Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-22
BARRTNCER NOW OPTIMISTIC:
WILL OUTWEIGH EAST ORANGE
Thousands Will See Annual
Thanksgiving Day GrappIe
Between Rival Schools.
TO BE THIRTEENTH CLASH
Local Eleven Has Won Four,
Suburbans Seven and One
Battle Was Tie.

Ashland Field will once more be
the Mecca of thousands of scholastic
football enthusiasts on Thanksgiving
Day. At II o'clock noon Barringer
and East Orange will line up for the
start of the thirteenth annual
grapple of the two schools. AS has
invariably been the case, Thurs
days conflict will be for the football
championship of the New Jersey In
,terscholastic League. Both the Blue
and White and the Red and Blue have
succeeded in eliminating Stevens
School and Montclair High in the
preliminary circuit of the league.
East Orange tops the local school
in the matter of games won in the
past twelve years. The suburbanites
have seven victories to their credit,
while the Barringerites have won but
four. In 1911 the annual contest re-
suited in a 0 to tie. Though East
. Orange leads in the total of victories,
to the Ridge Street School belongs
the honor of having tailed the great
est single score of the series. The
local eleven in 1905, under the guild
sance of Faculty Adviser William
Johnson, piled up total of 81 points
to East Oranges o. Mr.. Johnson was
induced to coach the team, as the
regular coach engaged for the season
did not put in an appearance. The
coach introduced several of the plays
acquired at his alma mater, Har-
ward, and the eleven romped away
with everything in the scholastic
district
Barringer has scored the greatest
number of points since the Inaugural
ton of play between the two rivals.
The Branch Brook school has total
of liz points credited against East
Oranges no. Since the control of the
Broadhead regime at the Ridge street
Institution the local teams have made
more consistent showing against
the suburban school. In 1910 Broad
heads charges handed a 16 to 0 de-
feat to the Red and Blue. The fol-
lowing year to tie resulted.
while last fall an East Orange touch
down beat a Barringer goal from the
field the score being to 8.
Both Barringer and East Orange
have met with disaster to date. East
aOrange has fallen down completely
when battling with the prep schools
of the State. Princeton prep was the
first to cause doubt as to the class
of the suburban team. The Tiger
props, which were a 81 to victim last
fall, surprised the suburbanites with
the short end of an to 6 score. Ped
die, which was a newcomer on the
Red and Blue schedule, overwhelmed
the 1912 N, ]. /. A. A. champions with
a score of 81 to 0. The same team
had difficulty in disposing of the Bar
ringerites to the tune of q to 0.
!, Barringer has much the worse rec
ord. Lawrenceville trounced the To-
calls 20 to 0, Railway put over a IA
to win, Cornell Freshmen recorded
I. a AZ to tally and Central High School
tied to 6. In sharp contrast to the
last named was the suburban teams
showing against the Wiener lads,
whom it defeated by a score of 3e
to 0. East orange also yanquished
Manual Training High School of
Brooklyn % to 6, Newark Academy
IS to and East Orange Alumni ~
10 IS. In the race for the New Jersey
Interscholastic League championship
East Orange defeated Montclair High
School "a to and Stevens Prep S5
TO 0 in comparison to the bare Bar
Finger wins of 10 to and 35 to 0. re-
Bpectively.
Before the Peddie-East Orange
game there were few that would have
given a picayune for the Barringer
prospects of victory. The 81 to D
defeat of the suburbanites upset all
of the dopesters' stock, and the Blue
s;end White end took an optimistic
point of view. 1t is said In defense of
the East Orange team that the Ped
die team was a much improved elev-
EN-. This may be so, but hardly 10
point improvement, assuming that the
teams are equal in strength East
Orange had very little opportunity
to cut loose with the much-vaunted
open play offense. Peddie monopo-
lized the offensive play, East Orange
making but one first down during the
entire game. Barringer's ends are
,feputed to be the weak spots of the
team. II such Is the case East Or
ange will be able to use this defect
TO its greatest advantage, as the forte
of the light Red and Blue backfield
rs the speedy skirting of the ex-
@tremes.