Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-28
LOSE FIRST GAME
High School Football Warriors
Overcome by More Ex-
periencsd Alumni.
FIELD GOAL AH0 TOUCHDOWN
Younger Players, However, Make Fine
Showing, Though Having Little
Chanca On Offensive.

The high school football team
opened its season Saturday afternoon
at Island City park against the alumni
of the same institution. The expert
ence of the old timers counted for
more than the superior condition of
the high school boys and the alumni
won by the score of TO O. There.
was fair sized crowd. mostly alumni
rooters, out for the game and the IA
miiiar old school yells were revived
and brought into play again for this
year.
The game opened with the high
school kicking off TO the alumni. who
gradually took the ball down the field
and we'll into the territory of the
regulars. The latter braced, however,
when the "has beens" got within scor-
ing distance and the ball went back
and forth from one team TO the other
until the end of the half. When the
whistle blew the the ball was on the
high schools two yard line and the
alumni were just lining up for the
play that might have made the first
score.
Score In Second.
the alumni kicked to the high
school at the beginning of the second
half and then held the high school
team and forced a kick The alumni
then marched towards the goal by re
peated end runs and line smashes. bu:
when they reached the % yard line the
| high school held and after two at
tempts at making the necessary 10
yards, MacManus fell back and tried
a drop kick which was good by frac-
| ton of an inch. From that time on il
was easy for the old timers who
marched steadily down the field after
| the kickoff and Anderson went over
| for a touchdown. MacManus failed
to kick goal The half ended soon
after the scoring of the touchdown.
making the final score to 0.
High school Did Well.
The game can not be taken as o
measure of the strength of the high
school team this year, but if it is, the
result will not be unfavorable to them.
experienced team on the field that il
has ever succeeded in doing and
should have piled up a much larger
score on the past records of the play
ers. The high school depended on
wearing the unconditional alumni
players out with a few minutes of
fast work but the experienced "has
|
and. while keeping under the limit as
10 the number of times which they
could take rest in each half they
never overworked themselves. Their
talking and chatting, too, put their in
experienced opponents off their guard
and many a time the alumni ran plays
when the high school was not expect
ing them. The high school did not
have possession of the ball long
enough during the whole game to en-
able one to make any criticism of their
offensive work. They played hard on
the defensive. though. and with a
little training and experience will be
among the best teams the high school
has had in several years.
The teams lined up as follows:
4 High school-Biels. le; Frey. It:
i Christensen, lg; Benson. C; O'Connor
re-; Roche, TT; Dripps, re; Kelley. OBJ;
i Trimble, lib; Smith. RIB; Brennan, fb
II Alumni-Fraser, le; Kemper, 1t;
Schneider, lg; Strate, C; Robb, rg;
il Swanson TT; Griffith, re; MacManus
OBJ; Harms, lib; Anderson. RIB; Sou
ders, fb.
Referee-V. c. Hail. Umpire-Ar
thur Salzmann. Timer-Lloyd Lam
phere.