The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1946-09-16
MONARCHS LOSE OPENING GAME, 26-6,
AT WORTHINGTON INPOOR FIRST HALF

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MarySville high schools 1916
Monarchs opened the new season
at Worthington high, Friday night,
by taking 26 to shellacking at
the hands of determined Cardinal
team.
| 1t was the first half which prov
ed the Monarchs' undoing. Look
ing like a bunch of Sand-lot kids
in the red and blue uniforms, the
| locals gave the Cards everything
but the playing field, and that al
ready belonged to them
| The second half was a different
story and several hundred MaryS-
vile fans who followed the team
to Worthington saw one of the
slickest passing combinations since
the old Galloway-to-Bump days of
1923 and 1929. While Marysville
absorbed a beating-an a richly
deserved one, too, from the way
the Monarchs didn't play in the
first half-there was much COM
pensation watching Nanny Rogers
toss one pass after another to Jack
Mickey Mcclure for plenty of
yards. 1t was a pleasure to behold.
The first half, however-well,
it's painful to recall.
First Half Painful
| Sophomore Johnny Dayton, a
really promising lad playing his
first game of football, was the only
one on the entire line who looked
like he was even interested in what
was going on. In the backfield, the
situation was little better but the
ball carriers had no support from
the linemen, and when Marysville
was on defense, which was most
of the time, the backs were having
| to do all the work. But even the
backs, although trying. had the
opening might jitters and contrib
uted their share of laxness and in
difference.
| Between halves, Coach Paul
Wenzel really went to work. The
tongue lashing he handed out pull
ed no punches and woke the boys
up.
The second half, it was a diff
erent story.
| Where there had been no charg
ing, no drive, no team-play, no
nothing except indifference, the
| MonarchS came back the second
half to play some good football.
i Sure, there were miS-cueS. 1t might
have been expected of any team in
its opening game. Worthington,
even in running rough-shod over
| Marysville the first half, still made
some mistakes.
Redeem Selves Second Half
But the locals were out to re-
deem themselves that second half.
They did a pretty good job of it,
! too-enough to demonstrate that
! Marysville has the makingS of a
good football team, if they want
badly enough to be one.
The result was some good block
{ ing on offensive, particularly on
the pass plays, and some very cf-
fective t a ck ling. Consequently,
Marysville was the better team the
second half, and the Worthington
offense which advanced at will the
first half was bottled up the sec
ond. And on the offense, the Mon
archs were able to gain steadily.
How Points Were Scored
The first touchdown was not
long in the making. MarysVillc
kicked-off, with the ball going in
play on the Worthington 30-yard
line, to where Arthur had advanc-
ed it from the IL. The first play
was an off-tackle slant by Arthur,
good for 20 yards and a first
down on the 50-yard line. The sec
ond play was an end sweep by
Nash, who carried IL yards to Ma
rysville's 33 for another first down.
Two plays gained only scant
yards, and then it was Nash again,
this time to the Monarch 20. Mills
gained yard. but then the Cards
| advanced the ball to the Monarch
two as Owens fumbled and Walk
er recovered. On the next play,
Arthur scored off right tackle and
Owens converted the extra point
by place kick.