Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-10-09
TECH GRIDDERS
ENTER STRONG
UncOrk Real Football in Vic
tory Over Kirklin.

The attention and respect Of every high
school football team and coach In In.
diana will be shared by Coach Archie Ere
hart's Technical High School eleven be.
fore the 1890 season closes.
This conclusion Is easily arrived ct by
those who were lucky enough TO witness
the foOtbaiers from the east side IN
/ action against kirklin on Irwin field
yesterday afternoon. IL was Techs hrst
appearance on the grldiron and they pu'
over the first victory that has been
| scored by an indianapolis team IN twelv,
years, handing their opponents the shorl
side OF 81 to count
Erehart. besides having developed a
understanding mathine, has instilled his
youngsters with an all-American fighting
| spirit and, in the short time that he has
had 10 work, taught them to Aght theiI
battles in big league style.
Erehart evidently has overcome the
green" and inexperienced" PROPOSE.
tions shat tie local high school coaches
laced TINS year, and he can be expected
20 work wonders with the Green and
| White sound ia the future.
BACK FIELD MEN
SHOWED UP WELL.
Tech tried all styles of gridiron war
rare In yesterdays contest. on the Of
fensive, Nipper and Geiser were sent
pIunging through the Klrklin line time
AFTER time for big gains, while the speedy
Griggs of basketball fame seldom failed
when he was called upon to skirt around
the end, Ten and fifteenya gains were
Griggs scored three OF Techs touch =
downs. In Secrest Tech has n quarter
back who can toss passes exceptionally
well for high sehooler, and in Payne
aud Woolgar, mostly Payne, Tech has a
pair OF oidsters. T&rh tried four passes
and three Of them counted for from If
teen to twenty five yard gains.
In the first quarter the Kirklin lads
seemed to have the edge over Tech, keep.
ing the ball In scoring territory all the
time, but the Green and White defensive
ments and held their opponents for
downs Tech punted out of danger three
times In this period, which ended with
the ball on their twenty-yard line In
Tech played on the defense most Of
this period, but In the second they
swung into their offensive stride, and
toward the Victory. The first touchdown
OF the game was registered by the cast
slders In this period.
In the third quarter Tech came back
for three more touchdowhs, Nipper kick
ing goal after the last one. Kirkhn
scored her only points in this quarter,
carrying the ball down the field and
oyer the line with a series OF end runs
and off-tackle plays. Tech registered
again In the fourth period.
ENDS HAVE
REAL CLASS.
If there was one feature OF the game
more noticeable than any other 1t was
the work Of the Tech ends, Payne and
Woolgar. IL was these lads who broke
through for several pretty tackles that
halted the visitors when they seemed
about to score In the first quarter In
running down punts this pair also
showed more class than any high school
combination that has performed in In
dianapolis this season. They were down
with the ball every time and stopped
the receivers in their tracks the ma
jorlty of times. Payne made Techs
second touchdown of the third quarter
possible when he chased down the field
and grabbed off a punt that was poorly
handled by the Kirklin backs, being
stopped on Kirklin's hve-yard line. Nip
per then carried the iball over
The officials We're: Ed Davis. Ipdi-
ana, referee; Gully Thomas, Butler, hm-
pire, and Heze Clark, Indiana, head lines
man.