Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-10-11
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

was forfeited to Wausau in the 3rd
| quarter owing to the refusal of cap
tain Tracy to leave the game. The
score at this time was 6-3 in Wausau'S
favor and they were on their way to
another touchdown. 1t was in no
sense game being marked by brutal
or unfair playing on the part of some
of the Merrill team, and 1t ended, as
we have been informed most of the
Merrill games do, in fight. Wran-
| giles with the referee and the umpire,
were frequent but Wausau received
most of the penalizing and Merrill,
which was penalized but once Ger
tainly could have no fault to ind
with our referee, Neuman Bells. The
Merrill umpire, however, was contin-
ually calling fouls against Wausau
and did not do this against his own
| team.
Tracy started the game by landing
with both feet on captain Brown who
had been tackled and who was lying
on the ball waiting for the whistle.
This slugging on Tracy's part and
others of the team, was consistent.
But the Wausau team made no kick
against any of this and kept steadily
| forcing the ball down the field
In the beginning. Wausau kicked
off, but the ball was Wausaus on the
fifty yard line almost Immediately.
They were unable to gain their ten
and Merrill took the ball on their
twenty-eigGt yard line. Tracy went
thru tackle for five yards. They
then attempted forward pass which
neither here or at any other time in
the game was successful. Johnson
intercepted it and ran thru a clear
field for a touchdown. He then
dropped the ball squarely between the
posts giving Wausau six points.
Merrill kicked off to Wausau but
Wausau was unable to hold the ball
which became MerrilPs on our thirty
five yard line An otfside on Wau-
sau's part advanced them to the
twenty yard line, couple of line
plunges few yards further, and on
their last down from the twelve yard
line the Merrill quarter drop kicked
goal giving Merrill their three points.
: In the second quarter, Johnson
tried a kick from the twenty-five
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He barely missed adding another
three points. In the third quarter,
Wausau began to advance the ball by
jumps, they were on Merrill's thirty
five yard line going at good clip,
when the real trouble began. AS
near as could be learned from those
who were where they could see the
affair 1t happened something like this:
Tracy had evidently gotten real
angry during the play with Peth who
was holding down our left half at
the time, for he came around and
gave Peth, who has been in the inter-
ference and was just getting up, two
jumped to his feet, but before he
could do much to retaliate, Referee
Bells who had seen the kicks rushed |
in and ordered Tracy out of the game.
The Merrill umpire in turn ordered |
Peth out. Peth quietly left the field |
and Piper was substituted in his |
place. Tracy, however refused to
leave the game. His coach backed
him up and the crowd and the police
force all took sides with him and
urged him to stick to it. Bells gave
Merrill five minutes to resume the |
game without Tracy and at the end |
of the time, Merrill showing no dis
position to put out their star player
or to play ball, forfeited the game to
Wausau.
While both the Merrill and Wausau
people may be somewhat prejudiced,
about the slugging in the Tracy affair,
we interviewed several travelling men |
and students from other schools, who |
certainly were noC partial to either
side and iC was their unanimous |
opinion that Wausau had played a |
clean game all the way through and
that the Merrill team had disgraced
the game of football which is and
should be a fair, clean and manly |
game. This will be proven, too, by
the fact that the Stevens Point team
which played in Wausau week ago,
went away feeling it had been given |
a square deal, and that there was no |
wrangling or hard feeling at any time |
between these teams.
This was not the kind of victory |
we would have PREPARED to win, but |
if the game had not stopped when it |
did, another touchdown at least and |
probably more, for Tracy was out, |
would have added to our score. The |
Wausau line up was shifted at the |
end of each quarter for the purpose |
of trying out the different subs. All |
but one of Wausau's forward passes |
were successful The backfield men and |
especially Johnson and Daily ran their |
plays with a snap and nerve that nets |
big gains. Brown was still the old
steady, behind the center or at safety, |
and the line, held the heavy Merrill |
line plunges in fine shape. The twin |
ends. the Ramsdells, showed what |
they are good for in that Merrill |
made no gains around either end and |
both were instrumental in advancing
the ball in several instances. Over |
hundred rooters from Wausau, ac-
companied the team and under the |
leadership of Mr.. Hildendorf, drowned
the Merrill bunch out. Hereafter
Wausau will be noted for its lungs as
,raU &c ire ot1,ar ACCOMPLISHMENTS