Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-10
INDIANS WERE
EASY MARKS
A BIG ChJWD WITNESSED THEIR
DEFEAT ON THE GRID1RON
SATURDAY.
WORK OF BUTTE BOYS
WAS SNAPPY AND FAST.
Just Played Horse With the Redskins
From Start to Finish-Score
Is to @.

The indian football team from Fort
Shaw was defeated by the eleven known
as the Butte High School team, at Ath-
letic park. Saturday afternoon, by a
score Of Is to o.
The day was admirably suited to foot
ball, and a crowd of more than a thous-
and people witnessed the game which
proved very interesting, Notwithstanding
that it was very one-s:ded, for the reas-
on tina it was known the Indian boys
were playing their third game. and that
they We're able to make any showing at
all against their more experienced OPP
Eonents was pleasing to the spectators,
whose %sympathies were plainly wish the
natives.
The High School eleven was not strict
ly composed of high school students, but
instead, included a number of the young-
er players of the Butte teams of last
season. They were big, HUSKY fellows,
experienced in the game, and gave the
Butte line a strength the plucky little
redskins could not withstand.
The play of the Indians was evidence
in itself hat they had not had much
experience or coaching. They knew moth
ing of the technique of the game, and
seemed to be acquainted with only a
few plays, which consisted Of bucking
the line through the center, or between
left guard and tackle, and they We're so
slow in getting into action that they
were no match for the high school play
ers, who, on the other hand, displayed
as fine dash and team play as has been
seen on the Butte gridiron IN many a
day.
The play of the Butte team betrayed
the coaching of Percy Benson in it's
every feature, and if the youths ad
mastered the defensive play as perfectly
as they had been able to the offensive,
there would have been nothing to the
game. en- the offensive the team could
take the ball and carry it to a touch
down any time they chose. Their work
in that line was wonderfully snappy and
fast. and they would line up and go
through the line of their opponents so
quickly hat the ndian would not have
time to get on their feet after a down
before the home team was going through
them again. The Indians were also
much better on the offensive than they
were on the defensive, though their gains
We're much shorter than those of the
home team.
The High School won the toss and
elected to defend the south goal. The
Indians kicked off to the fifty-yard line,
where Butte took the ball n immedi-
ately began a series of great rushes,
which soon landed the ball behind the
visitors goal line. The same thing was
done when the teams lined UP again, and
the High School was well on it's way
down the field for a third touchdown
when time was called for the end of the
first half.
TIL High School failed to kick the goal
after both to~uchdowns, and the score
stood 10 to 0. in favor of the home team.
During the half, Sheppard, the visitors
strongest man, received a bad cut in the
head, but he continued in tine game till
near the end, when he got so weak he
was Obliged to retire.
In the second half. the High School
kicked off to the Indians. who took the
ball just inside their goal line and re-
turned it to about 20 yards before being
downed. Then. by a series of steady,
though small gains, assisted by a presen-
tation of ten yards for an off side, they
pushed the ball UP to within ten yards
of the High School goal. The High School
seemed to have been playing with their
opponents UP to that time, for they at
once took a brace, stopped the progress
""" Ao'A uAC d jill
Towns. In less than five minutes they
had swept across the field TO another
touchdown just as time was called for
the end of the game. The kick for goal
failed again, and the score stood Is to O.
The Indians returned to Fort Shaw
Saturday evening. Before leaving, Per-
ry l.. Sargent, manager of the team, ex-
pressed himself as being highly appre-
ciative of the treatment the boys re-
ceived in Butte. Before the game the
Indian lads We're taken for a coach ride
about the city, and they were in other
ways shown every consideration by the
high school boys. Manager Sargent said,
he did not expect to win the game and
was entirely satisfied with the result, as
the experience would be a great help to
the team. and he hoped to return soon
for another game, when he hoped to be
able to turn the tables. The line-up of
the Butte team, Mr.. Sargent said, had
been known by him before the game was
played.
1t is understood an effort will be made
to arrange another game, but nothing,
0elinifa foaS Ibaen daoi6ad a rat