The Washington times., 1936-11-18
Stay
In Deadlock
In Series
By GARRETT WATERS

4LAGSI1llSA 1OOCDdAL cC1ACO AAo'S
come, many others will go, but sell
dom in the future will there be as
interesting a one as the 1885 set-to
now drawing to a close.
Look back over this years
schedule. Have you ever seen such
palpitating games? Have the Sc
ries ever been so closely contested,
the results each day so jumbled,
the teams so evenly matched?
Seldom, friends, seldom. Take
yesterdays contest between West
ern and Central at the Western
Stadium which ended in 13-to-13
deadlock.
Western Takes Lead
You'll have to go far to beat
that one for dramaticS. 1t was
that good. Western was on the
verge of a victory when the time
keepers whistle ended play. When
this occurred, the GeorgetownerS
had pushed the ball to Central's
1-foot line. Naturally the rea ction
to this sent the crowd home rather
weak, but fully able to realize they
had seen real football game.
Western took a 7-to-0 lead in
the first half by outpiaying Cen
trail completely. The George
townerS scored a touchdown in the
second quarter when Len Vein
stein coolly heaved to Don Nikla-
son, who caught the ball behind
Central's goal line.
The second half was even better.
Central came out ready for all
sorts of revenge. The Mt. Pleas
anters got it in quick fashion by
scoring two touchdoWns in the
third quarter before anyone of the
1000 or more students realized 1t
had actually happened.
The first came when Billy Yer
million, after fumbling Frank
Hodges pass from center, heaved
desperately to Bud Chacos. who
was standing with arms out
stretched on Westerns 8-yard line.
ChacoS ran the ball the remaining
distance for the score. 4
Then Bill Wootton, few mo-
ments after the new kickoff, inter
cepted a Western pass and ran to
the Raiders 20-yard line. This
opened the path for second Cen
tral touchdown when Billy Yer
million tossed to Johnny Pistols
in the end zone. Another pass,
Vermillion to Sam Fox, added the
extra point and put Central ahead,
13 to 7.
Western got back into the game
in the fourth quarter-a period
which had so many palpitating mo-
ments that even the officials found
themselves raising their eyebrows
a little.
Weinstein to LYMAN
3 Len WeinStein passed to Dick
Lynham to start it, Weinstein heav-
ing on Central's SO and Lynham
catching the oval on the s. Hank
Brewer took it to the 1-yard line
while Weinstein plunged over after
getting lateral from Brewer.
When WeinStein'S pass failed to
add the extra point, events then
began to happen furiously and
fast. Both teams opened up aerial
attacks in an effort to break the
tie. And no less than five passes
were intercepted with Western
finally finding itself in possession
of the ball on CentralS 15-yard
line.
With two minutes to go, Vein
stein passed successfully to Nikla.
son to put the oval on Central's 8.
Morris Snead pushed it to the
foot mark from where Umpire
Dutch Eberts' whistle ended play
With all the thrills, the game
failed to gain the teams an inch
in the race. Both are still tied for
second place and can only hope
that Roosevelt upsets Tech Friday.
If this occurS-which is quite un-
likely, though not entirely impos-
Sible, remembering stunning up
sets in past SerieS-West Cen
tral and Tech will end the season
in three-cornered tie for the title.
To pick out individual stars in
yesterdays fracas would do an in
justice. Every player on the field
conducted himself as if his very
life depended on the result-all of
which made it a characteristic
high school football game, but
easily the best of several seasons