Weekly journal-miner., 1920-11-10
By CROSS BUCK


 Phoenix didn't merely prick 1t. The
 Coyotes hit it with an aXel Out weighed and, outplayed, but not for one second of the sixty minutes of scrimmage outgamed, Prescott high schools football team went down to
 defeat before the powerful Phoenix Union high eleven at East Lake Park this afternoon by a score of l81 to 0.
 From the first five minutes of play 1t was evident that the issue was not who would win but how much would Phoenix win by. In Capt Gilliland, Rosser and Village, the Coyotes Ihave the fastest, flashiest backfield going, take it from the Prescott coaches
 There was simply no stopping this terrifying triumvirate. And of the trio, Gilliland was by far the most dazzling. As we drift back across the hazy track of many hay yester- Idays we don't recall a secondary school star with greater versatility.
 He has power, speed, fight, stamina, observation-disclosures and unyielding courage. He IS as slippery as a greased eel, as strong as an enraged elephant, as fast as frightened deer.
 Now that the slaughter is matter of history there is no need to con- 'ceal the fact that Prescott's whole defense was centered around boxing off Gilliland. It was frankly admitted by Napier that if ever less than three men were between him and the goal post a touchdown would be in- evitable.
 So the scheme devised was to shoot forward passes away from Gilliland, to punt away from the doughty valley captain and to box him in when Phoenix was on the offensive.
 But Coach Robinson threw mon key wrench in the machinery He shifted the gigantic Rosser from fullback to halfback so that on the defensive Phoeinix had no weak ! wing. This killed Napier's aerial at tack-his only chance to score-for it did no good to avoid Gilliland if | one had to bang into Rosser's 1S0 | pounds of football flesh.
 Tn the scoring Gilliland doesn't | show up like the mountain he was Neither does Rosser for that matter But take these two battling babies out, and you would have been read ing a different story.
 It is lots easier to judge from the | safe security of the side lines than it IS on the field after you've been flattened by a half ton of human flesh, and SO our criticism of what might have been done to ward off the avalanche is hardly in order l
 The Badgers played the best they l knew how It wasn't a soft and i soothing afternoon for Phoenix de- spite the score. Prescott fought 1 every foot of the way. Not an inch | of uncontested ground did the Bad gers give. As a result two Badgers had to be carried off the field Bradley with a badly battered leg and Poe with a head wound
 It was thought that Bradley'S leg was broken but tonight it was an nounced that there was no fracture. Poe on the other hand was badly l. done up, and it is doubtful if he will play again this season. He sim ply played himself out.
 Rosser just crumbled the Prescott defense. This colored kewpie twenty pounds more than the heaviest Badger player. and sixty pounds heavier than Jack Mills whose end he turned so frequently and so effectively.
 Imagine bucking this colored Col ossus. Why, he would put fear into the heart of a Harvard lineman!
 The game had hardly begun before his Senegambian sensation showed i, ust how much he was going to fig ire in the days doings. Prescott licked off and Millage returned the 9all to the 32-yard line Rosser vent around Gil Rees' end for three yards.
 Coaches Napier and Thomas heav- d a sigh of relief. Well, maybe IC his towering tar baby could be { stopped. A few more plays and he vas ordered to try right end. He banged and slammed his way forty ards to touchdown! Gloom set Y led on the Prescott bench. i
 It is not our purpose to recount 7, he distressing details of those eleven ouchdowns that followed They we're all similar to tse first. Sweep ng end runs interspcrsed with neat lr y executed forward passes followed h me another in endless monotony. Prescott was simply outclassed.
 Only once did Prescott threaten to ' core. The northern champions got l. he ball to the F yard line and then s ost 1t on an intercepted forward 7, ass.
 And if their scoring opportunities | we're few their defensive stands were Ir qually scarce Once they made eroic rally and held the Coyotes for towns. On another occasion when 'hoenix was forced to rescind fif- cen yards for holding in the line ,Iillagc had to punt out of danger.
 But these bright spots were few nd far between. For Phoenix the Iv utcome was a prcconccived ccr- A ainty-a cinch. It was a glorious c ootball day and only a small part of iY he l.6OO persons present were dis Fc ppointed over the outcome. r
 No one expected a rout. No one V elicved that the Badgers could be q