The Redwood gazette., 1900-11-07
NOT IN IT.
Sleepy Eye Makes Short Work o.
the RedWoodsFallsH Hluh.

Sleepy Eye Makes Short Work of
the RedW WoodsFalls High.
The Redwood Falls high school
team was defeated by the the deci-
siye score of 81 to 0, at the hands of
the Sleepy'Eye foot ball team, on
the Redwood gridiron in Finley
Gray's chicken pasture, last Satur-
day afternoon. The Redwood high
school team has not won game
this year. The members are softly
singing Listen to my tale of woe, :"
and they are supported by a whole
lot of fair members of the Redwood
Falls high school, who make love-
ly chorus.
What is the matter with the Red
wood Falls school team anyway?
| The matter is that the members
lack alertness in individual playing,
force in combined playing, and
weight in breaking through the
lines of their antagonists. And
when team'is devoid of all three
of these requisites it is in pretty
fair way Of getting skinned" pro-
viding the opposition is good in any
one Or all OF the points mentioned.
The large'cipher placed to Red
wood S discredit shows that Red
wood never made a touch down.
| Worse than that the high school
team never had the appearance of
securing a touch down. The kick
off was good in every case where it
was done by the local team, but the
Sleepy Eye boys were quick to
grasp the ball and force it to Red
wood S goal. Twice when Redwood
had the ball in sight ofSleepy Eyes
goal, young Armstrong of the Slee-
py Eye team, was given the ball,
and before the Redwood players
realized what was going on he had
passed down to the west side of the
gridiron and then run down the
line to the Redwood goal before a
Redwood player could even touch
him. This player was big part of
the show. He was quicker than a
cat in getting'the bali and making
his movements, and once away from
the Redwood tackle he would out
distance any player in the Redwood
team.
The game was. called. at 2:20.
| There wasn't a large crowd Of
adults present, but the school chill
dren were numerous and they were
reinforced py about 40 pupils from
the Sleepy Eye schools. The Slee-
py Eye pupils were gaily adorned
kMith their colors. had the usual
tapmbYeY q hpr4s, and, everybody on
ERe g1{1n1 1realf4ed thhs Sleepy
EEge.1AklAcklp ina evid1nce} ,des-
lpite the fact that . large bulk Of the
fcrowd was distinctly a Red wood
crowd and wore the Redwood col
ors. Sleepy Eye. kicked off and
Baldwin Of the Redwood team
caught the ball., but. Sleepy Eye
made the Redwood goal IN three
minutes by Armstrong S run around
the west side. Sleepy Eye then
kicked the ball over the. goal and
was given six points. It required
| just ten minutes for the Sleepy
Eye team to get the ball over the
Redwood goal for the second time
in the first half, and it was done
after some pretty hard crowding.
The third time Sleepy Eye got the
ball over in three minutes. failing
in the kick both times. The fourth
time Sleepy Eye made it in ten min
utes, after some very exciting play
ipM and . lot Of yelling on part Of
1.-The rooters on both sides. i
+ ia the second half the Redwood
team failed to get anywhere near
the Sleepy Eye goal, and after the
Sleepy Eye team had scored once
and had gotten very near the Red
wood goal.for q second time time
was called and the game was decid-
ed in favor Of Sleepy Eye by q score
lof 81 to Q. s.