Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1911-11-28
Webster City High School Football
Team Defeated by Ames
in That City Saturday
Afternoon.
FINAL SCORE WAS 20 TO
Webster City Badly Handicapped
Last Game Of Season With
Eagle Grove.

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The football contest Saturday af
ternoon ia Ames, between the Ame'
team and the locals, ended In q vic
tory for the former. The score wal
| 20 to s.
The game started with Mckee
playing right end and Talcott OF
the right half position. This shift
was made some time ago. Webster
City got the first kick of. DURING
the Arst three minutes Of play The
locals scored the first touch down
This start added greatly to I'll
"pep" OF the home team. Howeysf
after two minutes Of play McKSd
who IL considered by some Of tAssl
rooters the best man ON the teaT|
was laid out. AS he was not aSiss
to re-enter the game Alexander WA
+ put in his place. n
In the second quarter MahonSS
was taken out and replaced say
House. This was done on accoun.
OF the fact that Mahoney has beef
under the weathSFibr the past few
days. AS House has been bothered
with charley horse since the Dss
Moines game. which has kept him
out Of practice, he was also IN poor
condition to play. The absence OF
Mckee seemed to take the pep"
out OF the other men and from that
time on they played listless ball.
Soon after this Berggren allowed
an Ames man to get past him. He
was retired for one quarter.
At the beginning OF the second
half, while it was plain, to the spec
.ators that the victory belonged to
Ames, the home aggregation steam-
cd up and put up a very good de-
tense. The kicking Of one OF the
Ames half backs was the feature OF
the contest. This young man is an
under study Of the famous Ames col
lege booter. Twice the booting OF
this man resulted in touchdowns for
the Ames bunch. A short time after
the whistle for the third quarter
Talcott, who had been on one Of the
back field positions, was taken out
OF the game. He also had received
some rather painful bumps. Nc
Carthy went in to take his place.
Although the ''subs" play a very
good game, the absence of the old
men caused the confidence OF the
regulars to wane. Probably the
greatest handicap to the locals was
the poor condition Of Helmick. Hell
mick has been under the weather
for the past week. He contracted
a very bad cold and had not been
able to appear in the moleskins but
twice since the Algona contest. Al
though his line bucks are generally
very great ground gamers his abil-
ity to keep up the lighting blood OF
the other men Is his greatest value.
His work Saturday was more of an
exhibition Of grit than anything
else.
The defeat received at the hands
Of the Ames team was great sur
prise to Coach Meyer who expected
his boys to return home as victors.
However, he was we'll pleased with
the exhibition OF bull dog tenacity
displayed by them with their great
handicap.
The last game Of the season VIII
be played on the home grounds on
Thanksgiving against the squad
from Eagle Grove. Although the To-
Gals defeated this team early In the
season by the score OF "a to 0. the
Thanksgiving game is expected to
be very hard fought battle. Ow-
ing to the poor condition OF the To-
cal men in the last two games, the
outcome of this session is somewhat
in doubt.