MASSILLON
LOSES
IN
HARD LUCK GAME
Defeated by
Score of 2 to 0 by New Philadelphia
LOCALS
OUTPLAY OPPONENTS
Safety Scored
in Second Period Makes Only Points in Game
Ball
Generally in New Philadelphia’s Territory
Several Drop
Kicks Tried
With the Massillon
team outplaying the New Philadelphia team in every point of the game, except
the score, the local high school lost to New Philadelphia at that place
Saturday by a score of 2 to 0.
New Philadelphia’s
two points were made on a safety when Heyman punted, but the punt was blocked
and the ball rolled behind the line, where Heyman fell on it. The Massillon team was there on the jump and
played a good game. It was mainly played in New Philadelphia’s territory. Several times Massillon almost pushed the
ball over, but the New Philadelphia line held.
Heyman tried for several drop kicks but the field was covered with grass
and made perfect kicking difficult. One
of the kicks missed the bars by only about a yard.
The game began at
about 3 o’clock. Massillon kicked to
New Philadelphia and the runner was downed after a short run. New Philadelphia rushed the ball down the
field and it changed hands several times.
When the period closed it was near the Massillon goal. In
the next period the ball see-sawed back and forth and about the middle
of the period a safety was made against Massillon. Then the game took on a different aspect and the ball was taken
to New Philadelphia’s territory, when Heyman tried for a drop kick but failed.
In the second half
Massillon again kicked to New Philadelphia, but it was held for downs and
punted. With the ball in its possession
the Massillon team started up the field, smashing the line for good gains, and
working some fine forward passes. On
one of the passes Zintsmaster almost got away for a touchdown, but the New
Philadelphia end was too near and he was downed. After several downs Heyman tried for another drop kick but failed
by a yard. During the third period the
game was played furiously by both teams and when the smoke of battle cleared
away New Philadelphia had two points and Massillon had to be satisfied with a
goose egg.
The New Philadelphia
school spirit did not show up to an advantage on Saturday and the little
handful of Massillon rooters made almost as much noise as the combined efforts
of the fair sex of the New Philadelphia high school. The spirit of the
sidelines was manifested when the Massillon rooters started to give some yells
between the periods and New Philadelphia immediately started shoving and threatened
to do something worse. One individual was persistent in his threats to clean up
the entire Massillon aggregation. The
Massillon rooters were well satisfied with the game the entire team put up.
The
line-up:
Massillon Pos. New
Philadelphia
Kester le Broadhurst
Reinoehl lt Melborn
Wagner lg Lemick
Arthur c Boyd
Huffman rg Wilkin
Keeton rt Batterschell
Zintsmaster re Smith
Miller qb Getz
Custer lh Bowers
Sonnhalter(capt.) rh McPherson
(capt.)
Heyman fb Lehmer
Referee and umpire,
alternating:
Bast, of Massillon.
Farrell, of New
Philadelphia.
Field Judge –
Ebright.
Head Linesman –
Merwin of Massillon
Time of periods – 10
minutes.