Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-09-28
NO SCORE is MADE
Rock Island High School Shows
Championship Form at
Davenport.
GAME PLAYED IN THE MUD
\ Fast Eleven Gotten Together by
Capt. Mosen-
fielder.

Neither side scored in the exhibi-
ton football game played Ly Rock
Island and Davenport high sci ools at
the baseball park across NJ river
Saturday afternoon. The contest was
waged on field covered with a
coating of mud, and while a drilling
rain fell. Despite the unfavorable
lcOnditiOn there was fair-sized crowd
| of enthusiasts of the game out, each
team having its rootcrs.
Rock Islands showing against Dav-
export augnrs well for the chances of
Che ,ocaI eleven in the race for the
trI-city championship the present sea
son. Davenport, it viii be remember
ed, had Rock Island Outclassed to such
an extent last year that the local
fans felt very much in the same frame
of mind as the Davenport baseball
team was in whenever it went against
Rock Island during the past summer
licked before the game was called.
While the Davenport football team of
this season will outweigh Rock Island.
there are missing Il few of the big
forms that were terrorizcrs to anna
tour players hereabout Il year ago.
On the other hand. Capt. Mosen-
fielder has gotten together the most
promising bunch that has gone forth
i'm years to gain gridiron laurels for
the Rock Island high school. The
boys have weight and are already dis
playing Il scientific knowledge of the
game that Will mean much in future
contests.
Davenport had the long end of the
argument at the beginning of the
first half Saturday, Il couple of end
runs and punts getting the pigskin
close to the Rock Island goal. the
seven-yard line being reached, but the
ball was back on the Rock Island
30-yard line when time was called.
Rock Island had the kickoff in the
second half and the ball was put to
the 45-yard line, Davenport, on secur
| ing possession of the ball, found it
possible to make little Roadway, and
it was held in Iowa territory to the
ROCK ISLAND. DAVENPORT.
ROCK ISLAND. DAVENPORT.
| Coleman ..c....... SchlapkOhl
! Morrison .......r. g............ Gould
| Graves ....-....l. g........ Barnholdt
EhrhOrn ........r. 49,. Mccullough
Henderson $500. i. t......... Fisher
Griffith -..-.....r. e.......... Hendele
Mosenfelder -. 4. e......... Preston
Adamson ........q. b........ Nalerius
Souders ........r. h.......... McGaw
Lift ............l h......... Holiday
Sullivan ........f. b...... Grams
Referee - Wilson, Davenport. Um-
pire- Hamilton, Rock Island. Time
! keeper-Thatcher Davenport. Lines
men-Grant and Mccartney.
BENEFITS Win Again.
The BENEFITS defeated the West
Ends Sunday afternoon by a score of
) to 0. The West Ends outweighed
the BENEFITS by five pounds to man.
The BENEFITS goal was only in dan
ger once, but they held their oppon-
cnts and by good line plunges and
end runs managed to get to the mid
die of the field. The features of the
game were the line plunges by Strem-
mel, Fitzsimmons and Duckworth and
the long end runs by Larson and
Woods. The BENEFITS are willing to
play any team in the tri-cities ayerag-
ing from 100 to 135 pounds.
College Foot Ball Games.
Chicago, Sept. 28.-FOllowing are
the scores of the principal college foot
ball games: At hampaign-Lombard
| o, Illinois 43; at LincOln-Grand Island
0, Nebraska Ga; at Iowa City-COrnell
college o, Iowa q; ut Minneapolis -
Carleton o, Minnesota 20; at Philadel-
phia-Dickinson o, Pennsylvania 81; at
Ithaca-Hobart 0, Cornell II; at New
Haven-Trinity 0, Yale 80; at Cam
Williams o, Harvard II; at
New Wesleyan o, Columbia 10;
at Bloomington, Ind.-Wabash >, Indi-
ana o.