The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-11-09
H TEAM GETS ].
HARD WORKOUT
FOR DAVENPORT

BY .ALrBr AL,

WIN y u8IU tVU8us BossAS-tsAfE
prospect with Davenport NEXT Satr
urday, Roch Island Nigh settles
down to a week OF mean workouts.
with eight straight victories -
hind them the locals are expectiAe
to put up one of the hardest 'nEee<
against Davenport that = Rock ~
land team ever had. a's&.Astt
The Iovans have been victoe1 IN
the annual contest ever since 13e&
and the Islanders have . muleitudo
Of defeats, for which 70 get tez
venge. The closest that the locals
have come to defeating the Red a1d'
Blue machine was in 1915 when the
score was rs. The two team, were
about evenly matched that fall and
the game was one OF the hardest
ever played in these parts. 70, ~
Defeat An Annual HABIT VI
One reason why Davenport haS
COPIED so many victories in q row.
or at least it has been one Of the;
reasons for the last few years. Is
that everybody, even the team. e4s'
poets to get a drubbing. Rock Is-s
land has been in the habit OF GET
ting beaten SO long that the defeat
has become a fixed institution and
everyone expects it.
This year, however. things ara
different. The present team is the
strongest that has ever represent
ed the school for at least five years.
An idea of what the team really 10
cannot be gotten from the showing
in the Moline game. The squad
was playing its worst In that battle
and it was only Duncan's brilliAnfa
runs that saved the day. "a
The team that played Sterling
last Saturday would have played 3
rings around the Islander squad that
met Moline the week before. All 'uA
the men played hard and there VAS
None Of the tagging. that comeaI
from late hours, that was SO cpl
parent in the Moline battle. 80 30
Sterling a Strong Team. i4Ea9
There have been rumors around
that the Sterling squad was weak.
and that the Islanders should have
beaten by q large score. In reality
the Sterling team was every bit as
strong as the Rock Island team.
The Sterling men have not lost
a game this year and have won al
Of their games so far with the ex-.
ception Of the Rock Island battle
by top-heavy scores. The Sterling.
mentor has developed a passing at
tack that was better than any the
islanders have run up against yet,
They fought all of the time and tho
locals had to work harder to de-
feat them than they did in the Mo-.
line battle. -.7N
The Rock Island squad will enter
the game Saturday with dope
slightly against it II comparative
scores can be depended upon. In
the first game Of the year Daveli-
port defeated GeneseO by the seokA
Of 1876 in Davenport Three wDe1D
ago the Islanders met and wailoped
Geneseo by a 7-3 score BY It'd
method OF reasoning Davenport
should win by slight margin
<Genese0 No Criterion. sta
Fans who saw the Rock Island
Geneseo battle. however. are mot
downhearted over the scores. T16
battle was played In the rain 0ut
gridiron that in spots resembied
plowed field. The Islander backs
were too light to make much by
smashing through the heavier
Geneseo line and were hindered by
the wet ground from making gains
by speed. II the field had been
dry the islanders would have won
BY three touchdowns at least.
Although Davenport won the bat
tie against Clinton last Saturday it
Twas hard fought game all around.
Several of the Clinton men were in
jured as were also two or three Of
the Davenport players. 1t was re-
ported that Layden, the Iowan
fash. had suffered dislocated
shoulder. Islanders are not count
ing on Davenport cripples as those
4 cripples usually are pretty lively
i men by the time the game starts.
All Boys In Good Form.
All the Rock Island players came
out Of the Sterling battle In fine
form None of the men were in
jured throughout the game and ara
feeling fit to play a whiriwind game
against the Iowans.
DENVER PRODUCT.