The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-11-27
ISLANDER CANE
IS QUESTIONED
La SALE Kn
Crimson Has Big Disp,h NJ
Miners; All Set for Id
Day Fest Out Of Tevr
BY NAT GEISMAR

HOW badly was Rock Isl,nd &
feated by Colchester? Va s..
Island defeated by COLCHESTER;
These two questions are n....
most in the minds of Rock ill.,.
football fans when it became i..I
with the returning Of the I,i,s.
squad late Saturday night th,, =.
first Colchester score haA Is.
made three and half minute. a
er the first half en6ed. aeco,a ~.
to the timers own declaration. -
the locals had scored in 8. -.
quarter but the referee held ~
Rock Island had only six me, /.
the scrimmage line because on. !,
the Crimson had not had his h,,.
on the ground.
Coupled with the rumor that n,
chester had one or more nro,..
sional men on their SQUAD ~
whole situation is more or leu =
a puzzle. However, it is prohaAs
that nothing will be done alop, Il.
lines Of protesting the game ,m
all attention will be focused on AZ
impending struggle Thanksriyi,,
day at LaSalle
Although defeated by Moline i
to 0. the La Salle-Peru aggreeatjs
is one of the strong teams in III.
section of the country. Recsulh
the La Sale machine PLAYED Waitak
High of Toledo to almost stand.
still. losing out near the last nm I
OF the game through tough breah
Waite defeated Cedar Rapids Ma
by far higher count than they h,I
cred La Sale.
Contrary to reports received thiI
Alvine and Whitfield had been n
verely injured. these two regula
are in good shape and ready &
play the game of their lives d
Gobler day. The latter until Ia
year lived in LaSalle and will arh
his hardest against his old team
| mates.
Another report that Captain Hal
played the game at fullback is als
mistake. The Crimson leads
performed the full time at tackh
where he held the Colchester lM
in good shape.
The locals Travelled to Resefya5
park this afternoon for sessiml
with the dummy spirits up and
down the field. The feeling III
camp is that the LaSalle scrap will
be the closest of the year and thr|
the boys from that town are Il
whole lot tougher and better coach-
ed than Colchester or many Of ths
other teams met this year.
The impression seems to Be thai
Moline ran across LaSalle when the
latter was banked up from the
Waite high collision, and that La.
Sale is a much better outfit than
the score made by the Plows indi-I
Gates. On the other hand, the lo-1
calls are confident that they will
put up much better game against
LaSalle-Peru than they did against
the Norsemen. There is no doubt
that the locals are now in much /
better condition than they were
when they played Moline. Added
to that the players have more con.
fidence.
While the Crimson is preparing
for the struggle at LaSalle. Moline
and Davenport camps are sending
up yowls and welps about what they /
are going to do to each other after
their turkey dinner.
From the Plow city comes deep
rumbling of anger general re-
sentiment against anything Red and
Blue. because of previous upsets
handed to the Swedish cohorts.
Across the Grandpa of Greeks
there echoes growing confidence
that the Iowans will upset the dope
and walk off with the tri-city title
like last year Davenport players
are determined to let the Swedes
know that they have been in a foot
ball game.
Moline will come into Iowa re-
solved to gain revenge for previous
defeats and show the Davenporters
that where the west begins. Inc
east ends.