The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-09
Grid FAME OF
INDEPENDENTS
FAR-REACHINC
BeIoit Fairies Imagine They Held
Rock Island to a Score
less Tie.

compare their merits with those OF
the Islanders.
The Waterloo Athletic club has
said the Independents weren't much
by clubbing them a stable piece
Of cheese" while Olson's Al-Stars
of Sioux City are proud to class
themselves near "a par with the 49,
landers because of 10 to VIC
tory over the Minneapolis Marines,
but the latest to be heard from are
the Beloit, Wis, Fairies. The fol-
lowing story and comment was
clipped from the Dixon Evening
Telegraph of Dec. 6, it having TAX
en- the account from the Beloit
Daily News OF Nov. % We are re-
printing it with the thought in view
that it is interesting off-season
reading for Rock Island fans. Con-
zelman. Hanson, Novak and Woenis
were the only Rock Island men
who played with Dixon. Hanson
is crediated with being from Notre
Dame:
"Blaisdell Gates in the Beioit
Daily News of last Monday gives a
weird account of the game played
at Browns field in this city, Sun
day. Nov. II. Under the head. 'Ro-
chelle Hires Fairies; Dixon Gets
Rock Island: Veteran Teams Stage
One OF Best Games of Year in
Vicious Co. he says:
This is the moving tale of how
big time football was yesterday
brought to a small town gridiron,
and of the Vaccinations of the
cross and the double-cross as en-
gineered by Dixon and Rochelle
football managers.
More than 1000 Dixon and Ro-
chelle football bugs yesterday fore
gathered around the Dixon gridiroE
to see teams OF the two towns
clash in the final of a three game
series. Rochelle had won the first
game, on Armistice day, 8 TO 0.
Last week Dixon and Rochelle went
to a scoreless tie.
The Gross"
But yesterday most Of Rochelle
went down to Dixon Rochelle
fan with a large, loud grin but poor
" concealed up his or her sleeve.
For had not Rochelle manager hir-
ed the entire Fairbanks Morse foot
ball eleven from Beloit, Wis, to
He had!
But the grins shrank in size and
loudness when Dixon was reached,
for each and every Rochelle fan
was met by each and every Dixon
fan. And did not each and every
Dixon fan himself or herself have
concealed up his or her sleeve a
large and loud grin OF his or her
own? They did!
And ~DOuble-Cross.7
And all for the simple reason
that the Dixon manager had gone
out and hired himself most of the
Rock Island Independent team-to-
gether with a pair of guards said
to have played the entire season
with Coach Rockne's Notre Dame
aggregation.
And when the two teams lined
up on the field, fans of each side
had well-founded bunch that they
were about to see some struggle.
They did,
To ScorelesS Tie.
One hour and some odd min
utes after the referees whistle had
sounded to start the combat, the
two elevens called it day. And
/ the score was 0 to 0.
''Rooters who, tipped off in ad-
vance. went down to Dixon yester-
day are claiming that the clash
was one of the most viciousIy
fought. brilliant and well managed
football games that has been play
ed on a professional gridiron OF
the middle west this fall. Dixon
Calias Rock Island) had the edge
during the first half Rochelle
talias the Fairies) had the balance
in the final two quarters. But
neither team was able to get close
enough to the enemy goal line to
make the astonished rooters believe
that a score was imminent.
Who Laughed Lastl
After the game. Dixon and Ro-
chelIe rooters spent most of their
time shaking the shrunken grins
out of their sleeves. It was a good
Joke-all right. But neither side
was sure on whom the laugh really
was,
'.Beloit (we1l call the team right
from now on kicked off to Rock
Island at the start of the game.
And before the Fairies could stop
them. the. great backfield of the
Arsenal city eleven had ployed
through the Beloit tackles and
around the Beloit tanks until the
ball rested on the 15-yard line.
Then Beloit held-and Witte show
ed the Rock Island men what sort
of stuff they were going to have to
overcome when he kicked a mighty
punt that sailed in the air for we'll
over 70 yards.
Jimmy Councilman, former
Great Lakes star, caught the ball
just on the near side OF the 20 |
yard line, took two steps, and was
crashed to earth by vicious tackle |
made by Zeibel. The teams lined !
up on Rock Islands 20-yard line, |
and never again was Rock Island |
able to penetrate nearer the Beloit |
line than the 25-yard mark.
Rock Island was out to win. and |
no mistake. The backheld incIud- |
ed Novak, Johnson. GfIlifn and
Councilman. Other Rock Island |
players were Woen1g at right end,
Healey at right tackle, Kennedy at !
LEFT tackle and Mensfee at left |
end. Dixon, who played center for
Dixon, was the only hometown
he Is the same Dixon
who starred with Notre Dame three
years ago. The two guards-yho
were said to be Notre Dame piav-
ers or this years squad-gave thsfr
names as Hanson and Shrock.
which meant nothing at all.
Sovak Real Star.