Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-08

Miles City. Dec. with the loss
of four veteran players on the Custer
county high school football team, in
Gliding Tarbox. Van Horn, Grill and
Coltrin, and the retirement Of Mayo
with the graduation exercises in June
last, Coach Charles McAuliffe, former
Mines star. in September faced the
task Of building up around the re
naming members of The Old squad a
new fighting machine on the scholastic
gridiron which at present has reached
the final game to be played in Butte
o December 9 for the state cham
pionship.
Sweet. T. Babcock, Cranston, Rich
ardson. Schneider and one or two 9th.
ers of the old squad remaining in
school were augmented by the addi-
ton of last years substitutes Middle
ton. III. Babcock. Winter. Dalton and
the appearance of Drake, Jones and lit
lie Jimmy Nugent and q number of
others of promising ability. With such
an array Of talent Coach McAnliffe
set about 10 build up a machine which
has met with every test TO which it
has been submitted to date.
Winner From Start
No misgivings were apparent when
Custer played its first game of the
season on September 30 with the team
from the state industrial school. 1t
was considered as a try-out for the
newly welded squad and resulted in a
score Of 50 to 6. Gollick, right half
for the industrials. at the opening Of
fhn caonrj ho1E .r+a,ann+oI "a car,-nrI
pass and with a clear field raced for
so yards for the only touchdown for
his team. Reed Paddock suffered a
fracture of his collar bone and was
retired from the team for the balance
of the season.
On October s Culbertson came down
from the high line to engage Custer.
The visitors were unable to pierce the
forward line of the locals and the
game ended with a score of 80 to O..
1t was in this game that Custer was
given credit for having q stone-wall
defezce. Lathrop. Schneider, Jones,
Richardson, Winter. Drake and Grams
ton from left end to right end played
alright football. and with Middleton
at quarter. Dalton. left half. Tenny
Babcock, right half and Sweet, back,
the game was played largely in Gull
bertson's territory with the backs
breaking through tackle. guard and
running around the end with apparent
ease.
1910 Over Billings
Clusters heavy line stopped the Bill
iings high school attack on the ~latter's
grounds on October -. The Custer
backfield found the Billings weak
spots for long gains and won the game
13 to O. At one tine during the course
of the game Billings carried the ball to
within one foot Of the Custer goal in
the third period but could not push it
over. being held for downs.
The traditional rivals of Custer.
Dawson county, engaged the local
team on its home grounds and went
down to defeate by the score of 81 to
0 on October %. Again the game was
played largely in the visitors terri
tory and time and again in desperate
attempts the Dawson backs e%ndeavor-
ed to break through the line without
effect. Only once during the game did
Dawson get a chance at Clusters goal.
In the first period Dawson attempted
n placement kick which hit the arm
Of the goal and bounded back on the
field to be recovered by Middleton.
quarter.
Forsyth Fails Victim
On November II another of Gus
ter's rivals for gridiron honors in
eastern Montana, Forsyth. journeyed
to Miles City for its annual battle.
The year before Custer defeated For
syth on their own grounds in II Of
the most thrilling games of that sea-
son, 20 to 6. The visitors fully in
tended to reverse the situation, but
were defeated s. TO 0. Sweets 90
yard run for Il touchdown within "a
seconds of the opening of the game
seemed to Indicate the winning team.
Middleton's tackling was easily Il fea-
ture when Taylor, back. of Forsyth
succeeded twice in circling ends to
fall before the secondary defense with
out success. The well-earned title OF
iStonewall Custer" was featured In
the cheering on the part of the local
supporters.
With an open date on November 10
Custer played an inter-sectional game
with Williston, y. D., the latter being
defeated for the Flrckerta1i champion
shin two weeks before by Bismarck.
This was a fast and snappy aggrega-
ton and rated to give Custer its first
defeat of the season. The game, how
ever, ended IS to 8 in favor Of the
home team. 1t was a hard-fought
game and a splendid exhibition of the
scholastic classic with the better team
winning.
Livingston Was Easy
When the formal announcement
was made that Custer was to play Liv-
ingston, champions in the Southern
Of the state. on neutral ground.
active preparations were made and
practice IN all departments carried on
with intense vigor. The contestants in
the semi-final game met in Billings on
26. Livingston was out
The score vas 81 to 6 in
Clusters favor. In only one period.
the third, did Livingston show itself in
my way equal to the eastern cham
pions, when by a series Of line smashes |
and well handled forward passes Park
in sight of the Custer goal to fail
at n placement kick for goal.
During the season Custer had an
other int~er-sectional contest with Mar
n scheduled, hut the latteri