Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-12-21
Carlisle Indian Football Team Has
No Trouble in Defeating
Local Team.
VARSITY COULD NOT SCORE.
rtah Gridiron Warriors Failed to Hold
The Redskins for DOwns-A
Game Worth Seeing.

We'll the Carlisle indian football team
"has came and went" and Utah football
fanomanlacs have had the privilege of
witnessing some really good. fast work
ON the griilron, There was a massacre
al right but the extent thereof was not
so farreachlng as was expected, The rea-
son. perhaps, is that the savage Indians
are, IN spite of all that has been said
10 the contrary possessed OF the attribute
Of mercy, and they took no more scolps
than they deemed necessary. That they
could have made Il a frlghtful slaughter
is not doubted for IA moment by those
who saw the doln's. They were too fast,
TOO strong, ami too well yersed in the
various cute tricks Of the game, for the
locals The result may have been a sur
prise I'm some ways. "A larger score was
looked for by some and others expected
The east benchels 10 score against their
opponents
iiut It was interesting game In spite OF
the onc-sidedness thereon. The interest
was sided too. All eyes were focused on
the Indians work, and il is safe to say
that few, if any. will forget It. The visi-
tors won with ease. IL any team in the
country can boast Of more perfect team
work we would like very much TO see
redmen piled up score OF p, they held
the palefaces down to a cipher with the
rim removed They could have made
il more. and, with the field In better con-
ton, could nave run up a score of over
IA hundred TO nothing for they cOmprist,
about the trlckest bunch Of football art
lists ever seen IN this neck o the woods.
The snow, and slippery condition OF
the field was against the redskins, and
this fact was noticeable when they at
a al ~
Several runs that would have been good
for goals were brought to a sudden ter
mlnatiOn because Of this.
The chief play used by the Indians and
one by the way that VIII not soon be for.
gotten was their famous wing shift II Is
Characteristic Indian trick, even II It
was Invented by a white man. Coach War
ner IL consists Of passing the bail TO a
player and the balance forming guard
around him. that il hard 10 break When
ths trick is used everybody goes nj fun
speed and woe unto the man or men who
attempts to break It up. He who tries It
gets correct imitation Of a cloudburst
toying with tumble bug. II Is one play
that SELDOM, II ever fails; at least IL
did not fan in Saturdays game. II meant
bic gains every time. But they had other
tricks equally as effective.
Those who saw the work Of the fam
our Butte football team of $50 thought
the triple pass, executed by that team,
wonderful The Indians make that play
look Ike a furniture van going up hill
with heavy load. They not only pass
the pigsklns two or three times, bIh halt
a dozen or more times and they do II so
quickly that the koeuest eyes do not de-
tcct he location Of the ball until n is
rushed across the goal limo Of the enemy
Then they were great on fake plays
The ball Is passed You are sure a con.
tain redskin has it under his arm becaus,
no Is running Ike mad and trying tc