The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-11-11
FINE GAME OF FOOTBALL
OCala Tied the Score With the Sec
Ond Team from the
University

Everybody that went out TO the
fair grounds Monday afternoon saw
a fine game between the Ocala foot
ball team and the second team of the
Florida University.
1t was such a good game that it
was doubly to be regretted that there
more than $50 were present. and the
Star fears that from a financial
standpoint the game was a failure,
which must be discouraging to our
boys after working so hard at their
practice and putting up such a fine
game.
The Gainesville team was made up
OF a fine-loOking crowd of young
men, not very heavy in build but all
active and wise to every move OF the
game. They behaved as we'll as they
looked. They had one great advant-
age of the Ocala team, in their SD
perior opportunity for practice. and
it would not have been strange if
they had won the game by a good
score. 1t was sheer, logged pluck
on the part OF Ocala that matched
their superior opportunities.
Ocala, =: Gainesville. +.
The score stood TO I. This game
was without a doubt the prettiest
exhibition of football ever shown in
Ocala.
Ocala received the kick at the
south goal and returned the ball ff-
teen yards. After making their dis
lance once they were forced to kick
Then it was that the Scrubs found
that they would have TO fight every
inch OF the way if they were to make
any showing at all. After making
down, the Scrubs had to kick, and it
was nip and tuck through the first
quarter, neither side having any ad-
vantage
In the second quarter the Scrubs
showed their best form and after
Ocala had been penalized twice they
completed beautiful forward pass
which Melted them a gain of twenty
yards, putting the ball on the two
yard line. A line plunge and the
ball was almost on the goal line
Using their heaviest men in another
line plunge the Scrubs forced the
ball across for the first touchdown
of the game. The captain Of the
Scrubs kicked out to Quarterback
Ramesdall, who made a pretty catch
directly in front of the goal posts. 1t
was very easy for the full-back to
kick goal, making the score seven to
nothing in favor Of the Scrubs. The
quarter ended in two minutes with
the score unchanged.
The second half started with a
rush, Ocala showing a determination
to even the score if not to better it.
After a few fast plays in which
neither side gained any advantage,
| Captain Davis called Pat Anderson
| into the back field and he went on
the line. The play that followed
was the prettiest of the game. 1t
tied the score. Anderson and George
| Davis worked a double pass, making
t a thirty-yard pass to Capt. Davis,
which he caught on the run and car
ried for fifty yards for a touchdown.
! Davis kicked goal and the score was
! tied, amid the cheers and yells Of the
crowd. Capt. Davis was lifted on
the shoulders of his fellow players
and carried half the length of the
! field, while every one present APP
plauded him for his beautiful play.
No time was taken between the
| third and fourth quarters. as it was
rapidly getting dark. Ocala hit the
! Scrubs with a rush in the last quar-
! ter ana had started we'll on the way
/ for another touchdown when the ball
was lost on tumble and the Scrubs
kicked il down the field. Bitch then
pulled off a pretty play when he
caught the kau ana ran it back over
+ fifty var3s, putting it FIVE Yards he
yoDi where the Scrubs nnnCal. This
looked like another touchdown for
Ocala. but the hall was lost on an
other tumble. The last OF the quar-
ter was played in the middle Of the
field with each team using its best
plays and resulted in TO advantage
for either side. Thus the game end