The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-01
Oakland Easy for Norfolk.
Norfolk. 20, Oakland, 0.


park here Friday afternoon by 20 to o.
A large number Of football fans
took advantage of the ideal weather
and witnessed with great delight the
last game of the season in Norfolk.
by agreement made last year Norfolk
will play at Wayne Thanksgiving day.
Oakland defeated Wayne last Satur.
day.
At no time during Fridays game
was Norfolk's goal i'm danger and the
spectacular features on the part of
the Norfolk players were many. Ev.
cry man on the team was playing the
game. Peden, Alexander, G. Holland
and Pearson starred for Oakland The
latter team gave Norfolk credit for
having whirlwind eleven at the be-
ginning Of the last half. While Oak
lands taCklinE was good, Norfolk had
no trouble in putting over one touch.
down after another Emery ran forty
yards with the aid of usual interior
enCc and made touchdown, which
was followed by the feature runs OF
Parish and Logan with eighty and
Cighty.five yards, respectively. Logan
made seven touChdOwns, Emery three
Parish one and Odgen one. Fisher
kicked goal ten times and missed
only once
The First Quarter.
The first quarter of the game was
opened with NOrfolk's fumblng Oak
lands kickoff Oakland then punted
and in u regular line buck Ogden got
the ball and through "A scattered field
he took 1t over for "A touchdown after
two minutes of play. Fisher kicked
goal gracefully. Oakland was surpris
ed and admitted that while Norfolk
players looked small. they were
there The prophecy of eX-Supt
Hunter that the first two minutes of
play usually decided which team
would win the game began to go the
rounds among Norfolk players and
Pearson and Alexander, the two fast
Oakland tackles, had their hands full.
After the ball had been returned to
the field from Fishers goal kick, Lo-
gan took possession of it and threat
oned another touchdown. II. Larson
at left end. hold Logan down, but Lo-
up Swanson was out for a moment
and later he delayed the game once
more, being out for almost three min
utes. In this miX-up Logan was push
ed forward fast with Parish giving
great interference. With Oakland
yelling, Nothing to it, Norfolk sue
cessfully executed the shift play"
and put Logan over for touchdown
after that halfback had worked up the
entire field. This time Fisher missed
goal. This second touchdown was
made in five minutes of play.
Oakland erred in hestating whether
to punt or try forward pass, notwith
standing the fact that there only re-
manned a short time to finish the first
quarter. Oakland's backfied fought
hard as Koerber landed on the ball
and in shift play Logan gained heav-
lily. Six minutes We're played and EN-
cry was put over for the third touch
down, followed 10y Fisher with a
graceful goal kick. AS time was call
ed Parish passed beautifully to Koer-
Der, which gained heavily on Oak
land, but the shift which followed
aided little.
The Second Quarter.
1t took Logan only one minute and
half to score a touchdown in the
second quarter, which was the result
of a few line bucks and a shift play.
In the Blackjack Parish stepped over
the line and there was no goal kick.
In the miX-up which started after the
Touchdown pnIpp nDlylnnl'C ri a n
back, showed his good points in max
ing fair gains. Oakland punted and
Norfolk took the ball and passed it to
Emery who took it over for touch
down after only three minutes play
Fisher kicked safely again. Three
minutes later Emery ran forty yards
with the ball and touchdown once
more with Parish, Ogden and Hibben
making good their work of interfer-
ence. Fisher kicked goal.
Thirty seconds later Parish ran
eighty yards with the ball for a touch
down, followed by Fishers goal kick.
Oakland seemed dragging behind the
fast Norfolk quarterback. The inter
ference on the part of the Norfolk
team in this play was good and the
fans on the side lines rooted Justify,
AS thC quarter ended, making the
score 40 to 0 in Norfolk's favor, obi
orne leaped high in the air and stop
ped Peden, who was taking in for
ward pass. Koerber and Fisher fea-
tured in the wind-up of this quarter
and first half
The Third Quarter
Koerber took Oakland's kickoff in
the first of the third quarter back to
whence it started. Oakland here re.
covered the ball and in an effort at
forward pass took possession of it.
In a regular line play Logan took it
over for touchdown and followed by
Fishers goal kick in four minutes of
actual playing,
Robertson fumbled Norfolk's kick
off and the ball remained where t
landed. Odorne took Oakland's punt
and Logan, to whom it was passed, al
most went over for touchdown. EN-
cry made gains at this time. Coach
Colegrove found Parish holding i'm