Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-03
MEDFORD
VERY EASY
LOCAL FOOTBALL TEAM HAD
WALKAWAY SATURDAY.
SCORE OF "A TO 0 TELLS TALE
Ashland Team Held the Ball Almost
at Will and Raced II Up and Down
the Field Almost at Their Good
Pleasure.

The Ashland high school football
team went into the game with the
rival Medford high aggregation Sat
urday afternoon with the do or die
spirit and as a result carried away
the honors in grand style, wauopfng
the visitors to the tune of Al to D.
one of the worst beatings ever given
a Medford team by Ashland boys
The local knights of the gridfroa
were in splendid trim after one OF
the hardest weeks of practice held
this season, and from the beginning
of the game put up such a fight that
! they were not to be denied the rights
of victors. The roofing and singing
were full of spirit and put life into
the crowd as well asSthe team and
encouraged them to send forth such
shout and clamor when the first
touchdown was scored that the walls
of Medford itself must have been
shaken.
The whole Ashland team played
like tigers and with the possibility of
grand victory in sight they would
not be stopped until the final whistle
blew. The line plunging of Wallace.
Delsman and Spencer was particular
ly feature and Captain Garrett was
there" when 1t came to opening
holes in the Medford line. Lilly, as
usual, played good game at safety
and ran the punts back with such
speed and cunning that the northern
ers might as well have tried to catch
an eel. The line men also deserve
their credit for holding the Medford
ohslaughts and blocking the kicks of
the opposing backs.
AS to Medford, they certainly can
not be denied unlimited credit for
/ their gameness in fighting all the
time when they knew it was losing
fight, and their goodnatured manner
is receiving their defeat. Pelouse.
at left end, and Brown in the back
field both played a good game as did
others in the Medford lineup, but the
home boys were simply too much.
Wallace kicked off to Pelouse and
the ball was carried back about l 5
yards before being stopped. The
first quarter was finally called after
the ball had zigzagged up and down
the field several times, the pigskin
being in Medford's territory the
greater part of the time. But in the
second period the Ashland fighting
spirit came to the front and they
rushed the ball, by means of line
bucks and forward passes, over theil,
opponents goal line for two success
i've touchdowns, to the great delight
of the many Ashland supporters.
The last half of the game Medford
barely held the ball and Ashland ran
the oval up and down the field at
will with the Medford line tagging
along behind, fighting all the time
but outclassed by the superior work
( of the Ashland backfield. The only
way Medford could gain at all was
through the use of the forward pass
play, and after while the local ends
broke them up as fast as they were
tried. The total score for the second
half was five touchdowns and two
goals, the latter being kicked by
Delsman with such powerful force
that the ball travelled far into the ag-
ricultural field before being recov-
cred.
The team plays at Grants Pass the
coming Saturday and then comes
back to battle with the husky Klam
ath warriors who held the Ashland
boys to to score in we'll
played game at Klamath Falls two
weeks ago.
The Ashland team was greatly
crippled by the absences of Shinn and
Gravy Plymate from the lineup.