The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-10-31
Heavy Shawnee Lads Go Home
with Victory Game Holly Con-
tested from Start to Finish
Final Score 20 to 7
HILL FEATURES AS
| JHICKASHA STAR
Diminutive Left End Comes Out
Of Battle Covered with Glory
Great Defensive Game
Played

Fighting like tigers, splitting rough
tactics fifty-fifty with their opponents.
though crushed by superior weight,
the Chickasha high school football
team was defeated yesterday on the
University park gridiron by Shawnee
20 to Z, the score in no wise even sug-
costing the closeness of the struggle
or the heroic battle waged against odds
by the locals.
Only one other game in the history
of football in Chickasha is recorded
as greater battle, more gamely
fought, more interesting and produc-
tive of greater thrills than was the
contest Of yesterday. The lone in
stance was the memorable Chickasha-
Norman game in which the former
came off victor by to score.
In the opening moments of play,
Chickasha was swept off their feet by
the beef Of the opponents, but came
back gamely, carried the scrap into
hostile territory and Kept it there dur
ing the remainder of the first half. The
last half was divided about equally as
TO honors. though Shawnee made two
touchdowns to Chickshas one. during
that period.
Hill a Star
q
flashed trump ON the whole world
in the person of Bullet Joe Bush At
another time. likewise In worlds
series. Hugh Bedient flashed forth
from obscurity and shone as star.
More remote yet is the instance of
tow-headed third baseman in the White
Sox-Cubs series who brought home the
bacon for the White Sox, thereby CHS
cling his name in the hall of fame.
These instances are far away and OF
another department of sports realm.
but they serve as illustrations of how
a star, unheralded burst forth yester-
day in the Chickasha-Shawnee game,
causing the lights of other plyers to
flicker dimly like a candle compared
with an arc light. That star was ].
B. Hill, left end for Chickasha.
Scott Shannon, B. Cochran, Ram"
Harvey, Pete Heffner and others have
been rightfully dubbed stars for their
performances on the local gridiron.
vet they in no wise stand out like the
brilliance of the diminutiye HILL Re-
sponsible for such spectacular work is
the fact that it came unexpected, yet
it was there, not to be disputed. Hill
was in every play. Wherever the ball
went there was Hill All looked alike
to him, large or small and it was con-
servatively said that he made so per
cent of the tackles made by the Chick
asha team A greater defensive game
was never played on the Chickasha
field. Also he was there on forward
passes and to him is due in great
measure the lone Chickasha touch
down. He plucked a forward pass
from the very arms of trio of Shaw
nee men and was downed inside Shaw
nees five yard line A moment later
a forward pass, Pool to Heffner, scor-
ed the touchdown.
Shawnee Registers EARLY.
| Shawnee kicked off and Goetting
was downed on the S5-yard line. Chick
ashaw as forced to kick. On Shaw
nee's second attempt, Pace, left half,
was tackled by Whitaker and put out
of the game with fractured wrist, be-
ing replaced by Page. -Four minutes
later Fullback Hicks went over for q
touchdown. Higgins kicked goal.
Chickasha kicked off, recovered the
| ball in Shawnee territory and was
stopped on the 5-yard line. From the
moment Of the first touchdown, the
/ Chickasha team stiffened perceptibly,
carried the fight in the Shawnee beef
and kept 1t there until the close Of the
piece. The first quarter ended with
the ball in Chickasha's possession. in
side Shawnee's 5-yard line At tine
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