allowed breathing room. Most
Of the time the heap of youngsters
was entirely surrounded by the crowd,
every member of which could have
seen much better from behind the side
lines.
And the boys were out for blood.
The game was rough-and-tumble from
start to finish, and seldom was there
a down that some player was not laid
out and needed a. lot of coaxing be-
fore he could again face the music.
The officials for Chico We're: z.
Plumb, referee and umpire, and c. L.
Mason, lineman and timekeeper; for
Sacramento, Ed Robinson acted as
referee and umpire, and John Scott OF
the University of California as lineman
and timekeeper.
The game was called at 3 o'clock.
f1i Of
Chico eleven, kicked off to Stack, who
returned the ball fifteen yards before
being downed. Root carried the ball
around the right end of Chico for a
gain Of thirty yards. Pierson bucked
Chico's line for a five yards gain;
Root carried it three yards further;
Jordan took the ball around the right
end for seven and one-half yards be-
fore being downed, and Harney carried
1t around the left end for an additional
fifteen yards.
Sacramento got the ball on tumble
and bucked Chico's line for another
three yards. Three minutes were al
lowed in which to resuscitate a
knocked-out player, and then Root
bucked Chico's line for a gain of ten
yards, or to within one yard Of Chicos
goal line, and on the next try Root
piled up on top of the ball over the
line for the first touchdown.
Time-Five minutes, four seconds.
Harvey failed to kick a goal.
Chico kicked to Canon for twelve
yards, and on the down Meyers was
laid out, and three minutes taken out
to set him on his feet again. Root
bucked Chico's line for three yards.
and Stack broke through Chico's line
for a gain of thirteen yards. Jordan
carried the ball eight yards, and Root
gained four yards on his buck.
Sacramento took the ball on
tumble, and another three minutes
were taken out to allow salve and oint-
ment to be applied to the wounds of
Sacramento boy who had had the wind
squeezed out of him.
Harney took the ball for three yards,
and lost it on a tumble. Sacramento
kicked twenty yards, and Chico ad-
vanced six Chico's ball (Another
three minutes for hospital work) Chico
lost four yards, but regained the dis
tance on Wastes run around the end.
Chico lost the ball on downs on Sacra-
mento's twenty-five yard line. Harvey
got through Chico's line for a gain Of
twenty yards, and Canon took it over
the goal line on tumble for the sec
ond touchdown. Harvey again failed
to kick a goal.
Time-Fifteen minutes, eight sec
Onds
Chico kicked to Harney for fifteen
yards, who carried it around the end
for twenty-five. Root took the ball
through Chico's line for fifteen yards,
and another three minutes for ''re-
freshments" was taken. Root bucked
for two and Meyers for three yards,
and another man was knocked out
Time-Three minutes.
On a tumble McCabe got the ball for
Sacramento, and Harney gained five
yards. Sacramento lost the ball on
downs. and Chico punted thirty-five
yards to Harvey. Stack gained q. yard
and kicked to Chico's left half, who got
mixed UP with the crowd, lost his bear
ings and ran out of bounds, gaining
ten yards. Chico gained another ten
yards, and then lost the ball on a
tumble
So ended the first half, and the score
stood 10 to o in favor of the local boys.
In the second half Canon kicked off
for an advance of fifteen yards Chico
lost two yards, and on a tumble Root
got the ball. Harney lost a yard on
other three minutes were necessary to
care for the wounded.
Chico's quarterback kicked for
gain of fifteen yards, and Jordan re-
turned it four yards Meyers bucked
Chico's line for ten yards. and Root
followed with seven. With the ball
within three feet of the goal line, three
more minutes were allowed to bind up
ruptured tendons and broken bones.
Then Harney bucked the ball over the
line and kicked goal, and the score
stood 16 to O.
Time Three minutes, thirty-nine
seconds.
Then the youngsters from Chico
woke up and did what they ought to
have done at the start They mar
shaled their heavyweights and hurled
wedges. rotary and otherwise against
the line of the locals, and nearly al
ways with success.
Chico kicked off to Coombs, who re-
turned it five yards. Meyer gained
four and Canon five yards, and then
Chico took the ball on tumble. Chico
bucked for two, three and eight yards,
successfully, and then Sacramento
took the ball on a tumble. No gain
was made on the downs, however. and
after Davis had lost five yards. Waste.
the Chico Captain, kicked a goal from
the field-the first play of the kind
ever made in Sacramento-and the
score was 16 to 5.
Indeed, the play made by Waste is
rarely ever seen even when the bes-