The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-10-05
FIRST GAME OF YEAR
Football Season Opens Here and Billy
Doane's Terriers Defeat Elk
River by Score of 6 too.

uame well Prayed on Both Sides but
Elk River Adheres Too r1uch
oOld-Fashioned Rules.
Evidently the weather man got his
signals crossed last Saturday, for
instead of the fair weather which had
been predicted for the day, he pulled
the wrong lever and cut loose cold,
drizzling rain which started about
noon and continued throughout the
rest of the day. Ordinarily the game
would have been called off under con-
ditions of this kind, but the rain had
held off long enough so that the Elk
River boys had started out across
country and, after making the 20-mile
trip through the mud and rain, they
thought that a little more of the
weather wouldn't hurt them any and
they insisted on playing the game re-
CARELESS of the freaks of the United
States weather department.
Several of the Princeton players
had failed to show up at the regular
time supposing that the game had
been called off, but after lot of
chasing around and skillful auto
driving on the part of Tommie Galley
and Manager Peterson through the
mud and rain, eleven orange and
black athletes were finally rounded up
and sent out to the fair grounds to do
battle with the Elk River warriors,
who had been more or less patiently
waiting at the fair grounds for a
worthy foe to conquer.
The preliminaries we're hurriedly
disposed of, and the shrill blast of the
referees whistle soon notified the
handful of spectators who had braved
the inclement weather that the first
football battle of the year was on.
And it was good game at that.
After the first five minutes of play it
was evident that the teams we're about
evenly matched and that a score for
either side would be hard PROPOSE
ton to get. The first quarter ended
without either side scoring, but at the
beginning of the second quarter
Princeton opened up the stubborn Elk
River defense with a little new foot
ball which seemed to put the defense
up in the air and, by few cleverly
executed forward passes and plays
off tackle, Princeton placed the ball
on the enemy's ten-yard line. Elk
River refused to give ground any
more, however, and held the plunging
Princeton offense and kicked the ball
out of danger, temporarily at least.
But Princeton resumed their mixed
play tactics and soon had the ball on
Elk Rivers ive-yard line and first
down. Pohl placed the ball on the
two-yard line on a smash through
center, and on the next play Newton
was pushed over for a touchdown lust
as the whistle blew for the end of the
first half. The Elk River referee re-
fused to allow the score, however, on
the grounds that there had been H.
legal pushing on the play in which
the ball went over the goal line.
There was considerable wrangling at
this juncture and the Princeton boys
we're rightfully peeved over this rul-
ing of the referee, but the decision
stood and the first half ended 0 to O..
The third quarter was repetition
OF the second with Princeton having
slightly the best of the argument, and
slowly but surely the ball was again
worked down toward the coveted Elk
River goal line. From Elk Rivers
40-yard line G. Stay got away with a
cleverly executed forward pass and
got to the enemy's ten-yard line be-
fore he was pulled down by the Elk
River tacklers. Fullwiler went
around Elk Rivers right wing for five
yards more and Pohl smashed
through center for touchdown. The
decision was close, however, and as
the goal line had not been properly
marked off it was next to impossible
to tell whether the ball was actually
over or not. After considerable ar
gument it was decided that another
down be played, and on the next play
G. Stay carried the ball over for a
touchdown on crossbuck through
the left side of the Elk River line.
Pohl kicked goal. Score, Princeton
E, Elk River O. And this was the
score when the game finally ended, al
though the down-river boys fought
hard to tie the score and managed to
keep the ball in dangerous ground
throughout the last five minutes of
play, but were unable to push it over
for touchdown through the stone