The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-12-01
Redwood Wins In
Season. LaSt Game
st. Cloud 0, Redwood IL, Final Score
in Thanksgiving Game on
Local Field
CLOSES SPLENDID YEAR
Last Game for Seniors, Eleven to
Graduate in June, Five Regulars
Left for Next Year

Redwood Falls much heralded
greatest football season" is come
and gone. The farewell ceremonies
were held at the fair grounds on the
afternoon Of Thanksgiving day in the
presence of the largest crowd that
ever shivered along the local side
lines. St. Cloud sent over it's team
to furnish an hour and half of en-
tertainment and incidentally to add
to the statewide fame of the Red
wood high school aggregation. The
game was clearly Redwood's through
out, the foe never reaching a strik-
ing distance of the goal. Redwood's
vistory was clean cut and the score
of II to 0 fairly earned.
Field Not Good
The condition of the field occasion
ally marred the work of both teams.
A thin surface only of the sodded
gridiron was frozen and sharp cleats
easily sliced through to the icy crust
beneath. Repeatedly man with the
ball in attempt to dodge or make a
quick turn, slipped and downed him
self On at least three distinct oc-
casions a Redwood man had plunged
through St. Clouds forwards and past
the secondary defense, and in the act
of escaping the safety tackler with
a clean path to the goal and fame
ahead when his feet were jerked from
under him by the treacherous earth.
St. Cloud Is Game
st. Cloud arrived at Redwood from
the cities on the midnight train and
were thereby rather the ''worse for
wear" before the game commenced.
Injuries during the contest crippled
them further, especially when
twisted ankle sent their captain from
his tackle position to the sidelines.
Crippled and slightly outweighed the
visitors fought gamely to the final
toot Of the whistle-the nerviest team
Redwood has faced this year.
Last Senior Game
I The Thanksgiving game was sig
nifcant in that it closed the career
of eleven Seniors, ten of whom have
played quite regularly. Besides Cap
tain Mason, the team loses Corcoran,
Fuller, Glassco, Kumm, Page, Rey-
nolds, Stevens, Luscher, Baldwin and
Grapp. WEIGH, Winter, Thompson and
Darrell are remnants of the line still
left, and Mill who can easily shift
either in the backfield or at an end
position. An analysis of the differ
ent players and of the nucleus of next
years team will be printed later.
Years Record
Redwoods record this season en-
titles the team to recognition as one
of the very best aggregations in the
state. Visitors and officials have
claimed the team plays better ball
than most of the city schools offer.
At Faribault, where the locals reached
the climax for the season, officials
complimented the team as the best
they had seen among high schools.
St. Cloud, before the game, thought
they had an easy victory ahead. AT
forwards they stated, that though
beaten by other teams this fall they
had not met a team which could
equal the local crew. By it's vic
tories over Faribault and Mankato
Redwood has claim to honors in the
greater part of southern Minnesota
while it's defeats of both Madison anc
: Montevideo give it supremacy in the
western section. WINDOWS victory Of
course entities that team to the cham
pionship of the narrow southwest.
ern section.
In the nine games paved Redwood
has won z, with a total score of 27E
to its opponents 35. The games ane
the scores follow:
Redwood 35 ........ Sleepy Eye
Redwood " ......... .Montevideo
!, Redwood o.. Bookings
. Redwood 60 ............ Mankato
4 Redwood 40 ..............S layton
: Redwood 9 ............W Window Il
Redwood 10. .Faribault
Redwood 20 ........... Madison
Redwood 10 CT C1n,1d