Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1922-10-20
MORRIS HIGH STOPS
EARLY GAME VICTORS
High School 0utplays Benson In
Football Saturday After Early
Defeat-Score 90


astrously defeated them two weeks
ago, and turned them back scoreless.
More than that, the Benson team
feels lucky to get away without a
sound beating as Norris twice came
dangerously close to scoring, but be-
ing too near the sidelines left them
little room to play and in the other
instance, penalty put them back
out of reach of the goal. The game
ended 90.
Coach Stelter seems to have re-
juvenated the team since Benson de-
feated them two weeks ago $40 and
the Morris boys swept through their
opponents line for good gains time
and again Saturday. One of the
marked things at the game was the
good sportsmanship on the part Of
both teams.
The following is spectators view
point on the sidelines.
At three o'clock Captain Hender-
shied of Benson won the toss and
chose the south goal. Schroeder
kicked off to Benson's 20 yard line
where play began. Benson failed to
gain and punted to the Norris 20
yard line. On two plays, Morris
failed to gain and Splitstoser punted
to the middle of the field and Benson
resumed play. On a series Of line
smashes and end runs with good in
terference they carried the ball to
the Morris 20 yard line. Here Nor
ris held for two downs and penalty
on Benson gave the boys more con-
fdence and they held Benson for
downs.
Morris punted to Benson on the
fifty yard line and the quarter ended
with the ball in the middle Of the
field. Score 90.
The second quarter was a repeti-
tion Gof the first with exchanged
punts and few line plays. Benson,
however, played more consistent ball
and kept the locals on the, defensive
the greater part of the quarter.
Heavy penalties kept Benson from
gaining much ground and the local
boys held with tiger fighting spirit.
The half ended 90.
At the start Of the third quarter
Benson kicked to Morris and march
for Benson's goal began which con-
tinued to midfeld when Benson
braced and held for downs. Morris
punted and the kick was blocked,
Benson getting the ball on the so
yard line Here Benson started a
march which looked good for a
touchdown. They ran ends freely
and smashed the line for good yard
age up to the Norris 10 yard line.
With four downs to go for touch
down, Morris fought hard on the de-
fense and every man in the line, got
down to real work. On an end run,
Benson was thrown for two yard
loss; five yard penalty for being
offside set them back still more, and
on the next two plays, they lost the
ball on downs. Morris had out
charged and outplayed Benson when
the latter was in scoring distance.
Morris took the ball and on end
runs and off tackle plays by John
son, Musselman and Spl1tstoser
carried the ball to the fifty yard line
where two pretty forward passes,
Johnson to Splitstoser and Johnson to
Cosgrove brought Morris into Benson
territory On two off tackle plays
by Musselman, the ball was taken to
the Benson 5 yard line. An end run
failed and five yard penalty on
Morris set the team back. and the
quarter ended with no score on either
side.
In the fourth quarter, Morris re-
sumed play with two downs and 13
yards to go. Benson held the boys
and punted into saftey. The re-
mainder of the quarter was played
in the center of the field with ex-
changed punts and line plays.
Morris completed 3 out of 4 for
ward passes and Benson none out
Of two. Each team made IL first
downs, showing the closeness of the
game For Morris, the outstanding
star was Musselman. His line
plunging and open field running was
that Of a veteran. Time and again
he whirled loose from tacklers when
they thought he was downed..
Capt. johnson played a wonderful
game on defense and hit the line well
for gains He showed good general
ship in directing plays and as a cap
tain proved himself worthy of the
honor, keeping the team on the alert
and in fighting spirit from the start
to finish.
Sphtstoser on the other half had
hard time getting started. How
ever in the second half, he found
himself, making three pretty end
runs each for IL yards and grabbing
two passes, each netting 10 yards. ~
In the line, stoneburg and Nelson
played the best. Stoneburg broke