The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1916-10-27
MASSEY DEFEATS
COLUMBIA SCHOOL BY
A SLIGHT MARGIN
oVERcoNFIDENCE ASSIGNED AS
CAUSE FOR DEFEAT OF THE
MAURY FOUNTAINS.
FORTUNE WITH TIE PULAS. IANS
Failure To Win In The First Half OF
The Game has Disheartenine Effect
On the Visitors-Touchdown Proved
To Be a FIuke.
By w. D. HASTINGS
(Staff Correspondent


Dope was completely upset Friday
when Massey Vanquished the crack
Columbia High School football eleven
on the Massey field by the score Of
6 to 0.
c. H. s. had the game won twice in
the first quarter and for some M
known reason failed to pull the right
| kind of play to net the winning
goals. Fortune seemed to hover with
the Massey team. In the first quar-
ter the Massey machine seemed to be
trembling with fear, whether it was
the presence of Booker Smiser, the old
Massey coach, lined up against them
or whether it was the heralded
strength of the visitors that had their
goat, is a matter of conjecture, but it
is a certainty that something had it"
Repeatedly Evans, Masseys quarter
and Edwards, the full backw, fumbled
the ball on the pass and different G. H.
S. players would fall on it, but even
this did not get them anything. Over
confidence is also assigned to the G.
H. S. defeat. Twice in the first quar-
ter C. H. s. rushed the bali to the
enemy's twenty-yard line, and twice
failed to come across.
After the first quarter and G. H. s.
failed to score, the rooters for the
home team saw the finish In the
second quarter Massey came back
strong and battered the c. H. s. line
and skirted the ends for heavy gains
almost at will In this quarter Mas
sey put the ball in play by punting a
high long drive, and Shelton received
the punt but fumbled it, but recovered,
and in the next play Shelton got away
and with beautiful interference skirt
ed the left end for long run OF sew
enty-five yards for touchdown, but in
making the run his foot was placed
on the line and the referee judged him
out of bounds and the ball was brought
back. This seemed to take all the gin
ger out OF C. H. S. and they played
listless at times afterward.
Massey made her winning touch
down in the first quarter Of the second
half, but there was considerable dis
cussion about the legality OF same.
Some of the best authorities on the
rules of the game, claiming that it
was illegal. The play that really net
ted the touchdown was illegal from the
fact that both teams were off side, but
the umpire claimed that he only saw
C. H. S. off side and they were penal
lied FIVE yards, which placed the ball
on G.. H. SIS three-yard line, and in
the next play the ball was showed
over for a touchdown by Mcdonald at
the lolJ emu VI lHo Uclu, LuW al 10
kicked out for placement and Evans
caught, but failed to kick between the
uprights. Score to 0.
In the next few minutes OF play in
this quarter Edwards made beautiful
run through broken field for twenty
yards, but Shelton lost on an attempt
ed end run and the next play was
forward pass, which fell into a Massey
mans hands.
Fourth Quarter.
Massey rushed the ball in this quar-. !
ter and with end runs and plunges
thorugh the line the ball was taken
to C. H. SIS five-yard line. but was
lost on downs, C. H. 8. holding fast. /
c. H. S. was forced to punt. McKib-
bon broke up forward pass Massey |
was penalized in the next play for of |
side and on the next down they failed
to gain and the ball went over. Shell
ton and Huckaby pulled of forward