The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1920-11-11
LANCASTER HIGH
Defeats Hustonville IL
Score IL To q.


ieesie, score. one 70 'h, most inter
,,ure football guu,, ~ the season
was ths one nlay, Uu the local
ground. here last FRIDAY afternoon.
when the Hustouvlle team went
down Boz defeat by score u % Co q.
/ The Hustonvillo boys brought with
them o. good crowd " rooters. com
posed ~ many young ladie. and
Young men from che West end Of
Lincoln The visiting team must have
outweighed our boys by 90 least
eight pounds. though this seemed Co
have little effect upon our boys for
they interfered and tackled those
West -enders a. " they were mere
pigmies and did u effectively BY
score Of ~ to o. Stanford won over
this team few weeks ago. when
Hustonville had her best man out
but their best man was on hand last
Friday and the score resulted a.
shown above. The Hu-tonvil!c boys
are all fine fellows and come from
the best families Of that delightful
community. but they play pretty
rough football. in fact referee Geo.
Chinn. OF Center. told them about
il several times during the afternoon
but II seemed to have had little effect
a. some very rough tactics were used
in every period Of the game. Ian
casters goal was never in danger
more than twice during the four
periods. once when Hustonville lost
the ball on tumble on the ten yard
line. when Gene Cochran. who never
looses sight Of the ball. grabbed il
and ran ninety yards for the first
touchdown. The second time il was
lost by downs on the fifteen yard line.
The outstanding features Of the game
was the long run Of Cochrans. the
forward passes from Holtzclaw. to
Sanders. Cox to Holtzclaw and Holtz-
claw 20 Cox. all netting heavy gains.
This afternoon our boys will play
the crack team Of the Lexington High
School and il will be just as good as
the game las; Saturday but the score
may not he so large.
Speaking Of foul tactics used in
football games by some teams and
some people wondering who is re
sponsible for such tactics. Alfred T..
Ross, in a recent article says: Are
the players Of a football team each
individually at fault when foul tao
ties are employed? No. they are not
nor is the captain. Primarily. inn
mediately and remotely the blame
can be hinged on the coach.
There are men who have not
enough individuality or backbone TO
order offending players permanently
off the field when they are inclined to
make fouls. And there are many.
many men who are not lacking in
power to deal harshly with wrongdo-
ers, but whose morals Of manhood are
corrupt rs well. for they actually en-
courage low down. sKulking tricks
wish TO remind all people that
when individuals of team stoop
down 70 employ undrshanded and de-
testablc trickeries the wishy- washy
person known as the coach il to
blame, and he should be fired" at
once,
"A person. who as coach. instructs
his players to down" a good man Of
the opposing side because he is afraid
his team will receive an honest whip
ping through the efforts cf the one
good man. Is kin to polecat! Such
a person is literally a jelly-fsh in
moral structure. And like jelly-fsh.
he can be moved in any way that the
tide. !. G., the supporters Of the team
see nj to move him. Such person
is a degraded pawn Of the whimsical
mob! So finally a teams sense Of
sportsmanship reflects upon the char
acter ~ the crowd to which IL belongs
because, obviously. such a coach fol
lows its desires
But way Of comment We have in
the foregoing an excellent psyche
logical experiment II the psyche.
logist will look into the bottom of a
dirty" team, his probe will reveal a
shady" coach and gang Of sup
porters. descendants Of a race, many
OF whom were all but good sports"
"A team cannot long endure that
employs foul tactics neither can
coach not here at least r we're bet.
ter, indeed, lay aside the white dag
OF truce, II such condition is 20
transpire. for the spirit Of Fair Play
has determined to die with the sword
in its hand"