The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-11-11
Coach. Team and Crowd Unite in
Brutal Treatment of Visit
ing Team
iScore lotto in RedwOOds Favor;
Players Brought Home Big
gest Victory of Season
Plans Made to Play Madison Satur-
day; Hopes High for Fair
and Square Game
(By Sporting Editor


Sherman's definition of war fits
properly in a description of the foot
ball game played at St. James last
Saturday.
On one side fought the Redwood
Falls boys, like demons, but fighting
fair and square; on the other side
scrapped the ST. James boys, openly
nervy but sneakingly and cowardly
using fist, boot, teeth and finger nails
to gain advantages, and their crowd
backed them up insulting language,
raving and bowling like ten thousand
devils.
To put it mildly St. James as a
football town, from the standpoint
of its crowd, it's players and its coach
is nothing short of ROTTEN!
First Quarter
The game started about 1890 Sat
urday morning as an accommodation
to allow the Redwood Boys opport 4
nitv to get home in the afterno in.
st. James won the toss and received
the kick off. After making their
downs twice they surrendered the
ball to Redwood. One smash after
another with forward pass and a
smash by Had Meyers gave Redwood
Falls its first touchdown. An attempt
at goal failed. This touchdown was
a bitter pill for ST. James as it marked
the first time their goal had been
crossed this season.
Second Quarter
In the second quarter st. James
took the ball up the field and were
held three yards from the goal for
four downs. Redwood Falls was fight
ing hard for a victorious existence.
After this repulse, Art Reynolds on
a short end run and behind good in
reference made a magnificent run
of ninety yards for second touch
down. Immediately the st. James
crowd, coach and team got together
"a series of complaints to protest this
touchdown. The ball had been declared
dead when behind the goal posts, and
y although much argument was INDUCED
in, the decision was unreversed. Red
wood Falls did not even attempt to
kick goal.
At this point arises the contest over
the IL to 6 score. The play was run
off fair and square, and st. James
knew it, but with their woeful lack
of decent craftsmanship, hated to
admit defeat to better team. They
became so threatening in their atti-
tude, that at the time to have said
more about the touchdown or to kick
goal would have precipitated free
for all fight.
Fourth Quarter
In the fourth quarter st. James
stole the ball on a supposed tumble
and by fierce playing smashed down
the field thirty yards for touchdown.
They failed to punt out, but had won
deservedly their six points, for with
the ball a foot from the goal, they
barely pushed it over on the fourth
down.
The game ended with the ball in
the hands of st. James for the first
down on their own 20 yard line. An
4attempt by Redwood Falls to make
forward pass had failed on the
fourth down because the crowd had
covered up our ends.
Condemns Crowd and Coach
1t is hard thing to believe that
a crowd could be so absolutely devoid
of craftsmanship. They were on the
field constantly interfering with both
teams
A decent civil request to their
coach, high school man of supposed
honorable reputation, to keep the
i crowd back met at first with only half
hearted efforts and finally with no
effort at all. In fact he sneaked out
on the field with his crowd and was
caught twice coaching his team.
A similar request to the superinten-
dent of the schools was turned down
fiat when he simply, Every simply
said that the crowd did not seem to
'be interfering. True it wasl They
never made a tackle or directly blocked
q runner!
Team A Credit
Redwood Falls boys realized the
seriousness of the situation and took
the imposed unfairness without an