The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1936-11-05
Sank Centre
Took Final
Grid Game
Broke IL Game Winning
Streak of Melrose High
School
UPSET DISTRICT CHAMP
Locals Won Three, Lost
Three, Tied One For
Season

It remained for Harveys Sank
Centre club, in the final game of
the season, to upset strong Mel
rose team defeating them last Fri
day on the local gridiron, IL to z.
That game not only gave Sank
Centre a win to end a better than
average season but also divorced
Melrose from a 12-game winning
streak.
The dope pointed to Melrose
victory-they were undefeated and
certainly one of the strongest
teams that the locals had bumped
up against. Yet the possibilities for
the upset that ensued were not so
remote. Retracing 1t Is found that
Sank Centre needed that game to
split on victories and losses, leav-
ing a single tie game. They were
defeated by an inferior team the
week before when Glenwood took
advantage Of several advantageous
breaks. Melrose, who had secuted
Sank Centre in the opening game,
was not expectant Of driving Of
tense topped off with passing at
tack that would score. In a vain at
tempt Melrose opened up with last
quarter passes and made some fine
marches but could puncture the To-
cal defensive only once for the vi
tai points.
Losing little time in getting UNI
der way the Harveymen promptly
crashed a Melrose attack. Melrose
was forced to punt on about their
twenty yard line. A forward wall
that had not yielded sifted their
way to the punter and blocked that
kick to take possession of the ball
in Melrose's territory. Important
that block was, for it began a
sweeping charge that gave the To-
Gals their first score In a success
sion of plays that cracked alter
nately off-guard and tackle the 10
calls went into thirty yard drive
to the goal. Worming their way to
the three yard line Arvig lug
ged the pigskin over the goal
smashing his way right over center
with Bohn and Egan opening the
slit through which he drove. Their
conversion point was no good and
the locals were on their way DOM
mating the first quarters play.
In the opening of the second
quarter the locals took another
break that turned aside the Mel
rose attack. A Melrose tumble on
the thirty yard line was recovered
by the locals and Arvig romped all
the way to the goal only to be cali
ed back because Of Sank Centre
penalty In a vain endeavor to
plant that pigskin across the Mel
rose goal a second time Arvig
heaved pass that was intercept
ed. Melrose dominated the quarter
from that point but were never in
position to score.
A march led by strong interior
ence and cleverly executed pass
PLAYS paraded Melrose from the
midfield stripe to the local ten
yard line early in the third quar-
ter. Inching their way to the four
yard line they came up with a first
down and goal to go. Cracking
hard Melrose pushed the ball over
the goal and made their conversion.
And for the first time since the
first quarter Melrose took the lead
in fine ball game.
Sank Centre invaded to the Mel
rose IL yard line in last quarter
drive, but were turned aside when
a tumble was recovered by Mel
rose. Snudging the locals back to
the % yard stripe Melrose came up
without the ball when the Sank
Centreites recovered a tumble.
Again in position to score they ran
the ball fifteen yards to the five
yard line. And there opening with
one Of their few passes Of the day
they clicked on a pass from Arvig
to Walker at end who raced over
the goal into the end zone for the
final score Of the game. Even then
the game was not safely stored in
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