Washington
High
Scores 41-0 Win
Over Dover
LIGHT CRIMSON LINE
YIELDS TO
POWERFUL OFFENSE OF TIGERS
By LUTHER EMERY
The ball was on the 47-yard line. Clendening dropped
back as the teams lined up, and with the snap of the ball was off on a run
around left end. Dover thought he would whip a lateral pass to
Kester, but instead he suddenly cut across the line
of scrimmage, and although twice apparently tackled, broke away and raced
across the Crimson goal line.
The clouds that occasionally spat raindrops on the fans were
no more sullen Saturday afternoon than the Dover football team after that run of Clendening’s. One
previous touchdown had been made, on straight football, but whatever hope Dover had of winning
after the first score, was crushed to earth with this feature dash of the
day. Broken in spirit the Crimson
gridders yielded yards easily to the touchdown thirsty Tigers and by the end of
the game the score was 41 to 0.
Dover Never Threatened
Forty-one to nothing. That is a new record for the orange and black
this season and represents the highest score a Washington high team has made
since the middle of the 1926 season when Akron Garfield was defeated by half a
hundred points.
Forty-one points tells the strength of the Tigers offense
Saturday and it might have been a dozen or so greater had they elected to make
it such. “Nothing” bespeaks the power of
the forward wall, and even had the Massillon
goal been moved up 27 yards for Dover
to shoot at a big zero would still have been the visitors score, for never did
the Crimson squad get any nearer the Tigers’ goal line than the 27-yard stripe.
Admittedly outweighed by their Tiger opponents, the Dover
boys were completely outplayed in every department of the game The Massillon attack flashed brilliantly
at the start of the game, and after rolling up four touchdowns in quick
succession was at its peak when in the middle of the second period, Coach Elmer
McGrew sent in his shock troops, thus putting an end to the scoring and placing
the teams on a more even basis in a matter of strength. Two more touchdowns were scored in the second
half when the regulars went back into the game.
Team Shows Strength
Clendening made the feature runs
of the afternoon, but his play was no more brilliant than the line plunging of
Williams, the all around ability of John Kester, and
the blocking of Worthington,
the fourth member of the backfield. The
Tiger line as a whole seldom wrinkled under the thrusts of the Dover backs, and its ability to push back the
front ranks of the visitors, gave the Tiger ball carriers a broken field for
their running.
Standing head and shoulders above their teammates, Baker, Foutz and Rees were the shining lights on the Dover squad. Followed closely by the orange and black,
Baker, groomed as the big threat of the Crimson, failed to make an impressive
showing until late in the second period, when with many Massillon substitutes
on the field, he reeled off a series of end runs that gave his schoolmates the
only thing they had to rejoice over all afternoon. However, his play was marred with slugging on
his part and he was ejected from the game in the fourth period by Referee Lobach. Foutz,
was the visitors’ chief ground gainer on the plunges while Jimmy Rees was the
greatest menace on the Dover
line to Tiger ball carriers.
Clendening
Shines
Clendening with runs of 47, 30 and
19 yards for touchdowns was the Tigers’ chief scorer for the day. In addition to his long runs he kicked five
extra points from placement after touchdowns, giving him a total of 23 points
for the day. Williams, Kester and Worthington, each
contributed six points to the Massillon
collection.
The first touchdown was made by John Kester
in the middle of the first period on a straight march of 77 yards. The second came in the closing minutes of the
period on Clendening’s 47-yard run.
The second quarter had no more than opened until Worthington bucked
through left guard for four yards after a parade of 65 yards up the field. The fourth set of points was another of those
scintillating dashes of the colored boy this time from the 30-yard line. The fifth scored in the middle of the third
period was the direct result of the terrific line plunging of Glenn Williams
during which he carried the ball three out of four times while driving the Dover team backward 55
yards across its goal line. Clendening scored the sixth and final touchdown in the
fourth period on a 19-yard wiggle and snake run.
15 First Downs
In a matter of first downs, the local team had 15 to Dover’s six. The Tigers tried two passes and both
failed. Dover completed four out of eight throws for
a gain of 24 yards, having four incomplete passes. Massillon was
penalized 45 yards and Dover
the same distance.
