Weekly journal-miner., 1910-11-30
TRUTH ABOUT THAT
 FOOTBALL GAME

jury to Crawford. Except for this effective little foul play, the chances are not one in a hundred that Phoe- nix would ever have scored at all. h. cidentally, the writer heard it ad- mitted by a Phoenix player that Crawford was jumped on purpOsely, in order to disable him, and others heard the Phoenix players say during the game that they would "get ' Merritt, Lowry and one or two other Prescott players. Apparently there was no Ffluke" in carrying out this scheme, so far as Crawford was concerned, and there seemed to be no lack of effort to make it good with the others. This sort of work cannot be charged to altitude, or cold weather; at least, these things do not move the Prescott boys to act that way.
 ct is believed,'' says the Repub- liean of Friday, "that the cold weather in Prescott contributed ma terially to the defeat of the Phoenix students. Considering that the game was played on one of the most perfect days of an ideal Arizona In dian summer, this must have been intended as a joke. However, as an excuse, it serves quite as well as any of the others assigned. The Phoenix boys themselves expressed unquali- fled delight with the weather.
 In your Saturday issue it is claim ed that the Phoenix team encounter ed Ca bunch of mountain giants" five or ten pounds heavier than Phoenix, on the average. This must also have been intended as a joke. There was not man on the Phoenix team who did not outweigh by at least twenty pounds the gallant lit tie "Stumpy' Ross, our right end, and it is a safe venture that Pnoe- nix outweighed Prescott at least five pounds on an average. The Prescott boys weigh on an average 145 pounds, fully dressed-this means about 136 pounds as they are weighed for the game. If the Phoenix boys do not weigh more than this, they will be given the best dinner that the Yava- pal Club affords the next time they visit Prescott, in order to fill them up with something that will make them weigh up to their appearance
 Next the responsibility for defeat is placed on the altitude. There may be something in this. The Phoenix boys were certainly taller on an av craze than our, and to the extent of the difference in height they were breathing a rarer atmosphere. Other wise they were no more affected by brevity of breath than the Prescott boys. !. Next the officials fall under the accusation of being Prescott parti- sans" More impartial and accurate judgment could not be asked or ex- pected than was rendered in the game. Old, experienced football men, without exception, declared that the decisoins were faultlass, and it is eer- tain that the penalties imposed on Prescott were more costly on the whole than those suffered by Phoe- nix. How the Phoenix boys can claim they made three touehdOwns is beyond comprehension. They crossed Preseott's line fairly just once. An other time, as already pointed cut, they took the ball over after it be- came Preseotts', and still another time they crawled over with it after it was down. And in this latter in- stance, they claim that the Prescott team pushed the player with the ball over. Think of a team pushing the opposing players over it's own goal linei Wouldn't this jar you3 As matter of fact, Phoenix made its only. touchdown in this quarter, and not in the third, as enormously | reported. Phoenix did not get within shouting distance of Preseott's goal except in the first and last quarters, and when the game ended Prescott was well toward the Phoenix goal, and only the final call of time headed them off.
 The advantage was with Phoenix in the start, as it won the toss, took the kickoff, and elected to defend the south end, thus giving Prescott the disadvantage of sun and incline of the ground. Of course, the teams changed territory with each quarter, but the initial quarter is often the decisive one in football. And Lowry,