Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-24
HIGH CALLED
FANCY NAMES
SANTA ANA RooTERs SORE AT
TEAMS DEFEAT
Local Boys Put 1t on Celery Belt
Football stars by Score Of
SO to 4--Decius
Star

Robbers, thieves and other choice
words greeted the players of the L. A.
high football team yesterday afternoon
after the game with Santa Ana, and all
because they beat the country Boys by
a score of 3S to A.
The game was fast one and excit-
Ing from beginning to end. Both
teams were in the best of condition and
they both played straight, clean
game The Santa Ana boys were bit
light, but they made up for this In
speed and put up a fine game through
out, being quite surprise to the local
boys There was no i'll feeling between
the two teams at all, and had it not
been for some of the rowdies who were
so free in the use of their unlimited
vocabularies the whole game would
have been enjoyed by ALL
The local team seemed to be dopy
sick the first part of the game judging
from the way the country boys smashed
up their line, but along toward the end
of the first half they braced up and
held their own. The whole trouble was
that they thought they were going to
have an easy time of itY and were
greatly surprised when the lanky ones
gave them run for their money.
The game was called at 2:45 and
Santa Ana kicked off to the twenty
fve-yard line. The ball was advanced
UP the field for quite distance by the
Santa Ana bunch. Fer the first ten
minutes the leather was at one end
and then the other by bucks and end
runs. The L. A. boys were not playing
up to their standard, as the farmers
were able to make great gains on line
bucks and end runs, the only one that
was playing the game at all on the
local team being Right Half Decius.
The first score was made for the local
boys on misplaced forward pass on
the part of the farmers They passed
the ball on the third down, after about
ten minutes play and Mitchell took it
right out of one of their mems hands
and lodging the whole team carried
the oval over the line. He then kicked
goal, making the score to O.
Santa Ana kicked off to the ten-yard
line, from where l.. A. advanced the
ball up field for twenty yards The
local boys then carried the ball up the
line until they were on the thirtyyard
line, but then lost it on a forward pass
and it was taken back down the field
Then the ball was regained on a punt
and Mitchell carried it over the line
on the first down, making a run of
twenty-five yards, but he failed to kick
goal. Both teams had been penalized
two or three times up to this point of
the game for being off side.
Santa Ana Scores
Santa Ana then kicked off, After
About three minutes play they secured
the ball on a tumble and after two
downs the pigskin was booted over on
a. place kick, making the score IL to
in favor of L. A.
Just after this Mitchell tried place
kick from the forty-yard line but
failed, the ball hitting the cross arm of
the goal posts. Cass then made quar- :
terback kick and GeissIer took it over
the line and Mitchell kicked goal At
the end of the first half the ball was
on the Santa Ana twenty-yard line.
Santa Ana kicked off in the second
half and for the first ten minutes the
ball se-sawed from one end of the field
to the other. Then the L. A. boys took
it over twice in five minutes, but Nit
chell was unable to boot goals Just
after this the country boys made a
great effort and took the ball over the
line on a forward pass, but lost their
goal. as the ball was not passed five
yards from the center. One more score
was made by the L. A. boys near the
end of the game, the ball being kicked
over just as the whistle blew, making
the score 33 to in favor of the locals.
The star player on the L. A. team was
new man named Decius, and it was
through his strong playing that the
team was not defeated in the first half.
Mitchell played his usual good game
although he seemed a little slow in the
first period
The lineup was as follows: