The Coconino sun., 1926-10-01
F. H. S. GREEN SQUAD
LOST TO PRESCOTT $50

Brick Preston's game little Flag
staff high school football team lost
at Prescott Saturday to the P. Fl. S.
$3.50. The game of attempted foot
ball that the two teams put up was
not an index OF the respective abil-
tiles of the teams. A gusty wind that
punished punts and almost destroyed
passing and an underfoot condition
that had the players wallowing like
awkward bull calves in bog lot,
made the game as spectacle, good
| deal to be proud of-not.
Both teams had much green mater
ial and were playing their first game
of the 1926 season. That might have
| been q reason but it was not exactly
an excuse for the fumbling of Pres
cott and the terrible punting of Flag
staff. The early part Of the game
was recorded in one blocked punt
after another for the visitors and
one tumble dribbling on the heels of
another for the Badgers.
Credit should be given to the
Flagstaff ends and secondary for
swift and sure penetration of inter
ference that looked good but wasn't.
Time and again the Badger backs
were pulled to earth on the line of
scrimmage or back of it by the husky
| little Flagstaff terriers, who seemed
to be able to fade right through a
| pair or trio of interferers and show
up with man in their grasp.
! There were six touchdowns scored
in the game The first one came af-
ter bungling and suffering about
between centerfield and the green
goal in the first quarter. Flagstaff
/ showed a power on defense that ap-
parcntly none had looked for and
/ the Yellow Jacket squad was NOM
entarily disconnected. But Hicks
/ steadied his crowd in time to send
Cline over on five yard buck in the
late part of the first quarter for the
original score.
4 And that was all the score made
! that half
The second quarter was a see-saw
/ between midfield and the Flagstaff
/ goal, with the visiting players al
ways on the defensive and resorting
4
undergrad stone-wall act.
The half was hardly started before
Hicks executed a fake in his rear
sector and while the secondary was
discovering it, hoofed it like canal
barge in distress, 35 yards to touch
down. Again the goal kick went wide.
Flagstaff was soon backed down
i to the old goal line again and Cam
7 eron tried another Of his famous
punts. Baldridge shot across the line
and snaked the bali out of a lowering
and frantic crew of green-jerseyed
4 athletes for the next score.
Hicks passed to Marchello across
the Flagstaff goal to convert the
touchdown and the score became
Prescott 19, Flagstaff 0.
The wind continued arbitrary and
by this time the plowing players had
worked up some Of the chunky gumbo
into dust and from there on the game
/ was dry rs a bone. Still, both teams
\ were doing pretty well, considering
that they had to become glorified
clod-hoppers to get along.
Cline took the ball nine yards
around left end for the next touch
down. Marchello did cross-buck for
four yards to score the following
4 one.
The game dragged along in this
period with both teams sending in
substitutes, Preston because he must
! and DcVivier because he wanted to
4 season up some Of his reserve squad.
It was pleasing to see the local rook-
/ les try to do by Flagstaff as their
/ betters had done, but they had to adj
NIT that they lacked the plays, if
not the willingness.
However in this quarter the locals
I got the ball worked we'll into Flag
staff territory and Cline went over
! through hole large enough for a
woman to carry stepladder through
and brought the score up to 38
/ points.
Some Gripping in the Flagstaff
backficld toward the last cut down
the running, tackling and kicking
/ but the team stuck it out in the face
Of certain defeat and pulled off a