The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-27
MASSACRED BY
SPOKANE HIGH
Salt Lake Football Eleven
Failed to Scratch a
Single Point.
OPPONENTS PILED UP a.
ALL KINDS OF PLAYS WORKED
AGAINST YOUTHS FROM ZION.
OPPONENTS PILED UP "a
lspecial 70 - Heraldl

Especial 70 The Herald)
Spokane. Wash. Nov 25.-BecauSe they
knew and could play the modern Omen
game Just as well as their lighter and
school football team was able To pile I'D
A points TO nothing on the team from
Salt Lake high school at Recreation park
this afternoon. before crowd Of so
persons
Coach Kennedy's burly young men won
because of cleverly executed fake plays
delayed passes, triple passes. long for
ward passes and Onside kicks. The on
position. A remarkably speedy bunch Of
youn gsters. proved quick Of brain and
broke up many dangerous looking forma-
tons
Forward Pass Worked.
The Spokane team worked the forward
pass seven times successfully during the
game once pulling II or twice in sue
cession. The OIside kick was worked
once. Split-bucks and delayed straight
bucks worked almost invariably for long
gains and almost completely bewiidered
the salt Lake boys The tackle around
plays were spoiled by the Salt Lake boys
in the first half because the Spokane line
did not held closely. but in the second
half Englehorn frequently plUughed
through between Johnson and Fancher
for gains. running from ten to twenty
yards The field was slippery In the
southwestern corner where the baseball
diamond lies, but was firm and sure else
where
Two substitutiOns were made. Goodspees
succeeding Wheeling. the Salt Lake fulI
back whose knee was so badly hurt tha
he had TO be carried from the field. Mohrs
ankle. which was badly injured early II
the season, was twisted late in the sec
ond half. and Kennedy substituted Con
ner-
Harrington the Star.
Harrington was star Of the game. He
made five OF the seven touchdowns and
could not be stopped. Twice he broke
through the line clear on delayed straight
buck and raced thirty-five and forty. once
fifty yards. Dewitt was a corking ground
gamer yesterday on straight line buck
ing. and Big Moose EnglehoTn contrib
uted several long gains on outside tackle
FePiger was a wonder at ducking and
fighting his way down the sidelines The
tackling of Harrington, Fancher and KEN
hOlZ was excellent
The Salt Lake stars were their speedy
ends and Romney, halfback- The backs
fumbled al times. The team lined I'D fast
and ran their plays off with great speed
They tackled well and spread their de-
Tense out wide enough TO make il ex-
tremely hard to get a Spokane clear.
Spokane scored within the first minute
of play when Captain Korne passed high
TO FUllback Wheeling as the latter was
about to punt from his own five-yard line
He fumbled and two or three SpOkans
men were on him The ball slfppPd out n
his hands and Harrington picked it I'D
scoring Spokanes first touchdown. Her
rington broke through the Salt Lake line
at midfield and sprinted fifty yards FOR
a touchdown DeWitts goal from the
field ended the score in the first half at
Is to 0.
Slaughter in Second Halt
In the second half Spokane got five
more touchdowns. one on a blocked punt
by Febiger, the latter recovering the ball
for a forty-yard run for a touchdown
and one on a forward pass. giving d first
down on Salt Lakes fiVe-yard line from
where II was pushed over. Salt Lake had
only two chances to score two fifty-yard
runs in succession by Romney and Gal
lagher carrying the ball from Salt Lakes
goal line to Spokane's ten-yard line. At
this point Salt Lake fumbled and Spokane
recovered the ball on her own rive-ysrd
line Late in the second half. with the
ball on Spokanes thirty-yard line. where
Salt Lake got it because of a penalty
for holding, Wheeler tried for goal by
drop-kicking- The kick was a pretty ef-
fort. being only a few feet wide
''Swipes,' the rubber for the Salt Lake
team. made himself notorious on the side
lines by several spectacular stunts. He
was repeatedly chased off the field by
Referee Varnell for he persisted in run
ming IN with the water bucket on TN
slightest prOvocation. His most spectaCu-
lar effort resulted in slip and fall on the
muddy field. the water bucket dOuChing
MS heao ana then the crowd gave him the
hand.
Both teams were penalized frequently,
Spokane suffering more often than SAT-
Lake.
The Two Teams.
Salt Lake SnoLaup
I. Warthman. l25... .ler....F. -Fancher. i52
@. Kirby. 80 -ltr------R. johnson. l6,
=. Martineau, 80 -lgr---.--A Jensen. Id>
Eckstein. l41-.-......rgl....F Anderson, Us
w Yates iJ0---------rtl- " -Engelhorn. lS3
VI. Gallagher. l31.....rel-...E Z. KienhoIz. isi
T Fitzpatrick, l26.-- Obi. Rice. ~
n oTns ---.--.-.. C. .-...-..-..---- Jensen
/ c. karrick. ..lhr......G. Febieer. 1g1
A Romney. l46-------rhl. C. Harrington. 165
+. Wheeling. ia ...-.fb.......W. Dewitt. 10
Substitutions-W. Goodspeed for Wheel
ing. r Conner for MOhr.
Touchdowns-H ,; Dewitt =.
FebiSer l. Goals-Dewitt >. Goal from
the field-Dewitt l. Final score-SpOkau,
a; Salt Lake O. Referec-George Tarnell.
Chicago. Umpire-AltOn Tredick Union.
Field judge-R. B. Bartholomew. Smp-
son. Time of halves. 30 minutes Salt
Lake team was outweighed man for man
from end TO back from five 10 seventy
pounds. an average of more than twenty
three pounds to the man
TonOpah. New. Nov. 2e.-In a whiriwird
tight here this afternoon Kid Grant Of
Seattle knocked out Larry Gordon ~
Butte, Mont. in the thirteenth round Of