The sun., 1908-11-29
SPORT
A SUMMARY OF TIE SCHOLAS-
TIC FOOTBALL SEASON.
PeIy Prep Wins the Champlonship. Gems
Through the Year without . Defeat
Erasmus Hail .Does Nell-6katinB
Meets for RchoOiboYs This Winter.

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With the football season over there re-
mains to be said something Of what tha
local school teams accomplished and to
whom belongs the honors. II 10 clear that
the Brooklyn teams. Poly Prep. Erasmus
Hall, Boys High, Manual and Commercial.
we're superior to the Manhattan elevens.
OF all the teams. Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Poly Prep undoubtedly came out on top,
This school went through the season with
out q defeat and with only one tie. AL
though II met no Manhattan elevens, IL
defeated Erasmus Hail. which tied Morris
High. the best of the aggregations on this
side of the river. Poly has total OF 1853
points scored in eight games and her op-
ponents were able to score only is points
against her. Poly defeated. In addition
to Erasmus Hall. Boys High and Manual
Training, next to Erasmus. the two strong
est Brooklyn teams. and Pawlins School.
the best upstate eleven.
| Second place lies between Erasmus Hall.
with q total Of las to her opponents 10. and
Morris High, with eS points to her oppo-
nents 20. Erasmus and Morris played q
tie game in the early part Of the season.
but later Erasmus made q better record
than Morris, having defeated the strong
New Haven team. Commercial and the
Centenary Collegiate Institute. one OF the
best Jersey elevens. Morris defeated Ste
vens Prep and De Witt Clinton by good
sized scores, but was beaten by tho Central
Manual Training School OF Philadelphia
and tied by Commerce.
Boys High has q clear title to third con-
sideration by reason OF beating Stevens
Prep Commercial. De Witt Clinton, the
High School Of Commerce and Manual
Training The only Brooklyn team that
t,ia vaA n
can not be very we'll compared with that
Of Manual Training. Commercial. DC. Nor
ris, however, at least ranks equal TO these
teams. Manual beat Commercial and Nor
ris tied Commerce and defeated De Witt
Clinton. stuyvesant High School was
beaten by De Witt Clinton. Commerce and
Commercial.
Poly was very raw In the MontcIair NJ A.
game, which resulted In tie. and It was
apparent that much remained to be done In
developing the team. Wilson. q new man.
played the best game In the line and Dessart
as fullback did we'll In the back field. But
Ter was inaccurate In his passing and was
clearly not up to standard. Poly failed
to win the game because OF the poor way In
which the forward passes came of. In the
next game with Croft the eleven fret showed
what great material 1t was composed OF.
Poly outweighed Groff and played her on
| -
her feet by a score Of Is to T. Splendid
int erference was displayed by Poly and the
forward pass worked we'll Another 90
score was made In the Mackenzie game.
which was won by 81 to o. Straight foot
ball was used instead OF trick plays, and the
| few forward passes which were attempted
were unsuccessful. Andrews and Brooks
shone as line buckers. peculiar feature
of the game was that each OF the seven
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touchoo"h' was o''N
player
Of ~ to o. The High school team was in
mar nbvaical condition and this accounted
two touchdowns were made at the De-
ginning and the end Of the game. An
drews making the first and Dessart the
second. Olson played star game for BOYS
High. With Erasmus excepted. Poly 9
hardest opponent was Pawiins School. %,
. ps,sIIns,s sinols score
caused rawllhs slnsle sove; n
Manual was outciasseo oy roy IN al ae-
q score Of 2itoe. Butler received eprained
-. ,i., - az 80 un.. ,or
snns snn,s ,ims E Sorman Sor nam made Manuals touch
down In the last four minutes OF play by
an intercepted forward pass. Ihe Erasmus
was the greatest Of the season. BARLEY. at
| left guard, Bomeisler at left end, Eichling.
left tackle, and the whole back field. played
star games for Poly all season.
Erasmus Hall outweighed and outplayed
Flushing, winning by q score Of 81 to o.
| Morris was tied by a score OF to In the
next game. Straight line bucking was de-
pended on more than the new open game.
Both teams were very ragged. Erasmus In
| than first came TO light In this game as
| Erasmus'g star fullback. Many Injuries
| were received on both sides. In the next
contest Erasmus overwhelmed Mohegan
LAKE school, SO too. I he game was loosely
played and individual Work was predom-
naut.
Aageal surprise was furnished when the
much bragged Of New Haven eleven met
defeat at the hands Of Erasmus by 70
| tutas In the lineup during the first hall but
New Haven was unable to score. The
Commercial game. which, was won by 2
| points to 0, was 30 onesided as to lack in
terest, Commercial was weak In both
| offence and defence and the Erasmus backs
| tore through their opponents line. Town
send Harris was beaten by score OF 20 70 o.
was a great victory for Erasmus In spite Of
The Hackettstown eleven was considered
one OF the foremost jersey teams and was
looked upon with Q good deal OF appre-
hension BY all the New York and Brooklyn
teams.
Manual Training ran up SO points to her
opponents ~. Townsend Harris was de-
feated by q score OF II to o; st. Johns Col
lege, O. to o. Yonkers. II 70 0; and Com
~, Inyan O 70 n. 40 pnly pran N 4