The Washington herald., 1912-10-26
CENTRAL BEATS
EASTERN HIGH BY
LONE TOUCHDOWN
King Crosses Goal Line in Second
Quarter-Light Blue and White
All but Scores.
WILLIAMS PLAYS GOOD GAME
BY c. w. SWAN.

ny - w. . ." NV
Eastern's fghting football aggregation
met defeat yesterday at the hands OF
the Central eleven at Union League
Park in the second game Of the schol-
aftic series, 6 to O. and. although beaten,
the Capitol Hill team was not disgraced.
Central outweighed the Eastern team.
but not as much as in former years
Central played a good defensive game,
hut on the offense the o Streeters back
field failed to gain a great deal OF
ground. King excepted.
Eastern all but scored on Central in
the final period. With the ball on Gen.
trails 25-yard line. Sleepy Williams
tore on a run around left end. He was
downed on the c-yard line. Four times
line and each time the Central for.
wards held. The ball went over to Cen
trail on It's own 2-yard line.
The Central team failed to tackle,
block. or handle the ball properly. while
on the other hand. the Eastern eleven
tackled hard and seldom missed a man.
King played his usual game. carrying
the ball nine-tenths Of the time and sell
dom failing to make the required dis
tance. Outside of King. the Central
team did not shine as was expected.
Stokes was a big disappointment. the
big fellow failing to do any real gain
ing with the ball. while Reeves made
several good plunges through the line.
Smith. Williams, Pope. and Fisher
played good football for Eastern. as did
Eddie McDonough. Reeves. and Carey
for Central. Smith was everywhere on
the defense. breaking up plays and
stopping King. Had II not been for
Smith playing back King would have
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Defense Ia Wide.
Coach -McCaffrey. of Eastern. played
his defense wide. with the backs playing
deep and the line loose. With five men
on the line. Eastern managed to stop
the heavy Central backs time and again.
while the light Blue and White backs
could not gain with any consistency
through the Central line
Where Eastern lost out was in send
ing the backs against the Central line
when an end run would have gained
The Central line held while two out of
the three attempts made to circle the
ends netted good gains, one Of twenty
and another Of fifteen yards. The third
attempt at an end run resulted in a
tumble by Reilly. Had Quarter Back
Wells shot . play around an end instead
OF into a stone wall line. Eastern would
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Central.
The onicials were way of yesterday.
Twice during the game Central had
twelve men on the field. and Referee
Gass should have penalized the o
Streeters. McDonough and Carey. the
Central ends, were off-side many times.
while holding in the line was often SEEN
Eastern should have been penalized sew
eral times for being off-side. and also
q. %cI- l.
High School board should have a head
linesman at every game-one who knows
football and who has the power to in
fiict penalties.
Score in Second Period.
Centrars lone touchdown came in the
second period. Eastern played Central
safe in the first quarter. although the
ball was in Eastern's territory the ma
jority Of the time. In the second Pc
riod. Eastern had the ball in the mid
die Of the field. Williams punted to
Fowler. who brought the ball back Is
yards Reeves fumbled and Hughes fell
on the ball. Central held at this stage
and Williams again punted, Reeves
bringing the ball back 10 yards before
being downed. Eastern was penalized
for holding. and Fowler punted again.
Wells attempted a forward pass. King
Intercepted tHe Ddu ana advanced 10 tne
e5-yard line. Reeves went through the
line for 10 yards, and Stokes gained 5
more. On the next play Central scored
its touchdown. ''Murph" King taking the
ball over. The Central leader missed
goal.
In the third period Eastern took a
brace and pulled several plays which
appeared to have the Central forwards
fooled. Smith went through the line on
a skin tackle play several times. while
Williams tore around right tackle for a
couple Of good runs
Williams advanced to ball to the 2-yard
line in the final period, only to lose 1t on
downs. Instead Of running a back
Ground a Central end. Wells shot his
plays into the line, with the result that
Eastern failed to tie Central. Richards
did good work in this stand Of the o
Streeters. as he stopped Reilly both times
lie started.
After holding Eastern on the 2-yard
line. Central punted out Of danger. East
ern fumbled. and King took the ball for
a gain Of 20 yards on an end run. Gen.
trail fumbled on the goal line and the
final whistle blew. ending the game.
Lineup and summary:
Central Eastern
L. =. Hughes. L. E
L. Bowman, L. 7. Williams. L. T.
Babcock. L. g. Brockwen L. G.
{. Bowman, c. t;reer. Z.
Jones. X. G. Baker. R. G.
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