The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-11-11
Bentz Turns Berserker With
Four Minutes of Playing
Period Left.
DRISCOLL DELIVERS
CHANCE FOR UPSET
Quarterback's Long Advance
ut End of Game Leads
to Victory.

sJohn Christian Bentz, four-year man
and captain of Montana's Grizzlies,
turned berserler in the last four min
utes of ii hopeless football game yes
terday afternoon. When The dust of
his frenzy had cleared, Montana was
on the long end of II 8 to score and
the most dangerous championship en-
try offered by Montana State College
in a dozen years was looking for an
exit.
Bentz pounded through a desperate
blue line for Il long yards to achieve
the touchdown which meant victory.
His drive was the climax of the most
thrilling game ever played on Mon
tana Field. 1t turned the dismalest
of defeats into victory which is. as
the saying goes, for the book.
Three Men Big Stars.
Bentz, Driscoll and Layton were the
heroes of the lurid afternoon. Driscoil
made the triumph possible with a 40
yard sprint at the last minute, and
Layton participated in it by standing
the farmer linesmen on their heads a,
the crisis.
Driscoll had played the most brilliant
sort of football all afternoon. His long
squirminS runs in open field marked
him as one of the best of Montana 5
deep-field men. Layton was half OF
the scrimmase line through the game
To these three might be added Sulli-
van, who WAS forced from the field
after leading the attack in the firsl
three periods. yet gamely returned Il
the losing fight on ii crippled leg. ant
Dahlberg, another stalwart in the line
The Aggies We're perched on the fa1
end of a 3 to I count when the crisis
came. They had all but nailed dowr
their first state football championship
of dozen years. For ten important
minutes they had played the Grizzlies
off their feet, opening the final periol
with a drive which ended in IL touch
down and seven points against til.
three made at the very start of th'
game by the GriZzlies-and Bentz'.
ce-kiclling toe.
A Cinch Beaten by Nerve.
1t was cinch--five minutes betor,
time was called Two minutes befor,
time, Coach Jerry Nissen. with tear.
Bentz wipe the white smear of the goa
line from his eyes and listening to tn.
howls of a jubilant multitude OF stu.
dents. Nerve at the crisis had beater
a certainty.
| Only small crowd SAW the game
though a nip-and-tuck battle had beer
expected and the day was made fol
football. A plucky crowd of Bozemar
students watched the game from tenn
porary bleachers on the east sideline
the whole university student body file,
the main bleachers, and the grandstanG
held Il scattering of less ardent specta-
tors. Chancellor II. c. Elliott. wearin.
| the colors of both teams, watched tn.
| first half from the university side ant
the second half from the college stand
| President Ssson hung to the varsit,
| bench.
Game Moves Like Drama.
The. game moved like a tremendous
drama, from hope to despair to sudden
impossible, but undeniable victory. 4
hopeless multitude saw the Grizzlie,
backed to their own 35-yard line, will
only five scant minutes left for tn,
redemption of a to ! beating. Thre.
| minutes later Il mob of shrieking ma
MACS saw BentZ hurl his 235 pound.
and the ball across the long whit.
line beyond which victory lay. 1t wa.
all over.
The thing was accomplished in {
flash. Driscoll caught punt as tn,
sound of shuffling feet marked tn,
departure of weak spirited partisan.
and wriGeled Il yards down the long
long field. The spark of hope struci
by that sprint burst into flame whel
the little quarterback took a forwar,
pass at the line of scrimmage and wen
squirming past blue tacklers for 4
yards.
sentz Breaks Up the Game.
y! The bail was Montana's on the enc
mics 20-yard line. with four minute
of playing time left Horrigan grabbe'
Il blocked forward pass Onrthe l5-yar,
line. And then Bentz wheeled into &C
ton. He drove
Four yards off right tackle;
Five yards over left guard:
Two yards off right tackle;
Three yards over right guard;
One yard through center, and OVER
| Eleven blue jcrseyed men were 0
top of the Grizzly captain as he endt
that last plunge. When the untans