Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-12-15
Foot Ball.

Beaten, for the fest ..time in two
years and by u team We would rsthe'
whip than any other on earth. Amt
lit hlMe!
! We to-day noon we boarded the trail:
for Wo dome, c.nli,lent of evarlast
itngiy wh,!i'ig tine supreme daylisbts
out of the bltterest rival team ever
had. Last night we returned heart
bI oxen, dispirited, beaten. It's awful.
And to thlmk how easy the game
seemed tnus Why we kicked eff 80
Woodhine, held them and took the
ban aud IN four plays were OH their one
ward line, then Coulthard, gallant old
Rabe, was called on for the honor OF
making what seemed to be the first OF
Is long string of touchdown Ladue
snapped this ball TO Fensler and he in
turn passed It to ltube who was charQ-
ing c-n!re like msd bull after u red
ahirt-oh it IN axes ma sick to think OF
little bal soma way slipped
from II ,ba's fingers brunc-d sqnariy
\
! fl set footed lief. half back. and he, with
Fens'er and O!inger in hot pursuit
! round ihe fn!i length of the field ane
planted the ball square between our
goal plates. 1t was the d lkicst kim
Of "A flake, but tlnkes win games and
ptu much needed ginger into team
l \, ar i,ily u m h.Afn
itself juckv II they were not beaten by
more than forty points and at the same
thine the effect OF tho VALLEY team was
awful 'i'h- first team that crossed
their sacred goal line in two years
the snap and ginger left them and in
stead of the brilliant o11.4nsive game
they have played through out the seq
son, they settled back into a doeged de-
fence, bt.ieiving themselves beaten yet
determined 10 hold the score as low as
possible Yet the boys put up some
wonderful foot hail, carrying the tall
iim- after time welln Woodbine
Territory, but Just as touchdown
seemed to he inevitable, q tumble or
bit OF poor Judgement gave Wuodbine
iho bali. Woodhines second touch
Gown cana i'm the last half after
sar;es of the hardest kind of line
pinagas, Gcx making nearly all the
gai:la in tackle plays and crossing the
line for the last touchdown
Ii is my opinion that penochle cost
rs tie game The boys had been play
iGg to much penockle and not doing
enough praciicing. Now penochle is
g vary nice game like to play il
m. self bat it is the poorest conditioner
If Il foot bail sqald on earth, and if
:nf, .a,ls had been dong some stunts in
handling the bali instead of playing so
much p.anch'e, thosa Costly fnmbles
voniGn't have been in evidence. or
cntrse not having Ebaugh and Stow
1 wtahsnad the defense and the men
|repiaeAd them, while in every way first
Ic!ass men, were not up in their signals
aud much confusion resulted from
4 that
4 Luck is e factor that should not be
Seriously considered In football.
Doubtless luck has good deal to do
with the game, bit II is my opinion
that the majority Of hsrd luck stories
are based on errors of Judgement or
lack of proper training Luck wasn't
The cause of the Valley boys tackling
\ fha WOodhtne runners around the eye
brows and being drug many precious
yards before downing their man. when
q low tackle at the knees would have
dropped him in his tracks and taken
some of the steam ont of him. Wood
Dine confessed themselves out ciassed
but thay took advantage of the Val
ley's blunders and that tells the tale.
The b ,ys deserve credit though for
their plucky fight. No one can help ad-
miring q game fight ard there WAS ex-
h.bitions of pluck and gamencss put
up bv the Valley boys yesterday merit
iny the admiration of any one. 1t was
almost, pitiful at times to see them
hnri themselves headlong under the
heavy Wooodbine interference, to be
| later pulled to their feet, after being
drenehed with water. and stagger hack
Into ane :. i: ii d ~ .'Hterminatrn q
| stop 'i.u,a rnshea or i.rtak every rome
IN u or h,.l,es ia, - bail iS,.'l chilfs
| play !,lt a V I'm. rf ,,,-rv.- thit t.kts u
man tn !, az 1n Mat nan must conn
blne ey:T; cn,.c'.vlb.e quality in the
way OF phi steal ahA'rY, ard tha''s
Ma nlak'.s ia. game 80 ,,nlniar.
Defel' ism, he wurst thing in the
world. ::.~.e Is often mere glory in the
pluck, defeat shan in one Ovtrnhelm-
ing ylc.orv. The boys play the game
for the cake of tire game and they PLAY
it like gentlemen don't think they
have anv cause 10 he 6shamid of the
game they put up yesterday.
We are TRYING to arrange return
game on the bone grounds sometime
in the near future and while | think
VOID b.ne vii, content to rest on the
hnnnri alrasd, Wnn aud refuse us q |
second maecing, still we will bend every
stii,,rt tn bring them here and ii they
promise To come, believe ma, penochle
will be religa:ed aid practice come ia
the front. | premise you that the
busiest bancli of scrapiners ever or