Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-11-08
PLATTEVILLE
TRIMS OSHKOSH,
SCORE g TO z
(By j. H. Lewis }

PLATTEVILLE, Wis., Outweighed
20 pounds to a man, facing a team
flushed with long string of victories
behind them Platteville Normal, with
the count to against them, and
with one minute time left to play
damned touch down over the line on
trick play and humbled the iron
men Of the north to Friday after
noon.
Brains won. The excitement on the
campus was intense as hundreds of
students and great mass of outside
talent rooted for victory, but what
really did happen was entirely un-
looked for and as Mingst completed a
perfect forward pass and crossed the
line, snatching victory from certain
defeat white faced men and women be-
came frenzied with excitement and no
such demonstration as was given here
by the crowd was ever seen on the
local campus before
Battered and bruised, the prepon-
deTance of bone and muscle and grit
telling at every clash on the lighter
team the Platteville team fought with
the grim desperation of wolves
brought to bay. Myers, right tackle
grooming with pain refused to be
moved out of his position. A badly
torn shoulder gave him one good arm
to play with, and his work all through
the game was wonderful Dennis,
center, may not appear the player he
is given credit for but he battered and
rammed the Oshkosh center until he
was wOozy and at times did not know
whether he was afoot or horseback.
Red Daugherty, quarterback, relieving
Edwards, played heady game and
deserves great credit because he
Obeyed orders to the letter and the
game was played and won by Platte
vile from the neck up. Oshkosh had
the heavier team but it was outplayed
and outwitted through the entire sec
ond half.
Platteville took the lead in scoring.
After five minutes of play the locals
worked the oval down to the fifteen
yard line, and Edwards quarter nego-
tiated a pretty drop kick perfectly
placed. In the second quarter Osh-
kOsh managed to work the ball across
on line plunging Sundt, left half going
over with the ball. Curtis, fullback
kicked for goal Score end Of half
Oshkosh Z, Platteville 3.
Both teams fought desperately iii
each others territory through the
third quarter. Neither could score
Rough tactics werc used by both
elevens and both were penalized. The
lines met in the scrimmages with saw
age fury and the Oshkosh men re al
lied they were in death struggle.
Sundt was carried from the field.
Erdlitz, right half was out of the game
through injuries. Substitutions were
made with confusing rapidity, but
Platteville seemed to be going better.
Good little men are better than good
big men, There remained but one
minute of play and the two teams
were Raging it desperately in Osh-
kosh territory on the 40 yard line.
Then came the trick play, cleverly OK
ecuted on a forward pass, the entil c
Oshkosh team so dumb fooled with
the neatness and despatch with which
it was carried out that Mingst, last
years Second Division High School
graduate, substitute at right half was
over the line with the ball and victory
Instantly the blonde kid was swal-
lowed up in the mob that swirled
about him, but the field was cleared.
Daugherty kicked for goal in the
scrimmage but missed. The teams re-
paired to open territory, scrimmaged
twice and the final whistle was blown
Platteville. Oshkosh.