The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-10-16
FAST OPENING IN
FOOTBALL SEASON
HIGH SCHOOL AND STATE COL.
LEGE BOTH OPEN WITH
SPLENDID VICTORIES
49 TO D AND IS TO BOTH LOOK GOOD
With Records Made Saturday Brook.
ings is Assured of Hard Fighting,
Winning Football Teams.

The opening of the football season
at State College Saturday, when the
Northern Normal of Aberdeen was
taken into the local camp by a score
of 40 to 0, was a very suspicious start
for a successful season under the d.
rection of Coach West. Normal only
made three first downs during the en-
tire game and this was the nearest
they v came to a score or a glimpse
of winning. While the game was n
battle from start to finish, the real
finish was neve eve doubted for A
moment, State taking and maintain
ing the offensive throughout. A
smashing game was kept up and no
trick plays or passes were resorted to.
1t was a clear out and out old-fash'
toned line smashing game and if there
were any scouts from other colleges
around, all they found out was the
very evident fact that State has a hard
built line, both front and back, up In
weight and full of slashing offensive.
Nothing in the way of inside ball was
uncovered and in using every man
on the whole squad Coach West
showed a fine degree of inesse. The
following comments on the players
given in the C%ollegian, gives some of
the pertinent facts Of the game that
will phase Brookings people to know:
"In the back-feld Kennard, Dickin-
son and Roberts stood out from their
running mates because of their clever
foot work and open field running.
Kennard's ninety-yard run on the
kick of at the opening Of the second
half, brought the crowd to their feet.
Roberts did some neat picking OF
holes in off tackle plunges and end
runs that helped to pile up the score.
Willadson, who started the game at
full did some hard plunging and neat
interference until ne was taken out
because of an injured knee. BUS"
Walseth was hard luck for his oppo-
nents for he blocked the only chance,
In the third quarter Fleming, Aber-
deems left end, managed to block a
punt on States 40-yard line and re-
covered the ball with a clear field fol
the goal line. BUS" overlook him
before he had travelled twenty yards
and brought him to the ground with
a hard tackle from the rear. Both
Mccain and Fairburn did pretty work
at quarterback. In the line Kempley
and Towers at center both played a
strong game. Kempley was in every
play and did much in interfering for
his backfield. Towers helped meet
Aberdeen's attempt to score through
the air by blocking a number of
passes. Salisbury at tackle and Bacon
at end did much to open holes on the
left side of the line and to meet Aber-
deems offensive. Lippert, right tackle,
and Burdette right end, held up the
right flank of States line and made
it impossible for Aberdeen to gain
around that end. At guard Stanton
and D%althrop and Mckay who relieved
Dalthorp the second half, played a
strong game. Simonson who substi-
tuted for Stanton at guard and big
Joe Smith, who relieved Lippert at
right tackle, show promising material"
Indications point to a well balanced
team handled in quiet, but efficient
name Surprises may come in other
games and no doubt men will show up
lataer who today do not. Taken as
a whole the prospect is better than
any time since the halcyon days of
the late and beloved Jimmie" Tenn
pie. For a first game Coach Yves,
gives a promise of better things to
come that look good to old football
men of other days.