Arizona republican., 1899-12-26
VICTORIOUS NORMALS
MOpped the Park With fife
 Righ School Team.
The Local Eleven Showed Themselves to Be Very Good Individual Play CTS But They Sadly Lacked Essen- tial Practice and Organization.

If, concerning the comparative abil-
 ity of the normal and high school foot ball teams, any doubt has existed, it was removed before the conclusion of the contest at the Phoenix park yes | terday, as also was the high schools
 chance of winning at the close of the
 season the championship trophy of 1 fered by the Arizona Foot Ball league.
 A large crowd witnessed the defeat of
 the high school, which did not score. 1 The normal school scored five touch
 downs and two goal kicks, one of
 them made at an extremely difficult
 angle, the total counting twenty-seven points.
 ! Despite the size of the crowd there was little cheering or enthusiasm. Those favoring the high school had little opportunity to applaud. while the ! normal school rooters, who have a ! habit of returning home without any
 thing upon which to congratulate 1 themselves, were surprised at the weak stand against their favored eleven | They looked at each other in amaze
 ment, but did not offer to make the 1 defeat of the red and black appear any more striking by ridicule. And then | the crowd was not extremely pleased 1 at the poor showing of the high school | aggregation, one which has maintained
 an enviable foot ball record for Phoe-
 nix during three years before this l season. Even the players of the nor nal school would have preferred to 1 have taken on a little more glory by
 meeting lineup which could make some kind of opposition.
 | The contest yesterday was the first
 one between the two schools in which
 the teams were evenly matched as to
 weight. The high school, with an'av-
 craze weight of twenty pounds less
 than the normal lineup. formerly was victorious, but although the teams
 were evenly matched yesterday the | high school could not make gains in
 either by line-bucking or open field
 playing.
 The normal school plowed through
 it's lines or skirted the ends with equal | ease and demonstrated it's ability as
 well in accomplishing fake plays. Foot ! ball critics share a similar view re- | gardinS the cause of the high school | failure. There is no fault with the ma | terial, and many of the boys exhibited magnificent individual work, but there l was simply no team work. Manager l Rosenberg plan of selecting such an | overwhelming proportion of players
 not attending the high school has been i censured and given as one cause of the ! nigh schools defeat. Players who do | not attend the school as a rule do not | have an opportunity to practice and l they show less interest in the game Although the high school eleven has
 almost disintegrated. and it afforded little opportunity for testing the
 status of the opposing eleven. the i'm
 provement of the normal team since l it's last game was manifested on sev- 1 eral occasions. At no time was the | team under the necessity of crowding itself. It played fast ball for the prac- tice afforded and showed a gratifying 1 effect of close team work, only at 1 tained by persistent practice. The | eleven has been well coached and was | well generated in the contest.
 l There was delay in calling the game, i out the contest was played fast after l -he start. Almost in the first play af- ] ter the normal school kickoff Wormell, captain of the high school team, was injured and before the end of the first ! half was rendered unconscious, bump nS his head against the knee of an ! other player. He was unable to con- | inue in the game after the accident ] md the high school lest one of it's best l players. Following this accident the game was marked by frequent, but not eriOus, casualties. WormeH returned
 the pig-skin when the game opened,
 )niy a short distance, and after several . intellectual attempts at ne-buckinS lhe high school made a quarterback
 licll and the normals secured the ball.
 From the outset they carried through l he right and left ends for big gains | md crowded past the center line of the | 5ridirOn, when Shute skirted the right
 and of it for a twenty-yard gain, and
 aaigler carried it beyond the goal. The 1 fullback failed to kick the goal.
 When the high school kicked off