Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-10-10
Green Team Game
But Loses Bitter
20 Struggle.

Lancaster high school foot ball team
lost it's second game of the season to
Fennimore last Friday by a score Of
q to 0. While this was a great dis
appointment to the team and to the
ardent supporters of Lancaster, the
result, to students of the game, was
not unexpected. Lancaster with a
light, green, team boasting only three
If last years regulars, was up against
a team composed almost wholly of
veterans which out weighed them sew
eral pounds to the man, and in addi-
ton to this was playing on foreign
field. Considering these handicaps
and the fact that Ellis-quarter back,
and one of the three veterans of the
team-was knocked out in the first
few minutes of the game, was out all
the rest Of the first half and PLACED
the second half in daze, the showing
CT the team was nothing to be asham-
ed Of
The game itself was a real battle up
10 the end of the third quarter but in
the fourth period Fennimore open I'd
up with line smashing, end running
and forward passing attack which the
fast firing and badly battered Lancas-
ter team could not hold and two touch
downs were put over in the last few
minutes of play. These, with toucn
down scored in the last minutes of the
first half on lucky forward pass by
Fennimore, and three goals kicked
from placement after touch downs by
Howell gave them total of 81 points
to Lancaster's 0,-the worst beating
We have ever had at their hands.
Notes of the Game.
The injury to Ellis early in the first
quarter demoralized the play of the
team and ruined whatever chance
Lancaster had to win the game. Ell
lis is the Oldest man in point of ser
vice on the team, is captain and field
general and is depended upon to do
the kicking, consequently his loss was
a severe blow.
Edwards, who went in for Ellis at
quarter during most of the first hat,
did very we'll, size and age consider
ed, but his fourteen years and 108
pounds was a sad contrast to the vet
eran Ellis.
Sweeney played a good game at END
until he was hurt in the second quar-
ter. He refused to leave the game,
but was much slowed UP until another
injury put him out entirely. 1t was
at first thought that he had been seri-
Cusly hurt, but injury turned out to
be a very painful bruise.
The work of Heberlein stood out
above that of any man on either team.
The big boy was everywhere, backing
Up the line, tackling the runner after
he was trough, tackling on the ends
blocking and intercepting forward
passes and cheering on the team. On
the offensive he was the only man able
to gain consistently. We would say
that he did just about twice as much
as any other two men on his own team
ard more than any two men on the
other team.
More distressing than the defeat of
the team was the spectacle exhibited
by two Lancaster young men-one q
student and the other, we are ashamed
to say, a graduate of the Lancaster
high school-before the student body
OF both schools and a goodly rep1 G.
sentation of the business and profess
sional people of both Fennimore and
Lancaster. Any one present knows
without being told what was wrong
with them, and every right thinking
ndH VI WOAudA, wy VI SAl4 WIZ LOOh
notice of them was saddened by the
spectacle. If these two young men
one mere boy-could have heard the
comments of the crowd at the game or
the scratching denunciation of tia'r
conduct by a group of the boys Of the
team the next day, we venture that, if
they have any self respect they would
not attend another game this year
Contributed.