The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-11-26
Farmington High
Beats Perryyille

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game, Pennington High Schools foot
ball eleven added another victory to
its excellent record Thursday after
noon. The score was 33 to nothing.
The local team scored touchdown
within three minutes after the whis-
tie blew, Simms slipping off left tao
kle. Immediately after Perryville
kicked to Pennington, it became ap-
parent that Simms and Company were
out to wind up their undefeated sea-
son with a substantial victory. Dur
ing the remainder Of the game, Simms,
Denman, Graves and Garner, the
Pennington backfield, alternated in
end runs, off-tackle lunges, line
smashes and mighty we'll executed
criss-cross play. 1t was noted that the
local team possessed tackles back
shift play which was o cracker-j jack.
Not a single time when this play was
used was gain denied them. The
two LePere boys, at tackles, never
failed to open a hole, and on defense
Jack LePere, especially, was a
bear" When Perryville had the ball,
he bad nothing doing" sign out
and it was areal one. Tucker and
Simpson at guards did everything
that could be expected of them, and
towards the close of the game Simp-
son got the habit of breaking through
and downing the Perryville backs be-
hind the line. Ingram, at center,
played a close steady game. His
passing was good and his defense
work first rate. On the ends, Baker
and Gibson, who played most of the
game, showed willingness and
knowledge of busting up end runs
that would be hard to beat in high
school circles. Most of Perryville's
end runs were directed at Farming
tons left end, and never a single time
did Baker fail to go in, bust up the
interference and Denman nailed the
runner. In the last quarter, McKin-
nsy, went in, first, at end and after
wards at full back, handling both plac-
es in first-class shape. "The" Muir
ply was sent in, during the last quar-
ter, as substitute for Gibson, and
"The' was there with both feet. Nell
son, speedy little back-field man,
took Garner's place near the close of
the game, and made several off-tackle
lunges for good gains. Garner,
Graves, Denman and Simms, all
played hard, determined game; Simms
gained the most ground and it didn't
make much difference on what sort of
a play he got the ball. He ran ends,
hfC Fthe line cfiss-crossed, returned
punts and always, with one exception
when there was tumble, he gained
ground. According to our notion, he |
IS as good high school back field |
nan as Harrington has ever shown. |
In all, Pennington scored five
which were fairly well |
over the four quarters.
Simms made two on off-tackle plays
and one on a delayed line plunge;
Graves made one after receiving a
pretty forward pass and running thir-
y yards, and Denman added another
~ knitting his way through the line
Tor sixty yards, Two goals from
.ouchdoWns were missed.
Perryville shows several good indi-
iidual players, but their team work
vas nil. Keifner, at left half, made
several gains on ff-tackle runs, and
levine, who went into the game dur
ng the last quarter, made two pretty
md runs, twisting and lodging his
way through the Pennington defense
N one of these runs for almost twen-
y yards. At no time in the game
vas Farmington's goal line in dan
,er.
The game throughout was clean,
asst and hard.
Much Credit must be given to
Coach Halderman, of the local high
chool. His team showed the effect
If careful, clean and conscientious
oaching. The local boys went
trough the season without a defeat,
eight victories, PIT points to
heir opponents ia record that ev-
ryone of them and also their school
'ody can well be proud of. Here's
ur hats off to the team of 1920, and
ur hopes directed to the one of 1921.