The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-27
FAIRFIELD BEATS
kEOkUk 4 TO 0.
Superior Weight Of Visitors Coupled
With Poor Offensive Work Of
keokuk Gives Fairfield the
Game.
VISITORS SCORE EARLY
VISITORS SCORE EARLY
Fighting Against Seemingly over
wheImins Odds, keokuk Holds
Team scoreless for Three
Periods.

caused by too much hard scrimmage
work and showing the i'll effects Oh
over-confidence, Keokuk high bowed
to the superior work of the Fairfield
high school in one of the hardest
fought games of the year at Hubin-
ger park yesterday afternoon. The
final score was fourteen to nothing,
both Fairfield's scores coming in the
first fifteen minutes of play.
Outweighing the local school by
almost twenty pounds per man, the
first quarter saw the visiting team, by
a series of line plunges, take the bali
down the field almost at will. Both
touchdowns were the result or
straight football and goal was kick
ed each time.
The last three quarters were decid
eddy in Keokuk's favor although the
Fairfield team had many chances to
score For forty-fiye minutes Captain
into the Keokuk line, only to have the
light line hold them back by virtue
OF the iron hearts that developed on
the Keokuk side of the line, though
! fignting against almost Overwhelming
Odds Almost every down saw one
OF the Keokuk men laid out, but the
cheers of the side line and the cease
less begging of Captain Devero for
the regulars to stay in the game and
fight for the glory of X. H. S. brougn,
them back into their accustomed
places, hardly knowing what they did.
Fairfield showed an imposing front
when they appeared on the field and
caused sinking feeling in the bosom
of every Keokuk rooter by their bulk
and evident thirst for gore. They
were fast in their first quarter but
the stout-heartednes of the local
team caused them much uneasiness
after the first quarter and they weak
ened visibly.
The offensive work OF Keokuk was
the poorest that they have shown this
season, the backfield forming no in
reference at all and the linemen
showing disposition to lay down
and rest instead of getting into the
play. Individually, Keokuk presented
great front, but in working togeth-
er they showed that the confidence
gained by being able to go through
opposing lines and open field in pre-
vious games was proving costly.
Heineman and Deyero led in carrying
the ball and McGrath and Elder ccuro
have worked well had the interfer-
ence been such as to give them a
start, but they were generally down
ed before they had a chance to get
a good hold on the ball. Mckenzie
and Huiskamp had trouble handling
their men at the ends of the line and
allowed their opponents to stop many
plays before they We're we'll started.
In defensive work, Devero and
Heineman, ably assisted by their part
ners of the backfield starred while
Pechstein proved himself world OF
strength in stopping the terrific
plunges of the Fairfield backs and
holding hard when the line was in
danger.
McGrath and Elder showed the
poorest form of the season owing to
the fact that each had learned too
ncuh to depend upon the perfect in
reference that has been given them
heretofore.
Fairfield high, by virtue of their
win over Keokuk is now in direct
line for the state championship and
If the work shown here is KEEP UP
there seems to be a good chance OF
them getting away with the title Dur
ing the last quarter, however, they
weakened SO Keokuk had little trou
Bile in gaining. ground through the
line and had Captain Devero started
throwing his strength in that direc
ton little sooner might possibl,
have scored on the visitors. Conslo
ering the handicap the local schoo
was playing under, though, not one
of the spectators who saw the game
have anything but the heartiest praise
for the team. Weight and condition
We're not to be overcome by the lion
hearted *" men, and there is M
question but that the best team won