Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-25
Coaches Driving Rival Elevens
Hard for Annual Clash
Thanksgiving Day.
BOTH IN GOOD CONDITION
Railway, by Post-Season Bat
tie With RoseIIe, Could Def
initeIy Settle Discussion.

Another light practise tomorrow and
the football teams of Barringer High
School and East Orange High School
VIII be in readiness for the annual
thanksgiving Day grapple, upon the
outcome of which depends the New
Jersey Interscholastic football cham
pionship. East Orange, as a result of
Saturdays victory over Railway, is O
fayorite, but Barringer teams have
faced greater odds and have come out
victorious. East Orange quashed
Railway in a most decisive manner,
but the lineup with which the subur-
banites accomplished the defeat bears
more relation to the Barringer game
than does the mere fact of Railways
downfall. Roper. Fitzsimmons, Bren-
tano and Taylor were out half Of the
game, while Fischer did not get in at
all. Meeteer, Bloss and Reynolds took
the places left vacant by the battered
regulars, and more than capably filled
them. Bloss was the principal factor
in the Red and Blues REGENERATION.
The star of the scrubs proved to be
irresistible in his slSirting of the Rah-
way ends. Reynolds was equally as
good in his ploughing up of the Rah-
way line. Prentlss, Farrar and Braun
kept their states clean In so far as no
great gains were made around the po-
sition. The substitutes entered the
game when the team was in the rear.
The big Railway eleven had simply
almost to the East Orange secondary
defense on every play throughout the
first half, the line failing to hold the
hard plunging of the Crimson-clad
backs. Two touchdowns had resulted
from the stiff line bucking tactics of
the Union county team, which seemed
to outclass the Red and Blue
Roper's Work stands Out.
East Oranges lone touchdown had
been the result of Roper's individual
play, in which he literally fought his
way alone for fifty yards f1inging on
one Railway tackler after another.
In the second half that scrub back
field slammed over the touchdown
that won out and when the limp
ing regulars returned to the game
In the final period, their work had
been done. However, this did not pre-
vent Fitzsimmons from shooting over
for another score to which Schwartz
kopf added the extra point in his
third successful attempt from goal
from touchdown. 1t is the unexpected
calibre of the second string backfield
at East Orange that is said to
have put a further crfmp in the al
ready dubious outlook of the local
school. Captain Andrew Dempsey, OF
the Barringer team, is probably
more versatile ground gamer than
any one back in the East Orange
lineup, for he can run the ENDS,
scamper through the broken field or
plunge the line with equal result; but
there the local advantage ends, as
the suburban backfield, as a whole,
far outclasses the Ridge street scor-
ing machine Seller and GARDENER
are both this years recruits ana
while the former has had several
yeare of scrub experience neither mas
vet acquired the instinct of the game
sufficiently to be in a class with those
behind the line at East Orange.
Schneider and Brandeis, of Barringer,
also suffer in comparison. Barringer
will suffer upon every exchange OF
, kicks, unless Foster, the Blue ana
White quarterback, improves mar
velously.
Foster Must Improve.
Fosters work at handling the punts
to date has been miserable. In al
most every game he has made errors
in Judgment of flight that have or
would have resulted disastrousfy mad
the other team been quick to seize
the rolling ball Dempsey could
handle the kicks, but he is needed to
reinforce the line on the defense.
East Oranges well-known ability to
run the ends will serve as a test Tor
the Branch Brook school ends. At
times the green extremes or the Bar
ringer eleven have shown unexpected
flashes of ability. Thursdays game
!. will give them the opportunity to
demonstrate whether or not these
inlxlings of form were accidents. The
team will be without the services of
Schaaf at the extreme, the greater
part of the game, as the shift of the
lanky Barringerite deteriorates the
line to great extent. He Is consider
ed of far more value as tackle.
Coach Broadhead evidently thinks
that there is much to be done before
the lineup on Thanksgiving Day, as
he put the squad through the stlnest
of practises yesterday in the face OF
n sleety storm behind closed gates
at Academy Field.
Old Guard Sends encouragement.
The "Old Guard" of Barringer are
beginning to send in messages to Cap
tain Andrew Dempsey, the leader Of
the Barringer football squad. Among
the letters received by the Blue and
White capatin is one from Ray Ward,
the Brown University linesman.
Ward sends his best wishes for the
success of the school that he repre-
scented in bygone days on the grid
iron and pleads for every man on the
team to grit his teeth and fight for a
victory on Thanksgiving Day. Bet
ter eleven men who are fighters than
u team with a few individual stars
is the further sentiment Of the for
mer all-scholastic tackle. Among the
other messages is one from Gush
Tobelman, the swimmer, and George
Williamson, another former Barrfn-
gerite.