If Dover
had anything to boast about it was its band, and the generous support of its
fans. The Dover
band outnumbered and outplayed the Massillon
musicians, and drilled on the field between halves. If a count had been made it probably would
have been found that Dover had as many fans in
the stands as Massillon
which means that approximately 1,000 attended the game from the Tuscarawas
county city.
To the surprise of many spectators, as well as reporters,
the first kickoff was made 12 minutes earlier than the time given to the
newspapers for announcement Friday. As a
result many of the fans who chose to watch the progress of the World Series
baseball game until a few minutes before the start of the football contest
found the first period nearly half over when they reached the high school
field. Officials fearing that darkness
would not permit completion of the game started it ahead of schedule and the
late arriving spectators were the losers.
Baker kicked off toe Kester who
returned to the 13-yard line. Williams
made six yards in two plunges. Kester punted to his own 46-yard line. Riefensnyder and
Baker failed to gain and a pass Teglo to Lahmers was good for but three yards. Baker punted to Clendening
who returned to his 25-yard line.
Williams made a first down in three plays on his own 40-yard line. A lateral pass, Clendening
to Williams gained five yards and Clendening reeled
off five more for a first down in midfield.
Kester ripped off another first down on the Dover 40-yard line and Williams and Worthington plunged for another on the
30-yard line. Williams slipped through
for a gain of seven yards and Kester found a hole for
eight more and a first down on the 15-yard line. The Tigers were penalized 15 yards but Kester got off to a 23-yard run and Clendening
made it a first down on the four-yard stripe, Kester
took it over on his second attempt, a run around right end. Clendening place-kicked
the extra point.
Kester kicked to Dover on the 35-yard line, and when three
plays netted but seven yards Baker punted short to Clendening
on the 48-yard line. Worthington made a yard and on the next play Clendening slipped around left end for a run of 47 yards
and a touchdown. His place kick was wide
of the goal posts. Score: Massillon 13; Dover
0.
Kester was downed with Dover’s kickoff on the
35-yard line. Williams made seven yards
and Clendening two, but Massillon was penalized five yards. Williams made up for the loss by hitting
center for a first down on his own 45-yard line, as the quarter closed with the
local team leading 13-0.
Second Period
Clendening broke away for a run to
Dover’s 30-yard
line. Williams picked up nine yards and Worthington made it a
first down on the 18-yard line. Williams
rammed center for five yards and then made a first down on the four-yard
line. He fumbled but recovered without
gain. Worthington slipped through left guard for
the third touchdown and Clenedning place-kicked the
extra point. Score: Massillon 20; Dover 0.
Kester kicked to Baker who was
downed on Dover’s
26-yard line. Thomas, Baker and Teglo picked up but seven yards and Baker after getting a
poor center pass punted quickly, almost laterally and out of bounds on his own
30-yard line. On the next play Clendening broke away for a touchdown, and place kicked the
extra point. Coach McGrew then began
shooting his subs into the fray. Score: Massillon 27; Dover
0.
Massillon kicked to Dover on the 35-yard
line. Thomas made two yards but Baker
lost three around right end. When Thomas
failed to gain, Baker punted short to his own
42-yard line. Kester got five
yards but the Tigers were penalized the same distance. Clendening slipped
through for five and Rice made 10 yards but a penalty of 15 yards was inflicted
on the locals for failing to halt on a shift play. Kester then punted
55 yards over the Dover
goal line. Dover
took the ball on the Massillon
20-yard line. Thomas and Foutz each gained three yards and Thomas picked up but one
more after which Baker punted out of bounds on his own 45-yard line. The game was delayed frequently through the
substitution of players. Kester made four yards, Singer a yard, but Little lost a yard. Mudd punted over the Dover
goal line, and Dover
was given the ball. Foutz failed to gain, but Baker
got away for his team’s first down, carrying the ball to his own 38-yard line. Foutz gained six
yards in two attempts and Thomas picked up a yard. Baker slipped through the Massillon line for a first down on the
local’s 34-yard line. Foutz made two yards and Baker five more but the ball was
called back and Dover
penalized 15 yards. Fourtz
passed to Smith for a gain of seven yards and Baker was held without gain. Houriet blocked Foutz’s pass and the visitors surrendered the ball on
downs. Bordner
fumbled on the next play but recovered as the first half ended with the locals
leading 27 to 0.
