The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-10-26
FOOT BALL
North Side High School 6.
Mariuette High School II.


high school boys from Marinette and the
team from the local north side high
school was sufficiently close to be inter
esting all the way through. The Marin
cite team has not lost a game this season
and had not been scored against until
their Manitowoc game They have play
ed five or. six good hard games this fall
and in consequence showed superior con-
dition and better team work than the
local boys The latter are capable of
better things than they showed, but they
have been unfortunate in missing a num-
Der of Saturdays when they should have
had games scheduled. 1t would seem
that the management should get their
schedule all arranged daring the proceed
ing spring term, or at least before the
opening of school in the fall. There would
not then be such Il scramble after games
when the season is already on, and the
team would not have to go for several
weeks without game on account of all
the other teams being otherwise engaged.
Both elevens showed weakness ON de-
Tense. but Manitowoc's was most appar-
ent their tackling being usually very
high. 1t may be said that the visitors
won because their interference formed
rapidly and with precision, and because
their opponents tackled high The local
boys had some good individual line buck
ers, but could not make end-runs because
of lack of interference. On several oc-
casions their forwards opened big holes
in Marinettes line d let the plunging
| backs through for good gains. Their
one touchdown was earned almost en-
tirely by straight line-bucking. Mani
towoc won the toss and chose the south
goal with "a fairly brisk wind in their
and run back a few yards for the first
| down The locals then began hammer
ing the line for short gains, and contin-
ually earned their first down until well
into Marinette's territory, when they
lost the ball on tumble. The visitors
then tried the ends and the north siders
found it very hard to break up their in
reference. They made gains of from
three to ten yards with great raIndity.
and after an interchange of fumbles sue
ceeded in scoring touch down after IL
minutes of play, The goal was kicked
easily Marinette got another touch
down before the end of the half by prac-
tically the same kind of work, but failed
on The goal, leaving the score Marinette
II, Manitowoc 0.
The second half opened with the wind
in the visitors favor and things looked
blue for the home eleven. However
they did better than at first, holding
their opponents to score of six apiece,
leaving the final result II to 6 in favor
of the Marinette team. Shimek kicked
off for Manitowoc, and the ball hit S.
Stephenson squarely in the chest and
bounded back into Manitowoc territory
where it was promptly fallen upon.
Willot, Shimek, OConnell and Kelley
then began systematic line plunging
which slowly brought the oval within
reaching distance of Marinette's goal
The ball occasionally changed hands on
a tumble but Manitowoc managed to
get possession of it and squeeze over the
line by about an inch. The goal was
easily kicked. The visitors scored some
minutes later by virtue of end runs and
the poor tackling of their opponents, 1t
was remarkable that although there was
good wind to help klckers there was
not "a punt during the entire game
Probably neither team dared to gain in
distance at the expense of losing posses
sion of the ball, because the defense of
both sides appeared insufficient As a
matter of fact neither side was able. to
hold the other for downs more than
once or twice during the game in spite
of the absence of kicking on third down
The ball generally changed hands on
tumble. From the point of view of the
spectator the game was not very inter
esting because the ball was not kicked.
but nevertheless 10 was good game of
football The visitors won ON their
merits and the home eleven had an ex-
cellent opportunity to discover their
faults which they must correct as fast
as possible. For Marinette, Vandenboom
at full back proved the best ground
gamer He is big and strong and fol-
lows his interference well as rule. He
is the hardest man to stop on the team.
For Manitowoc the back field did good
work considering their lack of protec-
tion, and both ends got into the game
well. If the team will practice tackling