The Penn's Grove record., 1923-10-12
DUPONT Tigers Defeat
Eden in First Game
Show Good Brand of Football
For Opening. Hendricks
Makes 80 Yard Run

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beginning of their football season
Saturday afternoon, and not to be
outdone by the High School team, who
had one their first victory the day
previous, settled the defeat of last
year at the hands of South Side Eden,
of Wilmington, with final score of
10 to O..
The weather was ideal for a grid
iron battle and cool enough to give the
somewhat softened warriors every
reason to do their very best and put
some of the old fight into the game
when it was necessary.
Coach Summerill's protegees pre-
sented an encouraging brand of ball
and after two more games have
been played should be in a position to
give to the local spectators brand of
football far superior to that of former
years. Time has been a big handicap
in welding the team into form, as
about four hours a week is little
enough, and they will have to depend
upon the first two or three games to
bring out the defects, which "Plug"
readily sees and Immediately takes the
necessary measurS to correct.
The team as a whole showed good
defense and altho they are somewhat
lacking in weight, have the dOggedness
to keep on fighting Their offensive
game was flashingly brilliant at
times and showed aggressiveness, but
therein lies the greatest room for I'M
provement.
During the first half the Tigers
were on the offensive most of the time,
putting touchdowns in each quarter,
but during the second half the Eden
boys came back with some fighting pep
and three minutes after play had be-
gun with them kicking off held the
ball on the Tigers twenty-five yard
line, where the Dye makers finally
found themselves and held the South
Side for downs. Again in the final
period the visiting team made the stu
alton dangerous for the Tigers when
they recovered a tumble on the Tigers
18 yard line and Childs and Giles put
the pigskin on the Tigers five yard
line. A five yard penalty was a little
check, but Alexander brought it back
to the four yard line on the next play.
A tumble settled the only good
chance the Eden team had of scoring,
as the ball went back to the u yard
line. AS a final attempt to score a
forward was tried which failed, giving
the Tigers the ball. which they kept
good watch over for the remainder of
the game.
To start the game off "Dick" Dal-
bow intercepted a forward pass on
Eden's 25 yard line. The second play
was a short, snappy forward pass over
the centre of the line. doggy" Dal-
bow caught it, turned, picked hole to
the side and evading the entire Eden
team, took the ball over for the first
touchdown of the season and the one
which marked the beginning of the
most successful seasons the Tigers
have ever had, if there is anything
/ in signs.
The Tigers were ever ready to take
advantage of any of the miscues that
their opponents might make, and fol
lowing them up closely were able to
reap an abundant harvest more than
once. A tumble was recovered on
Eden's forty yard line and a trip
around left end by Joe Patterson re.
duced that distance to 25 as the quar-
ter ended.
The ball was lost on downs, but
Eden was soon forced to punt and the
Tigers again began their march from
the forty yard line, but lost the ball
with only ten yards to go. The third
time the march was uninterrupted
from the A yard line, which took only
two big plays. "Hick" Wright start
ed the march with twelve yards and
Patterson finished it with a dazzling
run of 32 yards thru the centre of
the line for the second touchdown.
The final score came as big sur
prise when "Reds" Hendricks inter
cepted forward on his own ten yarC
line and was not pulled down unit
he had come within twelve yards of
the goal he was heading for. On the
first plunge "Reds" made four of the
twelve yards desired and on the
third was swept over for the final sly
points.
There were no particular stars as
nearly every player showed up bril-
liantly at times, but Chas. Dolbow, who
is also playing with Gibbstown thi;
year, showed a tower of strength or
the line and intermittently brokt
thru and threw his man for loss
/ The most spectacular one being in thu
third quarter when Eden tried Min
nesota shift. The entire line wen
charging to the left while Dolbow slip
ped thru and threw his man for {
twelve yard loss before he had hardly
started. Patterson showed speed ano
flash in his running and four times
went thru the line or around end for
more than twenty yards each.
The lineup:
DUPONT Tigers South Side Eder
! Coneeny lie. Goodman
Bellard, Capt. |. t. Gormley
Robinson l.g. Gunthel
7. Viele c. Maget
H. Dalbow r.g. NemethN
Wolfer r.t. Hal
G. Dalbow r. e. Rossitel
o. Viele q. b. Morris
H. Wright |. h. b. Ferris
Patterson r. h. h. J. Gormlev