The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-11-13
PUNAHDU KIDS
DOWN HIGHS

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School and Oahu College played game
of intercollegiate football yesterday af-
ternoon on Alexander field, and did
their best to put up good game. In
spite of criticisms handed round by
their elders, which criticisms would
have been apt if applied to Yale
Harvard game, the kids made a
mighty good showing and the heavier
team won by -four scores to nothing.
The Punahou boys were heavier and
had better team work and they had not
very much trouble in defeating the
High School At that the Mckinley
boys did some very good work, nota-
} bly, in the second half and the end of
the first half The whistle blew for
+ haIf.tim with the High scholars max
ing series of bucked gains that were
rapidly carrying them to the Punahou
goal.
From first to last it was football of
the very simplest, and mass plays and
straight bucks were the features of the
game. The Oahu kids were stronger
z than their opponents and managed to
fool them in their plays so that the
tackles and guards edged through and
broke away without being tackled in
many cases.
The first score was made by Punahou
after eight minutes of play. They
bucked down the field, making gain
after gain and losing rarely, until
they were within few yards of the
Punahou line. Then they simply con.
tinued to buck and went over the line
! in the natural course of events.
The try was not converted and the
score stood to 0 for the Punahous.
The winners scored twice again in that
half, both touchdowns resulting from
"a series of bucks and an end run just
before the center buck that scored. One
Of these was converted, and the score
stood 16 to when the whistle blew
| for half-time.
After the first half the High School
took new lease of life and went
after their opponents like veritable
! young demons. They made two gains
and then tried forward pass which
succeeded. Had it not been for the
a Snexorable call of the timekeeper, they
4 might well have scored
Neither side was subject to the
coach in entirety. Both officials had
been too busy with first and second
teams to give much attention to the
third elevens, so the youngsters went
in on their own hook and did the best
they could. Mr.. Blanchard was on the
side lines, however, taking the game
to heart, and he handed his boys a
talk at half time that showed them
where. they were failing, He told them
to stay low and play ."ventre a
Iterre," which they did in the second
half and came very near holding the
Oahu kidlets down to no score.
The final score of the Punahous was
made through a magnificent run by
Donald Ross and then grand cross
buck by Ballentyne, who crossed the
fine. That run was one round, red,
ROSY pippin and showed what great
stuff there is in the younger players.
To criticize the. youngsters would be
out of, all sense of proportion, for they
oil tried their level best and strove
Earnestly, to do the right thing, and
there was no suspicion of funking at
my stage of the game. 1t goes with
out saying that they did not play up
to first.eleven form, but they made up
for that by keenness and energy, and
the shape of their winds and general
condition would compare favorably
with those of many a star player on
the older teams. wra
The game was an open one and was
very good to watch, in that one could
zee the plays and observe just how
he kids expected to make their gains.
When they did make their gains they
ook heart of grace accordingly and
ried another play. The High School
& ads are to be congratulated on the
way they stayed together in the face
If certain defeat, and the Punahou
ads have all the praise in the world
coming to them for their clever and
gell-merited victory.
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