The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-02
h|L TON DEFEATS
kE0kUk IS TO 0
Local Football Team Drops Second
Game Of the Season on satur-
day-Were Lacking
in Pep.
JOHNSON, A wH1RLWIND
Quarterback For Milton Was One Of
the Contributing Factorc to
keokuk's Defeat story
Of the Game.

Lacking the zip and dash that won
them victory over Memphis the
week before, Iseokuk went down to
defeat before Milton on Saturday.
Milton had the edge all the way
through. Keokuk fought good and
hard, but lacked the aggressiveness
that was necessary for victory. Tne
back field WAS rather slow in getting
away and number of the plays were
spilled by the Milton full back, who
got through the Keokuk line before
the local players could get from be-
hind it.
Quarterback Johnson of Milton
played an exceptional game Without
a doubt he is enc of the fastest quar-
ters on an iowa high school team this
year, and his playing, both on the de-
Tense and offense contributed largely
4 to the Keokuk defeat.
III Milton did not have a heavy team.
The backfield was about the same
weight as the Keokuk backfeld, but
the line was light. Correspondingly,
the Milton backfield was fast, while
the line was but ordinary, but it was
this dash and spirit of the backfeld
that won the game.
The loss of Evans from the Keokuk
lineup was felt. both the backfield and
=
The First Quarter.
Snodgrass for Milton kicked off to
Keokuk, Wells capturing the ball.
He was dropped in his tracks. Will
lard Roberts started the bali rolling
by drilling eight yards through guard.
Then he, with the alternate assist
ance of Lloyd Roberts and Beach,
carried the ball through to the thirty
yard line where it was fumbled.
Then Milton began using tank"
tactics. Johnson advanced eight yards
on the first down and five on the
second: Snodgrass contributing Sec
ond five. The ball was pushed down
the field in relentless fashion until it
was on the forty yard line. Here
the quarter ended.
The Second Quarter.
Morgan opened the second quarter
with fifteen yard run and followed
this up by taking forward pass to
within i've yards of goal. In an at
tempt to cover this short distance to
score, Johnson twice and Snod-
grass once bucked up against stone
wall, losing ground. On the fourth
down and in final attempt to bridge
the gap, Johnson fumhled the ball and
keokuk captured it on the fifteen
yard line.
Milton soon came into possession
OF it again by intercepting a Keokuk
forward pass On the twenty-five yard
line. A drop kick was tried, but
proved failure and the ball was re-
covered by Keokuk on the twenty
yard line. The ball was lost again.
on a tumble. Johnson of Milton broke
away and ran twenty yards around
right end. This put the ball near
goal again and a forward pass was
tried a Milton player fumbling the
ball behind The goal line.
Third Quarter.
Milton was slowly wearing down
the keokuk defense in the first two
quarters, coming within an ace of
scoring at the last of the second The
result of this wearing process was
exhibited in the opening of the third
period OF play when the first touch
down was scored. w. Roberts kicked
off to Milton and the ball was run
out to the middle of the field. On
the very first play, Left-half Morgan
laid way out on the end and with no
opposition from that quarter gather
ed in forward pass on the thirty
ward line and raced to goal.
Score-Keokuk, o. Milton, G.
This score seemed to liven Keokuk
UP and when Milton kicked OF. the
locals began to show some Of their old
time pep. Willard Roberts pounded
center for fourteen yards, Beach.
went around end for five and then
Roberts bucked center again, this
time for twenty yards. Milton soon
ended this ideal state of affairs by