Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-11-12
OTTAWA REVERSES
ON PRINCETON; WINS
IN FACE Of DEFEAT
LOCAL BOYS HAMMER WAY INTO
VICTORY WHEN SATURDAYS
COMBAT SEEMED ALMOST
HoPElEsSLY LoST-PRlNCE.
TOMS FIRST DEFEAT OF YEAR
SCORE 20 TO &c.

-oNOHE 80 " 80.
The heretofore unbeatable Prince
ton High School football team Sat
urday afternoon saw its hopes for a
fling at the state championship rude
" shattered when Ottawa High, after
a wonderful reversal of form, took
the bureau county lads down the lines
10 trimming of Is 10 26
The victory FOR Coach Biggs men
was unsullied by any features that
sometimes go With an uphill win
against a team on strange grounds.
Cleaner. prettier and all around bet
ter football after Ottawa was jerked
up by realization that inglorious
defeat confronted them unless they
got down to business. marked the com
bat in the two final stages with the
local boys in complete mastery of the
situation.
Completing the first half with the
score standing 26 to l6 in Princetons
favor, Ottawa came back in the third
quarter and made the count 26 TO 90,
and in the final session topped the
enemy by another touchdown and
wound up the battle with two.point
shade that gave them victory To
complete the win Biggs warriors al.
most strafed the opposition in the
last minute of play and twice in that
interim had the ball on Princeton's
three yard line The ball went to
the visitors after downs had been
responsible for Ottawa's forfeiture Of
the ball. Princeton's back field, of
course had to kick the pigskin into
safe territory. but strategy afforded
but little security against another
score when Woodward came ramping
poNh uo"H tHC uCiu anu CdITltu tHt
ball within three yards of the goal
line and was about to take 1t over
when the whistle rung down the cur.
tain. closing the battle.
Ottawa, after adjusting itself
against defeat, played stellar football
at all stages and In the last half the
rushes, line smashes and long runs
so overwhelmed the opposing youngs
ters that painfully as it was to see.
there left no room to doubt but that
Princeton was doing just what every.
thing else does when it meets its
master II evidenced desire to quit
and only the sensational spurts of
Gross. the clever little Bureau county
half back. and Russell. the Princeton
captain. eniyened the combat for the
Ottawans.
To complete story of the game
without giving credit to Crosse and
Russell would be travesty nothing
short of crime. Both are aggressive
and downright smart football timber.
The consensus Of opinion among the
rooters Is that Crosse is one of the
cleverest little gridlron performers
of the year and the manner in which
he squirmed thru the Ottawa line,
wiggled out of the clutches of the Cd.
posing tacklers, tumbled down and
then determinedly bounced up and
away, showed him to be something
far from the usual in football of high
school calber.
Then there was Woodward, who
played up well with the Princeton
star by giving Ottawa wonderful
gains. Hoxie proved another star
ground gamer and so did Hitter. In
the line Formulas was monument
OF strength and pluck, while Kleiber's
tackling proved an important factor
In blocking what might have been
disastrous advances by the enemy.
Behind these who shined in the spot.
light was crew OF lads bent on win.
ming and the way they went into their
work caused no end of comment and
speculation as to why Ottawa has
been defeated previously this year
The stuff is there. that's certainty.
and II needed only a Princeton lead
Saturday to bring 1t out.
Woodward saved the day for OF.
tawa when in the first quarter he
placed kick from Princeton's three
yard line and won the first three
points of the Ottawa assault. While
the Biggs players were holding that
lonesome little trey Princeton amass.
ed thirteen In the same length OF
time, but oh, that second quarter
ottawa behaved itself beautifully in
the estimation of the scorers upon
scores of fair rooters who crowded