The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-11-06
Goddard Defeated BY Mont
peIier High School 5 to 0
BEFORE A LARGE CROWD
Montpelier Punted and Goddard Failed
to Catch, Towle Picking Up the
Ball and Running Across for
Touchdown.


The Montpelier high school put a
feather in its cap yesterday afternoon
by defeating Goddard seminary on the
gridiron for the first time III Its his
tory. The game WAS played on the
Montpelier seminary campus and result
cd 8 to 0 in the high schools favor
The game was won on a fitke IN the
middle Of the first half A misplay BIZ
Goddard allowed Montpelier To regain
the ball after she had punted to Mont
pelier's 45-yard line and Towle who
picked up the ball ram the As yards for
a touchdown Heath had failed to catch
The ball when it was punted to him, and
in the rush to get the ball 1t rolled
out Of the bunch and Towle picked
IL up. lie had u clear field for the
goal line with the exception Of S. Berry.
who failed by a hair Of grabbing him
by the sweater Reed missed the goal
By foot from an easy kick. squarely in
front Of the poles. Had it not been for
this aulSe there is but little doubt that
the result would have been a repetition
Of the no,score game which the two
teams played on the Goddard campus
In the initial game Of the season fef
both teams.
The high school has the heaviest and
fastest team that has ever represented
the school, and although a close game
was expected, the odds were III favor
Of Goddard's winning out The fact
that the teams had played one tie game
and Goddard had been beaten but once,
while the high school, ii il said. has
not lost a game this season, drew ont
a large crowd Of spectators that lined
both sides Of the field, There was a
good deal Of kicking On decisions ana
after every few rushes some Of the
players were laid out for several min
utes, so that the game took up nearly
two hours and the last five minutes
had to be played in semi. darkness. a
peculiar thing about this game, which
was close. was the fact that not once
did the ball change hands on downs.
Both sides resorted To punting, If there
vas not practically sure chance to make
the ten yards on the third down, and
the ball was lost several times BY each
side through fumhIes
Goddard's line was lamentably weak
beside the heavier high school line. The
high school made five and ten yard gains
at win through Goddard's tackles and
the Goddard backs were constantly ham
pefed III rushing the ball by the oppos-
ing line breaking through The homo
teams backs were fast and fierce in
their rushes and gained considerably
moro ground on the whole than did
Goddard.
VI the start on Of the first half, Cod.
&ard rushed the ball straight down Tho
field to NJ. HIS t0.yafd line. where they
sore penalixed Is yards for of side
play aud lost the best chance they had
during the game TO score The high
school kicked on TO J. Berry on the Is.
yard line, and he ran in to the Seward
line before he was downed. Mcdonald in
the firsh rush lost fyc yards in an az
tempt To 90 around the right end J
Berry then got around Montpelier's left
end for 25 yards and Mcdonald follow
cd with 10 more, carrying the bah to
the high schools seward line HEATH
advanced the bali is yards ON a quarter
back run, being downed on the 12-yard
hne. j. Berry was tackled for loss
Of yard and eIath made five yards
but the referee claimed that Goddard
was off side and penalized them u
yards. Goddard then attempted the for
ward pass, but made a poor throw. and
Thcriault got the bali and ran back "a
yards
For the high school Bigelow made
5 yards through the line and in tho
next rush Montpelier fumbled and
Flanders fell on the ball for Goddard
On a fake punt s. Berry went five
yards and made eight more in the next
two rnshes around left end. Mcdonald
failed TO gain and S. Berry made fou
yards through right tackle Heath gain
ed 10 yards and fumbled, but Harrison
saved loss Of the, ball Goddard made
but ) yards in the next two rushes anc
punted to Reed, who was downed on tn,
| high schools 20-yard line Montpelier
4 then rushed 20 the 40 yard line. where
| Goddard held them for two downs ant
| rheriaut then pnnted to Goddard's 40
yard line Heath failed in his attempt
| To catch the ball and Towle picked II
lup after il had rolled out from mdei
d bunch Of players that were trying Il
fall on it and ran down the field foi
Il touchdown.
After Reed had failed to kick the goa
the high school kicked on TO Goddard
and Heath was downed on the 25.yarl
line Ip three successive r,isbcs, S
Berry made " yards and J. Berry go
through the left tackle for & yards
Berry made 8 aud l0yard gains b,
right end and left tackle and Goddarl
was then penaIized - yards for j Der
iry's hurdling the line. Heath thel
puntcd 10 yards to Goddard's 5O-yar,
/ line. The high school made IL yard
on forward pass Just as time wa
up for the first halt
IN the second half Goddard kicked I,
4 TneriauIt, who was downed on the 50
yard line. Buck lost three yards il
an attempt to rush Goddard's right end