Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-10
GRANTS PASS HEASHEAND H.S.
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forward passes and line bucks which
carried Grants Pass off their fee
Ashland finally came within strikin.
distance of the valley boys goal lin,
and successful forward pass, Spen
Ger to Lilly, turned the trick and net
ted the visitors their first score
Delsman failed to kick score by 4;
narrow margin and Ashland agail
kicked off, this time to Cornell, whc
ran the ball back for good distance
Spencer kept the good work going by
making several successful passes tc
both sides of the field, and when the
ball finally did go to the river team
on a punt Bill Holmes showed the
right spirit and nailed his man in his
tracks. Grants Pass then proceedc 1
to get down to business and made
gains on forward passes and line
bucks before time was called for the
quarter.
When the second quarter COM
menccd with the ball in G. P. terri
tory a battle for the pfgskin began,
and after several successful passes
the ball was rushed over close to the
Ashland goal. Ashland regaineJ the
ball on a tumble and Wallace puntod,
sending the ball to the other end of
the field. On the next play Garner
fumbled high pass from center and
the ball rolled nearly to the Grants
Pass goal, only to be run back sew
eral yards by Cornell, the northern
ers losing about 20 yards on the play.
Grants Pass worked successful pass,
Garner to Hansen, but Captain Gar
rett of the Ashland hopes promptly
braced his bulk against one of the
Grants Pass backs for big loss on
an end run play, "Ole" Hansen
again saved the home teams bacon
by pulling down a beautiful forward
pass on the fourth down.
Garner made yardage on an end
run, but the Ashland line held the
next two plays and the riverside team
pulled off a triple pass, a double.
back pass followed by a forward
pass, Cornell to Bixby to Garner to
Blake, Grants Pass ran the ball up
quite close to the Ashland line by
short bucks and end runs and sue
cessfully worked a fake place kick
which resulted in forward pass.
regained the ball on FUN
BILE and soon after the referee nearly
caused riot by threatening to put
Captain Ding out of the game for
a flying tackle!
The last half of the game was fast
and scrappy and the bali went from
one end of the field to the other till
finally the Grants Pass backs worked
the ball within Is yards of the ASH
land goal, when Bixby through a SUI
perhuman effort plunged around the
end of the line and safely crossed
the goal amid the frantic cheers of
one of the biggest crowds ever gath
cred to witness a game in Grants
Pass. Garner failed at goal and
Grants Pass kicked to Ashland. Ash
land sprung a queer looking forma-
ton on the valley boys and Spencer
gained 20 yards on the play, only to
be greeted by the sound of the final
The Ashland team lined up as fol-
lows: Holmes, right end; Garrett,
right tackle; Cummings, right guard;
Frame, center; Ashcraft, left guard;
Freeman, left tackle; Anderson, left
end; Lilly, quarterback; Spencer, left
Wallace, right halfback;
and Delsman, fullback. Substitutes;
Merrill for Cummings, Withrow for
Freeman, Hams for Anderson, Free
man for Withrow, Cummings for Mer-
rill, Anderson for Haines.