The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-19
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BY YANKT0N
In a Ragged. Uninteresting
Game
THE SCORE BEING q TO NOTHING
Field in Poor Shape and the
Weather Bad

The State college football team was
eliminated from the state champion
ship by defeat at the hands of Yank-
ton college Friday afternoon. The
savasrv was 81 to 0. Brookings was
more d. there was no question on
ing point and Yankton is entitled to
other he p'honor that goes with victory.
requiiay was biting cold and snow
Tfduring the entire game, the
no no. at the fair grounds being covered
Gin couple of inches Of the beau
,iful when the game began. Under
these conditions neither team was able
to exert it's best efforts, and the play
ers suffered from the weather almost
as much as did the onlookers.
The slippery condition of the field
gave the visitors a decided advantage,
as they outweighed Brookings, and the
large score rolled up was in a meas
ure due to this.
The work of the Brookings team was
away off color and in sharp contrast
to the form they displayed in the
game against st. Thomas the previous
week. They played very little of the
football that they had been taught and
were woefully lacking in aggressive
ness and ginger. The fault for the
poor showing must rest upon the In
dividual members of the team rather
than on the coach.
The worst feature of the Brookings
play was their poor handling OF the
ball. Every time they had possession
of the oval they fumbled and were
fortunate enough to recover it but two
or three times, and the handling of
punts in the back field was miserable
in the extreme. This was especially
true in the last half, when time and
again Yankton recovered their own
punts after Pense or Kremer had
juggled and failed to fall on them.
The cold was responsible for some of
this poor work, but Yankton seemed
able to hold onto the ball part of
the time anyway
The Yankton team played good,
hard football, rough at yimes, but
snappy and aggressive all the time,
and they were quick to take advantage
of their opponents misplays. Their
line outplayed Brookings and their
back field got away quickly and were
hard to stop. Still with the Brook
ings team playing in their true form
and on dry field, we believe that the
two teams would be very evenly
matched.
Coughlin played only the first half
and in that period was unable to do
himself justice. He was suffering
from tie injuries received in the st.
Thomas game which would kept any
other player out, and finally at the
beginning of the second half he was
hurt so severely that he had to be
carried from the field.
Furnstahl, while he was unable to
gain ground as usual, put up the bes,
game of any Brookings man with the
possible exception of Hyde and these
two together with Bibby prevented
the game from being slaughter
Kremer handled one punt cleanly and
returned it twenty yards. Wohlheter
was unable to go in at quarter, which
greatly weakened the back field, as it
took Hyde away from fullback. Pense
failed to play up to the form dis
played in the previous games, but
then. this was true of all of the
Brookings team.
The officials were Leland of Brook
ings, and Chamberlain, the Huron
coach. Their work was pleasing to
neither team and there was a wrangle
after every down. The crowd seem
ed to think that Chamberlain was fav.
oring Yankton, as Brookings was
frequently penalized for offside and
Yankton offenses of this kind went
unpunished.
There was a good crowd present
in spite of the disagreeable weather
and they rooted" loyalty for Brook
ings, although they did not have much
to encourage them.
In the first half Brookings held
Yankton to four points, drop kick
from the 25-yard line. but the visitors
outplayed the State college boys more
than this score would indicate and II
was very evident tina, the game was
lost to- Brookings unless they took a
decided brace. Well, they didn't
brace, and in the second half Yank
ton scored three touchdowns, two OF