The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-11-17

should know the rules of the game.
And unless he does he has no place as
a referee and should refuse to serve.
Pleasantville may well be proud of its
'23 football team. The boys are going
strong. One of the best games they
have yet played, they lost on an un-
fair decision. In this game there were
two bad decisions. One was when
Pleasantville kicked to Bridgeton. The
ball struck a Bridgeton player on the
chest, he failed to catch the ball and
the ball bounded into the hands of a
"Pleasantyille player, who vas soon
downed. The referee gave the ball
to Pleasantville. The teams lined up
for a scrimmage. Somebody on the
side lines told the referee that the
ball when kicked by Pleasantville had
lot struck a Bridgeton player, and the
referee reversed his decision at once
and returned the ball to Bridgeton.
But the decision that lost the game
was when Russo came round Bridge
tons right end and ran about rs or
80 yards for a touchdown. No whistle
was blown until after the touchdown
had been made-when somebody on
the side lines said that Russo ran out
of bounds. The writer stood right
where Russo came round the end and
sassy without qualification that Russo
was close to a foot inside the line.
Also a former Bucknell athlete, a res
ident of Bridgeton, stood close by and
declares Russo was not of bounds.
This Bridgetonian stated the fact to
the Bridgeton coach, who said he was
sorry but he could not do anything.
There was no poor decisions after the
new referee arrived. Our boys played
a wonderful game of football, outplay-
ing their opponents in many ways.
And, had it not been for one DR.. Lum-
home with another scalp hanging from
her belt.
The second game was the game at
Glassboro on Friday. The writer
stood in front of the G~lassboro High
School as the P~leasantville team came
from the school on the way to the
field. The comment of a part of the
student body that stood nearby was:
Gee, they're only a bunch of kids"
Better get the second team to play
them" Well, when the Glassboro
team appeared OF the field, it is safe
to say the above comment seemed not
out of place, for they looked on an
average 10 lbs. heavier than our boys.
And then when play began and Pleas
antyille seemed TO know little beside
line bueking," and with little if any
gain, ii looked as if our boys would
be greatly o~utclassed in every way.
But eve worse than this, was the
moment in which Glassboro, in one of
the ~cleyerest of trick passes, succeed
ed in going round the left end for a
touchdown. This seemed to put more
pep into our boys-the first half end
ing with the score OF. Between
halves the team was circled about the
bench for a nice. quiet, fatherly talk.
OH boy from Edible Parsels. What
ever it was he said to them it must
have been the right dope; for our boys
went in and fought like demons (hgu-
ratively %speaking) and soon had even
ed the score, on a nice run by Painter
from the 50-yard line for a touchdown,
from which a goal was kicked. For a
while it looked as If the game might
end in a tie, until with one or two
forward passes and some rapid line
plunging Grimm carried the ball over
for the second touchdown, but failed
on the goal. Game ended with o
1871. Glassboro has two or three
classy players. Seldom is there seen
on a High School team such a great
punter as the player who kicked off
at the signal play. And one or two
players in particular were strong in
bucking the line. Glassboro played
well. Pleasantville played better, as
she did at Bridgeton. And a highly
elated team and a half hundred root
ers returned TO Pleasantville feeling
that il was a game worth while. One
resident of Glassboro told the writer
that in the second half Pleasantville
gave the finest exhibition of scientific
football seen at Glassboro this year.
Now let the team work hard in prac-
tice and fight hard to take all the re
naming games of the season. Let
the student body show a splendid
School spirit and let the public in
general come out TO the games. buy
tags and stand by the boys in their
efforts to win. Much credit is due to
Mr.. Parsels in getting together and
coaching such a strong team. Three
cheers for every man on the team, be
he regular or substitute, Come out
on Saturday and see them trim Cape
May.
MR. A. SPECTATOR.