The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-17
TUSCALOOSA PREPS DOWN CENTRAL HIGH Game Hard Fought, But the Locals Were Clearly
 Outplayed

Central High schools chances of win
 hing the. state "prep' championship
 were settled once and for all for the
 1915 season yesterday afternoon when
 the Alabama Preparatory school from
 Tuscaloosa defeated Coach Pritchards s
 cohorts in one of the hardest fought
 games ever witnessed on prep grid iron. The final score was to o.
 Only straight football was used
 throughout the battle and seldom did
 either team attempt trick plays or
 forward pass. Aided by the wonderful
 playing of Boone at tackle, the visitors
 crushed every offensive movement at-
 tempted by the local high schoolers. Despite the fact that the locals were the favorites before the battle and in the | first quarter rushed the Tuscaloosa boys , off their feet but were unable to reg ister score. they were completely out classed. The heavy line of the visitors held in every emergency and the gains by the locals were around the ends. On
 the whole the showing of the local war
 rlors was disappointing to their fol- lowers.
 In the fourth quarter Central High had an excellent chance to tie the count but lost the ball on their opponents D. yard line. With only few minutes left to play, the visitors played safe and wasted the remainder of the time with out making any material gains. The
 Tuscaloosa "preps" had only one chance to score but took advantage of this and registered the touchdown that gave them the victory.
 For the entire first quarter neither team made any material gaining. The ball changed hands frequently, and
 when tho quarter ended the pigskin was in the center of the field. Both teams played stupid game and tumble, were numerous. On renewing the fight at the beginning of the second quar- ter, the visitors showed an entirely diff ferent attitude and carried the ball on line bucks and smashing end runs to the locals 10yard line. Central High re-
 covered and held the fighting visitors to downs and the ball changed hands. After two attempts to gain around the ends. forward pass was intercepted by Morgan and brought to the locals 1-yard line. For three downs the High
 school line held but on the final attempt to carry the ball across Hanson plunged
 over the pile of warriors for the only touchdown of the fray. The ball was barely over the line. Morgan kicked goal.
 The half ended without any more damage being done to either side. The
 second half started with renewed de- termination of both teams. Central High received and after making i've first
 downs, lost the ball on an inglorious tumble. The ball again changed hands
 and In the third period ended with tho ball in Central Highs possession on the visitors 4O-yard line. A 20-yard end run on the first play of the final period l by Dorskey encouraged the locals and line plungers and another end run by Dorskey placed the ball on the visitors S-yard line. The Tuscaloosa boys braced ] and three attempts to gain through the line were futile. Coughlin then ripped off about nine yards of tackle and the referee had called first down when the visiting coach Hook" Burnett, de-
 manded the distance be measured. It was found that the locals needed about three Inches and the ball went over. The visi- i tors took their time in running their plays and in about three minutes the game was over with the ball in Tus- caloosa's possession on their own 15- | yard line
 | The playing of Coughln and Dorskey featured the locals defeat, while the all-round playing of Boone alone stands the feature of the "preps'" victory. The main cause of the locals defeat can be attributed to the fact that fum- bles were numerous and easy tackles behind the line were missed. Although there was some complaint on the of ficiating, and the fact that Hanson and Booone played as members of the Ala bama Preparatory school, the game was one of the most evenly matched and hotly contested that will feature the prep" programme in the city the | remainder of the season.
 | Summary: Central High, Hall, center;
 McPhail and Doster. right guards; Put
 man and Herzog, right tackles Harrell
 and Jones, right end: Craig, left guard;
 Holmes and Harrell, left tackle; Me- Cullough. left end; Coughln, quarter; | Goodall. full; Dorskey. Kelly and Hahn. halves.
 Tuscaloosa: Hanson. center; Williams, left guard; Boone, left tackle; Rowland, left end; Ward, right gaurd Moseley, right tackle; Mills and Elebash, right end; Dugger quarters Hanson and Morgan, hales; Orman, full.
 | Referee, Pinson Birmingham col lege); umpire. Lathem (Alabama); !; timer. Gillem Birmingham eollege); ltouchdowns. Hanson; goal from touch
 down, Morgan. Time of quarters. 12 and 10 minutes