Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1921-11-30
DEBORAH IA
CRESCO 0.
Fast DEBORAH High School Team
Gave Their Old Rivals Nice
Trimming Here on Thanks
giving Day.
RECORD BREAKING
CROWD SAW GAME
Coach Kelton's Warriors Proved
Themselves Masters of Cresco
In All Departments.

With the same fighting spirit that
has prevailed throughout the sea-
son the powerful, well balanced foot
ball team of the DEBORAH High School
drove their ancient rivals from Cres-
co, down the field over the goal line
twice, which ended the interesting
contest of the Thanksgiving game
and the season with a score of l4-0,
at the fair grounds here. The well
drilled Decorah team was too much
for the plucky, hard fighting men
from Cresco and forced them to
leave the field with the small end of
the score to their credit.
For eleven years the Cresco men
were able to raise their heads and
sing the song of the victors, but with
the onslaught of the we'll trained
men of Coach Kelton's the tide was
turned and the victory came to
DEBORAH. DEBORAH was too much for
Cresco, was just the way things
stood. Cresco had the same fighting
and we'll drilled team of previous
years but the boys in the red and
blue3 uniforms were to much for
their opponents.
Despite the cold weather and the
lazy feeling after the Thanksgiving
dinner, there was a record breaking
crowd at the game. DEBORAH had
by far the best support of any game
played this season. Altho the Cresco
men were defeated, the representa-
tives of the Orange and Black were
not ready to give up. The men in
the field and the delegates on the
side lines fought and yelled as the
best of sportsmen until the last
whistle ended the game.
Capt. Olaf Visit, Decorah's center
was the youth who deserves the
credit for the star playing. Down
under the pile of men and playing
a position that could not be noticed
very plainly or applauded was the
captain of the red and blue. Visit
got his man and was on hand to get
more in every play he was needed.
His strong playing and the holes he
made in their line were individually
one of the biggest reasons for the
outcome of the game.
In the back field VIM. Olson was
another star in the eyes of the local
people. He made many of the yards
gained by finding some hole in their
line and hitting it with all of the
fight man can produce. Jewell
and Handley also produced the same
fight that has been shown up in all
of the games but were held back
to a certain extent because of the
Cresco men watching them very
carefully.
Alyger, quarterback for DEBORAH
made the only long runs in the game,
cnce making a forty yard run from
a complete pass and the other by re-
ceiving a pass and making an ex-
cellent play, freeing himself from
three tacklers, running twenty yards
for a touchdown.
Starting the game Cresco KICKED
off to Decorahs so yard line and was
returned twenty yards. The local
team started strong but was forced
to punt without making their first
downs. Through out the first quar-
ter it seemed as the game was to
end scoreless as neither team made
any large gains, the ball being be-
tween the two forty yards lines
practically all of the time. In the
second quarter Cresco weakened and
DEBORAH was credited with better
playing. All during the quarter the
local team outplayed their opponents
and near the end had them to their
twenty yard line. The punt that
Cresco was forced TO make was
blocked by one of their men, caught
by Grant, Decorah's end and carried
through for touchdown. The
seventh point was made by a per-
feet goal kick by Bert Henning.
With the beginning of the second
half it seemed as if Cresco had de-
cided TO get some points for them
selves, as they completely over
powered the DEBORAH eleven. During
the third quarter and a few mo-
ments of the fourth the ball was in
the territory of the red and blue.
Several times the boys with the
orange and black rings around their
sweaters threatened the goal of Their
opponents but were held back by
Decorah's stonewall defense. With
about eight minutes left to play the
home town boys again regained their
working power and gradually drove
the Cresco men into their own
ground and with one minute and a
half left to play a double pass from
Alyger to Olson and back to Ally
ger brought the other touchdown.