Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-26
E. PAT KELLY
SMONTANA'S
ESTARBlTER
Former Dartmouth Quarter
Referees Bulk of State
Gridirons.
Special to The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune.
Livingston. Oct. 25.-E. Pat heHy,
Livingston attorney and former GRO
iron star at Dartmouth college n the
State university, is proving a sensa1ion
as official arbiter at Montana foo.oaI
games this fall. Kelly has oftlclated as
referee at all the leading college con
tests in Montana this season ana he
has been in demand so much that ne
has been forced to cancel several en-
gagements in order to attend TO Dusl-
ness matters in Livingston.
Kelly is a keen student OF IootDa1
and the rules of the game and IS re-
garded as a master interpreter OF foot-
ball rules and regulations, old and new.
Daily Kelly receives letters asking his
viewpoint on the rules from coaches,
players and football fans in all parts
Of the northwest. =.
This season he has officiated IN the
following games: Montana State col
lege VS.. Billings Poly; Mount st.
Charles college VS.. Montana State col
Iege: Utah Aggie VS.. Montana State
college; Wesleyan college VS.. Montana
State college; University of Montana
freshman VS.. Montana State college
freshman: Idaho Tech vs.. Montana
State college freshman; Park county
high VS.. Montana State college fresh
man: Park county high VS.. Billings;
Gallatin county high VS.. Park county
high. -
Kelly will officiate at the Montana
State college-School of Mines game In
Butte Saturday. Montana Wesleyan
School of Mines contest IN Helena
University of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. State
college game and other contests be-
fore the curtain is pulled down on
Montana gridirons late in November.
Known throughout the northwest as
a strict Interpreter of the rules OF
football. he believes in enforcing them
no matter how disastrous it may prove
to An eleven. In several games this
year. Kelly has penalized teams witt
the onnonents in the shadow Of the
goal posts of the penalized players ane
while these penalties proved exceed
ingly costly to the offenders, no com
plants were voiced concerning the re
feree's work.
. r. Pat. football enthusiast, and h
/, is that in every sense of the word
nlayed quarter at Dartmouth in 1900
and 1909 and took part in games
against Harvard and other leading col
, leges of the east on the Big Greer
4 schedule. In 1912 and 1913 he played
e at the University of Montana. At tn
e time he was a teammate of Pau
Dornblaser. who, in Kelly's opinion
was one of the greatest football STAR
!. ever turned out in this country. Th'
world war claimed this Montana star
1 who died in France. Recently football
emblems. won at Missoula. and frater
/ nifty insignia. believed to have been re
; moved from Dornblaser's body by
German soldier. were recovered a1'
:, returned to his relatives.
g Dornblaser played on North Division
high school cams in Chicago when
youngster and at the time was pointe'
out BY Coach Alonzon Stage of tn
University of Chicago as the west
greatest high school player.
Referee Kelly, when the season i
' finished this fall, will have seen Mon
tana college teams in action in ever:
game played and he proposes to picl
, an all-Montana mythical eleven.