The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-27
GREAT SURPRISES
IN SCHOOL GAMES
Central High Team Loses to
South. While East Downs
North.
!, BY Frank A. McLnerney.

/ Before a large crowd of rooters and on q;
field almost too muddy for fast play, South high
school football team defeated Central at Nicollet
park yesterday afternoon by a score of 10 to 0.
The South Sides victory came as a great sur
prise to many, and In fact there was but one
person who predicted it, and this was Jimmy
Ellis, the COACH Ellis said all week that Cen
trail had something coming, and the little coach
deserves great credit for the showing of the
orange and black eleven.
Captain Gunderson was the star Of the game,
making both touchdowns for his team and doing.
some punttng that was credit to high-school
player. Tigler at quarter and Floback and
Phillips at halves were in the game from the
beginning, and all deserve credit for their great
work, both in advancing the ball and the
defense. Linscog and Kelly at the tackle posi-
lions played the same .scrappy games as against
North last week, and both men broke thru the
Central time after time, spelling plays and
often getting the man with the ball for loss
Zahner and Strate had hard men against them,
but both played well and few plays went thru
either side Of center. Flagstad seemed to have
the better of Lewis at the center position, as
| the latter made two or three very bad passes.
Hanson and Erickson at ends showed up even
better than Coach Ellis hoped for, and both
men were always down on punts, generally get
ting the before a gain could be made.
Bresky, Putnam and Green starred for Cen
trail, altho Kreig played good game at full
hreiSs kicking was little off, however, and
tG nderson outpointed him in this respect. Green
worked hard all thru the game, and many times
got away with double passes that made good
gains for his team.
Tobin Missed. ~. l-...-.... :
Tobin, the heavy halfback who was barred
| this week, missed by the Central team,
and many hold that the score would have been
different had he been in the game. Beaulieu
and Barnard started out the game at the end
positions, and both played we'll, atho the former
retired in favor of Richardson in the last half.
Richardson is colored boy and before he leaves
school will be another Bobby Marshall. 3.
made Ink
but the second was earned by good headwork
| and hard playing. The first touchdown came
about in the middle Of the first half when
.Bresky, who made 4 a run around right end,
dropped the ball when tackled Gunderson picked
up the ball and by sudden sprint put it be-
hind the posts. .-.-r mtr
Putnam kicked of fifty yards to Rigler, who
returned ten. Two attempts at end runs failed
and Gunderson punted thirty yards to Bresky,
who returned ten. Barnard made two yards of
left tackle and Bresky made ten the next
two plays Putnam failed to gain and Bresky
made three on a direct pass. Bresky made a
short kick, but Rigler of South got the ball.
South failed on the first, two downs, and
Gunderson punted forty yards to Green, who
was downed in his tracks, On the first play
Central fumbled, but Green recovered the ball.
Bresky made two yards around South's right
end and kreig punted over South's goal. Gun
derson kicked thirty-fve yards from the 25-yard
line and Nichols returned the ball ten yards.
Central failed to gain anything on line bucks,
and Kreig punted thirty five yards to Floback.
BY clever piece Of lodging Floback brought
the ball back twenty-five yards and South made
their first down once With the ball going
| back and forth punts fifteen minutes passed
and then Central tried a direct pass when on
their own 35-yard line. Green called upon
Bresky for play around South's left end, but
! Linscog, the big tackle, broke thru and tackled
| the Central star with such force that the bail
was knocked out of his hands. Gunderson
picked it up and ran for touchdown amid
wild cheers from the orange and black rooters.
Gunderson missed an easy goal. Score: South 5,
| Central O. .s,..... So .-s:
| The Central players went into the battle with
| more determined spirit after South had scored,
and the ball was dangerously near the latter s
| goal two different times. RI
a.ra South Scores Again.
Gunderson kicked off for South in the second
! half, the ball going forty yards to Bresky, who
returned ten. Central started out to play the
Southsiders off their feet and made first down
three times in succession before Kreig was
forced to punt. Central pulled OF some neat
forward passes and from ten to twenty yards
were made. South got wise to these plays
however, and toward the last of the game every
attempt failed, each time the ball going to
South. r.r 81 !
South made their second touchdown after
twenty minutes Of the second half were played
The ball was in the center Of the field and
Gunderson, Floback and Phelps, by end runs
! and line bucks put 1t on Central's 15-yard
line. Rigler called for triple pass and get
ting the ball, he passed it to Floback, who in
turn made a forward pass to Hansen. This
play landed the ball on Centrals 1-yard line
and Gunderson went over for touchdown Goal
was missed again and the score was: South
10, Central O.
The ball seesawed in the middle of the field
FOR the remaining ten minutes and time was
called with the Centrals' bal on their own
45-yard line The lineup: