Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-26
ALL-STARS
ST. VINCENTS
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sT. VINCENT II. ALL-sTARs 8


With perfect weather conditions and
before a large number of spectators
who filled every seat In the stand
which encircles the white barred foot
ball field at Fiesta park. the st. Vim
cent football team. with trick plays
and terrific line plunges that tore
through their opponents line for heavy
gains, secured decisive victory over
the All-Stnr eleven which had been
selected especially to trim the Cath
olics. When the last whistle was blown
the score stood IA TO 8 in favor of the
Saints.
The Catholic eleven went In from
the start 10 win. and I'm the first half
played the Star aggregation off its feet,
making two touchdowns and a safety
while Selph for the Stars kicked q
beautiful place kick that scared accu-
rately between the two goal posts,
registering the only points secured by
the losers.
In the second half neither side scored,
but just before the last whistle sounded
RAIDER and Tortez began a series of
line bucks that carried the ball out Of
the Saints territory to within twenty
yards of their opponents goal.
RAIDER was given the ball in the CEN
ter OF the field. and with good inter
ference tore through the weakening
star line. and though tackled time
after time he kept going and would
have made a touchdown had he not
lost his equilibrium after a tackle and
fallen on the Stars twenty-yard line.
Plays Spectacular Game
Brown, playing at full for the ALI
stars in the first half, played a spec
tacular game throughout the greater
part of the contest, when he made
tackle after tackle that brought him
oVations from the spectators.
As the game progressed and ii be-
came evident that the Saints would
have the best of the argument, the adj
mirers of the losing side were heard to
remark on all sides in the grandstand:
at is "A shame that Stan and Now
Mitchell, Gesler and Silent are not in
the game if they were, there would
be another story to tell"
"Huh. it would take the Yale team
to clean Rheinschild's bunch, would
be the retort of a hacker Of the Cath
olics.
The game was a skilled exhibition of
open playing and indicated that the
American game can be saved by teams
using open formations like those of
the st. Vincent eleven when it tries its
trick plays, some of which proved good
y
The first half opened with Crawford
kicking off for the All-Stars, and the
Saints, ON trying the line bucks, were
penalized twice for Off-side playing.
"Brown of Stanford" as the Star full
back was called by the bleacherites,
began playing hard ball from the open
ing of the game, and some of his
tackles at this stage brought generous
applause from the spectators
The Saints carried the ball from the
center tof the field to their opponents
thirty-yard line by a series of bucks,
where Brown was injured by breaking
up in interference, and in the miXup
the stars secured the ball, and in an
attempt to punt out of danger the ball
went almost UP in the air. 1t was the
Catholics ball on the All-Star forty
ward line From this section of the
field the Saints started a march for
the All-Star goal by series of line
plunges. RAIDER was given the ball and
carried it over the goal line for
after seventeen minutes
of PLAYING, and an accurate kick of
goal made the score to in Rheims
child's team.
Stars Fail in Drop Kick
Crawford kicked to RAIDER on the
fiVe-yard line, who returned 1t to the
thirty When the ball was put in play
at this point, the Saints dropped it,
and in the mixup which followed they
were penalized twenty yards for un-
necessary roughness. Crawford tried
a drop kick but failed, at which some
one in the grandstand commenced
singing "Everything is lovely, but the
Stars don't shine"
On the kickoff the ball scared to the
st. Vincent ten-yard line. Neighbors