The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-10-09
EveIeth Tigers Next
on College Schedule
Road Trip Faces Iron Men
as Conference Nears
Seasons End.
THE RECORD.
19S9-Ely 6, Eveleth 10.
1940-Ely IL, EveIeth 6.

Ely j. C. will travel to Eveleth to-
night for a Northern Junior College
conference game with the Tigers, cur
rently leading the circuit with vir-
ginia.
With two conference wins and a
non-conference victory over Northland
to its credit, Eveleth will be just an
other knotty problem for the local
| Jaysees, who have tackled and fallen
just a little short in three such stu
atoms to date.
Like the preceding two, the last
contest for the Iron Men on paper
was Ely's ball game but on the score
sheet was very much their opponents
When the Elyites began their about
offensive against Itasca in the final
half here last Saturday night, the
fans looked for a one or two point
win, but ItaSca came of the field
with a 24-14 victory
What will transpire at Eveleth re-
mains to be seen, but the Tigers can
be assured that they are in for an
active evening, and they will be out
gained in yardage and out-numbered
in first downs if past performances by
Ely hold true again. What the score
will be is another matter.
The contest will undoubtedly be a
lot closer than the records of the two
clubs might indicate. In the opening
game of the season Eveleth downed
Itasca, 8-6, only after the most hectic
kind Of an evening. While Itasca
held a scoring advantage over Ely, the
former excelled the Iron Men in only
one department, passing, and the Col
eraine crew was vastly weaker in line
bucking.
Last week Eveleth sneaked past Du-
luth, 1877, a club that downed Itasca,
TO, two weeks ago.
During the last-half bid for victory,
Ely ripped the Itasca line to shreds,
and also showed the Itascans a thing
or two about passing. But the visitors
kept the ball game out of Ely's reach
by breaking up an Ely drive in the
last quarter when an Itasca man in
tercepted an Ely pass and ran the
ball to the Ely Z where a couple of
pokes at the line put the ball over and
the game on ice.
The intercepted pass came in be-
tween Ely's first and second touch
down, and nipped in the bud drive
that appeared score bound at a fast
clip.
In the closing minutes Ely got a |
break when Roland Brennan blocked |
an Itasca punt on the latter's 81
yard line. A fiat pass over center by |
Roy Johnson to End Don Prola scored. |
and Tony Grahek went off tackle to
convert the extra point.
The Iron Men marched "a yards |
for their initial marker, with the two
Ed and Tony, going off
tackle for repeated gains ranging from |
a couple of yards to Is Ed circled |
the end from about a foot out to
score, and Tony smashed through the
line for the extra point
A short time later they started down |
field from their own "a, but their |
drive ended near milfield when an |
1tasca player gathered in pass tossed |
by Johnson and hiked to the Ely 7 |
before he was knocked out of bounds. |
The score that followed made the |
count 247, too big an advantage for
Ely to overcome.
Itasca'S first counter came in the |
opening quarter, after 25-yard sprint |
had planted the ball on the Ely 10. |
A pass from Sam Pecchia, best out
of-town player seen on the local field
this season, to Holm an end, scored. |
A lateral, Pecchia to Holm to Bill
OMelia, scored from deep in Ely
territory toward the end of the first
half. The third came early in the
third quarter after sustained drive
from the Ely 46 which featured a Is
yard sprint by Halfback Miller. The
fourth score resulted from the inter-
cepted pass.