The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-10-15
ADMIT LUCK WAS
A Big FEATURE
GRAND FORKS TIMES SAYS FARGO
HIGH SCHOOL PUT UP ONE OF
THE FINEST BATTLES EVER
PLAYED IN STATE - Loss OF
BERNER HURT.

That luck and the loss of Berner
early in the game played a big part
in enabling Grand Forks to win over
Fargo high school is admitted by The
Grand Forks Times, That paper says
0f the game:
1t was a combat that will go down
in the annals of high school football
history in North Dakota as n of the
nook of the LAND of champion wheat
crops and prosperity.
The locals won the, game principal
~ through the courageous playing or
one bright, b~lack-eyed ha1fback named
Ferguson, a tongue flashing admins
tered by a slim coach called Okeefe
after the first half had been staged
and because a certain me OF luck
~hobnobbed with the home guards at
certain opportune moments when the
visitors should have been, cavorting
toward the enemies goal line with the
ball securely in their possession.
To say that Grand Forks ran away
with Fargo would be f~aIsifying in the
first degree. The boys from the gate
city put up a tough fight from begin
ming to end The score shows that the
battle was keenly contested by both
teams. 5
IN the first two periods OF the game
Grand Forks made a decidedly poor
showing. Time and time again the
Fargo ends and linesmen broke up
plays that should have meant gains
for the home team. At one stage OF
the opening it looked as though the
| Grand Forks line would go to pieces
and the visitors would have an easy
time of it. The Fargo tackles and
guards smashed up everything for
awhile. The crowd was hoping that
the visitors would not get control OF
tain that they would walk down the
field IL they ever got started.
Luck, with Forks.
Old man Luck was kind to the Forks
in this time of dire distress, however,
and what seemed certain defeat was
turned into another chance to make
good.
Fargo's chances at winning the game
were given a severe blow in the earliest
stages of the conflict, when Captain
Berner received a Jolt on his nasal
organ that nearly put him out of COM
! mission for the remainder OF the game.
You can say what you please, but this
bat at the beginning placed the gate
city leader on wobbly pins FOR the rest
The first half OF the game ended with
no score and at the conclusion OF the
initial periods the locals were given as
good q tongue spanking as ever a
football team had to stand for. March
ing his men to the side1ines, Coach
O,Keefe went at them tooth and nail
He called them boobs. Accused some
of the players of having cold feet and
asked them for the love Of their sisters
and their cousins and their uncles and
their aunts, IL for nobody else, to get
into the game in the next period and
play football with a big r. Doc
OKeefe's lecture was a classic. Every
word was a sarcastic swat. Each sen-
tence was covered with pepper an inch
thick. In the few minutes that the
coach handed out his rebuke he did
more To win the game than anything
1 else that happened on saturday, aside
1 from the star work OF Ferguson, and
when the Grand Forks eleven returned
TO the firing line, Fargo was pitted
1 against a different team; an eleven
that showed IN every move that II
would win the battle or commit hari