The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-10-23
STATE WIN AGAIN
BY SMALL SCORE
METHODISTs SHOW STRENGTH
AND STATE FAILS TO COME
BACK STRONG
THE DOWCTORY D|sAPPOMTs MANY
Poor Form Of State Duplicated BY
High School When They Lose Game
at Madison BY Small Score.

B~rookings football fans of the young
err generation were much disturbed
by the results of last Saturdays games
played by Brookings teams. or
course the loss of the game by the
High school at Madison was the worst
men on the hill are peeved because
State College did not trim the Da-
kota Wesleyan team up by an awful
score. OF course the victory of the
Methodists over the Sioux Falls Bap-
lists had led everyone to expect them
to be a very strong team and that
the game here would be a fight to
the finish. 1t was a coed fight in
many ways, as the visitors showed
strength and gameness, and they
stayed in the game to the last min
ute. The college rooters are grabbing
because State showed so few signs
of football knowledge and allowed
Wesleyan to pull a couple OF shoe
string plays. States men are charged
with not playing the game they were
capable of. That is only a matter OF
opinion, as the team was undoubtedly
working under the direction of their
coach and did just enough to handle
the situation. Either that or they
were laying down on the coach and no
one is going to ecu State men of
being that kind of players. This is
only the second game of the year and
Coach West is handling a lot of men
new to him. He is taking few chances
of pulling "boners" and he Is evil
IDENTIFY running the team himself. This
is like it was in the days of that old
master of trainers, Jimmy Temple,
and the old boys who remember him
and his decided ways that led to vic
tory every time will not fear the wis
dom and plans of a q who ap-
~parently knows his business and mas
the backbone to manage matters the
way the thinks best. Football was
never won by playing that was con-
ceived at a round table discussion.
1t always depends on the generalship
and ability of one man and that man,
the coach. No one ever fails to give
due and warm credit to the men who
execute the work planned, all honor
to them and their spirit and strength,
but the real cruz of the matter lays
in the head and determination OF the
coach. What is needed always in
football games, is the unswerving 10y
- H. % RI thu nnonh MO
expect State to do that, and no mat
ter if the rooters, the outsiders and
the generation all shout loud
in criticism of the way things are be-
ing handled, the only way to victory
is to obey orders, work hard and de-
liver the goods as called for. No
game in the whole field of athletics
calls for a greater degree of blind
obedience than does football. In view
of all this we believe the team will
stick right to the game as ordered,
follow directions implicitly, and in the
end bring home the bacon and the
whole rind, tail and all. We believe
the team is loyal, and what Is needed
to help the next move, is the loyalty
and altogether support of the root
ers and fans. Boost, don't crab, There
is little to tell about the game from
a descriptive standpoint. 1t was
ragged, showed no form and was just
a victory for the home bunch. We
rather expect that is all that is was
intended to be. AS the sporting edi-
tor of the Register has a kind Of hazy
idea of the end for which Coach West
IS aiming, this paper is perfectly will
ing to be satisfied with victories fol
State, no matter how imperfectly the
game is played. There is more de-
pending on the outcome Of this sea-
sons football games than the salts
faction of the rooters with the way
every game is played.