The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-11-08

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and were assigned to seats in the east
stands. The Middlebury college students
also had then band and if there WAS a
student in the college, who wasn't pres
ent at the game it must have been be-
cause he was seriously i'll. President
Thomas OF Middlebury greeted Colonel
Ira L. Reeves, president of Norwich as
soon as the latter arrived at the field,
and both executives agreed that cordial
as their relations had always been, they
differed decidedly in their wishes regard
ing the outcome of the game. Both
sides kept up a continuous rapid fire
cheering throughout the contest, so loud
in fact, that many times the quarter
backs of both teams had considerable
difficulty in making their signals heard
The result of the game is now ancient
history and the only possible object in
reviewing it would be t. consider il in
connection with the game which both
colleges play with the University Of Yer
mont eleven on November | | and Is The
| Middlebury line outplayed the cadet for
wards and the backs ran hard and low,
but for all that their work was not ex-
actly impressive and it was the consen-
sus of opinion that they must improve
before next Saturday ii they beat New
! Hampshire State colleges gridironers
and also when they face the Green and
Gold team at Centennial field on No
vember ls Norwich was unfortunate in
having her star quarterback, Ogsden,
laid out ON the first play OF the game,
although his successor, the dusky Mar
tin. did good work Norwich can and I'M
doubtedly will, play better football next
Saturday against the University OF Yer
mont team, than she did against Middle
bury.
Norwich received the ball on the first
kickoff and ran it well into Middebury's
territory before being held for downs,
and this, despite the fact that the big
Middlebury forwards were ripping the
cadets line wide apart, and that the Nor
witch backs failed again and again to
take out their man when forming inter |
ference, the big fullback Boewe being
lamcntablv weak in this respect. Once !
Middlebury had obtained possession OF
the BALL her backs smashed through the |
center of the Norwich line, where there |
was a pronounced weakness to the 20 |
yard line, where the brilliant Bower un-
corked a beautiful forward pass to Pol
lard, who made the first touchdown The
play was made on split formation
which should never have deceived the
cadets and was repeated successfully i'm
mediately after a previous attempt had
failed, Norwich shifted to meet the play
in a somewhat mvstiied manner, al.
though when it was tried later in the
game they disposed Of it promptly.
The cadet supporters were soon jubi-
liant when Mcdonald, the speedy right
half back ran back a punt fifty yards
for touchdown. but their joy was
turned to gloom in the second quarter
when Middlebury recovered a fumbled
pass and carried the ball over by line
punges. in which Lynch, the big full
back played a prominent part.
Norwich fought hard in the second half
in which Mcdonald made another long
run, passing all but the last one of the
players between himself and
the goal line. Norwich hammered out
two first downs in succession, had the
ball on their opponents 20-ysrd line and
appeared to be headed straight for a
when a back ftimbled, and {
he recovered the ball. the team ,
could not seem to get started again and ,
lost the ball on downs. This was the ,
nearest that the cadets came to scoring ,
Turing the remainder of the game. The ,
PLAYERS evidently had considerable trou-
Die in hearing Martins signals and the
play was slowed up a good deal on that 4
account. I
The punting on both sides was medi /
,cre and on the last play of the game {
Bower caught a short punt on the Nor y
yich 35-yard line and dashed down the 7
delines for the final touchdown. The I
,Iiddleburv quarterback received SPLEEN L
lid interference on this run and it did +
Tot appear as if a cadet player was left | S
IN his feet anywhere in that vicinity S
lor that any of them approached the S
unner closely enough to even attempt S
o tackle him.
The work Of the officials in this game Y
vas extremely poor and evoked unfa
orable comment from spectators on both
ides There were frequent violations .
{ the offside rule and there was also y
considerable holding in the line, with y
{ least one instance when back was :,
topped by having a fist rammed vio II
entity into his face, but all except few n
asses of fragrant ofrside offenses, es :,
aped penalizing, Norwich appeared to y
c the principal sufferer from the laxity n
r incompeteney of the officials. q
Should the Norwich university team .
efeat Vermont when these two elevens =
leet next Saturday and should Vermont
efeat Middlebury on the following sat
riay the state series would result in a
hree cornered tie. II seems more prob
BE. however. in view of the showing
+ the teams to date. that Vermont will
efeat the cadets and that the big bat
e will be between Mddlebury and Yer
lont az Burlington on November Is.
viii be easier t. tell, however. after :
ext Saturday. when the merits Of the
crmout and Middlebury teams can be
ore truly compared.
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