The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1922-09-26

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sons outlay of grid talent in an ac.
tual combat In Saturdays opener.
Practically every man on the home
SQUAD saw action. SO frequently were
new men poured into The fray that it
Kept the spectators busy endeavoring
to identity the constantly changing
makeup of the team.
Coach Newman demonstrated to
the fans that lie has an eleven. or
perhaps 1t should be called q s1uad
or much possibility. The fans saw
line that was imporvious to the at
tack Mt Giiead shot at It. With t.,
exception Of fsw instances where
the opposing backs slipped through
tor gain of two or three yards, the
orange and black forwards smother
q everything sent their way.
Capt. Fancy, Guar srback Arnold.
hall, and Willct, iu,lbaek performed
in tx backtield throughout most oe
the shirmish. All three showed mark.
cd ability as ground gamers. Dancy
is elusive, has a change of pace, aud
is gifted with the arr Of reversing his
field. 1t was clever work in the lat.
ter respect that made it possible for
him to scamper across the Mt Gilead
goal for the Mounts final touchdown.
Arnold, as you remember. performed
at wing position last year. This
season. he has been shifted to the
backfield. He made his debut as
halfback notable by scoring two OF
Mt Vernon's touchdowns.
Willet, weighing only 126 pounds
impressed the fans with his work at
running back punts and by his line
plunging ability. Willet is fast
mover in an open field, and a man
who hits the line low and with de-
structive effect. He alone gained as
much yardage as the entire Mt. Gil
cad team.
Not much of line could be gained
upon the flock of other backs sent
into the skirmish, so abbreviated
were their stays in the scrimmage.
Casey Corcoran, brother Of the fa-
nous Brownie" was in long enough
to rip through for two yards in one
instance and four in another Fouch
distinguished himself while he was in
the frolic by dropping the oval be-
tween the uprights from the 1O-yard
line in try-for-point after a touch
down.
Unable to Halt Assaults
Mt Vernon didn't uncover any COM
plicated mode of assault, but confined
her attack for the most part to drives
inside nd outside the tackles.
A blocked kick by Lee, tackle,
paved the way for the first Mt. Yer
non touchdown. 1t came in the open
ing quarter. Mt. Gilead attempted to
punt the pigskin from her own As
yard line, but Lee smashed through
the blue line and intercepted the
boot, sinking to the ground with the
ball in his possession. Then the
drive toward the opponents goal be-
gan. Beum picked pass out of the
ether, hurled by Dancy for 22-yard
advance. The oranged and black
hammered to the enamy's two-yard
line, where Arnold skirted right end
for touchdown. In the try-for.point,
after the touchdown had been showed
over, short forward PASS, Dancy to
Cornelle, netted an additional point
Touchdown No. was chalked up
in the following quarter. Unexpected
and spectacular was the incident that
put Mt. Vernon in position to score
this time. A ball passed to a Mt
Gilead back popped from his hands
Dancy rushed through the line
scooped up the bounding oval, and
dashed 80 yards to Mt. Gilead's II
yard mark before fellad by blue
| man. After three trials had failed tC
push the oval across, Arnold dupli
Gated his feat of the previous quar-
ter by circling flank for six-pont
er. Mt. Vernon failed to register this
time in her try-for-point.
A few minutes later in the same
y quarter, the visiting kicker was
downed behind his own goal. before
he could apply his foot to the ball fol
an attempted kick. Thus safety
was added to the home teams ac
count.
Not until late in the last half dit
Mt. Vernon add to her total. Then