The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1920-10-21
BLOODTHRSTY
LOCALS WIN ONE

llilnor High School Football Team
No Match for Oakes in Hard
Fought Game
FIRST VICTORY IN TWO YEARS
First Taste of Blood Whets Appetites
OF Oakes Athletes
The Oakes high school football team
got its first taste Of blood last Friday
afternoon when it sunk it's fangs deep
into Minors jugular vein and Tapped
up some SO gallons of gore. Grrrrrrr!
Wool! After this introduction to the
red corpuscle as an article of diet, the
boys all claim that they are real, hon
est to goodness man eating tigers
from now on. The tale of the carnage
was something as follows:
Oakes kicked off to Minor. Ed
Hazel booted the oval in a beautiful
parabola lat least that's what it might
have been for all we know. It's good
word, whatever it means.) It sailed
far over the heads of most of the Mil
nor team, lighting where anyone was
MT, just inside the goal line. It took
big bounce over the line, where Mil
nor elected to play it safe instead Of
trying to run it back. The Cakes
team was down under the ball, and the
chances were that they would have
downed their opponent behind his own
goal line had he elected to run.
The ball was carried out to the 20
yard line and put in play. On the first
play. Minor fumbled. About that time
Roderick Liddell yawned and decided
to take nap until things got more
interesting. He stretched himself
over several acres of the field and pro-
ceeded to enjoy himself. The rest Of
them couldn't go on with the game,
however, because they couldn't find the
ball anywhere. At last the referee
came over and very rudely prodded
into wakefulness the recumbent Sir
Roderick Dhu. When he had hoisted
himself into perpendicular position
the ball was discovered under him,
slightly flattened, but otherwise none
the worse for wear. @4s...
This gave Oakes the ball on Minors
Is yard line. On the first play Cap
tain Roney circled Minors left end,
and by some clever dodging gained for
himself the honor of making the first
touchdown for Cakes in the two sea-
sons Of football. Cakes missed goal.
Minor elected to receive again, this
time with better luck. After making
few inconsiderable gains, they lost
the ball on downs. Cakes carried it
down the field by series of end runs
and line smashes and one perfectly
executed forward pass. With their
backs to the goal, the Minor eleven
fought gamely, but to no avail. Look
ing the situation over, Hazel decided
that We cadaverous knight, yclept Sir
Archibald Fordyce, was the man Of
the hour; so he called fright tackle
back" formation. Archibald went
back, only this time he had the ball
cuddled under his right wing. But
when he got back to where he came
from, Archibald forgot to stop. Flat
tening out the Minor line under him
like juggernaut on rampage, Ar
chibald rolled serenely on and over
the goal line for the second touchdown.
Several of the Minor athletes were
spread out over the landscape so thin
that they had to he removed with a
spatula. Before they had recovered
themselves Oakes had kicked goal, and
the score was 1870.
The honors of the second quarter
went to, Minor, in spite of the fact
that Ed Hazel added touchdown, af-
ter which goal was kicked for an extra
a points to the Oakes score. In this
quarter the Oakes line resolved itself
into seven geometrical points separat-
ed by large distances Of empty space.
Through these spaces the Minor team
poured itself time after time, advanc-
ing the ball from Cakes 20 yard line
for touchdown, after a long series Of
successful plays. Minor had no end
runs, confning it's attack to line
smashes and forward passes.
This lone touchdown was the cause
Of much jubilation on the part Of the
rabid Minor fans. It was their only
opportunity Of the afternoon to re-
joice greatly, and they made the most
of it.
During the intermission between
halves Coach De La Hunt delivered
himself Of fervid grafton to his men.
The Oakes line was honored with spe-
rial mention. When the second half
began they. showed many more signs
Of life than they had during the sec
opd quarter. They were much less
ladylike, too. When they saw Mil
nor man coming their way they no
longer said, Pardon me, am in your
way?" Instead they sometimes de-
liberately got in the way, which was
almost rude Of them after the cour-
tesy and politeness they had showl,
during the earlier part Of the game.
Ed Hazel added one touchdown in
each quarter Of the second half. The