Massillon tried a short kick
but Dover
covered on its own 45-yard line. Thomas
fumbled and the local team recovered on the 49-yard line. Williams and Clendening
made eight yards. Kester
fumbled but recovered for a loss of two.
Kester punted out of bounds on the 18-yard
line. Thomas got a yard but Baker lost
two. Baker punted short to Kester on the 35-yard line who returned to the 25-yard
line. Rice failed to gain and the Tigers were penalized five yards. Two passes were incompleted
bringing a five-yard penalty and Kester punted over
the goal line. With the ball on the
20-yard line, Foutz and Riefensnyder
plunged for a first down on three plays.
Three more plays failed to gain more than three yards and Baker punted
out of bounds on the Massillon 45-yard line
Williams gained nine yards on two plunges and Kester
waded through for a first down on the Dover
40-yard line. Rice stumbled and lost
three yards but Williams plunged for a first down in two drives at the line,
stopping at the 21-yard stripe. He was
hurt on the play but continued in the game.
Kester made a yard and a cross pass, Kester to Clendening brought a
first down on the
10-yard line. Williams took the ball over in four plays,
and Clendening added the extra point from placement. Score: Massillon 34, Dover 0.
Kester kicked off to Thomas who
returned to the 26-yard line. Foutz carried for eight yards as the quarter ended.
Fourth Quarter
Foutz plunged for a first down on
his own 38-yard line. Thomas got a yard,
Baker six, Foutz a yard and then Foutz
slipped through for another first down in mid-field. Baker failed to gain but Teglo
passed 13 yards to Lahmers for a first down on the Massillon 37-yard
line. Dover was penalized five yards and a pass was
incomplete. A second pass Teglo to Baker gained but two yards and a third pass went
for naught. Baker punted to Kester, and was caught slugging a Massillon player who was running interference
for Kester.
Baker was ejected from the game and Dover penalized half the distance to the goal
line, giving the Tigers the ball on the 24-yard line Kester
found a hole for four yards and Clendening took the
ball from Williams and ran 19 yards for the last touchdown of the game. He kicked goal. Score: Massillon 41, Dover 0.
Kester kicked off to the Dover 34-yard line. Foutz gained but
four yards in two plays and Kester returned a Dover punt from his
15-yard line to the 35-yard line.
Williams and Rice gained six yards and Clendening
was stopped in his tracks. Kester punted out of bounds on Dover’s 28-yard line. Foutz failed to
gain and Teglo’s pass was grounded. He gained two yards at center. Kester took the
return punt on the Massillon
40 yard line and was held without return.
Kester was thrown for a loss of three
yards. The game ended soon after.
Line up and summary:
Massillon Position Dover
Toles LE Sauers
Willison LT Rausch
Pfister LG Horn
Lewis C Rees
Herman RG Davis
Blatz RT Schlelper
Houriet RE Lahmers
Kester QB Riefensynder
Clendening LH Baker
Worthington RH Teglo
Williams FB Thomas
Score by periods:
Massillon 13 14 7 7 41
Substitutions:
Massillon – Rice, rh; Snodgrass, lg; Getz, le;
Price, rg; Mudd, fb; Knowlton, lh; Hoyman, c; Little, lh; Bordner, rh; Hoagland, rt.
Dover – Foutz, rh; Smith, re; Godfrey, lg; D. Godfrey, lt.
Touchdowns:
Massillon
– Kester; Clendening 3; Worthington; Williams.
Points after touchdown:
Massillon – Clendening 5 (placekick)
Referee – Lobach.
Umpire – Clark.
Head Linesman – Weise.
Time – 12 minute halves.