The Ely miner., 1939-11-02
Ely Must Whip Eueleth to
Tie Queen City for Title
Duluth's Forfeiture of Game
to Virginia Puts Ely in
Tight Spot.

0IlOW SLOIII1S dIlO a 1OIlcAIC0 game
have created quite a muddle in the
Northern Junior College conference
during the past week. The storm raised
the question of cancelling the Ely
Eveleth game this weekend, and the
forfeited game showed Virginia into
first place in the standings, spiking
all talk about a cancellation.
The encounter with Eveleth, on the
Tigers field has been moved from Fri
day night to Saturday afternoon, with
the opening kickoff set for 2:30 o'clock.
A large group of Ely fans are expected
to follow Coach Barney Banks and his
crew to Eveleth to give them their
united moral support, for win for Ely
will tie them with the Queen City for
the title.
Tuesday Coach Al I0ueks announced
that the Duluth JaySeeS unknowingly
had been using an ineligible player all
season. Their tie with Virginia, there
fore, was forfeited, giving the Queen
City four wins and one loss, instead
of three wins, one loss and one tie.
Virginia moved past Ely to first place,
with the latter dropping to second with
three wins and one loss.
This unexpected turn of events makes
the cancellation of the Eveleth tilt i'm
possible as far as Ely is concerned,
and the game will be played, snow or
no snow, unless Eveleth wants to for
felt it, which is unlikely.
Ereleth no doubt would like nothing
better than to knock the chip off Ely's
shoulder. A win would give them a
tie for second with Itasca, besides pull
ing Ely down TO third place.
Eveleth has couple of potent ball
carriers in Quarterback George Gidos
and Halfback Elemendo Rossi who will
have to be harnessed if Ely is going
to have any degree of assurance of
coming out on top. William Shuttle,
right end, is another dangerous man.
1t was a 28-yard pass from Gidos to
Shuttle that scored the Tigers TO win
over Northland last week
Eveleth's defensive ability is nothing
to sneeze at. After scoring in the open
ing quarter, the Tigers held Northland
on the 12-yard line for downs soon
after Near the end of the second
quarter, Northland had the ball on the
Eveleth 5, with first and goal. to go UP,
but the Tigers succeeded in stopping
them six inches short of a touchdown.
Eveleth made II first downs to eight
for Northland, and completed two out
of three passes.
Eveleth held ItaSca to SO tie, which
was better than Ely could do, defeated
Duluth 200, which was also better than
Ely's stand against the Bluejays, but
played scoreless tie with Hibbing,
team the locals whipped, TO. Ely won
from Duluth, 20-7, and was defeated by
Itasca, TO. Virginia, which defeated
Eveleth by two points, lost to Ely by
like margin, 14-12.
These scores might indicate that Ely
and Eveleth are on about even terms,
and that's a safe way in which to
size them up.
Ely's talented, hard-charging line
which played such an important part
in the defeat of Hibbing and the up
set OF Virginia, may prove the de-
Gliding factor in the EveIeth game If
the boys are ''on," it may mean VIC
tory, but if they turn as stale as during
the first half of the Itasca game, Ely
may have to be satisfied WITH third
place.
In nip-and-tuck battle, that in
domitable spirit that is so characteristic
of Ely athletic teams may pull the
boys through by an eye-lash. If it
reaches the peak manifest in the Queen
City game, the Tigers will leave the
field with their claws trimmed