Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-11-04
VICTORY D CRIMSON.
Sadly Crippled in The Line, Alma
Takes Crushing Defeat.
TIGHTEN UP IN LAST HALF


Worse and more of it. Olivet's
"done went and done it again"
Saturday saw the maroon and cream
hauled down from the mast and
the crimson and white ran up to
the peak, while the band played
Annie Rooney and the score board
registered Olivet 30 and Alma zero.
"Of all sad words of tongue or pen
the saddest are these, "we're beat
again." Butyet, there's. a reason"
In fact there are two reasons, one
obvious aud one perhaps not gen.
orally known. The obvious one
briefly stated is that Olivet played
agrand game from whistle to whistle
easily out playing Alma, which in
wolves the second reason that half
of Alma team was out of the game.
because of death in the immediate
family of Capt. Won Thurn and his
brother, Lester, were not present.
Their places in the line were filled
by less experienced players; the
whole line up was shifted about
and the results proved disastrous.
Capt. Won is the spirit of enthus-
asm which every team needs. He
was missed and missed sadly on
this basis alone. Two-thirdS OF the
gains were made through his
customary place on the line. His
presence no doubt would have
altered matters somewhat, both in
stopping rushes and mixing in the
proper enthusiasm as well.
Olivet may be justly proud of
her victory and yet to those initiat-
ed into the circumstances the final
result is nothing strange or dis
couraging. The second half was
scorelesS till the last minute of play
when Olvet took the ball over by
a clever delayed pass, tumble
of a punt giving her the ball on
Alma's twenty yard line. There
being twenty-four points chalked
up in the first half, it was obvions
that Alma was fighting tooth and
nail against overwhelming odds
throughout the second half and
fairly well holding her own. I'm
der normal conditions, the state
ment that the game would have
been quite evenly balanced, could
be made without objection within
ear shot of the most enthusiastic
Olivet rooter.
The game was characterized by
many brilliant runs by Weber, of
Olivet, behind beautiful interior
ence from Olivet's standpoint and
by good old stubborn "never die"
Alma spirit from the maroon and
cream view, the second half
proved somewhat of surprise to
the side lines no doubt. Dana
gained consistently for Olivet also
on the other side of center from
Weber; but he received no such
interference as that which made
Webber's long gains possible. AL
ma kicked off to Olivet, Weber
getting the kick and running
through the whole team for
touchdown. This ih itself was
somewhat disheartening and no
doubt added to the already gloomy
spirit that prevailed the team.
Ollie and kefgen did some excep-
tional work for home hopes by
their stubborn defence and tack
ling, Kefgeh especially proving his
ability in the latter. Olivet al
though possessing heavy line,was
unusually speedy and aggressive.
They uncorked few trick plays ad.
hearing to straight foot ball, doubt
less being influenced somewhat by
the presence of spy or two from
: their coming adversaries of a week
hence. The proper spirit was evil
dent on the side lines and Alma's
good plays received their full share
of cheering. Between halves the
student body broke loose on the
field and shouted and sang 10 their
entire satisfaction. An occasional