Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-21
GATHERS IN ST. JOE
High School Lads Wallop the Boys
from Missouri.
EXCEL AT ALL STYLES OF PLAY
New Game f. Tried for Many Gains
by Omaha Boys who shine at
All Points of the
Game.
maha HiEh. IS: ST. Joseph High. o.

Omaha High. IS; st. Joseph High. 0.
Omaha High school added another vic
tory to it's list Saturday when 1t defeated
the st. Joseph High by a score Of IS to o.
The game was played at the Vlnton park
and was one OF the best played contests
seen there this year. both showing speed
in running the hall and good tackling.
The Omaha boys outplayed their opponents
in offensive work and in interference, the
back field doing especially we'll on line
plunges and end runs. Omaha won by
working together as a team on the de-
fensive and although the Missourlans had
very good team work they seemed to be
unable to get away for any material
gains.
omahs's line was a real stone wall to
st. Joseph, even though Andrus, Omaha's
big tackle, was not in the game. The st.
Joseph line was a little lighter than
Omaha's, but It hung on well except when
Omaha massed a play on one point. Rec
tor and Thompson would tear big holes in
1t whenever either of them would play
tackle or guard around the center. Hatch
and Underhill, who played back for Omaha
on the defensive, did great work in carry
ing back the ball on punts. One thing that
helped them much in this was the way
in which Howard and Payne would box up
the Missouri ends, preventing them from
following the punts down.
st. Joseph put its reliance In punting and
bootlng onside kicks, Voorhees,, right half,
did great work In this line. May and
Irwin hit the line hard enough, but did
not have the necessary force to push them
through for gains. On end runs the in
reference was unable to get the man
with the ball away from Omaha's two
ends and the rush line halves. st. Jo-
seph prevented Omaha from working many
OF the forward passes on which other
teams have found Omaha so strong, but
was not able in turn to get away with
their own forwards. Gray did star tack
ling all through the game for st. Joseph.
Omaha Fake Works.
Probably the neatest play Of the game
was made on the st. Joseph eight-yard
line. Howard called for a fake end run.
Howes received the delayed pass and went
through the guard for almost the eight
yards, up TO within two feet OF the goal.
Omaha won the toss and decided to kick.
ST. Joseph returned the kick. Omaha made
its yards by line plunges by the backs,
Thompson going through for ten yards.
Omaha is penalized five yards for offside
and loses the ball on the next down. st.
Joseph punts. Hatch and Howard make a
couple Of end runs, then Omaha punts and
st Joseph gets the ball on it's ten-yard
line. st. Joseph punts and Omaha tries two
forward passes and both are failures. The
ball is punted back and forth a few times.
May and Voorhees, make some good gains,
when Omaha gets the ball on St. Joseph's
thirty-yard line. Burdick tries for a field
goal, but it fails, and Irwin returns the
ball fifteen yards. st. Joseph loses the ball
on downs. Omaha fails on another forward
pass and loses the ball. st. Joseph punts.
ON the next down Thompson makes a sue
cessful forward pass to Howard. Omaha
punts. st. Joseph punts and Hatch carries
the punt back for twenty yards. Howes
goes through the line and on the next down
Mills makes an end run for thirty yards.
placing the ball on the eight-yard line.
Howes takes 1t to within two feet OF the
goal on a fake end run and a delayed
pass play. Underhil goes over goal and
New Kinney kicks goal.
Score; Omaha, 6; st. Joseph, 0.
UnderhnI Makes Long Return.
Omaha kicked off and st. Joseph FUN
bled the ball, and Omaha recovered It on
the st. Joseph twelve-yard line. Omaha
made it's downs and was penalized five
yards for off-slde. The ball went to st.
! Joseph on uOWhS hhu was pAAASA "a
Underhil made a splendid catch and car
ried the ball back for twenty-five yards.
Mills went over the line and McWhinney
kicked the goal. Scorer Omaha, Il; st. Jo-
seph, o.
Omaha kicked off and on the first down
May went through the line for eight yards.
Both sides punted back and forth-seven
punts are made in the next ten downs.
Hatch took the last one back for twenty
five yards. Howard made an end run for
twenty yards. st. Joseph got the ball after
a couple Of downs and punted it away
from its goal. Hatch made an end run on
a punt a few minutes afterwards, when
time was called.
st. Joseph kicked off In the second half
and the ball was carried back and forth
in st. Joseph's territory, with punts every
few minutes. Omaha got the ball on a
l punt and Underhill returned II for fifteen
yards. Payne made an end run for a flf-
teen-yard gain, and Howard went around
the other end for ten. Omaha lost the
ball on downs. st. Joseph punted 1t and
Omaha carried II by steady gains of five
, to eight yards to the line, and Rector car
, ried It over. McWhinney kicked goal.
Omaha kicked off and the remaining min.
utes of play were spent making short
gains and %punting, except for a forward
pass made by Thompson to Hatch for
! about twenty-five yards.