The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-11-01
Defeated Montpelier High
School in Barre by the
Score of 81 to 7
'VICTORS PLOUGHED
LINE SUCCESSFULLY
Visitors Could Not Stop
Them Montpelier Scored
on a Long Trick Pass

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campus in Barre yesterday afternoon
when they defeated their twin city
high school team 2l7 in the best school
contest witnessed this year The last
quarter, which was so exciting and
favored with open plays, was played
long after old Sol had taken to his Sc
cluded haven beneath the hills Street
lights were glimmering on the campus,
and buildings nearby were brightly IL
Illuminated while these two teams
fought on with aggressiveness.
For everyone in the two schools this
was the game Of the season, or rather,
one of the two games of the season
for Spaulding plays return game in
Montpelier on Thanksgiving day pro-
yiding the weather permits. Hundreds
of students from Montpelier and
Spaulding displayed their school spirit
in school songs and cheers, oftentimes
to the discontinue of the players, who
found it hard to hear the signals of
the quarterback But, nevertheless, it
had its effects upon the warriors and
from the very first second of play 1t
seemed some great object was at stake.
About o'clock Referee James Sector
started the game and from that mo-
ment until 5;l5 the Lincoln gridiron
was the stage of clean and entertain
| ing football contest The game opened
with Spaulding receiving; the first
| tackle was made at or, rather, near
the 50-yard line Seye1al successive
and successful line plunges through
Montpelier's weak line allowed the
| home team to carry the ball over the
line in rather short period Of time
this being accomplished by Murphy on
a center rush
Montpelier then received the ball and
forfeited it when they could not make
the first down, Halfback Murphy for
Spaulding, whose plungeS through CEN
4 ter gained much ground made his first
| long gain with rush through center
in this same period and stopped after
gaining rs yards. Beauleu and Muir
ply then made appreeiable gains
through the gaps made by the formid
able Spauldng linesmen. The last
rush by Densmore ended just over the
goal line and again Densmore kicked
the goal just before the whistle ended
the period.
Now it seemed 20 the onlookers that
the game was going to be one-sided
affair, for in the first IL minutes Of
play Spaulding had secured Ia points,
and had held their opponents from
making the first down.
| But no sooner had the second period
opened than Montpelier came through
with thriller. The line OF scrimmage
was down near the 30.yard line. Quite
unnoticed. the fast little end, Jimmy
Dobbs, started off in clear field to
catch long, pretty pass from Quarter
back Smith and he was well on his way
when the local players realized he was
dashing Off a 65-yard run for a touch
down. Fullback Densmore was the
first to see him and attempted TO halt
him. He tackled the young end on the
fve-y yard line but he regained his feet
and carried the ball over. Smith kicked
] the goal.
| This was all done in a few seconds
and came so Unexpectedly that the
game had new aspect to the specta-
tors and became considerably more in
teresting In this same period Spauld-
| ing reached the ree-yard line and
lost on the fourth down, but again they
worked down the field with successive
center rushes and an occasional end
run for the third touchdown, carried
over by Murphy. Densmore kicked the
third goal.
As last resort Montpelier took va
rious chances in the last period to win
the game. Twice Quarterback Smith
worked the forward pass play to Right
End Lamperti for 25.yaTd gains. The
second time Lamperti had a clear field
but Murphy's speed was greater than
Lamperti's and the latter was overtak
en-. Again this play was worked and
this time a Montpelier player fumbled,
losing the ball to SpaRding, 1t was
almost impossible to see the plays in
the last part of the game because of
darkness.
Two dark horses in the home teams
| lineup undoubtedly earned for them
selves yesterday permanent positions
on the team Coach Ross suddenly
found Thursday that three good men
were unable to play because of in
iuries; consequently, someone had to
| I'll these positions, Clarence Carpen-
ter, who last winter starred in the bas-
1 ketball arena, took a chance at left end
and played his first game of football
! yesterday afternoon, which no doubt
will surprise many who watched him
make several good tackles during the
game, and the other dark horse was
| Clement Mcmahon. 1t was known that
he had played football with the Cam.
bridge Latin high school team in Cam
bridge, Mass, last fall and made a
good record as fullback, but since he is
carrying six studies he was not looked
for to appear in the lineup this season.
His chance came when Halfback Brown
sustained rather severe injuries to his
back last week. Mcmahon then came
out for practice and was given an OPP
portunity in the last period of the fea :
ture game yesterday relieving Dens-
more at fullback. Several times he
was noticed to cut a runner off at the
ankles, which, together with his line
work, set his standard high in the
coach's list of squadmen
The lineup:
Montpelier. Spaulding
Lamperti, re. ..........l lie, Carpenter
Ledden, t.........,.,...,~, lt, Ladd
Heney, ,........,....,.lg , Belyille
! Kane, c................,., O'heete
Jillson, g.............rg, Fleetwood
Bliss, t.................. .rt, Jones
| Dobbs, le. Greg
Smith, OBJ. .qb, Smith