Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-10-23
q Forks Wins
Ouer Grafton High
By Score of z TO o
Has Hard Time Get
ting Away With Victory
Over Scrappy Northern
Team; Game Was Ragged
and Pritchard's Men Did
Not Show Up Well; Sec
ond String Beats Mimic IL
to 0. ...,.

III games Saturday. On the way up
to Grafton in the forenoon the second
team stopped off at Mimic and defeat
ed h a high school IL to O.. In the
the regulars met Grafton
high at the northern city and won Z
to 0. |
Grand Forks had a close shave in
Its battle with easy Finnegan's tough
boys. 1t was expected that the locals
would win. and 1t was expected that
Grafton would put UP a hard battle,
but it was also confidently expected
that Central would get away with the
game by more than one lone touch
down. Contrary to dope, however,
the northerners fought Pritchard's
team to a standstill and at the last
minute threatened to tie up the count
and spoil Central's chances for the
district championship.
Central Starts Strong.
1t looked as though Central was
going to Pile up a good sized score at
the opening Of the game when Finne-
CAMS team was backed into it's own
territory the first quarter and before
1t closed McCracken broke through
tackle and raced. through the whole
Grafton team for a touchdown. Coul-
ter drop kicked for the extra point
LIN ~ SouLI Was Z " U. lndC was
the end OF the scoring, however. al
though Grand Forkssstarted several
rallies that looked good for touch
downs. In each instance they were
stopped though, short of scores.
The game was a ragged one. Both
teams fumbled often. Grand Forks
played the poorest game 1t has staged
for several weeks. 1t did no. look at
all like the smooth working machine
hat swalnped Devils Lake 4 week ago.
There was no interference and The line
played e~rratically. The only depart
ment that was up to standard was the
ends. Grafton vas unable to even
get a play under way around the
wings before the mar was spilled.
Boo Out OF lineup. z
The absence of Doe from the line
up probably accounts in q, measure for
h work in the backfeld. That. was
strengthened considerably when Sad
Ter was sen into the game. The
stocky youth showed up we'll and he
was the hardest man on the team to
stop when it came to hitting the line.
Grafton played everything against
the Grand Forks line until the latter
stages of the game. and was in a,
measure successful in gaining ground,
although the plunging backs were
stopped when they penetrated very
far into Grand Forks territory.
Guertin was the biggest ground gamer
for Finnegan, while Mach probably
shown brightest in defensive work.
Grafton tried one forward pass the
first quarter. which was intercepted by
jacob and paved the way for the only
score OF the game. On the first play
after Grand Forks had recovered
possession of the ball McCracken went
In Grafton Territory.
Play during the second quarter was
also in Grafton territory and just be-
fore the close Of the period Berge re-
covered a Grafton tumble and Central
worked a running criss-cross forward
pass, s%turtevant to Woutat and Wou-
tat went to Grafton's fifteen yard line.
Here Finnegan's men braced and took
the ball on downs.
Grafton forced the game in the
third period and had the oval in.
Grand Forks. territory during this
quarter
At the opening Of, the fourth period.
Grand Forks gained possession Of the
ball on Grafton's 40 yard line. Me-
Cracken made six yards, placing the
ballsdirectly In front OF the goal posts.
Coulter dropped back to the Al yard
linessand booted drop kick iover the
heads OF the Grafton players, bnt the
ball hit the cross bar and bounded.
Shoot Many Passes
Gtafton put the ball In play on her
sz1ssyard line and opened up with for,
spIsts ana Central regained the oval on
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