Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-11-25
FRANKFORT LANDS
ID STRAIGHT TITLE
Upsets Germantown for Cham.
pionship Of Public High
School Grid League
5000 WITNESS CONTEST
Nv PAUL PREP

VIE rranRfOrd lilgh school graders
L captured their second straight cham =
pionship in the Public High School
League yesterday afternoon by hum.
tling Germantown High, the runners.
up. 10 to 9.
About 5000 persons saw the game.
The stands on the south side Of the
field were filled TO capacity and all
around the gridiron stood the specta.
tors in rows of three and four and
in some places six and seven deep.
1t was n tit setting for n champion.
ship battle. Cold westerly winds that
blew across the field kept the crowd
dancing and doing all kinds of antics
to keep warm. The biting wind made
the handling of the ball difficult and
quite few fumbles were registered
during the course Of the battle.
To make it real football day.
snow started to fall between the halves
and continued for about ten minutes.
Frankford won because it was the
better team. Starting from the very
kick off, 1t got through Germantown
for big games. And it continued
throughout the game.
Cllvedens Excel in Passing
The Clivedens had it over the cham.
pions in only one respect. That was
forward passing. But even then the
failure to hold on to the pigskin made
these bril- liant heavcs useless.
The Pioneers also took advantage of
the breaks. With tn" wind fairly
sweeping the field. Frankford was ut an
advantage during the first quarter and
made the scores that brought victory
during the twelve minutes Of action.
They kicked the ball at tn" first op.
pOrtunity, and the result was the pig.
skin was in the Germantown territory
all the time. Tomlin's opening kick
of went over the goal line, and when
the Clivedens could not dent their line.
karbcck, boOting against the wind, dlu
not get the bail out of danger.
Weekes tore off som" long end runs
and, he ped considerably by the other
bucks. scored Il touchdown before the
game was five minutes old.
Another score came before the Give.
dens could get warmed up. In taking
Tomlin's second kickoff Stephenson, the
Germantown back, tour he'd the ball and
it kept rolling until it finally landed
behind the Green and White goal. It
was only the quick thinking and sprint
ing of Rhimer that prevented another
Frankf0rd touchdown. He picked up
the ball and ran to the 5-yard line be.
fore he was downed.
Karback again attempted to punt
against the wind, and the ball went
exactly IL yards, and the Pioneers
started another offensive march that
resulted in the second score. Wcekes
again took the pigskin over. Causen
kicked the goal. but as one of his mates
was ofside the point was not allowed.
Germantown started to use the aerial
attack in the second period and aided by
a penalty Of half the distance to the
goal line inflicted upon Frankford due
to Bariesas' sugging. received the ball
8 yards from the frankford goal.
The Pioneer line held ike II stone.
wall for three downs and finally Chad
wick squlrmcd his way across for
touchdown. Carberry's attempt for the
extra point went wide Of the uprights.
With the wind favoring them Ger.
mantOwn missed their best chance 10
tie the score in the third period when
It overlooked the kicking game which
Frankford made such good use of.
Ben,sstt Gets Score
In the final quarter the champions
benefited by one Of Germantown's fum-
bles. Mike Bennett. the alert and, |
up the ball and ran 10 yards
for the final score. Weekes missed tn, |
goal.
Germantown rallied as usual after
this and by use Of the forward passing
game made several first downs and took