Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-12-08
WILDWOOD HIGH DEFEATED BY
YOUNGSTOWN

nlaved their Thanksgiving game on
foreign ground and we're defeated, but
tbis defeat did o discredit them in
any way. The local schoolboys left
wednesday afternoon arriving at
Norristown that evening. The night
was spent in the hotel in that city.
thursday morning the boys were up
early and getting ready for the strug-
ole with the Norristown High School
eleven. At ten o'clock the game
started in the athletic field in the rear
Of the high school. The large grand
stand was crowded and the school
cheers and songs, with the music of the
Norristown Band helping, filled the
air. The crowd that was on hand to
witness the game was the largest of
the season and is estimated as total
ing three thousand or more. In the
first five minutes of play a blocked
punt recovered by Davis gave Wild
wood the first score of the day. The
recovery was made on Norristown's
coward line and then Wildwood
started a series of attacks that gave
her two first down before the score
was made by ALT Davis. Toward the
end of the first quarter Norristown
also managed to draw the ball across
the line tieing the score.
In the second quarter Norristown
threw in her best men and with their
team running smoothly they sue
ceeded in carrying the pigskin across
twice, though Wildwood tried hard
to stop her.
The third quarter found both teams
battling at their best. The rest be-
tween halves, with talks from their
respective coaches, had sent the %
wen back onto the field with inten-
tions OF fighting as long as they had
breath to do it, and so the period was
a continuous struggle on the part of
both teams with neither side scoring.
At the beginning of the fourth quar-
ter wildwood started in at a high
speed, and after receiving the ball in
the center of the field executed a
series of plunges, end run and for
ward passes that gave them two first
downs and brought the ball up on to
the 1-yard line for a score. Here
Norristown rallied and try as they
might the boys could not get 1t
across the line for the extra six points.
The weight of the Norristown team
was felt in this predicament as much
as at any time during the game. The
hall was lost on downs and Norris
town managed a kick which brought
it back into neutral territory. Here
the Pennsylvania team held gu boys
for downs and then took the ball for
A score. Two more touchdowns were
handled by the Pennsylvanians be-
fore the end of the game, giving them
a score of Sc against Wildwood's 6
points. None of the touchdowns were
followed by the extra point.
Though wildwood lost the game,
they lost it fairly. The locals re-
ceived unusually fine treatment at the
hands of the Norristown folk. The
referee was a nan that knew MS
business and both teams were penal
lied when they deserved this penalty.
Even the people on the sidelines were
very fair in their remarks regarding
Wildwood.
The game is now ended and we are
beaten. Wildwood played with the
handicap Of having Hooven, their star
quarterback, out of the game. In spite
of this we scored on the Norristown
eleven when they were playing good
football. We brought the ball up into
dangerous territory against their
full team at the best time of the
game. After accomplishing these
things it might be well to look over
other scores the Norristown team has
made this year and then we may
justly feel proud of u accomplish
ments.
Norristown, 107; Parkersburg' o..
N%orristown, %; Downingtown, 0.
N~orristown, IS; Lebanon, 0.
No~rristown, 10; West Chester, 0.
Norristown, 80; Pottstown, 0.
Norristown, 25; Phoenixville, 6.
Norristown, 20: Reading, 10.
Norristown, Sc; Altoona, 0.
After looking at the way these other
teams fell to defeat before the strong
Norristonians, Wildwood can feel that
she has a team that is worthy OF all
the praise they can give it. We were
beaten this year, but there is a DAY
coming when we will travel to the
Pennsylvania city and not only give
them a struggle but hand them a de-
feat. And we will do it in the same
clean manner that they defeated US
Thanksgiving Day.
The lineup and score of the game
follows:
NOrristOwn WILDWOOD
Ganser ....... left end olson
Daggert. 49,. left tackle ....K1mDall
FARM. $3.50. left guard Mains
'Glatt. ......... center
sStr;~-o1 r;obt Guard ..SeuekOH