The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-10-10
WATERFOWL
Hi0h School Football Team is
Bldnked BY
BROOxINGS HUSKY YOUNGSTERS.
The Day Was Fine, the Crowd
Was Large

The Watertown high school football
team went down to defeat before
Coach Coughlin's boys at the Fair
grounds Saturday afternoon. The
score of % to 0 does not tell the differ
ance in the teams. The WATERFOWL
boys were outclassed all the way
through outside of a very few minutes
at the very start of the game, and
they could not hope to win. The score
would have been larger had the home
team played the same fast aggressive
game in the last half as they owed
in the first half. The game was clean
and free from any wrangling with the
official
BrookingS won the toss and chose
the south goal, the wind giving them
slight advantage. During the fiji st
part OF the first half the Brookings
team, as is usual with item, could
not settle down and play their game
and WATERFOWL showed to better advan-
tage at this time than in other part of
the game. The visitors held the home
team and securing possession OF the
ball they carried it to the Brookings
25-yard line, most Of the gains being
made by outside kicks. They tried
place kick from this point, which
went wide, and thereafter the Brook
ings goal was never in danger. Brook
ings then secured possession of the
ball and carried down the field sixty
yards for a touchdown. During this
procession Reeves and Arneson were
the principal ground gamers, although
Lockhart and Sloan We're used to good
advantage. ArnesOn made the touch
down and then kicked goal
Brookings' next touchdown was the
work of but a few minutes, the ball
being carried over by Reeves after q
pretty run of thirty yards through a
broken field. Arneson kicked a diff
cult goal against the wind, and the
score stood: BrOolngs, -; Water
town, 0.
Watertown kicked off and within
five minutes Bookings had gathered
five more points on touchdown by
Reeves after another one of his spec
tacuIar runs. ArnesOn failed to kick
the goal The first half ended few
minutes later with the score Ito 0 in
favor of BrOOkings.
To open the second half Watertown
kicked off to BroOkings, and the home
b )ya worked the bail up TO the thirty
yard line, from where Reeves ran
through for touchdown. Reeves was
tackled hard as he went over the line
injuring his sore shoulder which was
hurt in the Madison game and h was
knocked out for few minutes. He re-
covered quickly and piuckily wanted
to continue the game, but as the game
was going easy ii was wisely decided
to keep him out. Maryland was shifted
to half, and Chappell took his place
at guard
On the kickoff Rrookings worked
the ball down to the visitors 5-yard
line, where a forward pass was cap
tured by a WatertoWn man. Water
town only carried the bail about
twenty yards when the home team
secured it aud went down to the 5-yard
line, this time a tumble preventing a
score. The game was called as the
teams were lining up for the next
Scrimmage. Final score: Bookings
%; WATERFOWL, 0.
The victory of the home team over
WatertoWn places them in the front
rank of the cOntenders for the cham
piOnShip of the state, and their friends
and admirers here are earnestly hop
ing that they will land the honor
Their general play and the fighting
spirit shown in Saturdays game was
the best they have ever displayed, and
we look to see them win every game
on their schedule. Coach Coughlin
seems to have the boys working in
fine shape and has them keyed up to
just the right pitch. Every team they
meet they expect will outweigh lem,
as was the case with Waterfowl, but
this does not deter them from going
after the other fellows.
The two teams lined up as follows