Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-04
AUCIE LADS IN
SCRAP FOR LIFE
Forced To Battle fer Every Inch OF
Ground Gained in Grid Fight
With Parsons College.

Forced to fight for every inch of
ground gained, the Augustana col
lege eleven triumphed over the
strong Parsons college aggregation
at Fairfield, Iowa, Saturday after
noon by a score of 10 to o. The
Iowans fought like mad tigers and
Tesorted to unsportsmanlike tao
tics, but superior knowledge of the
game spelled victory for the Island
ers.
The work of the Augie line was
an outstanding feature of the fra
cas- During the opening chapter.
Parsons kept up an incessant line
smash style of play, but the Angus
tana bulwark was unshakable. And
while the line was holding the
Iowans at bay, the backfeld rush
ed across one touchdown in the
first quarter, and two in the sec
ond In the final half the Parson-
ties came back with redoubled Wig
or and neither combatant had the
advantage.
The game was played before a
mere handful of spectators, health
conditions prohibiting admittance
OF any but the military unit and the
co-eds of the school.
Officials figured in several ques-
tionabie decisions, and incidentally
the contest was spiced with contin-
ual rag chewing and argument, the
Iowans raising the biggest amount
of the fuss. Defeated, in the last
half, they employed every art of
cunning to win, using fake plays
and violating regulations without
regard for craftsmanship.
Nogal. quarterback, showed
across the first marker. The score
came after Captain Bengston had
circled the end for 25 yards, and
AImere had contributed another
gain, to the 5-yard line. Nogal
booted the goal
In the second session, Nogal car
ried the oval to the 4-yard line after
q series of line bucks, and Captain
Bengston ploughed over. He failed
in his attempt to kick goal. The
two giant tackles, Randolph and
Sergeant Palmer were instrumental
in annexing the third and final. On
the Parsons 45-yard line, Ran
dolph on a tackIe-back maneuver
navigated 80 yards before he was
spilled Palmer was called back
and he battered through to within q
few inches of the chalked line. Al
mere completed the operations by
skirting around right end for the
remaining inches. Bengston missed
goal.
That completed the scoring. Ii
the final both elevenS worked hard
to score and neither was success
ful in advancing to within striking
distance. The strength of Angie s
line can be conceived when it is
stated Parsons never approached
any nearer than the 20-yard line
during the entire game.
Lineup and summary:
Augustana-Col re; Ran
Golph. TT; Wickstrom, rg; Peterson,
c; Eckstrom, lg; Palmer, It; Swan
son, lie; Nogal, OBJ; Almere, RIB;
Bloomberg, lib; BeLgston, fb.
Parsons lie; Brown.
It; Ivans, lg; Stevenson, c; Norris,
re-; Curtiss, TT; Crone. re; Kempe,
oh; Ferree, lib; Lewis, RIB; White,
ID.
TOuchdoWns - Nogal. Bengston
and Almere. Goals after touch
down. NogaL Substitutions - Lit
tig for Almere; Olson for Ran
Colph. Referee-Elliott, Cornell;
umpire, Nixon, Indiana
Next Saturday the Islanders will
tackle the Cornell college team at
Mount Vernon, Iowa. Augie has
not forgotten the miserable manner
in which it was crushed by the Cor
neIlians last year. score Is to 0. It
Will be the idea of avenging this de
feat that the islanders will give all
that they have in them to win.