Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1917-11-01
ALBION COLLEGE
DEFEATED 7 TO 8
Maroon and Cream Puts Strong
Team Out of Hunt for Nj. I.
a. A. Title HOnOrs.
A NINETY YARD RUN WON IT
Both Teams Put Up Hard Struggle
for the HOnors and Both Were
Fighting Throughout.

One OF the finest football battles
staged on Davis field in years was
the Albion-Alma 90 Saturday, on a
fed ankle deep with mud, which the
Maroon and Cream won in the first
minute of play on a touchdown made
possible by brilliant 90-yard run by
Richards.
The Alma team did not play up
to the form which it displayed against
the officers of Camp Custer or at
NJ. A. c., lacking some of the vim
and fight which marked these two
Igames, and as a result the two teams
were battling on nearly even terms
Throughout the contest, with Alma
gaining the more ground by over 20
yards, except on the exchanges of
punts, where the two teams were
about equal. Alma was penalized 80
yards during the game and Albion
30 yards. Alma also lost 25 yards
from men being thrown behind the
line, where Albion lost only Is.
To start the game Albion kicked
off. Richards, standing on the Alma
Ieight-yard line, grabbed the kick. and
behind perfect interference carried
the ball clear TO the Albion 2-yard
stripe, before Osborne and Cole broke
through the interference and spilled
the runner. The 90-yard run is one
of the longest that has ever been
seen on the local field, and rivals the
one made against this same team on
Davis field two years ago 10y French
Mills smashed at the line and
gained yard, and then Smith smash
ed off end and planted the ball over
the last chalk line for the only touch
down Of the day. Narrance kicked the
goal, making the score Alma :, Al
bion
For the balance of the quarter the
Albion team outplayed Alma consd-
erably, and twice during the session
Cole assayed to boot the oval over the
goal but each attempt went wild.
In the following quarter Albion once
worked the ball almost to the 30-yard
line, where Alma held like wall, and
again Cole tried for points by the
aerial route, but again missed count
ing the three points.
Almost as soon as the second half
had started Cole planted the ball over
the goal post for Albion's lone points.
Alma kicked to Albion and Osborne
made a 23-yard return, and then on
two plunges put the ball on the Alma
45-yard line. Four yards were gained
in three downs and Cole dropped back
or the fourth down and neatly booted
the ball over the cross-bar for one
OF the prettiest goals made on Davis /.
field in years. During this entire
quarter Albion outplayed the Maroon !
and Cream. Once the Methodists car
ried the ball to the two-yard line on
a first down. The Alma team braced /
as if by magic Four downs and the /
Albionites were eight yards from the I
goal so fiercely did the Alma men /.
slam into Kennedy's warriors 1t was I
only good chance to score a
touchdown, but not a man could pound T
his way through the Maroon wall.
In the fourth quarter the battle was
almost entirely an exchange of punts,
with Albion having an advantage in
this period in this respect Twice
Albion backed Alma to her own 30
yard line on gains from the exchanges.
Alma both times by forward passes
carried the ball away from the danger
zone; one of these was good for %
yards and went Smith to Narrance
\ number Of passes went wild dur
ing the day from the hands of passers
of both teams because of the muddy
and wet ball being SO hard to control {
Several were also intercepted or {
blocked. Smith once cut down one by
it, which looked as if it {
we're good for a touchdown had it
gone true. K
Smith, Narrance, Spooner and Rich
ards were the shining lights for the y
alma team. If it had not been for
he work of Cole and Osborne the i
would not have been in the {
yame. The attack of Osborne at the 4
inc and around the ends was reve-
alton, and he was backed up by the {
good, sturdy toe of Cole. which is the (
rost feared in the VI. l. A. A. The &
'ictory puts Alma in line for the
if she can cop off her !
games with Olivet and Kalamazoo col {
eyes, both of which will be played {
way from home 4