River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-11-15
AWFUL!
Another Landslide---49 to Of!
New Richmond's Champion Foot Ball
Team Swamped!
The Local High is Champion of st.
Croix Inter-Scholastie League
and of Northwestern
Wisconsin!

The last football game Of the season
was played on Normal campus last
Saturday afternoon between the high
school teams Of New Richmond and
this city. The result was as though a
runaway freight train had struck
New Richmond. With the outlying
precincts still unheard from, the
votes, as far as counted, show New
Richmond's fondest hopes forever
lost. A small but enthusiastic crowd
saw the game, and watched it through
to the end, in spite of the cold wave
which arrived on schedule time just
30 minutes ahead of the game. New
Richmonds much vaunted team were
the first to appear, walking out upon
the field with great deal of conf
dence that they would win the game
or at least keep the score down to
low figure. They were followed in
| few minutes by the local team, aod
at 2:30 the game was on in earnest.
| Ames won the toss and chose to kick
off. Jensen kicked to Hughes and the
ball was down on the 20 yard line.
Twice the visitors tried the right
side of the line, and it was third down
with four yards to go. Then Waite
tried the left, and got four, but FUN
bled, and Jensen fell on the ball. Ii
was River Falls ball on the % yard
line. A tandem carried Dan Linehan
through left tackle for four yards, a
similar play got three for Jensen,
Linehan got three more at the same
place, then Boucher circled the right
end for Is yards and a touch down
Time 2 IL minutes. Score 3 to 0 IA
vor of River Falls. New Richmond
kicked off, and River Falls carried
the ball rapidly up the field and over
the goal for another touch down.
Twice more in the first half Of % l-2
minutes they repeated the trick, and
Jensen got one of the goals. Score
u to 0, favor of River Falls. The
second half was no different, except
that the teams had changed goals and
the locals got one more touch down
and two more goals than in the first
half, making the score 40 TO 0 The
local boys played a great game. Their
offense showed the same terrific, driv-
| ing force that it has shown in all the
| games played this year. It's defense,
while not perfect, was strong enough
TO keep the "plunging hack~" of New
Richmond from making any ground
that would rank them AS dangerous.
| New Richmond could make nothing
at the locals ends, and very little
| through the line, and then only at one
tackle, and only for few minutes at
| that, so that at no stage of the game
were they in any danger of scoring
On the other hand the massive inter-
| ference of the locals carried the run
ner around the New Richmond ends
| again and again for from to go yards,
while their tandems on tackle aud
plunges through the line tore great
holes 10 New Richmond s.defense, TAX
Ing man through for from to 40
yards La fact they were never handi-
capp d at all, being able make their
gains at will. Many friends Of the
high school would like to see them
line up against some of the stronger
teams from the city, as they undoubt-
edly rank as the best high school team
in n. w. Wisconsin, and should be
able to prove their right TO the tack
lie. The game last Saturday brings
them the Penuant as the Cham pions
of the two counties, but it means
more than that, as New Richmond
had defeated Cum berland and Eau
Claire, and Normal had defeated Still
water, so that the locals title TO
championship honors is pretty clear.
Following is the line up of the two