The Washington times., 1911-11-11
Eastern and Western
Will Probably Tie
For Second Place

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Py scoring a touchdown in the last
three minutes of play yesterday with
Western, thereby tieing the score,
Eastern's eleven made the ANAL decision
of second place in the interscholastic
football standing impossible until the
very last game of the season between
Western and Business. 1t is not at all
unlikely that second honors in the
school gridiron series will be equally
shared by the Capitol Killers and
Wcstenders. Eastern has lost one
less game than Western, but, judging
from the ability of the team that East
ern still has to play, the eleven Of the
Light Blue and White School from the
southeast will lose its next contest.
The game Is with Central and the o
Streeters will undoubtedly win. On the
other hand, Western still has Business
to contend with and this battle wlI
probably add the required victory to the
formers list to rut 1t on the same foot
Ing in the series with Eastern.
Eastern lost It's one opportunity to
hold second place alone when eWstern
blocked its kick-out after the only
touchdown made by the Southeast team.
Yesterdays battle between the school
boy gridironers was fully as interesting
and fercely contested as the recent
game between the two teams that rep
resent the strongest football material
in Washington high schools. namely
Technical and Central. Each team had
its moments of brilliant playing, East
ern seeming to put up the better game
in the final period, in which its points
were made, while Western shined the
brightest In the initial period, during
the, first quarter of which the West
Enders only scores were registered.
Howard was showed across Easterns 8
line for Westerns only touchdown with
in four minutes after the game had
force back of the ball that placed it
within striking distance of Eastern's
goal.
Three times Eastern plunged down the
heavy gains, two times being stopped
within twenty yards of the latter's goal
On the final invasion Weaver was
showed across the line for Eastern's only
by the penalty which was imposed upon
Western for one of it's men being off
side when the ball was on its six-yard
line.
Captain Weaver and Halfback Cohill
probably played one of the speediest
games that has been, seen in any of the
games of the present season. More line
plunging and ground gaining was done
by these sturdy gridironers than by the
entire efforts of the rest of the team.
Hawley Smith was very much on the
defense for the fasteners and frequent
ly stopped the onrush of his opponents
Stone was probably the brightest light
on the Western eleven. This speedy lit
tie leftend demonstrated some of the
most aggressive ground gaining in yes
terday's contest that has been seeen in
the series. Stone is unquestionably a
likely candidate for the all-star school
team.
The forward pass was attempted fire.
quently during the final period by East
ern. Most of the time the ball was in
tercepted and the play shattered. Nc
Ardie recovered the ball on one attempt
and ran II back ten yards In the ini-
tial period Western got away with a
fake kick formation, but the play was
each time to pick the man with the ball
from the rear of the line
The Imam md