The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1916-10-17
Deaf Boys Too Heavy
And Defeat Stanford High School
AT Football by so to 6

The local high school football
team was badly beaten by the Deaf
boys last Friday afternoon. The Deaf
boys had the heaviest team and piled
up an enormous score. Notwithstand-
ing the fact that the Danville boys
won by large score our boys were
always fighting and put up a good
game from start to finish. Several
times during the fight it looked as
if the Stanford lads were going to
rally and kept the others going some
to keep them down.
Barron, the star half back of the
D. & D. eleven was the outstanding
feature for them. He "bucked" the
line for successive gains during
many periods of the game and made
the majority of the touch downs.
Whenever the Stanford boys would
get too close to their goal he would
interfere and start things the other
way. He was very hard to stop and
made excellent interference for his
team. All our boys played a good
game but were a bit weak in inter
ference The backfield men played
heroically but could not gain when
there were not any holes. Captain
Perkins at quarter played a good,
hard fought game from start to fin
ish and Manager Tucker at full hit
the, line with terrific fierce, for good
gaiAs, while the other backs, Ander-
son and Cash were CONSPICUOUS both
in running and tackling. Noe, an end
received a good pass and made a
gain and once broke through his
opponents line and caught the back
field man who was fixing to throw
forward pass dead in his track. He
afterwards was laid out and a sub
stitute put in, which was a heavy
loss to the tam. Embry at the other
end got several good passes and made
long gains with each of them. He re-
ceived one pass in midfield and elud-
ing about six of the opponents car
ried the ball within a few yards of
the goal Perkins then hacked the
line and the oval was placed over
for their only score. The line men
held stubbornly but a few being a
bit light let their man through sew
eral times. They were good in tack
ling and many times the deaf boys
failed to gain thru them. The deaf
boys were very short of wind and
had it not been for the oppOrtune
hurting of several of their men
it might have been a different story
altogether. Once when the ball was
within a short distance from the goal
and the local lads failed to gain on
/ line plunges they resorted to a short
pass over center, but Barron inter-
copied the pig-skin behind the line
and carried the ball about three
fourths the distance Of the field be-
fore our boys were able to down
him. Before the whistle sounded
for the end of the game, the Deaf
boys had 80 points to their credit
while Stanford could only account
for 6. Tho defeated, our squad play
ed good game and one that was
worth seeing.
The next game of the season will
be on the gridiron here, next Mon
day when they meet the Richmond
Normals. The Richmond squad gave
this team bad beating up there in
! the first game of the season and the
home boys have determined to take
their number down here. They are
as big as giants, averaging about
IT'S, but the S. H. S. boys say they
are going to walk all over them
Since their defeat at Richmond new
material has been introduced and an
entirely different lineup will go up
against the boys from Richmond
This will be open of the best games
this season so be sure and come out
and see what real high school foot
| ball game is like.