The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-11-10
VOLUME XXXIV. NO. 46
A BATTLE OF GIANTS
Crack Football Teams of Princeton
and Anoka Come Together in a
Contest for Supremacy.
Anoka Proves Victorious but Prince.
ton Puts Up Fight That Pre-.
cIudes Inglorious Defeat.

! eoh NO W EISuI nat RE.
cIudes Inglorious Defeat.
Last Saturday at the fair grounds
the orange and black went. down to
defeat at the hands of the fast Anoka
team by a score of % to II. It was
one of the hardest fought games of the
season and, although defeated, the
local football boys gave a good
account of themselves throughout the
game and at times even played better
and faster football than the team that
defeated them. Although bitterly
fought on both sides, the game was
clean and sportsmanlike, and after
the game each team gave nine rahs
and a tiger for their opponents,
plainly showing that the best of feel
ing existed between the two elevens.
The game was scheduled for
O'Clock p. N. and was started
promptly on time before fair sized
crowd which had braved the raw
November day to see the two teams
battle for supremacy. Anoka won
the choice of goals and decided to
defend the west goal, a strong wind
favoring this end of the field. Prince
ton received the kickoff, Fisher
carrying the ball back 20 yards be-
fore being downed. From here
Princeton took the ball on a whirl-
wind series of plays and steadily
marched down towards Anoka S goal
line, with Pohl doing the bulk of the
ground, gaining on play through
tackle that the Anoka defense seemed
helpless against. Pohl made it first
down on Anoka's 3-yard lire and
from here Berg went through the line
for a touchdown. Robideau missed
goal. Score: Princeton 5, Anoka 0.
This score only seemed to en-
courage the Anoka team to greater
efforts and, after some desperate play
ing in the center of the field, Anoka's
right end got away with forward
pass and, before the Princeton
secondary defense could stop him, he
had crossed the Princeton goal line
away down in the corner of the field.
Anoka punted out and kicked goal
but the referee ruled the goal out on
account of the ball not touching the
ground before being kicked. This
tied the score, 5 to 5. There was no
further scoring on either side until
the last minute of play in the second
quarter, when Anoka's speedy little
quarterback took the ball around
Princeton's left end for a 3O-yard
run, almost to the side line. From
here, surrounded by Princeton
tacklers, he lodged, ducked, squirmed
and twisted away from them, swung
away over to the other side of the
field and crossed the Princeton goal
line. It was one of the most spectacu-
lar pieces of open field running ever
seen on the local gridiron. Anoka
missed goal. Score at end of first
half, Anoka 10, Princeton 5.
In the last two quarters Anoka
scored two more touchdowns, both of
which resulted from forward passes
that the Princeton defense seemed to
be helpless against. Three of
Anoka's touchdowns we're of the
flukey variety but they counted just
as much as one that was harder to
get. Princeton took brace in the
last quarter and played Anoka off
their feet for the last few minutes of
play, keeping them on the defensive
and finally putting Robideau across
the Anoka goal line for the last
touchdown of the game on beauti-
fully executed forward pass over
Anoka's left end. Robideau kicked
goal and few minutes later the
whistle blew for the last down. The
game was over, Anoka %, Princeton
IL.
| Next Saturday the local team takes
on the Cambridge team for gridiron
battle. Cambridge has a good team
CHS year, having already met and de-
feated Sandstone and North Branch,
and they are now working hard to lift
the pelts of the orange and black
athletes from Princeton.
Princeton came through Satur-
day Is game without any serious mis-
haps, and a good weeks practice
should put them back in tiptop fight
ing trim and on the war path looking
for revenge for their defeat of Satur-
day.
An Unreliable Publication.
Judging by the statement that the
Encyclopedias Britannica gives Min
neapolis as the capital of Minnesota,
and ST Par14