Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-11-06
GRAND RAPIDS
8; la CROSSE D
The Rapids High School Foot
Ball Team Again Covers It.
self With Glory.

The men of the Grand Rapids foo
ball team have reason to be proud ot
themselves and the citizens Of Crane
Rapids have reason to be proud OI
the team. This is the fifth game
played this season and not once has
an opposing team been able to cross
the Rapids goal line.
History repeated itself Saturday
for it was just sixteen years age
that the Grand Rapids high school
foot ball team beat the La Crosse
team at La Crosse six to nothing
History did a little better this time
for it added more points to the
Rapids score.
With Myron Hill, the full back and
one of the best line buckers on the
team suffering with a Charley Horse
and Capt Nash with a bum ankle,
the team went out to gather more
glory.
La Crosse kicked off. By punt
ing on the second down, La Crosse
managed to keep the ball pretty well
in Rapids territory during the first
quarter. Once they got down to the
Rapids five yard line but the Rapids
tightened up and the famous stone
wall stood the shock and stopped the
onward rush of the men from the
Mississippi river That was about
the only time during the entire game
when the Rapids line was in real
danger. While at differenta times
during the game the ball got as far
as the Rapids 20 yard line, and the
spectators held their breath, the
Rapids team never let up in their
heartbreaking work, but speedily
got the ball back out of danger.
Neither team scored in the first
quarter. La Crosse punted frequent
Iy trying to wear out the Rapids.
In the second quarter, the Rapids
rushed the ball down to the La
Crosse 10 yard line and lost it on
downs. La Crosse punted, Myron
Hill caught the punt and ran SO
yards to a touchdown. Hill failed
at goal, score Rapids 6; La Crosse
0. BedIam let loose when the touch
down was made. The first half
closed with the ball in the Rapids
possession on La Crosses 80 yard
line
In the third quarter, the Rapids
worked the ball down to the La
Crosse 25 yard line and Capt. Nash
kicked a field goal. Score: Rapids
8; La Crosse 0.
The La Crosse came out after
the intermfssion With a determination
to do or die, but found the Rapids
team there with the same determine
ton.
Babcock again distinguished him
self by intercepting forward passes.
During the remainder of the game
the ball see-sawed back and forth
up and down the field and was twice
on the Rapids 20 yard line. That q
ward line, seemed to be a stone wall
which La Crosse could not cross LA
The game was closely contested
and the teams very evenly matched
The La Crosse team opened up q
bundle of tricks, but after the first
quarter, the Rapids men called every
one and worked a few themselves
Shellhammer played a beautiful game
at center and the same can be said
for every man on the team. The
playing was not as spectacular as
was the work in the Manawa game
The teams playing straight foot bal
almost entire. There were not tht
brilliant end runs, quarter bach
runs and end runs by the half backs
but while all this spectacular wori
was missing, there was the othe
kind. which filled the hearts of th'
old foot ball men with gladness.
The summing up of the whyfore l
that the Rapids team was just a Iii
tie better than the La Crosse team
and they outplayed and outgame
the men from the Big River city
The La Crosse backs We're goo
ground gamers through a broke
field. At one time, one La Cross
back made three yards with one RAJ
ids man wrapped around his lei
leg and another pulling at his wais
Hin and Nash did the scorin
and consequently were more IN ID
lime-light than the others, but thef
wasn't a man on the team 5r
what played high class game
foot ball and who showde the fines
kind Of nerve and grit. The battl
was the hardest fought on the loc;
grounds this year.
There was quite a good sized croS
ont and there was some good lust
yelling when Hill went over for tn
touchdown and when Nash kicke
the field goal
Nash showed graet generalship
running the team and pulled off h
plays fast and with a versatility
that brought home the bacon.
In the morning of the game, Il
Lacrosse players remarked tn
they had an open date and came l
here for little practice game. Th'
got it-right where the chicken g
the ak.
After the game the La Cros
coach told the local officials tn
they were we'll pleased with the tr'
ment they received here and alt
they were sorry that they had lt
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