Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-12-09
The MiddIebury High School
Football Season,

| The Vergennes game at Middlebury
ended the most successful football season
that Middlebury High School has ever
enjoyed. Out of ten games scheduled,
two were Cancelled, not by Middlebury
however The other eight games play ed
have resulted in five big victories for M.
III. s., one defeat and two contested
scores. M. H. S. has won all victories
played on home grounds by big scores.
Their defeat at Proctor was through a
drop-kick, while at Vergennes the two
points against them were given through
mistake of the referee, and at Burling-
ton the score resulted as it did through
the unfairness of the referee. The fol-
lowing is detail of the games played:
Oct. l, Proctor Y. M. G. A. VS.. M. H.
S. at Middlebury; score, Proctor 0, NJ. H.
S. 16.
Oct. Z, Vergennes H. S. VS.. M. II. S. at
Vergennes; score, Vergennes 0, M. H. S.
0; contested.
Oct. IA, Proctor Y. M. G. A. VS.. NJ. H.
S. at Proctor; score, Proctor 4, M. H. S.
O.
Oct. 10, Troy Conference Academy VS..
M. H. S. at Poultney; score, T. G. A. 0,
NJ. H. S. 6.
Oct. 81, Burlington H. S. vs.. NJ. H. S.
at Middlebury; score, B. Fl. S. 6, M. H.
S. IS.
Oct. "a, Burr and Burton Seminary VS..
NJ. H. S. at Middlebury; score, B. and B.
Sem. 0, NJ. H. S. II.
Nov. Il, Burlington H. s. VS.. M. H. S.
at Burlington; score, Burlington 10, M.
II. S. 0; contested.
Nov IS, Vergennes H. S. VS.. NJ. H. S.
at Middlebury; score, V. II. S. 0, NJ. II.
s. 20.
Totals, NJ H. S. 70, all others 90.
TouchdOwns, NJ. H. S. 10, others 2.
This season has seen much new mate
rial worked up into very creditable
shape, while few last years grammar
school players have made positions as
regulars. In every way the work of the
team has been good, and in some ways
remarkable. Especially has this been
true IN the center of the line where the
center has been supported for almost the
entire season by guards weighing only
l45 pounds each. Yet no team that has
been played has been able to make pay
ing gains through the center trio. We
attribute this to the strength and speed
of the three men and an unusual quality
of sticking together. The tackle have
been much heavier than the guards and
have through the entire season exhibited
an aggressiveness that has proved fatal
to many rush line. The ends have been
plentiful this year and although trifle
handicapped in weight made it up in
speed and watchfulness. Only in one
game were opponents able to make sub
stantial gains around them.
In the back field the high school has
probably attained the greatest success
that it has anywhere. Here was splen-
did example of cohesive work as the
backs always started together and oppo
nents have had hard work to stop them
As the Free Press well said, IN. H. s.
seemed able to concentrate an irresistible
push on the man with the ball" and the
interference was almost invariably kept
well together. Altho' the backs were
light, yet they were quick and strong
and were able to make good gains al
every down in almost all the games
played.
The success of the team this year was
due to four things, list, The untiring
work of William Shannahan, the coach
who gave an hour or more of his time
each night to drilling the team, asking
therefor no compensation. In brief
Shannahan was the making of the team
I'd, The willingness on the part of the
players to get out and practice, without
any grumbling, talking back, or finding
fault Sd, The loyal support of the
other members of the school, and espe-
cially of the young ladies of the school
and lastly, the support of the towns
neODle who were with the school from
first to last.