The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1921-10-20
OAKES H.S.LOSES
T0LIDGERWOOD
Locals Show Flashes of Speed ut Var.
i0us Stages of Game. But
Lack Punch
SCORE ONCE IN FINAL QUARTER

oNONh OiNSE I'm FINAL QORN En-
Will Play Glendale Team Next Sat.
urday Afternoon
From mere statement Of the score
Of the football game of last Saturday,
which resulted in 26-7 defeat for
Oakes at the hands of Lidgerwood, it
might appear that the game was
snap for the visitors. AS matter Of
fact the game most of the way
through was hard fought and close,
and but for few momentary lapses
on the part Of Oakes the score would
have been much closer. While it is
touchdowns, and not "ifs," that win
football games, there is some consol-
alton for the loyal fans of Oakes who
keep on backing a consistently losing
team with ever-increasing enthusiasm
and in growing numbers, that things
are looking up.
The two teams were about evenly
matched in weight, but Lidgerwood
had faster men, and more of punch
in the emergency. Moreover, they
were not caught mapping. Coming
from the home of such galaxy Of
football stars as have been developed
in Lidgerwood, it is possibly not to be
wondered at that the visitors dis
played keener football sense than
was evinced by the local eleven, with
no great traditions Of the past to .em-
ulate.
After the infantile showing made
by the local team against LaMoure on
Wednesday, the size Of the crowd that
turned out to witness Saturdays bat
tie was surprise to everyone. Sew
eral hundred rooters, including large
delegation from Lidgerwood, paved
up the turf along the sidelines. For
tunately, North Dakota has an mex
haustible supply Of good, fresh air,
for many a cubic foot Of the ozone
was used up in frantic bellowings,
cheering and song. Good sportsman
ship and friendly rivalry prevailed.
and there was no repetition Of the re-
grettable incidents that marred the
spirit Of the sidelines in the earlier
game of the week.
One Of the glaring faults Of the
Oakes team has long since been fail
ure to get going before being con-
fronted by the certainty Of defeat.
After the opposing team has trampled
them into the dust for a while, the
worm turns and shows its teeth (if
worms have teeth to SNOWY It seems
to take touchdown or two over their
goal line to bring to the local athletes
the realization that it is a football
game, and not a pink tea or society
reception to which they have been in
vited.
j Saturdays game was no exception.
The first quarter started out with the
Oakes line meekly lying down and
asking to be trod upon, or politely
stepping aside to let the visiting gen.
tlemen pass on with the oval, and the
backfeld, not to be outdone, did what
tackling could not be avoided in q
most apologetic and dainty manner.
Occasionally they became so rude that
they actually mussed up an eyebrow
for one Of the opponents.
OF course, with the eleven Cakes
sleeping beauties cluttering up the
field, Lidgerwood's progress toward
the goal was somewhat impeded, so
much so that it took all of the first
quarter to reach the line. On the last
play before the whistle blew Cause
maker breezed through the Oakes line
for the first touchdown. Goal was
kicked, making the score TO.
u The exuberant screaming of the ju-
bilant Lidgerwood rooters apparently
aroused several of Captain Hazel's
athletes from their nap, for in the
second quarter Oakes outplayed their
enemies. During the quarter Oakes
made five first downs, and succeeded
in advancing the ball as far as Lidger-
woods 15-yard line. Here they lacked
the punch to get any farther, and on
the fourth down Hazel dropped back
and tried for field goal, but the kick
} went wide. Lidgerwood made but two
} first downs during this quarter, one
Of these resulting from successful
10-yard forward pass. The half ended
with the score still 10.
The third quarter was largely rep
etition of the second. First one side
would have the ball, then the other,
the play seesawing back and forth in
. midfeld. 1t began to look as if that
one touchdown Of Lidgerwood's was
} the only scoring of the day. Near the
) end of the quarter. with the ball in
! Lidgerwood's possession on the Oakes
, 30-yard line, they decided to try for
ward pass. An Cakes man jumped up
r and batted the ball out of its course.
2 One after another of the players on
either team batted it around like a
volley ball, until it suddenly fell into
, the arms Of Hajny, the Lidgerwood
{ center. He was so astonished that
he did not know what to do with it,
and had started to put it down on the
: ground when someone yelled from the
{ sidelines, "Run, you poor fish" Will.
e ing to accommodate, he ran half