The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1922-11-02
LIBERAL WINS FROM DODGE
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(C0ntlnued from rage ~
cessful in holding against the PUSHES
of the Dodge team.
Liberal played stellar game, be-
ginning at the third quarter and last
ing until the touchdown. No more
perfect working football machine has
been seen in Liberal than during that
period.
Liberal goes against Greenshurg
next Friday on the Greensburg fieid'
the first out-oftown game. Green's
burg has some good wins to her cred
il. and a hard-fought contest is ex-
pected.
Coach Wood, formerly of Liberal,
is now with Dodge City. He had no
kick coming on the outcome OF the
game. He was short one of his stars
and he said that the boys did not put
up the snappy exhibition they usually
did. However, they played very
GOOD football and Liberal feels eiat-
ed to win from them.
The day after the game the follow
ing article appeared in the Dodge
Citv Globe and stirred up quite
bit of comment here:
In the toughest game experienced
bv a Dodge City high school football
team in years, the locals yesterday
afternoon lost to Liberal highs by
score of 7 to o. Dodge City people
who accompanied the local squad TO
Liberal say that the referee permitted
undue roughness, as result OF which
five Dodge City players were knocked
out, and following the removal Oh
each Dodge player, it is said, the LID
eral rooters wildly cheered and de-
manded that Number So-and-So Oh
the Dodge squad be next. Floyd Cur
rier for a half hour was dellrious as
a result of a bit of roughness on the
part of a Liberal man, it is said.
eve are not afraid of any team
that plays fairly" said one Of the To-
cal PLAYERS today when asked about
the game, "but for one, am in favor
of scratching the Liberal game OF
the Dodge City schedule. Coach
Wood was at Liberal for three years
and it looked like the players there
were determined to win by one means
or another. Toward the last of the
game while play was still in prog
ress the Liberal referee told the
Dodge City squad they didn't know
how to play football, but he didn't
offer an explanation of the failure OF
the Liberal team to score more than
seven points against the ignorant
Dodge boys"
Liberal was thinking unkindly
things of the Dodge bunch when the
Monday issue of the Globe arrived
with the following, which put an
entirely different aspect on the mat
ter:
In spite of the delusion suffered
nv one or two members OF the
Dodge City high school football
squad and conveyed to the pubic
through the columns of the Globe
Saturday, the game between Dodge
and Liberal, last Friday, which re-
suited in a to 0 victory for the
Liberalites, was not "stolen" from
the local boys and neither were the
referees decisions questionable, &C
cording to Coach B. W. Wood OF
the local gridsters, members OF MS
SQUAD and rooters who accompanied
the team on their southern invasion.
Subsequent to reports that the
Dodge team had been unhospitabiy
treated, which, unfortunately be-
came rife following receipt OF the
news that the local warriors had
gone down to defeat for the first
time this season, it became known
that because of the bitterness OF
the pill, one Of those inherent, and
! most regrettable traits Of human
nature-the ability to be good
loser-prompted an unthinking
member of the losing eleven to at
tempt to hang laurel wreaths on
the worthy brows Of his teammates
bv formulating an "alibi" for the
abortive fly which was in good
faith and by upright and honorable
means placed in the soup OF Dodge
winning streak by the hard-hitting'
sportsmanlike combination repre-
senting the metropolis of Seward
county.
There is no doubt that the pro.
teges of Coach Wood lost to a good
team and that the victorious Liber'
alites did the winning by themselves
and without the assistance of
biased official and vicious remarks
by sideline adorners, albeit the loca
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