The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-28
One Of the Big Games on keokuk High
Schedule Will be Played Satur
day With Illinois Team as
Opponents.
BURLINGTON TO FOLLOW
Coaches and Teams Have Lesson in
the onside Kick Which Defeat
ed Iowa a Couple of Weeks

high school schedule Will be played
here Saturday with Carthage as the
opponents of the Purple and White
squad. Following Carthage comes
Burlington, another good team, and
one which should prove an attractive
game to the fans. Carthage won from
fKeokuS in the game played there.
earlier in the season. Burlington has
recently been defeated by Fort Madi-
son. While comparison of scores
does not mean anything final. 1t does
give some line on relative strength,
and the rooters may be able to gather
some idea of the strength OF Fort
| Madison and Keokuk, in advance of
! their meeting on the local gridiron
/ on Thanksgiving day.
/ Carthage has good ream this year
built around Clark, a brother of the
/ famous Potsy Clark or the Illinois
champions three years ago. Clark
has been little whirlwind all season.
! However, with records of three sue
cessive victories behind thems and
! improving every day, the locals
! should win Saturday. The game may
! be as hard fought as was the Fair
| field clash, but Keokuk, should be the
winner Fort Madison plays Fair
! field on their own grounds this Sat
/ urday.
Get Man With Ball.
Walter Eckersall, the greatest
quarterback Coach Stage of Chicago
ever developed, points to the lesson
! of Iowa's defeat over week ago by
( Illinois, saying always tackle the
man with the ball no matter what is
happening" 1t was revival OF the
onside kick that beat Iowa. From
all the publicity that is being given
this play, it's going to be wonder
! if some of the high school teams
don't spring it before long. fast
man who can stay onside when the
ball is kicked, and who can get down
the field under it, can make monkeys
of the opposing team.
| Eckersall in his review of the affair
says:
| Failure to tackle the man with the
ball regardless of the sound of
whistle or horn, or at any other time
as long as the runner is in the field
.of play, has resulted in the loss of
fseveral important games. Games will
Fcontinue to be lost unless the coaches
drive the point home that the man
with the ball must be tackled at all
times.
| 1t was rather unfortunate that
Iowa should make the fatal error, as
it's teams have been among the best
F.! in Hawkeye football history in the
last two years. The onside kick sell
dom has been used in late years and
! it was only recently that the writer
commented on the adyisability of
using the play, which IS one of the
IL, ~, A,1l
result successfully for the team
idisastrously-
How Trick Turned.
Before the Illinois-Iowa game the
writer, who was referee OF the game.
asked both coaches if. they had any
plays which should be watched care
fully. Coach Jones Of Iowa, said he
did not while Zuppke warned the
officials of the onside Kick and told
them just how it was executed. AS
the teams lined up for the play, Half
Back Walquist signaled to the
referee he was the man to be onside.
| watched him carefully, as did
Knight, the head linesman. When
Mohr punted the ball, Walquist was
fully yard behind him. The kick
was high, and Kelly, the Iowa quar-
ter back. apparently played 1t safe by
allowing the ball to hit the ground
and never dreamed of an onside kick.
Valqoist went down unuer the kick
like streak and picked IT up on the
bound.
AS the Illinois back picked up the
ball, Kelly should have tackled high.
Instead he permitted WaIquist to
scamper over the line for touch
down. The play was cieverIy exc
cuted and left no doubt the onside
kick will be attempted in other
games this season, which will make
it imperative that the back field men
ieither handle the ball accurately, or
tackle the players who recover the
ball on any kind of plays.
OHIO COLLECTS
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