Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-11-01
Chalk Up Another
Win For Ashland

Ashland high school football war
riors have carried the red and white
through another contest and emerged
with goal line uncrossed. Last Fri
day afternoon before record-break-
ing crowd the locals outplayed Klam-
ath Falls in every department of the
game and won out by 20 to score.
From first whistle until the teams
had cheered each other the game was
fast, clean and a great deal more in
teresting than the score would seem
to indicate. klamath Falls was
handicapped by the absence of their
captain and Ashland was minus the
services of the two heavyweight
speed demons, Captain "Climax"
Delsman and "Flos" Young. Despite
the fact that Delsman played the
game from the bleachers, the team
showed a big Improvement in pre-
cision of attack and the defense was
better than ever. The klamath
plays were smothered by fierce
blocking and tackling before they
got under way. Long, Cunningham,
Harrell and, in fact, every man on
the Ashland team has had a meet
them with everything you've got"
idea OF tackling installed in him, and
when an Ashland man met his op-
ponent he met him with the idea of
putting him back
klamath sent over team of which
they may well be proud. Although
outclassed, the klamath Boys fought
every inch OF the way and were
working harder when the score was
big against them than at the first Of
the game. The game was clean, and
it may be said that a more gentle
manly bunch of young fellows have
never played as visitors on Ashland
field.
The Ashland attack showed a YER
satility and power which was ire
sistible. Bentley could always be de-
pended upon for consistent gains
through the line and was on the re-
ceiving end of the prettiest forward
pass of the day. This play, by the
way, shows Fraley to have real
quarterback's head on his shoulders.
With twelve yards to go on the last
down and the ball in a corner OF the
field within fifteen yards of the
klamath goal, Fraley called for a
pass and sent the ball over the line
to Bently. Fraley also showed fine
headwork in his kicking, putting the
ball out of bounds in the klamath
corner time after time. For the ben
eft of the uninitiated let us explain
that had Fraley kicked over the
klamath goal line, the defenders
could bring the ball out to the twen-
ty-yard line, whereas by kicking over
the side lines at the corner the ball
must be put in play even with the
point which it crossed the line. End
runs and off tackle bucks worked
equally we'll for the locals. Better
interference has never been devel-
oped by an Ashland team. Harrell,
the little 120-pound halfback who
took Delsman's place, cut loose with
several exhibitions of open field run
ming which brought the crowd to its
feet. About half of the Ashland for
ward passes were successes.
Ashland's first score was made in !
the first quarter by the pass to Bent
ly. Bently carried over the ball
again in the fourth quarter after |
Ashland linemen had broken through |
and thrown the visitors fullback |
over his own goal for safety. The
last score came when the klamath |
safety muffed a punt and an Ash |
land man fell on the ball back of the
line. Ashland played the ball of
which they are capable after a slight |
over yardage measure
ment in the last period, and scored |
fourteen points in ten minutes. Had |
the locals shown the same pep |
throughout the game it would have
taken a rapid calculator to have kept !
track OF the score. At any rate the I
boys have learned how to put the
fight into the game and fans expect
to see the Medford game started and
carried through with the spirit dis
played by the Ashland team in the
last few minutes of the klamath
game.
Ashland plays Grants Pass in that
city Saturday.
The locals lined up in Fridays
game with Furry, center; Jones and
Winnie, guards; Low and Buck, !
tackles; Cunningham and Long,
ends; Fraley, quarter; Bentley. full
back; Brewer and Harrell, halfbacks.
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