Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-11
BY CHESTER LAWRENCE

sustaining a four-ya loss for the
Methodists.
1t was at this point of the scrimmage
that the Hill team worked the first
! forward pass of the game, with which
they made a gain of twenty yards. The
play, although poorly executed, did the
work and brought the bleachers to their
| feet. Then followed a series OF bucks,
| alternating on the right and left ends
of the outclassed Methodists. They
made their distance in the three downs.
On the fourth Brant missed a place
kick for goal. The U. S. C. took the
ball. and from their 25-yard line Burek
kicked off to Decius, who fumbled. The
Hill team held the ball, however, and
the second forward pass was worked
for a 20-yard gain around the u. S. c.
| end. This brought the scrimmage iT
front of the goal, and Decius scored
the first goal with h place kick at just
ten minutes after the game started.
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Burek kicked off again to Cass at the
| 10-yard line. Cass slipped and was
only able to reach the 30-yard line be-
fore being tackled, almost out of
bounds. A oneside kick by the Hill
team brought the pigskin up on the
Methodists' 45-yard line, where Ickes
was unable to connect, and Brant
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next scrimmage by a blocked kick.
The Methodists sent it on a punt to
the Hills 10-yard line, where it was
again fumbled and recovered by
Paulin, left tackle of the Methodists.
An offside play made by the Hill team
cost them ten yards. Cass caught the
punt which followed and made brill
liant 30-yard run but was forced out of
bounds. The play was brought in fif-
ioh in
tried the forward pass, Cass to Brant.
Brant was neatly tackled by Thomp
son, who smashed through the end,
and the ball hit the ground before
Hatch fell on it. For the failure of
completing the pass the Hill boys lost
the ball and were penalized fifteen
yards. U. S. c. punted and the Hill
team returned the compliment only
after Cass had succeeded in making
another run, which did more than any
thing else to show up the poor tack
ling of the Wearers of the red and
yellow. Cass was stopped, however,
when he struck the line.
The next play was disastrous to the
Blue and White, however. The play
called for an end run, Haigler was
given the ball and made the mistake of
the novice by running backwards with
the ball because a Methodist end had
tily tackled by Mcguire and the l.. A.
boys lost three yards to the great de-
light of the u. S. c. student body, who
set up roar that might have been
heard on First street. A punt, how
ever In the next play and the ball was
on the Methodists 15-yard line.
An end run in the next play brought
the ball on the 20-yard line and square
i'll front of the goal. Decius did the
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bar with place kick. Score: Los
Angeles High 8, University of South
ern California 0.
Burek kicked off, and the sphereiod
was fumbled by the Hill team. A
quick recovery, however kept the ball
for them. Decius returned the ball
TO the Methodists 25-yard line with a
neat punt and Ickes made a fair
catch and succeeded in showing his
class as future star with a pretty
lodging run which gained about twen-
ty yards for his team. A punt fol-
lowed and then a series of line bucks
by the l., A. High team. A try at goal
from the field missed and Burek sent
the pail soaring far into the opponents
territory, where Cass received it and
made a consistent gain before being
stopped.
When the whistle blew at the end of
the first half the ball was on the
Methodists' 35-yard line an7 the Hill
boys were preparing for a goal kick.
Score at end of first half: Los An
geles High s, University of Southern
California 0.
The exciting part of the game was
in the second half when, withonly two
yards to gain. the U. S. c. team were
unable to break through their oppon-
ents' line for the coveted goal. This
was as near as they had come to maxi
ing a goal during the game. After
traversing the entire field twice, the
Hill team made another goal from
field in the last five minutes of play.
One of the features of the game was
the cheering of the Los Angeles high
school student body. which occupied
seats in the center of the stadium and
to the left of tie u. S. C. student body, |
which latter, also in the minority as
far as numbers were concerned, gave