The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-21
keokuk High is Playing Faster Foot
ball Thar Any Team That Has
Appeared Here This
Season.
OPPONENTS OUTWEIGH
Although outweIshed by Several
Pounds In Each Game, the Lo-
cal Boys Speed Has Given
Them Victory.

II Keokuk high keeps improving
during the next few weeks as it has
in the last three, they should expert
ence no troyble in having the fastest
team that has ever represented the
purple and white. A total of fifty
points have been run up against their
opponents nothing ano Burlington
has been held to a tie score of moth
ing to nothing.
The Hawkeye team has always been
considered one of Keokuk's most for
midable foes and that they were
able to hold them to blank score in
the first game of the season speaks
well for their ability.
Every team that the Keokuk boys
have met has been much heavier
than the local school and every man
on the team has outplayed his oppo-
nent in each game. The lack of
weight in the team seems to be off
: set by the fact that each man is on
top of every play and their speed in
getting down the field more than
makes up for inability to stop mass
formations.
The Keokuk line holds far better
than any team they have met so far
and the backfield Is far faster and
quicker in getting into the plays. The
straight backfield formation gives all
the men an opportunity to form quick
interference and start the instant the
ball is snapped. This was especially
noticeable in the Memphis and Quincy
games when the Keokuk backs sci
dom failed to make good gains by
straight football while the Other
teams were often downed before the
play was started.
Pechstein is making name fol
himself at center this year by hi!
great work on defensive football
tearing holes through the opposin!
line for getting at the backs and hold
ing his line partners steady whel
4 they seem to. be weakening.
Drummond and aDimond are maxim!
the latter is erratic and is often tn
weak SPOT in the line. He is gradu
ally overcoming this difficulty thong
and will no doubt prove a tower G
strength to the team before the ses
son ends. Ackerson and Sitter ar
both star tackles and 1t is doubtfu
il there are two better in any of tn
state high schools.
Mckenzie far outclasses Huiskam
at end, principally for the reason the
the latter does not get into the play
as his fellow linesman does Man
plays go through him that could ca
lily be stopped If he would put h
mind on football. There is no reasc
why he should not be able to play
star game and no doubt he will if tt
coach will get after him and sta
him into the plays.
McGrath, at right half, is the figh
er on the team and is willing at q
times to risk hard fall to adyant
the ball foot or 80. With fiftee
Or twenty pounds more weight,
would have no trouble in making ;
all-high school team. His work h
been bewildering TO the opponents
X. H. S. this year and is steadily il
proving.
Captain Jesse Devore, at left full,
caring for the team as well, if not b,
ter than any other man who captai
ed the local team. His wisdom
running the team and his uncanl
power of detecting weak places in t
opposing line has been responsible I
the success Of the Keokuk high in t
last two games. Besides this, /