The DeLand weekly news. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1887-190?, 1903-11-06
STETsON s, TAMPA 0.
Crowds Eagerly Watched for The
News Football Extra.


News Football Extra.
There was great excitement around
THE NEWS office Saturday night.
Scores of students and towns.people
gathered to learn the first news of
the result of the Tampa.Stetson foot.
ball game. z. F. Oates and j. Hall
Brumsey were the managers of the
extra, a neat little twelve.page paper
gotten out for the occasion. The re.
suit of the game was telegraphed In
full. AS soon as the papers we're from
the press, seven newsboys started out,
yelling extra" at the top of their
voices. The extras we're taken up
like hot CAKES and must have proven
4 good advertisement for the two doz
m merchants who took space. The
following tel9t,phic account of the
game issaken from the extra:
BY telegraph to The News.
Tampa, Oct. 81, $50 p.m.-After be.
iig Hospitality entertained at the
Palmetto House, and being royalty
treated by the Tampa boys, Stetson
returned the compliment by taking
the game from them by score Of five
to nothing. The game was called at
2:3O on the Tampa Bay grounds, where
large and enthusiastic crowd had as
sembled. Mr.. Smith of Tampa and
T. P. Compropst of Stetson were the
officials.
Capt. Pounds chose the kickoff, and
Bolts kicked the ball far into Tam
| pas territory, but it was not advanced.
Tampa was una BILE to make any gain,
and the ball went to StetsOn. All the
plays we're used at first, but it was
soon found that Bolts and Duncan,
through tackle, were the most con.
slant ground gamers. Steadily the
ball was forced down the field. At
last Pounds, being called on to buck
tackle, went through the opening
made for him by Lenfesty and Dun
can, and despite the efforts of the
Tampa men to stop him, placed the
ball over the line. Tampa was I'M
able to gain any distance and Stetson
again got the ball. Tampa could not
stop the fierce charges of the Stetson
team.
Glow succeeded in carrying the ball
over Tampa line but for some unknown
reason the referee would not allow
the goal. The first half ended five to
nothing in Stetson's favor.
The second half was a repetition of
the game at Lake City last year.
Stetson gained steadily especially
through Tampa's tacklers, but every
time the ball got dangerously near
Tampa's goal for some reason or other
the ball would be lost and given to the
other team. Neither side scored in
the second half, Tampa because they
could not gain when they did have
the ball and Stetson because they
we're never allowed to get too near
the goal. The game ended with the
ball in Tampa's territory and the
score five to nothing.
The great feature of the game was
the line bucking of the Stetson team.
Duncan and Bolts time after time
tore through Tampa's line for gains
of ten and fifteen yards. The team
as whole played steady, consistent
game, never once getting up in the
air as might have been expected from
the fact of this being the first game
of the season. The quarterback soon
found out Tampa's weak places and
Kept hammering them.
The Tampa boys had no complaint
to make and are perfectly satisfied
that they we're out-classed and out.
played in every way. They had the
advantage of being at home and got
the benefit of all close decisions, but
In spite of this the light weights from
Stetson by reason of their superior
training and scientific playing went
through them for almost any distance
they wanted.
Coach Cotton 10 very much elated
at the result, and feels that the
chances are little better for winning
the championship. He says that work
will be taken up all the harder on the
return, and that the imperfections
shown must be eradicated. The Stet-
son team has been very Hospitality
entertained while in the city and
every one has had good time. The
game was free from accident-no one
lgetting hurt at all. s