The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-11-03
HIGH SCHOOL
CLOSE MEDIUM
GRID Campaign
Summary Shows Locals Won 3
Games, Lost 4, to Total
Percentage of .428.

The 1888 football season has come
and gone, a year that was not par
ticularly kind to Ely insofar as num-
Der of games won is concerned, but not
bad when everything is taken into con-
In the first place, Coach Edward T
Buckley started the season with the
job of building an entirely new back
field assigned to him. That meant
plenty of trouble ahead in anybody's
language. Ends, too, were ineXperi-
enced. But three regulars from last
year, Ed Klun, Dale Needing and John
zaic, all lineSmen, were on the squad.
The stars from the great team of a
year ago were gone via the graduation
route.
But this inexperienced squad per-
formed creditably, as the figures show,
and on several occasions turned in some
brilliant play. vi
The team came through with three
wins and four losses, for a percentage
of .428. Even though they lost more
games than were won, they outscored
their opponents in total points by a
comfortable margin, 95 to IS.
The game lost to Hibbing, who later,
following predictions made at that time,
won the mythical range championship
by taking all seven of its contests, was
nothing to be ashamed Of. A green Ely
team, playing its first game of the
season under the lights, scored more
points against the BluejacketS than any
other squad on their schedule. Ely
marked up IA points, due to some fine
playing on the part of Quarterback Paul
Prola, while the next best score made
against the capital Of the Iron Range
was the Is points scored by Chisholm.
Ironwood, Bemidji and Virginia failed
to score at all against Hibbing, while
the best Duluth Central and Eveleth
could do was to get seven points each.
It's true that Hibbing scored more
points against Ely-51 to be exact-than
any other team on the Bluejacket's
schedule, but they took advantage of
the fact that the Vermilion range
teams ends were playing their first
game as regulars, and ran end-around
plays until everyone lost track. But
then those 81 points do not look as big
when the 80 made against Bemidji, 27
against Chisholm, "a against Duluth
Central, and 81 against Eveleth are
taken into consideration.
The second game against Tower, Ely
took easily, 40 to 0, and then dropped
to 6 battle to Eveleth and that most
of the fans figured should have gone to
Ely, 6 to o. An unfortunate tumble in
| the latter part of the game put a
thoroughly whipped Eveleth team in
scoring territory, gave them new life,
and a one-point victory. But that's all
part of the game.
| In the battle with Virginia that fol-
lowed, this observer thinks that Ely
turned in its best game of the season
They lost, IA to 0, insofar as points are
concerned, but were way out in front
when fight and determination are con-
sidered. Virginia scored but once by
using usual tactics. A pass good for IS
yards put the Bluedevils on Ely's 9-yard
line, and it took four plays to put the
ball over. The second marker came as
the result of a blocked Ely punt, with a
Virginia man falling on. the ball as. il
bounced over Elys goal line. But every
thing counts that goes over the goal
line, regardless of how it gets there
Virginia made seven first downs to five
for Ely.
Ely power undoubtedly reached its
height against International Falls fol-
lowing the Queen City tuSsle Coach
Buckley's boys pounded the Falls squad
all over the lot and won easily, IA to O.
The last home game of the season with
Gilbert was sad affair. 1t was highly
improbable that Gilbert would repeat
last years surprise defeat, the fans felt
although it was admitted that they had
much stronger team than they were
given credit for. When the smoke OF
battle cleared, the score board said Gill
bert 6. Ely 0. Injuries sustained by Ely
in this and earlier games unquestion-
ably played prominent part in the
loss. The Buckley coached aggregation
came through with flying colors to take
the final game of the year from Aurora
Il to 0.
Boys who have played their last foot
ball for Ely high include: Albert Banks
George Tuomala and Leonard Tomsich
backfield men, and William Rowe, sub
stitute back, which leaves another tough
problem for Coach Buckley for next
year; Dale Needing, John Zaic, the
ever-dependable all-range man Ed Klun
Albert Markovich, all regular linemen:
Bernard Hutar substitute lineman, and
Harry Anderson, substitute back.
Quarterback Prola, sparkplug of Ely's
attack, will return next year, as will
Dan Mestnik, William Mills, and An
drew Luhtanen, linemen.
Here are the scores for the last two
football seasons, with the points first
listed being those made by Ely:
| 1887 1888
Ely VS.. Hibbing, ......... 14-51
| Ely vs. Tower, 1916 400
Ely VS.. Eveleth, ........ .19- 6 CT
Ely VS.. Virginia, ... 1877 OLA
Ely VS.. Int1 Falls, $3.50. 90 14-O
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