The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-07
KirksUilLe Had Great
Team, Bat it Met
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The RsEksTaIz A1ga seasoI football
team from The Ez- ca .slugIes of Ms
sour aessatad Eeokuz atgh . 70 o
yasferfa- afternoon III the E1oIfssL,
wcCsEest and widest game of TIE
rear here brtr considering the coE-
tsgg fro11 the angle Of what the T'sf-
torS shoaid have done. with their VT
erzn 54aad berry EacEaeEd and Er.s
and Tremendous organization and
fighting s5gri-- u1oss az the glory og
the 6zy zoes 70 Eeck5L
The sraaUne9s o. r1z score st-zs-s
the great fight pat up by rEe Purple
and VTa.es, which wzs horelessiy out~
weighed TIE Es-EsTIEe tam has
played together Eor Ehre@ years. vale
the local aqnad Is composed % 1-ze-
tlezIfT al Is1 members and a. ne
Eegfrnfrz o. the zzue Il appeared AZ
y II wzs going 70 - 2 rogt for the
locals.
RsoE1k Eas notGcea5ly nervous dur
fr1 me 4rss zftsen 1liH1tes Of play
ard tIse vls-.ora z.e-e abIe TO annex
ten points that tae5 7ecggd neTer have
made later IN the game WHEN the
KeckEk fighting machine was going
fasf force ~ the start the visitors
5Gougae9 through Reokuk's line 81
VIII. b1g IN few minutes the local
players hzd aeryed themselves 20 the
assault ard thea star1es on the o-ea~
stTe.
r5t Store Wsa,
For the greater part II the game
RfrksgEEe wzs hitting 4 stone wall.
Great tackIes By almost eTery one oE
The local plsyers cat OF gains time
ard tEaae again and c1 many plays the
visitors fosr gr5Bnd TIE greatest eZ~
hf3Ssfoz og al Tss -hen 1t the end O.
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tfe sourTh. EeokIE Eef6 E.rkEvfIIe
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Bo5 DURHAM. ez5tztz ard Iett half
cf R5-zzVifJe, ras the pecp5esr player
II tae day ard pat up 4 really bril-
liant game II h had start, Ee
was good for q king gain ard he had
ez1elIent interference alrSost all Of
the time, Dus gs-!xsgE:le's line could
not Keep out the ReoEBk tacklers and
Durham hit the duet where he started
more times than he broke away,
Or.arter Back Shepherd was another
Rfrks7flIe star, Shepherd vas lighter
AMI quicker than Durham and az the
erftlca1 t,raes It was he who carried
the ball
The Klrkzvfle team WORKED a. one
grand unit, showed that excellent
ccansfnz had been ezpea6sd On #.
was twenty pounds heavier 20 the
razn than rlcst high school teams and
half ~ the mem bers appeared 70 be
oye~ twenty yearz cd 81 least, the
growth 81 the5r boards was eyfGence
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