The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-11-01
Spaulding Secured fro m
Montpelier Seminary, Thus
Making Score of Is to 0
GAME WAS PLAYED
ON A WET FIELD
Fumbles We're Frequent
and Many Punts
Were Missed

PLAYED on d wet field, with slippery
ball. stiff wind blowing across the fielt
and in drizzling rain, the football game
Saturday afternoon between Spauldint
high school and Montpelier seminary OF
the Lincoln campus was hardly ian
exhibition of the football ability of either
team This was the second game between
the two schools this season and resulted
in victory for Spaulding by score OF
Is to 0. The game as whole was clean
and a hard fight from start to finish
The wet ball caused many fumbles and
oyer.eagerness on the part of the Mont
pelier players caused them to receive
many penalties for offside play.
The latter team, though badly handi-
capped by the loss of Bsbee and Capt.
Pike, held the local boys for downs more
than once and in punting and forward
passing seemed superior to the Spaulding
aggregation. The Spaulding line, how.
ever, was a difficult obstacle in the way
when the Capital city team tried to gain
through it, and the team as whole
followed the ball well.
The worst feature of the whole game
was the lack of support which the Spauld
ing rooters should be giving their team.
Very few of the students were even pres
ent, to say nothing of any such thing as
organized cheering, which school the
size of Spaulding should have.
The first period of the game was a
punting battle. The seminary kicked off
and after several penalties had been in
Afn.,ApaItar nfufIa nd
Spaulding had unsuccessfully tried three
forward passes, both teams resorted to
punts until the end of the quarter, neth-
er side scoring.
The beginning of the second period
found the ball in Spaulding's possession
on Montpelier's 42-yard line. Following
an exchange of punts Spaulding got the
ball on the l2-yard line, and after two
unsuccessful attempts at the line Smith
sent drop kick over the bar. This end
ed the scoring for this quarter and the
teams went to their dressing rooms with
the score 3 TO 0 in favor of Spaulding.
At the beginning of the second half
Watson took Coles place at left guard
for the high school. Spaulding kicked
off but soon got possession of the ball
in midfeld and Smith broke away for
touchdown. The, try at a goal was a
failure.
Soon after this Montpelier came near
scoring. After getting possession of the
ball by forcing Spaulding TO punt, she
tried couple of forward passes, one
after the other. The last one brought the |
ball TO the l5-yard line, where only a
lucky tackle by Smith saved a touch |
down. Granai then attempted a drop
kick but the ball went wide. The end OF
the period found the ball in possession of
Spaulding in midheld.
shortly after the beginning of the /
fourth period the seminary team fumbled
a punt and J. Tomasi recovered the ball /
on the ive-yard line. A forward pass /
was attempted but Hatch caught the ball |
and Montpelier Immediately punted. \
After try or two at the line a forward /
pass 10 Maiden brought the ball TO the
one. yard line and the next play took IL
over. Smith failed 20 kick the goal and
this ended the scoring. A feature OF the
game was the playing of j. Tomasi for
Spaulding.
The summary.