The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-22
PETE WAS TOO SLOW
HIS FOOTBALL TEAM FELL DOWN
BEFORE COMMERCIALS.
College Boys Had the Advantage All
the Time; Highes Were Defeated
BY the Wells Eleven, and the Nor
mails Win at Austin Although
Their Lineup Was Crippled; the
Saturday Contests.
From Mondays Daily.

In an exciting and spectacular game
of football between the st. Peter high
school and the Mankato Commercial
college teams at the fair grounds on
Saturday afternoon the college team
won by score of to O. The college
team had the advantage over st. Peter
during all of the game for their goal
was never in danger of being crossed,
| while st. Peters was in danger most
of the time. Not until within the last
two minutes of play was the score
made when Brenger, the star quarter
back, made q beautiful drop kick from
the thirty flee yard line, which Won
the game for the locals. Star work
was done for the college by Ryan,
Kachelhoffer, Schmid, Brenger and Pal
mer and for the st. Peter team by
johnson, Kneip and Slater. Schmidt
and Ryan also worked the forward
: pass from long gains, while long end
runs were made by Ryan, Murphy
Kachelhoffer, Schmid and Brenger. Cap
tain Brenger's punting was also phe-
HoHicHdi. reiiO"iHS 10 IHe lineup VI
both teams:
Mankato College, Ryan, re; Sorlien,
TT; Thro, re-; L. Olson, C; Dolf, lg;
Dadley, 1t; Murphy, lie; Captain, Breng-
er, pb; Schmid, III; Kachelhoffer, rh;
Palmer flo.
st. Peter, Johnson, re; Anderson, TT;
Nielsen, re-; Hale, c; Sineby, lg; John
son, 1t; Kneip, lie; Corners, OBJ; Lloyd
and Engesser III; Slater, rh; Dona-
hauer, fb; Referee, Pastback. st. Peter.
Umpire, Williams, Mankato. Time of
halves, fifteen and twenty minutes.
Highs Lose to Wells.
The high school football team demon
strated on Saturday that there was
not a yellow streak in it. Lined up
against the heavy Wells team, out
weiged over twenty pounds to the man,
it looked like walk away for the
out of town boys. But they were
held for downs repeatedly and kept the
score down especially in the second
whatever of scoring themselves. The
high school won the toss. Wells kicked
off to the high school and the boys
started for their opponents goal max
ing good four forward passes in quick
succession and had the ball on the
Wells twenty yard line, when it was
lost, spelling the only chance the high
school had to score. Wells took the
ball and worked it down the field for a
touch down, failing to kick goal. The
first half ended with the score 5 to
III favor of Wells.
In the second half the high school
team got together and their opponents
could not gain consistently, the ball
being carried forward by Wells and
kicked back by the high school. The
half ended without a score.
Lineup Changed Twice.
Considering the fact that the normal
school lineup for the Saturday game
with Austin was changed twice in the
twenty four hours preceding the con-
test, the normal team played very
creditable game, even though it was
not winning one for them. Owing to
unavoidable circumstances, two of the
team, Frank Cream right half, and
Louis Landberg, right end, were called
out of town. Creams absence necessar-
lily broke the back field so that new
one had to be formed on the day of
the game and Landberg being called
away at almost the same time, meant
that six men out of the regular team
had to be shifted to fill vacancies The
general organization of the team was
consequently badly broken up.
Ball in Possession of Austin.
The game started with the normal
boys kicking off to Austin on the
fifteen yard line. The ball was re-
turned about five yards by Austin,
then by line plunges and end runs, to-