The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-09-26
NEWPORT WAS
WEAK OPPONENT
Spaulding High Piled Up
40 to 0 Score in the
Opening Game
VISITORS HEAVY
BUT RATHER SLOW
Home Team Showed Up
Well Despite Presence
of New Men

1910!
No. it's not telephone number nor
suit size. Just simply what the
scorer found on his card when the
whistle blew at the end of the last
period of the Spaulding Newport game
SATURDAY afternoon. Need it be SAID
under which column the 40 appeared
Spaulding has lot to pat itself on
the back for even though the Newport
team didn't put up very sim DAT
tie.
Every Spaulding man played an air
tight game. Veterans and newcomers
alike, they were all on their toes every
minute of the afternoon and there
wasn't a one who didn't plug and tus-
ale like a three year star. As conse-
ouence, the touchdowns came so fast 1t
was some Job to keep track OF them
all. Outweighed in practically every
position, the Barre boys made their OPP
ponents duck and sidestep time after
time by their slashing play. And, mind
you, every bit of it was good clean
playing.
The Newport eleven was the first
turned out at the border city school
since 1913. They went out for hrst
practice three weeks ago. For that rea-
son the total football experience OF any
on the team was three. weeks OF prac-
tice. Despite this, however, the visitors
never once could be accused of laying
down. They we're simply carried OIL
their feet by the whirlwind game put
IN by Spaulding. Presenting line
which contained one 200 pounder and
100 man, the Newport team looked
about as mobile as the side OF the de-
pot. -.
That didn't scare the Spaulding lads
much, however, because it took only
one minute of play to make painfully
anparent the scores of holes and lacks
which the other outfit held. And
Spaulding just nacherly waded
through.
Not once after the first whistle were
the local boys in danger. Newport was
forced to play purely defensive game
and was at no time within 20 yards OF
the Spaulding posts. And right here
let it be said that the Newport plea
of inexperience didn't gather much
sympathy from the home crowd as the
new -comers on Spaulding played stel-
lar football, they also having had only
three weeks practice
1t isn't quite right to mention the
work of any particular man because
the whole Spsulding crowd did mighty
we'll However, if stars must be chosen
then the honors will 90 to O'Leary,
CALI, Watkins, Bradley and Slayton.
CALI showed up like a collegian. He
went around the ends like a streak and
was 10 yards away before the New
port boys could catch their breath and
dive after him. Once he made won
derful l5-yard run but lost it through
interference. This was the only pen
atty imposed on Spaulding. Newport
also received only one penalty, five
yards for off-side. CALI further added
to his laurels by recovering tumble
of a forward pass and dashing away
for a touchdown.
OIeary put the pigskin across the
line twice for Spaulding and showed a
perfect eye in making all the kicks. He
didn't miss one as the score shows.
Then Watkins also scored twice, the
last time after making beautiful Is
yard dash practically through center.
'Slayton duplicated this run and also
added a tally to the rapidly fattening
SpauIding total. Bradley pushed across
for the other.
The first touchdown was made in the
first two minutes Of play and came
after Slayton had made a l5-yard run
to the two-ysrd line. O'Leary did the
rest after the first down. Then things
came fast and handsome and at the
end of the first half the score stood
Spaulding 2l up. The visiting lads
seemed to have lost heart in the third
and fourth periods although they con-
tinued trying hard to break the on
slaught of Spaulding. No offensive
plays were introduced, however, and as
the Newport defense was most obvi-
ously weak Spaulding found little
trouble in adding 2s more. The lineups: