The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1922-10-05
Columbus Inundated IS to 0;
Expect Hard Battle Saturday
St. Thomas Outweighs
Jackrabbit Line and
Boasts Speedy Backs
Owens Made Record of Sew.
en- Touchdowns in Game;
Mariners w ere Help
less.

With an overwhelming victory of IS
to 0 over Columbus college last Sat
urday marked up to their credit, the
State College J~ackrabbits are train
ing in earnest this week for the game
with st. Thomas college here Satur-
day, which will not be such a one-sided
contest. st. Thomas has a strong team
and the odds are even as to whom will
emerge victorious in this, the first
conference game of the season. The
Cadets nav a line which averages 100
pounds, ou~tweighing States line eight
pounds to the man. They have a
speedy backtield and are experts at
the forward passing game. Last Sat
urday st. Thomas defeated the power
full normal team at River Falls, Wis,
IA to 0. The Jackrabbits expect to
win, however, depending on their
smooth working machine, composed
almost entirely of seasoned veterans,
who can work with equally deadly eff
feet in offensive and defensive.
The game last Saturday was a dis
appointment to Coaches West and
Enke in that it was not a real test
Of the individual ability OF any of the
men on the Jackrabbit squad, in fact
all of them looked like stars. The
game was a costly affair to State in
one particular. Thompson and Sundet,
two regular ends, were removed from
the game with injuries. Thompson
. GnffnraI "a IiSIpnntaI Epnn anI will ha
out of the game for a long time. Sun
Diet, however, is recovering nicely from
injuries and may be in the lineup next
Saturday.
A large crowd was out last Satur-
day to see the first game of the sea-
son The Sioux Falls team looked al
most like a high school squad when
they appeared on the field with the
husky State college men. They fought
gamely through the entire game, even
though ten of their teammates were
removed with injuries or through ex-
haustion. Coach West placed his first
team in the field for the first quarter.
In the second quarter he replaced
them with the second team. They
played through to the third quarter
when the first team went in again FOR
another workout. The second team
finished the game.
Seven t~ouchdowns in one game was
the record made by Owens, the pop
ular Colored halfback on States team.
In the last half he made one spectacu-
l,r MAN ,Pta. tlD l1- 49,.
seemed to be able to stop him. On
one occasion in the last quarter he ran
60 yards through a broken field for a
touchdown. Schultz played a hard
game and made long gains. The Welch
brothers starred at quarterback. Earl
WEIGH gave the stands a surprise when
he drop-kicked six field goals in success
sion in trying for points after touch
downs. Roberts, Seaman, Globes, and
Bob Coffey did well in the backfleld.
Straight football was played through.
out the game with the exception OF a
few tries at forward passing which
were uniformly successful and good
for long gains. With Welch on the
passing end and Owens on the receiv-
ing end, there seemed to be some
thing almost infallible in the way they
were completed.
State has a wonderful line. There
was never a dent made in it either
when the first or second team we're
in the field. Joe Smith and Murray
at tackles and Bachman and Fem at
guards made an invincible forward
wall. Coffey was at the pivot position.