The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-10-22
LOCAL TEAM GIVES
WESLEYANHARD RUN
BUT LOSES CONTEST
Several Wesleyan Men Almost
Run Themselves to Death
Making TouchdownS.
ONE NINETY YARD RUN
A Seventy Yard Run and Many
Fifty Yard Runs are Made
by Ministers.
lsste,.l 70 rnr rs,rsr.sl


BUCkHANN0N. Oct 2l.-Jimmy
Heayner's West Virginia Business Col
lege football team OF Clarksburg, was
no match for Wesleyan here today and
although Fletcher and Heavier. both
former Wesleyan men. played glorious
~ they could not stem the tide and the
final score was 70 to o, In spite OF the
fact that Wesleyan used twenty ght
players
The first quarter lasted only about
six minutes. due 10 the time keepers
error, and but seven points were reg
istered. but in the second quarter Cap
tain Miller cut loose with variety Of
plays that completely bowildercd Heay-
ner's men and four touchdowns came
in the ten minutes OF play.
The third and fourth quarters both
helped to pile up the total although
toward the end but few Varsity mon
were on the field
Shumaker made the first touchdown
about two minutes after play started
when Wesleyan took the ball from
Clarksburg on its forty yard line and
Beck and Shumaker, each with two
plunges carried II over.
Early in the second quarter runs OF
twenty and fifteen yards each by Miller
and a dash for ten by Calac netted a
goal. Shortly afterwards Morrison
took a fake forward pass on Calac's
hand and sprinted forty yards before
being dOwned by Fletcher. Shumnker
going through the remaining fifteen
yards for the goal A run for thirty
five yards by Miller. ten by Calac, and
a brilliant sprint for fifteen By Shu-
maker in which he shook on and
lodged no less than five would-bc
tacklers brought the next counter
Three plays brought the next touch.
down. Beck intercepting for
ward pass and making thrilling
fifty yard dash that brought the palI
in scoring distance when Calac carried
1t over.
Fisher and Glenn opened the scor
ing in the second half. Fisher runninI
thirty yards and Glenn thirteen attel
a Clarksburg kick. Two dashes O.
fifteen and ten yards each by Becl
and Fisher and twenty yard gain BY
Glenn brought another touchdown
Ross returned the next klckoif thirty
yards after the ball had been changed
for the quarter Shumaker broke
through the line and was never headed
until he covered the seventy yards ia
the goal in one OF the incest runs OF
the game. Miller returned the next
kickoff fifty yards, Calac ran thirty
five yards, Meredith ten and then MIL
Ter the remainder TO the goal
Meredith returned the next kickoff
thirty-hve yards then a forward pass,
Miller to Morrison. was good for If
teen, Morrison continuing on down the
field for the fifty yards that separated
him from the goal. Following the next
kickoff with Wesleyan playing its re-
serves for the most part. the ball see
sawed and then Morrison ran from
kick formation for net gain OF ninety
yards for the final point.
Wesleyan's interference was the best
seen here this season and the var
iety of plays used showed to good ad-
vantage. On the defense there was
little for Wesleyan's linesmen to do but
on several occasions Blake, Roberts,
Continued on page 2, Second sect.)