The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-11-08
High School Crippled Team
Lost 20 to O to Vermont
Academy
WORK OF VISITORS
CONSISTENTLY GOOD
Home Team Erred oonspicuously in
Fumbles - Missed Signal Cost Brat
tleboro Touchdown-Thayer Especial
ly Prominent in Line.

Any hope Of Brattleboro high to tie
for the leadership of the Glover league
went glimmering Saturday afternoon at
Island park when the heavy Vermont
academy team earned a victory by a
score of 90 to 0. Without detracting
Il bit from the work of the visiting
team, which was consistently good, espe-
cially that of Keppler and Coulter in
advancing the ball, Brattleboro' IS Grip.
pied team played in the hardest kind of
luck.
Fumbles were costly, as they always
are, and the home team made more in
this game than in all the preceding
games of the season. A missed signal
cost touchdown after Brattleboro had
twice recovered the ball in as many
minutes inside their own 20-yard line
Once an error of the referee had given
the ball back to V. A. and the second
time the missed signal was expensive
vermont academy appeared to be in
the best of condition, although after
the game it was said that Keppler en-.
tered the game crippled. On the other
side Plumb was so crippled that he did
not participate i'll signal practice. Mo.
ran played with one ankle in bandages
Betteriey did not even appear on the
sldelines. Winchester, who had been
out two weeks, limped through the
struggle at tackle and in the last period
especially did some fine line work.
Ihayer was especially conspicuous in
the line, as he was the week before.
lie was frequently through his OBJ
ponent and was the one who blocked
the attempted kick near the Brattle-
boro goal line which Winchester can
tured. Dunton showed wonderful i'm
provement in his play He followed
the play well and in one instance made
tackle beyond right end for no gain.
In the last two periods Keppler found
an impregnable wall between Dunton
and Winchester or between Winchester
and Tweed, where earlier he had made
some OF his steady gains. Plumb is out
PROBABLY for the rest Of the season.
His knee, after the game, was badly
swollen and he could not bend it.
capt Estey, especially in the third
period, worked himself to standstill
At one time he gave his own signal
hNe successive times for line plunpes
and made three successive first downs
l5oth teams stuck almost constantly to
the old smashing attack, only semi-oc-
e,'A'HaliS lying 10 forward pass. Three
tunes Brattleboro tried Leon Adams or
the end around play and it worked for
substantial gains each time. The first
time, however, Adams lost the ball
when tackled and Vermont academy re-
covered. The visitors were clever in
following the ball and never fumbled
Capt. Estey won the toss and chose
the north goal with the heavy wind At
his back, v. A. kicked off and Brat
tieboro could not gain, forward pass
on the third down going into V. A.
players hands on their 40-yard line
Line PUSHES, one a delayed play IN
winch Coulter ut quarterback siipped
through the line for IL yards without
interference, was followed by Is
yard run by Coulter around Tweed. and
IN two more plays Coulter circled Leon
Adams for touchdown in the corner
OF the field. Keppler from a point two
1eet IN from the sideline and against q
WIND, kicked goal, the ball striking the
cross bar in the center and bounding
over.
Again the visitors kicked. Richmond
got the ball and advanced five wards TO
the center of the field. Plumb and
Estey in three rushes made a first down.
GALLUP got around the visitors, RIGHT