The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-09-08
|MONARCHS BEAT
|URBANA, 20, In
PRACTICE CONTEST
MarYsville Gridders Are
Developing Fast For
Opener This Friday

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For the second time in II, years,
Marysville has defeated Urbana
in a football game. The only
catch is, this time it was unoffi-
cial and cannot go into the
records.
The Monarchs met the Maroon
of Urbana in a practice game last
Saturday afternoon, and came out
of it with 10 victory. The con-
test was played on the Urbana
gridiron and was just like a regu-
lar game except the quarters
were 10 minutes long. The last
time was in 1890, when Marys-
vile beat Urbana here by TO
score.
Each coach had the privilege of
stopping the game at any time to
correct faults he had observed, or
send in information. But it so
happened that neither coach took
advantage of this privilege, al
though Paul Wenzel followed his
Marysville gridders up and down
the sidelines from start to finish.
Used IS Players
Urbana received the ball on
its own 20 at the start of the
game and marched to the Marys-
vile 25 yard line before the local
gang figuratively said, Let's call
a halt to this.
The rest of the game, Marys-
vile had the advantage from
start to finish, outgaining and
outplaying the Urbana team. The
score finally came in the last
period on a pass from Jack Nc
CURE to Johnny Dayton, good for
16 yards. Sophomore Fullback
Loren Grimes neatly place-kicked
the extra point, the ball going
square between the uprights.
Wenzel used 19 boys during the
game, Urbana, | 4.
1--WE didn't look half bad,"
Wenzel declared, following the
contest, "And l know it did the
boys a lot of good. 1t was just
what they needed to gain some
underline experience.
'They certainly showed the
need of that experience, too," he
added. "The principal fault l had
was the lack of polish which can
come only with experience.
Open Season Friday
The Monarchs had no pre-sea-
son practice game last year, and
as result looked like the worst
kind of dubs the first half of
their opening game at Worthing-
ton, which they lost 26 TOT. From
there, they went on to very
successful season. Without the ex-
perience of last Saturdays game,
this years time might have been
in for the same kind of debacle
in their opener against Worthing
ton on the local gridiron this COM
ing Friday.
We've still got some weak
spots, but they're ironing out
nicely and the team is coming
along a lot faster than had hon.
estly expected" Wenzel declared.
After 212 weeks of practice, he
has given the squad 20 plays, all
of them run from the T-forma-
ton. Most of them call for Harold
Curly Hill or Bud White to
carry the ball, MCGUIRE for the
passing and Grimes for the punt
ing.
Lineup Still Undecided
Wenzel is completely decided
about some of his positions on the
starting lineup, but most of them
are still a toss-up between two
boys. 1t shapes up now as follows:
Left end, Dayton; left tackle,
Richard Croy, or John Swartz-
kopf; left guard, Bob Cosgbray or
Gene Shoemaker; center, Bill
Palmer or John Cotton; right
guard, Ted Amrine or Tom Bald
win; right tackle, Dick Graves;
right end, Jerry Kingsmore;
quarterback, Mcclure; left half,
Hill; right half, White or Bob
Conrad; fullback, Grimes. ,
Princip al substitutes are
George Hendricks and Charles
MacCracken, ends; Bill Woodson
and Phillip Erich, tackles; Rich
ard Devine, center; Bill Worth
ington, quarterback; and Buddy
Huffman, left half or fullback.