The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-10-21
SUMTER TEAM WINS GAME.
DEFEATS DARLINGTON HIGH
SCHOOL FOOTBALL TEAM
28 TO d.
Hack Field Showed Strong Through
out. While Linc Was Weak ON Of
fcnsivc-Sumtcr Goal Threatened
Only Once During Gamc-Tcam
Plays Charleston Next.


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The Sumter high school football
team on Friday afteroon evened up
old scores and retrieved the defeats
Of the past four years by outplaying
the Darlington boys on the local
grounds and defeating them by the
score OF 2s to o. The game started
on with rush and the spectacular
playing OF the first few minutes
promised the spectators that the
game would be an intensely interest
ing one. However. after those first
few minutes. when the Darlington
boys found that they could not gidn
through the line or around the end
they seemed to give up hope of scor-
Ing and played a defensive game for
the three remaining quarters.
The game opened with Sumter kick
ing to Darlington. Darlington failed
20 gain and kicked. On q forward
pass Smith caught the ball and start
ed out for n touchdown. but was
stopped by Flowers. On the next play
Darlington attempted a forward pass
and Brown Of Sumter caught the ball
Sumter failed to gain and Darling
ton Kicked on the fourth down. re-
covering the ball on tumble. This
wss on the Sumter thirty yard line
ana was the only time the Sumter
goal was threatened. After this the
same was oil In Darlington territory
and the Sumter backs gained repeat
sdly. while the Darlington players re e.
peatedly failed to gain and were
forced to kick.
in the last quarter another spec
tacular play came when Bradham
forced his way through the whole
Darlington team by brilliant broken
neld running and had a clear field
before him. when he stumbled. and
fell. cheating himself Of what ap-
peared to be an easy touchdown. The
ball was taken TO within ten feet of
the Darlington goal line. when on a
tumble the ball was dropped and
Darlington player recovered and made
fifteen yards before he was downed.
A Darlington player was downed with
the ball which he dropped after
he fell TO tho ground and BradhaIn
picked the ball up and carried It over
for touchdown. only to be called back.
- the referee had already blown his
whistle. Darlington failed to gain
and kicked and after making downs
twice. Bradham made brilliant
broken field run OF twenty yards
around left end for touchdown.
During the second quarter a for
ward pass was made from Spann to
Bradham. who caught the ball and
then dropped II as he started to run
with II with free field to goal. Sew
eral times the Sumter team tried the
forward pass. but only once was 1t
worked successfully. Bradham to
Brown. Darlington tried the for
ward pass three times. but failed on
Il every time.
Sumter's scores came In the first
quarter. when the ball had been car
ried to within fifteen yards Of the
goal. when Boyle took the ball on a
fake play and carried 1t over, the
Darlington team b Ing unaware where
the ball was until Boyle had already
made the touchdown. Bradham fail
cd to kick goal. The second touch
down came in the second quarter
when the Sumter team carried the
ball on end runs and straight buck
IT,. from one end of the field to the
other and Boyle took II over for the
second touchdown. Bradham kick
ed goal. In the fourth quarter the
ball wis carried to within twenty
yards of the goal line and the same
fake play on which the first touch
down was made was again worked
successfully and Boyle carried the
ball twenty yards for third touch
down. During the last part of this
quarter this fake was tried again. but
the ball was fumblcd and Darlington
recovered II. A few minutes later
Bradham carried the ball over for the
last touchdown of the game. making
twenty yard run to do II.
The Darlington line showed NJ
strong. and the back field was good
also and ran magnificent intcrfcr-
ence. but II was not equal to the
brilliant defensive game which tho
line and backheld put up. the run
ners being downed repeatedly foi
losses. The interference was ever
better than that OF the sumter tcau