The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-10


legion of small boys saw the Y. NJ. c.
a. football team put it on the Ogden
team at ogden yesterday by score of
Is to 0.
Twill be long before Salt Lake
football team will go to the Junction
city again to play the game. Yester-
days exhibition was comic opera foot
ball. 1t had not been advertised at all,
and 50 little interest had Manager Pull
Yer taken III the game that he had not
taken the pains to notify all his men,
and Captain Smith of the Salt Lake
team had to lend the Ogdens one Of
his men so as to give them enough TO
make up team. Neither had the Og-
den management marked out the field,
and they had not even provided new
ball for the game.
ogden Disorganized.
The Ogden team is completely disor-
ganized since the Denver game, when
it was so badly beaten, and with their
captain gone they have forgotten all
they knew about the game. Salt Lake
so outclassed them that the game was
a foregone conclusion after the first
down, and their opponents were not
even strong enough to give the men
from Zion a good practice. Twice only
did the Ogden aggregation get the ball.
once for off-slde play by Salt Lake and
total distance they gained on the first
occasion was three yards. and the sec
ond time one yard. so they are credited
with a total distance gained of four
yards during the game.
Salt Lake. on the other hand never
had the slightest difficulty in gaining
its distance on every down. Through
the line il was as easy to go as if il
had been builded of cheese, and end
runs were always such grounders that
the referee had difficulty in keeping up
with the ball. So easy were their oppo-
nents that the Salt Lakers grew care
less after the first few downs and put
up game that was marked by loose
interference and slow pay. They show
ed a decided falling off from the form
that they showed against the Collegiate
team, scarcely man playing with the
snap and vim that they put into the
game on that occasion.
Halves We're Short.
The game was very late in commenc-
ing, owing to TIE. difficulty Ogden had
in getting enough men TO make up a
team. 1t was not until nearly o'clock
that Referee Wheat blew his whistle
for the kickoff. 1t was then so late
that it was decided 10 play only fifteen
minute halves, and owing 10 frequent
delays to get the swarming crowd of
small boys off the field, it grew dark
before the second half was barely be-
gun, and Referee Wheat shortened it to
only eight minutes In the twenty-three
minutes actual play the Christians
made three touchdowns and kicked
three goals, and they were we'll on their
way for fourth when time was called.
The kickoff went to Hill, and he re-
turned the bali to the thirty five-yard
line before he was downed by Jones. On
the first play Nels Margetts was sent
around left end for ten yards behind
good interference. Then Smith was
caught off-side and the ball was given
TO Ogden Hansford tried right end
and gained three yards, and then the
ball went back to Salt Lake, for some
Ogden man was off-side. The ball was
on Salt Lakes forty-five-yard line. and |
the Christians started a straight march
for a touchdown.
Ploughing Through the Line
1t was a. cakewalk to the Ogden goal |
line. Williams hit left end for five. Au-
gustus ploughed through center for |
five, NelS Margetts got three, Smith |
three more. Henrotin four and Williams |
five through left guard. Then Scare |
set the Ogden sympathiZers to gnashing |
their teeth by a fifteen-yard gain |
around left end. But as he was tackled /
he dropped the ball, and it seemed as |
though all the territory would be lost. /
But Augustus was there and he made /
a pretty drop on it and saved it with
another gain of five yards for Salt
Lake Henrotin was sent through a
hole made by Smith and Hill for a ten
yard gain, and the remaining five yards
was covered by Nels Margetts around
the end, and Salt LAX had scored its
first touchdown in seven minutes of
play. Henrotin kicked goal.
Score-Y. M.~C. A, 8; Ogden, 0.
Nels Margetts' Fine Run.
Bert Margetts got the kickoff and
returned it twenty yards by good dodg-
ing. On the next down Neis Margetta
swept around left end with beautifuf
interference by Smith and Scare, and
augustus he ran the full length of the
field. nearly seventy-fiye yards, for
touchdown But Referee Wheat's whiS-
tie rad blown just as the bali was
snapped. for an Ogden man had been
off-side, and instead of touchdown the
visiting team was given fifteen yards
for the off-side play. 1t was only
matter of time before the touchdown
was re-earned. Salt Lake began to
hammer the line hard Just to see what
it was made of.
Holes large enough to drive an ice
wagon through were made at every
point in the line save at right guard.
where Gum of the Salt Lake team.
who was playing with Ogden was plaV- /
ing. He was the only man in the en-
the Ogden line who could stop the I
Christians, and he had to bear the :
brunt of the defense. Slow play char
acterized the work of the Y. NJ c. A
just here. and it took them eight min
utes TO take the ball to the ten-yard !
line. and just as the whistle blew Hen
rotin was pushed through the center
foi the second touchdown Henrotin
kicked goal. Score: Y. NJ c. A. u, !
Ogden 0.
The Second Half.
In the second half Gum went in at
guard in place of Start. and The latter
went into the Ogden line. The KICKOFF
went 10 Hansford at the goal line and :
he fumbled and had TO fall on the bail
on Ogden's three-yard line Hansford
tried the end in vain. for Ostler had ]
him before he was started. He dropped
the ball when tackled and Geiger fell
on it. try at the line by KniseIv
proved unavailing. and Hansford tried !
TO punt. 1t was a little fellow Just o-ersl +
the line and Nels Margetts got it, but I
fumbled, and Hill fell on it, Nels Mar ,
gets went around the end for ten vardsI 4
and Henrotin was pushed the remain ?
ing seven yards for touchdown He \
also kicked the third successive goal. | =
Bert Margetts got the Kickoff and re-j 7
turned II nearly 10 the center of the =
field. The Christians waItzed down to !,
the forty-five-yard line and Scare was :,
given the ball. He fumbled, but picked r
the ball up quickly and had a clear :
field for a touchdown But the crowd
was all around and he gained but ten "
yards before he ran into a fleeing small | "
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