The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-11-15
Visiting Eleven Defeated Local
College by One-Sided Score
of % to O.
RENWICK MADE ToUcHDoWNs.
Full Back Oh Medical Team Was
Chief Point Scorer for Vic
tors-First Half Was
Close.

Struggling against a team that averaged
close to $50 pounds and outweighed them
twenty pounds per mar, the St. Louis
University players went down to defeat
before the Rush medical team yesterday
at Sportsman's Park by, a score of % to 0.
save in the first half, when the local
men put up a strong game on the defense.
there was nothing to the contest beyond
a succession of attacks by the visitors.
After being held to a solitary score in the
opening period. the weight of the medical
students told in the closing half and they
managed to cross the local line for three
more t~ouchdowns.
Though the score was one sided in the
closing period. 1t was well worth seeing.
The first half alone was a good exhibition
of football, and would have repaid a jour-
ney to the park. That the St Louis team,
palpably light. as it was. could hold tho
bulky visitors to a single score. was alone
a fact that made the game worth wit
Messing.
Strength told in the second half. how
ever. Smashing the opposing line at er-
cry plunge. the visitors would penetrate
fhs ST IL Louis san de ingixia 1n1y n to be 0rS assin
and again the backs on the local team
would stop a visiting player h had gone
through their line as though 1t had been
Handicapped by the fact that their cap
tain and left-end man was out of the
game in the first halt. the local men put
nerich was at CaldwelIs place in the first
half and did good work. But once or
twice men got by him that would proba-.
bly, have been stopped had CALDWELL occu-
pied the same position.
As individuals the st. Louis men played
we'll. but their team work was neutralized
by the superior weight and strength of
their opponents. No matter how prompt
the local men we're to solve an attack. no
matter how quickly they rallied to the
aid of their line when the visitors plunged
against il. the weight of their opponents
swept them back and resulted in a gain
for the embryo physicians.
SPEED NEARLY SAVED DAY.
Speed came near saving the day for the
blue and white team in the first half.
Prompt work by Delaney's men resulted
in the ST. Louis ends getting around the
line. or in their backs plugging up the
hole made by the rush attack in the blue
and yIsIts white se line bs sS That far d aeSepsi times the
Once St. Louis got the ball on downs
and made some gains. But the heavy
rush line proved too strong to assail. The
medical students were forced TO punt on
several occasions. however, and the ball
whipsawed across the field in a manner
that promised a good game.
Beatnman ana DauOnN1le were Oppo-
rents at the punting game, each kicking
the ball for his own team. Dandonvilie.
with his experience on the big eleyens of
the West, was looked TO to play a star
game and he did not disappoint. He was
n ground gamer at all stages and his
fierce attacks made the 81. Louis line
shake perceptibly.
The chief element in breaking up the
local line, however. was a bulky indi-
vidual at center of the visitors. Mckenna
by name. He had a trick of slipping away
from Lindsey upon the latters a.taes;
the guards. Miller and Campbell. of st.
Louis University. Linsey would get
through. the opposing line. but the ball
smash into the burly rear. end of Nc
Kenna, the impetus backing the st. Louis
guard toward his own goal.
figure more than 200 pounds. and he looked
il He Wal a great ground maker for the
visitors. and that the local men held him
in the first half is a. point in their favor.
One feature deserves mention in a season
SO strongly marked locally by fumbling Of
punts. and that IS the manner in which
kicks by either side were caught by the
and Brennan for st. Louis and Miller or
Rcnwick for Rush would make most SEN
sationa1 catches at various stages their
work in this respect deserving all credit.
RENwICK CHIEF SCORER.
Renwick was the chief point scorer for
the visitors. but 1t is doubtful if he was
the. chief ground gamer. This distinction
seems to belong to the linemen. who made
holes for the backs to pass through. Or
else to Dandonville. who managed to
smash the opposing line about every time
he hit 1t.
Captain Caldwell of st. Louis was hob |
bling about the side lines for the first
period. In an effort to stem the tide that
set against the local men in the second
half. he was sent to his place at left end. |
Though he did good work here. in spite |