River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-11-11
Last Fridays Game Showed Teams
Evenly Matched-Penalties
Handicapped the Locals

Although Stevens Point made the
best impression in the first quarter
of last Fridays title tilt here, River
Falls, in the "box score" had wide
margin of yardage in advancing the
ball, but the Red & White also had
tfA penalty jinx in sufficient force to
offset that advantage and the game
resulted in a scoreless tie.
The visitors threatened right on the
jump. They kicked off and after
falkland had returned it 25 yards,
River Falls was penalized Is yards
for holding, and then the Point re-
covered the ball on the local 30 yd.
line. They were unable to gain and
tried drop-kick, which failed.
On the second play River Falls was
again penalized, and the ball was on
the locals 7-yd. line. The punt out
from behind the goal was recovered
by Morgan, and from that time on
the Point was never closer than River
Falls 25-yd. line. They had the ball
that close times, and after failure
to gain through the line, attempted to
drop-kick, but each of four attempts
to boot a goal was dismal failure.
The first quarter was played en-
tirely in River Falls territory, despite
the fact that the visitors only made
26 yards to River Falls So on line
plunges. The reason for this was the
fact that River Falls was penalized
four times for total of 81 yards, and
in each instance the penalty cancelled
a good long gain.
The second period was played in
mid-feld, and this too, found the To-
Gals seriously handicapped by penal
ties which totalled 80 yards and off
set gains of 20 and 80 yards.
j The Point made their best yardage
in the third period, making total OF
62 yards through the line, and having
five first downs to their credit. But
in spite of this, the play was evenly
divided on the field, for Gurnoe's
punting kept the ball across the CEN
ter line, and the locals always slowed
up the advance when it became dam
gerous. River Falls was denied fine
chance to score in this period when a
35-yd. pass from Chinook to Gurnoe,
was called back and River Falls pen
allied Is yards.
Soon after the opening of the
fourth quarter Billy Smith nailed a
pass for a 25-yd. gain, but the Of
ficials wouldn't stand for it, and River
Falls was paced back another 10
yards. River Falls smashed thru the
line and regained the lost territory,
and were going strong for a touch
down, when forward pass was call
ed and the toss hit the goal post and
grounded behind the line, losing the
locals a grand opportunity to score.
The play looked like bad piece OF
business, but the players explain that
the pass was meant to have been a
short one.
The Point punted out, after play
was resumed on her 2G-yd. line, but
the locals came right back and were
coming right up when time was called
and the game was over.
Gurnoe was again the outstanding
star of the game, but his honors were
closely contested by Morgan and
Murphy. Wilson was the Points de-
fensive star, while quarterback G.
Holmann, Capt. Bourn and full-baek
PAIL. made the be--tt showing on the
visitors defense.
In support Of cur contention that
River Falls showed the greater power
in attack, we submit the following
data, from a play-by-play account OF