Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-11-02
WAUSAU DEFEATS
GRAND RAPIDS
Grand Rapids Team Plays Best
Foot Ball But Loses To Wau-
Sau.

Sdus
The Wausau High school foot ball
team won from the Grand Rapids
team Saturday afternoon by a score
of to 6. The score does not offer
a fair comparison of the relative mer
it's of the two teams as on four sep
arate occasions Wausau should have
been penalized and had these penal
have been different-the penalties
would have Melted thirty yards for
Grand Rapids and at the end of
the first quarter with the ball in
their possession they had but a few
feet to go and were going through
| Wausau's line at every buck, the
whistle blew ending the quarter The
same at the end of the last quarter,
| with the ball in their possession and
| the ball on Wausau's one foot line
| the whistle ended the game. Had
the penalties against Wausau been
inforced, which aggregated 80 yards
any one can see that Grand Rapids
would have easily scored in both in
stances. The penalties should have
been inforced in three instances
! When q Wausau player tackled or in
| terfered, in a forward pass before the
Grand Rapids player had touched the
Ddu (Rule XVIII, Sec. p. At an
other time a forward pass made by
| Wausau exceeded twenty yards and
/ as it was after the third down. the
bail should have gone to Grand Rap
| ids at the point where the forward
pass was started. This was in real
| ity giving Wausau twenty yards and
was the play that started the rally
which brought them near enough to
| Grand Rapids goal to succeed in MAX
ing a goal from the field and giVdns
| them three additional points. Schmitt
who played left end for Wausau should
have been disqualified under rule "a
| for kicking, striking with his fist
and using abusive language and the
| team should have been penalized half
the distance to its own goal line. An
other instance of dirty work was the
tackling of a Grand Rapids player,
who had from the momentum of his
run gone out of bounds after catch
ing the ball. A penalty of Is yards
should have been inflicted. If all
these penalties had been inflicted,
Wausau would have been penalized
over 60 yards and out side of the dirty
playing, they should have been pen
allied 80 yards.
Wausau made the first touchdown
after 55 seconds of play. AT the kick
off the ball went out of bounds and
was taken back for a second kick;
with the wind at their back the baS
was kicked to the Grand Rapids ten
yard line where it was caught and
brought back 20 yards, a forward
pass was tried w. ausau intercepted
| the pass and ran around Grand Rap
| ids for a touchdown. The game re
solved itself into a punting game on
the part of Wausau as they could not
make the distance through Grand
| Rapids line. Weeks got a bump on
| the nose that started it bleeding so
that he had to go to the side line
He came back in the second quarter
The first quarter ended, after prac
tically all the playing had been done
in Wausau's territory, with the ball
/ in Grand Rapids possession.
Shortly after the commencement Of
| the second quarter Natwick secured
the ball and made a run Of so yards
before being downed. Grand Rapids
rushed the ball to Wausau's 20 yard
line when they held for downs. Wau-
sau could not gain through the line
so reosrted to punting. Grand Rapids
got the ball and executed a pretty
/ forward pass. Brown, quarter back
| for Wausau was knocked out for a
little while but came back all right
/ Grand Rapids worked the ball down
fierce line bucks by Capt Buckley,
| Natwick went over for a touchdown,
Barrett kicked goal Wausau tried
again to kick goa from the field but
the kick was blocked. Another at
tempt at goal from field failed Al
eXander brought the ball back and
it was here that Schmitt used abus-
i've language and slugged with his fist
Quarter ended with ball nj Grand Rap
| ids possession
Second half starts with Wausau
kicking off Grand Rapids brings
the ball back Is yards before being