The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-10-20
|MONARCHS LOSE
ITO LONDON in
ROUGH CONTEST
Years Worst Showing
Features Monarch Play:
Final Score Is 1876

MarySville high school turned
in its poorest performance of the.
entire season to drop 1876 de-
cision to a so-called "underdog"
London high team, at London,
Friday night.
For the Monarchs, it was sor-
ry performance characterized for
the most part by mediocre block
ing and tackling, miserable timing
and sloppy ball handling. On
nearly every play, whether on
offense or defense, the line was
outcharged, with the result that
London could gain almost at WILL
The performance of the Mon
archs was in sharp, and unpleas-
ant, contrast to the splendid game
they had played against Marion
st. Mary the week previous.
Probably, as much as anything
else, over-confidence was the di-
rect cause of the shoddy showing.
Couldn't Come Back
Largely on the basis of COM
parative scores, Marysville was
rated as pre-game favorite, and
refused to recognized London as
a foe to be highly regarded. The
result the Red Raiders got the
| jump on Marysville early in the
game, and the Monarchs, no mat
ter how hard they tried, could
not recover.
The game, unfortunately, was
characterized by great deal of
uncalled-for roughness on the
part of London. Time after time,
Marysville boys had to be re-
moved from the field for varying
periods of time, and much of the
game was played by Monarch sec
ond stringers.
This type of play on the part
of London finally got the best of
Marysville's quarterback and star,
passer, Jack Mcclure, and he.
came out from under one unnec-
essarily rough pile-up late in the
second quarter, with fists flying.
The referee saw him and Nc
| Guire was banished for the rest
of the game for slugging, Strange
ly, no matter how rough London
played, or how hard they piled
on, none of the Raiders were re-
moved from the game, although
the team did lose 70 yards on
penalties, compared with only 20
for Marysville.
Loss of Regulars Hurts
Loss of Mcclure for more than
half the game, and of other regu-
lars for varying periods of time,
certainly did nothing to aid the
Marysville cause. Put briefly, it
was a long, sad, sorry evening
for the locals.
| Among the Marysville team, on
ly two lads, both substitutes,
turned in performances worthy
of commentator. Billy Worthing
ton, who replaced MCGUIRE at
quarterback when he went out,
turned in very creditable per-
formance, and threw the only
! pass, out of several tries, which
Marysville completed.
The other boy was Reserve
Fullback Buddy Huffman, who
got off some nice gains, and scor-
ed his teams only touchdown in
the third stanza. Other Marys-
Vile players showed flashes of
J good play from time to time, but
for the most part they were out
fought, outcharged and out play
| ed. And by a team supposed to
be inferior.
London's first score came on
the third play of the game!
Score on Third Play
! The Raiders won the toss and
choose to receive. Mcclure kick
ed to Kulp, who returned from
the London 80 to London 36. On
the first play, Herriott passed to
Hugh for a fisst down on the
Marysville SO. On the second play,
Herriott made it another first
down on the Marysville "a. On
the next play, Herriott broke in
to the clear and scampered "a
yards for the touchdown. Jack
sons place-kicked was wide
4 Marysville took the kickoff,
advanced to the London as yard
line, where Mcclure fumbled
and recovered for no gain, gain
ed only two yards on the next
play, then three two incompleted
3 passes and London took over on
downs.
The Raiders, however, were
= unable to gain and punted, Hill
returning from the Marysville II
to 80. The Monarchs then got a.
bout as far as mid-field, where
: they were stopped cold by Lon
don, and Grimes punted, the ball
going dead just one-loot from
the London goal. II was beauti-
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