Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-11-08
Langdon's Victory
Over Park River
Park Rivers Goose Cooked
On Langdon's Gridiron
Last Saturday

Last Saturday AFTERNOON Langdon
high school marshalled its forces on
Liebeler's field of battle and pro-
ceeded to administer to Park River
one Of the most decisive football
defeats that that Institution has ever
experienced in its history of the
game. 1t was a day long to be re-
membered and as an epoch in the
history of Langdon athletics will go
down to coming generations as the
first victory of our high school eleven
over Park River.
Long before the scheduled arrival
Of the train the cohorts of Coach
Brigham could be seen already pre-.
pared for the conflict and anxiously
awaiting the foe. The Langdon
tank" was in perfect running order.
The driving mechanism had been gone
over aad creased up by Captain Art
Robertson. who reported every driver
from the Bulky Rammer, also mispro-
nounced Damage, at full back, to
the more delicate. but more special.
lied cogs of the steering gear. in the
center of ''the line,' to be in good
trim for the days grind.
The day was perfect one for foot
ball and seemed to have in store
for the Langdon aggregation the most
propitjous favors of the gods of war.
The field was in fairly good condition
and the gridiron was ready for conking
the goose of Park River. There
were few muddy places On the field,
but these only served Captain
Robertson in his decorating of the
enemy for their inefficiency.
To come down to plain terms and
ordinary facts we will attempt to des-
cribe what happened to Park River
anil its bunch from the point of view
:Jz.Ss saectator. Park River won the
toss and Langdon started after the
opposition with Art Robertson kicking
off. Things were rather unsettled
for while and the '..down staters'
managed to slip over touch down.
Their goal kick failed and the score
stood 60 in favor of Park River.
Right here is where we cease to speak
of any scoring by the visitors, for Up.
And-At.' EN- Robertson began to pound
his truaty henchmen on the back,
Crying to raise hump as big as his
own, and quickly put an end to their
offensive. l4andon.s counter attacks
were too heavy to be stopped and soon
netted touch down by straight line
bucking, and later a goal kick by
Art Robertson's unfailing right boot.
From this time on it was all Langdon.
Herb Schulke circled the ends, Finley
Ramage tore his way through The line,
Charlie Kelland made many sue.
cessful flank attack and in short time
the Langdon crew had rolled over the
opposition to the tune of thirteen
points by the erd of the first half.
Langdon went into the sec0hd half
determined to hold their lead.
punting contest resulted, in which
Robertson had the edge most decidedly
on his opponent. In some of the
exchanges the home team recovered
the ball on Park Rivers fumbles. In
the fourth quarter there was great
deal of masticating the towel> over
the rules of the game This, how.
ever, was of no avail to Park River,
for Robertson and Ramage plowed
thorugh the line of the opposition for
another touchdown Langdon was back
again plunging on against the en-
envy 8 goal line when the final signal
blew. The team was so set on scoring
another goal that Captain Robertson
found it difficult to put IN the breaks.
When tse field was finally cleared the
score was found to be 10 to 6 in
Langdon's favor.
| This is the first victory that Lang
don has ever scored over Park River.
The breaks of the game were large.
ly with the home team, but the diff.
ferant players were certainly there
to take advantage of them. The Lang
don line held like stone wall on the
defense and made good record for
itself. The back field showed some
good formations and worked like
unit on the different shifts. One
thing that indicated faithful practic-
ing and hard work in preparing was
the lack Of fumhles. Langdon's kick.
ing was we'll cared for by Robertson.
Although few forward pa ses were
tried the home team was a. successful
in this respect as Park River. The
Langdon interference was al pretty
sight and proved to be cause Of
great alarm for the enc ny, The
tackllng Of Charles Keliand saved