Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-02
OMAHA HIGH SCHOOL WINS
Nebraska City Defeated by Score Of
Twenty Three to Three.
PLAY Is SLOW, BUT INTERESTING
Feature of the Game is the
Punting OF the Locals, Who
Thus Gain Much
Ground.

AT foot ball Omaha High school walloped
Nebraska City High school to the tune of
90 to Saturday afternoon.
Time after time one of the two teams,
fighting fiercely, would bring the ball into
their opponents to within few yards of
the goal and then would lose it by tumble
or misplaced forward pass, and down to
the other end of the field the struggle
would go.
Punting was a feature of the play, both
teams resorting to this system of gaining
ground continually, so that scarcely down
was made but what the ball was circling
in the air on the next down.
Although no one was seriously injured,
several minor accidents occurred, laying
the players out for a few minutes, but no
one on either team was obliged to quit the
game on this account. Both teams changed
lineups somewhat the Omaha coaches try
ing out a number of new men.
Omaha Better Trained.
The Omaha boys had undoubtedly been
the better trained, their weakness being in
the slowness of their interference in work
after a punt had been caught. Holes in
the defensive line were found often, owing
partly to inexperience with the signals. In
following the ball down the field after q
kick the local lads had 1t down fine, the
Nebraska City man rarely progressing a
bare five yards after he had caught the
kick.
Voyle Rector made the goals Of the day
for Omaha and played a stellar game all
through. He seemed to find no trouble in
finding a hole in the line for ten or twelve
yards and was a sure gamer OF distance.
Klopp made the best run of the day, carry
fpo ha han 80
thirty yards several times and always
seemed able to dodge his way for fifteen
or twenty yards after catching a punt.
Dick Payne. captain and end, and Gall,
the former South Omaha man, did some
fast work on the ends, and Howes played
a perfect game at half.
On the Nebraska City lineup Captain GIL
more and his right halfback, Brust, out
shone the other members of the team by
far. Egan, the left tackle. was a wonder
at finding a hole and the two ends did some
classy tackling during the game.
In offensive Nebraska City was weak
and had to resort to the strong punting
of Brust continually, but on defensive the
holes were few in their line, although they
lost several downs on trick plays OF
Omaha
The game started with the toss for
Omaha and the south goal was chosen with
Nebraska kicking off. The fall was fumbled
and Omaha found itself with it's opponents
only three yards to go for goal. but the
purple and white held like a wall and
forced the visitors TO punt.
From there It went with much fumblins
and varying success until Klopp on the
twenty-yard line. made a forward pass 70
Gall, who luckily got awey with 1t for
touchdown. Payne kicked goal, making
Omaha, TO o.
Omaha kicked off and an exciting series
OF plays followed with a number OF forward
passes from Klopp 70 Payne and TO Gall
and a couple Of long runs by Klopp. Omaha
| brought the ball to within ten yards OF
goal and Rector bored his way fourteen
yards over goal Up to the end OF the
quarter the playing was slow.
The second quarter the Nebraska City
bxoys braced up and long flight followed
with the ball now in one end Of the
field and now in another, and ending with
no score.
The third quarter Omaha kicked off and
after some punting and a couple OF Ions
runs by KlopP and Payne, Nebraska City
punted. but was blocked and the ball wa,
Omaha's on the eighteen-ysrd line. Rector
carried II over I'm two straight rushes and
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