The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-11-11
PLAY GOOD GAME
Sank Centre Gridir0n Artists
etlOng Prairie Again
MARKED IMPROVEMENT
Locals Go Against a Much Heavier
Team and Loose Contest by
Score of Al to-

team met the Long Prairie High
school team, the game being played
on the fair grounds here Friday. The
visitors won by score of Al to I.
The two teams met first at Long
Prairie September "a and Is, the Long
Prairie team winning by scores of q
to O and 1S to 0. Since that time
both teams have braced up materially,
and while the score in Fridays game
shows that the visitors scored more
heavily than they did in either of the
two preceding games, yet the figures
fail to gave correct idea of the cali
bre of play put up by the locals. The
fact is that Sauk Centre played better
foot ball much of the time than did
Long Prairie. There is the additional
fact to consider the visitors line aver
aged thirty pounds heavier per man
than Sauk Centres. Long Prairie's
centre is over six feet tall and weighs
trihe over 200, while Oehler, Sauk
Centres pivotal man, is under 40.
The Long Prairie team as whole aver
ages twenty pounds heavier per man
than does the local.
Long Prairie has evidently been i'm
proving the time since September 25.
The team plays good foot ball, that is,
it puts up good game of the old
style, ine-plunging game in which
beef counts. Its interference is good.
But it's repertoire of plays displayed
here was small. True, the visitors
made few good forward passes, the
first resulting in touchdown in the
first five minutes of play.
,Sauk Centre had number of good
ohen plays which it did not uncover.
Camp, the new quarter, was
somewhat "rattled" under fire. The
Osakis game was easy, but on Friday
the team was up against something
of a different character. 1t is not
surprising that the new quarter
should be little ill at ease and
not play with his head quite so much
as he might have done. In another
game he will undoubtedly take advan-
tage of the situation and use the diff
ferent plays. Throughout the first
half Sauk Centre "bucked the line"
most of the time, and as that line
was stone wall the locals could not
make their distance and the visitors
had the ball. There were flashes of
fine playing and several good gains in
the first half. but as a whole things
went the visitors way. Long Prairie
made five touchdowns and kicked but
a single goal in the first half, making
the score 26 too.
In the second half Sank Centre took
a brace and played the visitors off
their feet whenever they had the ball.
In this half Long Prairie scored three
touchdowns, but could Mt kick goal,
it's exhibitions in this feature being
the rankest kind of farce. Sauk
Centre scored a safety, thus scoring
two points. Two minutes before the
close of the game Austin was given
the ball and on an exceedingly clever
end play ran down the field Is yards
for touchdown, dodging several
tacklers and outfooting the whole
bunch. He had good interference for
his run. Parker failed to kick goal
and time was called after the next
play.
Had the weight of the teams been
even Sauk Centre would have won the
game: as it was the heavy mass plays
of the visitors simply tore great holes
through Sauk Centre and when they
had the ball things were easy for
them. They knew, however, that
they had been playing foot ball, es-
pecially in the second half.
Sauk Centre made good showing.
The line did well under heavy odds.
The back field was "Johnny on the
spot" all the time. Hatch made
number of fine tackles. Madsen car
ried the ball several times and never
failed to make a gain. Austin at full
played fine game. His tackling was
excellent and on several occasions he
plunged through the visitors heavy
line for material gains. His long run
was sensational and elected cheers
loud and prolonged. At the ends Par
ker played his customary consistent
game, advancing the ball on every
play when it was given him and max
ing one thirty yard run. Hooper held
down the other end in excellent style.