The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1921-11-04
THE DUCKS" PROVED
AT HOME IN MUD
AND WATER
Wentworth Defeated ID to O..
Rained Throughout The
Game.
From The W. M. A. Trumpeter.

From The W. NJ. A. Trumpeter.
1t was a good day for ducks! And
that's what the Chillicothe Business
College calls their team. At any
rate, upon the muddiest field since
Noah's food, C. B. C. defeated Went
worth IA to 0, and the biggest star
on the business college aggregation
was old j. Pluvius. When that in
dividual turned loose his deluge the
hopes of W. M. A. went glimmering.
And there you have in a nutshell
the whole game at Chillicothe.
But laying all joking aside (only
it isn't a joke to us), it began to rain
in Chillicothe at 7 a. m. The down
pour continued throughout the game.
At times during the contest one
could hardly see across the gridiron
for the rain. The field was a soupy,
slippery, sticky mass of mud ankle
deep. Did such weather conditions
help Chillicothe? They did. Ac-
cordmg to their own score card, their
team averaged one hundred and sew
enty-fve pounds to the man. Went
worth averaged only one hundred and
fifty. The business college had four
men who weighed over two hundred
and ten pounds. Their team was of
the slow, smashing, driving type. w
NJ. A. had a light, fast, shifty team,
depending upon speed and forward
passes The result is obvious. The
heavy rain and deep mud made pass
es and speed out of the question,
but they did not materially hinder
Chillicothe's beefy attack.
Coach Wlkoff said that his men
played a good game. He had no COM
plant whatever to make. They fought
their heavier opponents like demons
and every mar played alert, fighting
football.
Chillitothe's first touchdown came
in the second quarter. With a strong
wind at his back, a Chillicothe punt
err got off an unusually good kick,
considering the rain, which sailed o.
yer Bradfeld's head. The ball had
enough momentum to carry it across
the goal line, but it hit in a mud
puddle and stuck one foot from the
line, directly beneath the cross1bar.
Bradfeld had to punt out from a
cross his goal line, and the goal posts
bothered him. His kick was rather
poor and C B. C. came back. They
were held, however, and attempted
to pass. The referee ruled that Reid
interfered and gave the ball to the
Ducks" on w. M AS one-yard line.
Three line bucks by the beefy oppo-
nents failed to put the pigskin over
but on the fourth try they barely
made it.
Their second touchdown came in
the third quarter A tumble placed
them in position. Someone dropped
the slippery ball and about nine men
in succession tried to recover it by
fallingon it. But each time it would
"scoot" out from under the player
in the mud, always towards Went
worth's goal, until at last a C. B. c.
player managed to fall and hold to
it. In recovering this tumble Chill
icothe gained thirty-ive yards. A.
gain the w. M. A, line held until the
business men completed their only
pass of the game in the extreme
corner of the field for the touchdown.
Wentworth several times advanced
the ball into c. B. Ci.s territory, bat
each time the lighter cadets could
not bulge the heavy opponents in
the mud. The drive for the goal on
such uncertain footing was unsuc-
cessful. Once Bradfeld tried a drop
kick. The ball stuck in the mud,
refused to bounce, and he missed It
entirely with his foot. And SO it
ran.
Although we believe that the re-
suit would have been far different on
Va dry field land even c. B. c's most
rabid supporters admit the rain aid
ed them), yet Chillicothe has a good
team. They are heavy and strong
and have a smashing attack. Mill.