The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-10-13
High School Boys Crash Through
Lindsay Line and Easily Pile Up
Huge Score in Saturday
Game Here
BIG IMPROVEMENT
SHOWN BY TEAM
Players Working Together as Parts
Of a Reliable Machine and Give
Promise Of Greater Things
in Future

Saturday afternoon, at University
park, before a handful of enthusiasts,
who almost forgot to yell in unison,
Chickasha high school football squad
swamped, buried. entombed and 9th
eiwise covered Lindsay under a score
Of SS 70 0. and that same corporals
guard Of fans went home disappointed
that they didn't make st 100.
OF course the game, as football
games 20. was non est, or speaking IN
real classic terms. was not sitting
there. so absolutely one-sided was the
contest. Practically every effort ON
the part OF Lindsay to score. was
promptly ssf upon and thoroughly
squelcbed by The tearing, smashing
misery dealing Purple and Gold line.
while the backfield. scouting on the
wings. took care OF every puny at
tempt 20 gain an inch around the ends.
AT that. at least three times during
the game, Lindsay stiffened and made
several long gaiEs. while the Chicka-
sha bunch loafed and at one time a
cold chill ran up the spines of the
rooters when touchdown BY Lindsay
seemed imminent. The Lindsay rally
was stopped, however. as promptly as
il was started and their fond visions
OF a tsachdown we're forever blasted
in a succession Of savage charges by
the Chickasha line. that carried the
Lindsay line and backfield off their
feet.
The chickasha attack was a tear
ing. ripping. onslaught Of long pent
up energy loosed. and as a rule tore
through the Lindsay defense as an
avalanche strips the mountainside Of
scrub oak and cedars. During tie
fist half chicksha was especially
Vicious. going after them like demons
and scoring the first touchdown in
two and one half minutes and during
this period, 1iali dozen members Of
the BARBER College" squad walking
up and down the field TO keep pace
with the scrimmage. covered l2f
miles and few rods. as was later
shown by the speedometer on Pat
Murphy'c foot
TO Schwartz and Reeves. for the
visitors. fell practically all the respon-
sibility OF ground gaining, and be u
known that these gentlemen were
bright and shining gems. Reeves is
as slippery as an eel and many fren-
zied Chickasha tackler plunged at the
twinkling legs OF Reeves, bent upon
his immediate destruction, only to en-
field a quantity Of thin air to his breast
and 20 rolling harmlessly away while
the dodging halfback proceeded on his
zag.zag course until pulled down by a
succession OF attacks. Schwartz s
method is different. He takes the ball
under him arm and the bit in his
teeth and charges the line, regardless
OF holes or openings, like a battering
ram of old assailing the sturdy walls
of an ancient castle. Sometimes he
goes through, other times he doesn't
His rush is always the same, and it's
altogether owing to the line.
The faithful assembled, forgot the
one-sided game and the fact that the
exhibition was nothing more than good
still signal practice for the locals, as
they watched the work OF a team thai
is fast becoming rejuvenated. Con
trary to the last exhibition egains'
the Lawton Aggies, there was trace
of the old time pep in evidence; the
same pep that conquered Oklahomi
and Texas, not long since; the same
ginger and determination that hel'
Norman scorelesa last year wheI
through ten long minutes, every ont
OF which seemed an age, the tws
teams battled In the shadow OF Chick
asha's goal posts, II was the sam'
sort Of line that held Norman then
that Lindsay assaulted in the open
ing quarter and was turned back as
wave dashing against a sea wall. !
is only to he regretted that the ginge
did moi last through the entire game