The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-10-27
FIRST DEFEAT
OF THE YEAR
COMES TO THE BOOKINGS HIGH
SCHOOL SATURDAY.
WATERFOWL IS THE VICTOR
IN A HARD FOUGHT GAME az A
SCORE OF SIXTEEN TO SIX.

team sustained its first defeat of he
year at the hands of Watertown at
Watertown last Saturday. The score
was 10 to 6. I%ncidently 1t was the
first time Watertown has ever defeat
ed Brookings at football. The game
was hard fought and the teams were
more evenly matched than a 16 to
6 score would indicate.
There are a variety of good and
sufficient reasons for explaining the
defeat. III the first place we think
that Brookings was just a little mite
too confident before the game, hold
ing WATERFOWL too lightly and when
they discovered they were up against
a pretty hard proposition they seemed
to lose the dash and ginger hat had
been such a conspicuous feature of
their play in previous contests. Get
ting up at four o'clock In the morning
to AXE a train also had something to
do with taking the ginger out of them.
The element of luck figured largely
in the scoring, Watertown getting
two OF her touchdowns in a rather
scaly manner The Brookings team
was handicapped by strange surround
ing and a hostile crowd, the worst
crowd We think that any town in the
state can claim, and the field was the
most abOminable football grounds we
have ever seen. 1t was laid upon a
side hill at an angle of about forty
five degrees and the footing was most
uneven.
The work of the officials was as fair.
we think, as a visiting team has a
right to expect in WATERFOWL. The
Watertown man who oficiated as ref
cree tried as far as he dared to give
Brookings a square deal, but both
he and Oscar Johnson, who was the
other official, We're roundly abused
and threatened by the hoodlums on
the side-lines. or course, this did not
intimidate Oscar In the least, but
the WATERFOWL man seemed to be up
in the air most OF the time and the
game was marred by constant wrangling
II another game We're played on
neutral grounds and with competent
officials We believe that Brookings
would defeat Watertown, not easily,
for Watertown has a classy team, but
the team from this town is just
enough better to take their measure.
The defeat puts Brookings out of the
running for the state championship,
unless Sioux Falls should defeat Wat
ertOwn and in turn be defeated by
Brookings. That would give Brook
ings the right to demand another
game with Watertcwn.
Catlett, Brookings' great little quar-
ter, was the star of Saturdays game
and he was the one Brookings man
whom Watertown seemed to fear. He
ran the team with excellent Judgment
and tried his best to instill the old
time fighting spirit into his men. He
was the best ground gamer for Brook
ings and his end runs were features
Of the game. Captain Johnson and
Harold Miller played a good game.
For Watertown the stars were "Ras-
tus" Abbott, the colored center, and
Hechathorne, the fast little RICH half.
Abbott tore through the Brookings
line on nearly every play and scored
a touchdown for WATERFOWL in the
last few minutes of the game after re-
covering a punt.
Watertown scored first, getting a
touchdown in the first quarter after
recovering IN OF their own punts.
Brookings anne back strong in the
second quarter and made their best
showing of the game. They carried
the ball up the field for sixty yards
or end run and short line plunges,
Skinner taking the ball over for a
touchdown. In the third quarter Wat
hiouC ohctHCi W Oii
a pretty forward pass and this was
the only score they were really en-
titled to. Brookings fought desperate
ly in the last quarter and carried the
ball down to the visitors 30-yard line,
where Watertown intercepted a for
ward PASS and spoiled our chance to
tie OF win the game. Watertown car
ried the ball up the side hill about
twenty yards and punted and their
colored gentleman recovered the ball
About a hundred BrooAings people
accompanied the team to Wateitown
and rooted loyalty for their fav0ritss
to win. but evidently Saturday was
not : Brootinss day.