The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-11-11
Football
Season Ends
With Loss
Friday Nights Game At AL
exandria Results In 80
To IL Score
AIR ATTACK COUNTS
Injuries Crippled Local High
Team Throughout A
Tough Schedule

For some it marked the end Of a
season fraught with injuries and
disappointments, and for others
that final game with Alexandria
marked the beginning Of a new,
possibly larger career in football.
Alexandria's attack blaZed fur
iously for the first three quarters,
punching in hard with their ace
back, Sturnick, doing most of the
mail toting, and their aerial attack
accounted for most Of the touch
downs that rolled into a 80 to II
victory. The game wound up the 10
cal season in a night game last
Friday when the Harveymen went
down to end their schedule at the
short end of to 2 string.
A last minute but futile attack by
the Harveymen climaxed this game
of thrills when long passes, spotted
ably by halfback Denny Ethun,
were completed for the two local
goals. That the attack started late
was unfortunte, but it didn't sub
tract from the thrills it furnished
local fans in those last few min
utes.
In this rally built around the
passing of Denny Ethun two new
scorers took their places on the 10
cal scoring staff. The first pass
sailed to Don Kringen, playing at
end when Captain Walker went out
with a knee injury. Over he went
for the score According to Harvey,
the coachman, Kringen really play
ed a ball game at the end slot. He
has been shifted great deal from
the backfield to the line, but on
the line he stopped at the guard
slot. Here he seemed to fall by the
wayside. But at the end in the final
encounter, Kringen really showed
the spark of power that it is. The
next pass that succeeded the first
was to the safety man, Ray Fish.
Ray trotted over with the ball un-
der his arm. Neither of these boys
had scored before.
Alexandria started early with
their scoring thrusts. In the first
quarter they drove with power
plays over the line, around end,
completing charge of nearly sixty
yards. It was the brilliant work OF
back Sturnick, who completed the
five or six plays for the score. Two
scores in that first half drive were
the result of long passes that sailed
over the heads of the local second
airy, into the arms of the receiver.
The passes came on the fourth
down when the Alexandria running
attack had begged. The score at
half time was 10 to o.
A third pass counted for three
touchdowns out of the first four.
And then Alex went razzle dazzle. A
play that started with a spinner
and resolved itself into two later
ais zig Jagged more than half the
length of the field to leave the 10
cal defensive in the wake of the
scoring thrust. Another goal line
stab was halted when the Harvey
line dug in on the three yard line,
turned back the assault for three
plays, but on the fourth down the
Alexandria men punched over. 1t
was the outstanding bit of offens-
i've power, and defensive ability of
the game.
For a whole host of lettermen
this defeat at the hands of Alexan-
dria marked their exodus from the
football world. Captain Walker and
Pickett at ends were in their last
game, Vandesteeg, who came into
a regular position this year, takes
the graduation route this spring.
Beste and Bohne, powers on that
often rearranged line, both are lost
to the team. In the backfield are
Rivette, Fish and Rattle who play
ed their final encounter. Higbie, a.
though a letterman will not be
back. Two other boys ought to de-
serve mention, for their lot was to
watch their teammates fight los
ing battle all the way peering over
the tops of their crutches. Rich
Hoffman, starting fullback, and
Hiram Bellinger, tackle, veterans
both of them, were injured early in
the season. In fact Hoffman was in
jured early in the first game when
he was forced out of competition
with broken ankle bones. Bellinger
never even got in a game. His in
jury to his ankle was sustained in
a practice session.
So ends another season, and Har-
vey can point to the fact that
tough luck robbed him of a promis-
ing season. Injuries in great num-
bers robbed him of veteran players,
threw his reserves into regular pos
itions, thus robbing him of reserves
so important, made necessary pull
ing men from positions they knew
and sending them in to new places
inadequately prepared. That the
team held up as we'll as it did is
cause for wonder for injuries will
break the morale of any team. Yet
they carried on, and there wasn't
team that could stop their scoring
thrust when they really turned on
the heat. They scored on every
team they played.