Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-19
take SCALP OF
iowa CITY BOYS
Rock Island High School Wins From
College Town Team on Grid
iron IL to 6
ON THE UNIVERSITY FIELD
Victory is First Away From Home in
Two Years in Footbali-Moline
Trims Normal Team.

The local high school football war
riors came back from Iowa City with
the scalps of their opponents dangling
at their belts and score of IL to 6 IN
their favor after the game Saturday
afternoon. The game was played on
the field belonging to Iowa unive-Gi
and the boys say that it is the finest
field they ever saw. The good field
had an influence in making the game
a fast one from the start till the finish
and at no time WIS Rock Islard m
trely out of danger of losing the
game
Local BOys Kick on.
Rock Island kicked off and irln1e-
diately Iowa City started paraGe
terspersed with end runs. When
things began to look bad the local
team b?aced and held the boys of the
college town and secured the ball.
Then after a frequent exchange of
punts which Rock Island invariably
they arrived on the five yard line of
Iowa City and two plays took the ball
over in spite of the logged resistance
offered by Iowa City.
Get First Score.
Smith made the touchdown on a
straight line plunge and Frey booted
the ball squarely over the posts for
the sixth point. The first touchdown
took about 10 minutes and the second
one came i'll about the same space of
time.
| Again the faculty for recovering
kicked balls stood the Islanders well
in hand and soon the ball was within
a few yards of goal. Iowa City held
we'll for two downs but the third time
was too much for them and again
Rock Island was presented with a
touchdown by Smith on line plunge.
The rest of the first half was Il pretty
close game neither side seeming to
have any advantage.
1 Harder in Last Half.
The second half almost proved the
undoing of the Rock Island boys who
were Just a little too confident that
their two touchdowns in the preced
ing half would be plenty to win the
game. Iowa City started off with 9
jump and a tumble by Rock Island or
an attempted on side kick gave then
, possession OF the ball within - yards
OF the goal line. Three downs ant
the ball was only three yards from
the line and Rock Island awakened III
J to the fact that it was time to brace
But they couldn't stop the rushes o
the Iowa City backfield and two play
gave them their first and only touch
: down. During the rest of the Sam'
the play was about even though
might have been little to the advan
( tage of the. Iowa boys who had pos
Z session of the ball most of the TIM
) , in the Rock Island half of the field
The local boys, however, braced u
8 enough to prevent another touchdown
( and the game finally ended IL 20 6.
: Lift Was Out.
81 The fact that Captain Lift was on
of the game proved a serious hand
cap to Rock Island. His ability a
( handling the team in dangerous place
Twas sadly missed and his forwar
( passing would have come in handy
} Kelly. however, ran the team in yer
< good style and hesitated only once O
, twice and was on deck when thing
< were critical. 1t was swelterin
Z hot day and the players felt it cor
< siderably The game was not yer
( brusing contest, however, and non
3 of the players were hurt. They cam
( home in exceedingly good spirits, a
3 they had a right to, Gin view of tn
< fact that Rock. Island has not won
8 game when away from home in tn
4 last two years.
y hooters Go I'm Auto.
A crowd of rooters from this cit
=, went to Iowa City in an automobil
and they had an interesting exper
| ence. On the way down they had
fix three punctures and work with tn
oiling apparatus of the engine fe
some time They did not tell an
thing about their trip back but as the
got in pretty late they probably ha
some more of the fortunes of the roa
to deal with. Hubbard Dooley droy
the car which contained John Stree
fus. Bert Benson. Hugo Mosenfelde
Will Aster. Ben Mitchem and Sidne
Steenberg.
Lineup of Teams.
| The lineup for the teams was as fc
lows:
Rock Island-Beals, lie; Bremen, i
Duncan, lg; Benson. C; Christenso
rig; Frey, rt; Kittilsen, re; Kelly, al
Roach. fb; Trimble, RIB; Smith. In
Iowa City-Patterson. le; Estle, |
| Showers, If: Norton. c; Goetz, rs