Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-11-19
|. H. s. WINS
GAME With
MT. HOREB
Terrible Swedes'" Scalps
on Lancaster Belts.-Play
FennimOre Next.
Lancaster -. Mt. Horeh 6

Lancaster fOOC pail team, seventeen
strong, took the long treck to Mt. Hor-
eb last Friday to do battle with the
terrible Swede who had been riding
rought shod over all competitors this
fall. Late that evening they returned
to Lancaster with his scalp at their
belt having beaten the terrible one
by the above count.
The boys entered this game with
fear and trembling for Mt. Horeb's
record this season had been an envi-
able one In seven games they had not
been beaten and had rolled up to-
tai of PIG points to 20 by their OPP
ponents. They had beaten Mineral
Point to 7, University High % to 6,
Monticello "a to 0. Mineral Point had
beaten Lancaster twice and Monticel-
10 had later beaten Monroe which had
tied Fennimore; hence the respect for
their prowess.
Mt Horeb kicked off to Lancaster
on the muddy end of the field and the
fight was on. During the whole of the
first half it was see-saw battle, the
advantage first with one side and then
the other but with Lancaster gaining
more and more in confidence and
toward the end of the second quarter
having something of an advantage.
Neither side, however, threatened SER
iously to score and the half ended,
Lancaster 0, Mt. Horeb 0.
Second Half
During the intermission talks by
Coach Mudrack and their old school
mate, Oscar Edwards, who had come
down from the University to see the
game, put new spirit into the team and
they went out and put over two touch
downs in rapid succession. The first
of these was made by Richardson af-
ter runs by Sweeney and McKelvey
had carried the ball to the 5yard line
and the second by McKelvey by a
beautiful run after Sweeney had in
tercepted a pass and placed the ball
within striking distance.
Mt. HOreb Opens Up Passing Attack
Faced with what appeared to be in
evitable defeat, Mt. Horeb opened up
in the fourth period with beautiful
forward passing attack and put over
touchdown before Lancaster could
find a way to stop it, but failed to
kick the goal. Continuing the same
tactics they again put the ball on
Lancaster's 5-yard line less than two
minutes before the close of the game.
It looked like a tied score if not de-
feat. Four chances to make five yards
and a minute and half to do it. The
first try Melted three yards and the
ball was only two yards from the
chalk line and three chances left.
Three more times Mt. Horeb's husky
backs hit the blue line, twice they
gained not an inch and the third time
Cook, Lancaster's left end, tore in and
threw the runner for a loss, leaving
the ball almost exactly where 1t had
started from Clementson kicked out
of danger from behind his own goal.
The team by sheer fight had saved
itself from defeat or at best tie and
had broken Mt Horeb's long string
of victories. The game ended few
seconds later with the score Lancas-
ter 12, Mt Horeb 6.
Notes of the Game
Clementson almost duplicated the
feats of "Red" Grange when at the
beginning of the second half he took
the kickoff and, eluding the whole
Mt. Horeb team, ran the length of the
field for what appeared to be touch
down. However, he was called back
and got only part of the distance
2dln6Q because Iu6 IGlO4CO uiCu IiicoI
he had gone out of bounds. Lancaster
fans say he did not and certainly the
referee was in no position to see the
play
Ruth Frye, Hazel Ward. "Ock" Ed
wards and Dallas and Jack Kilby,
students at the University, came out
from Madison to see their old school
fellows perform and helped the boys
nightly by their encouragement.
Dock" Kraut and Heberlein were al
so there.
| The cars to transport the boys to
the game were furnished by Lambert
! Groenier, Frank Richardson. DR.. Fow-
Ter and the Union State Bank
One more game remains on the 10
GALS schedule, that with Fennlmore
on Thanksgiving. If the boys can turn
| in a win that day the season will be
considered one of the most success
full in the history of the school. This
| is taking into allowance the discour-
aging outlook at the beginning of the
| season