The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-12-04
wins STATE
CHAMPIONSHIP
BY DEFEATING PIERRE THANKS
GIVING DAY AND HOT SPRINGS
ON MONDAY
PLAYING MARKED BY OFFENSIVE SPIRIT
taIity Extended-Juniors
Banquet Team.

Travelling many miles across the en-
tire state and playing two very hard
games of football, the Brookings high
school football team swept aside all
opposition and won two hard fought
victories, the first Thanksgiving day
at Pierre where they defeated the fast
and heavy Pierre H. S. by the score
of to 0, and Monday at Hot Springs
where they defeated the Hot Springs
team by the score of 7 to 6.
The game at Pierre was the hardest
that the local team has played this
year, outweighed as they were, nearly
20 pounds TO the man and playing on
slippery field, the B. II. S. team
fought with that dash and spirit that
has marked their games through the
entire season. AS neither team could
gain through the opposing lines, open
play was resorted to in large meas
.ure Brookings repeatedly carried the
ball close to the Pierre goal line, but
could not put it across. With two
minutes to play in the second quar-
ter, Morton called for a drop kick,
and standing but scant five yards
back of the line he succeeded in put
ting the oval between the goal posts
from the twenty-yaTi line, the ball
sailing high in the air. but cleared
the bar by two feet. Following this
score, Brookings fought with renewed
spirit and the play from then on to
the end Of the game was in Pierre
territory.
Sundit at full back and Ryger
at left half played fine game.
both on defense and offense. while
Rishoi at guard repeatedly smashed
through the opposing line and threw
the Pierre backs for losses. The game
was marked by the splendid team work
Of Bookings and by the pep and
spirit that they displayed.
Supposing the Hot Springs game to be
called off. the entire team sat down to
a big Thanksgiving spread, Thursday
evening, but Friday morning Coach
Wick received a telegram from Hot
HotSprings stating that they wanted to
play Brookings Saturday, but as the
coach had used nearly all of his men in
the game at Pierre, he wisely had the
game scheduled for the following Mon
day.
The team arrived in Hot Springs
Friday night and Saturday they prac-
ticed on the Hot Springs field. There
was a large crowd present when the
whistle blew Monday afternoon start
ing the game and it was very evident
that Hot Springs were confident OF
winning Hot Springs H. S. out
weighed the local team by fifteen
pounds to the man but the Brookings
line we're always able to make holes
for the backs.
The game started with rush
and Hot Springs succeeded in work
ing the ball well into Brookings'
territory and with Brookings in pos
session of the ball on their own four
punt off and Hot Springs recovered.
With the four yards to go in four
downs, Hot Springs did not succeed
in putting it across the line until the
fullback pushed it over. Brookings
then fought and outplayed the opposi-
ton and it became evident that Hot
Springs, to use an expression of a
local man, did rot know football y
and that they were over-confident.
Hot Springs, with her heavy back
field could not gain an inch through
the Brookings line while B. II. S.
could always gain through the Hot
Springs forwards, although they out
weighed the local line nearly fifteen
pounds to the man. Brookings then
opened up with a line shift that COM
pletely baffied Hot Springs and Nor
ton succeeded in breaking away for a
twenty-five-yard sprint, placing the
ball on the ten-yard line where Sundit
carried it over, goal was kicked max
ing the score to 6 in favor of Brook
ings. Play from then on was for the
most part in the middle Of the field
with. Brookings outplaying the Hot
Springs team Time was called with
Brookings in possession Of the ball
on the Hot Springs thirty-yard line.
Hot Springs proved to be very good
losers and the treatment that they
afforded the local team was fine and
will long be remembered. The locals
were entertained at a dance Monday
evening and banner was hung across
one end of the hall with These are
the State Champions" on 1t with a pic
ture Of the Brookings team. The squad
left Hot Springs Tuesday morning and
arrived home at II o'clock Wednes-
day evening and the local high school
turned out en- masse to welcome their
returned heroes. The team proceeded