1918 Yearbook
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1918 Yearbook
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that they can pile up the points with the best of them. And the Sterling
squad ranked among the teams of their territory as one of the best.
Overwhelmingly outweighed, but not outplayed, the St. Ambrose Juniors went down before the fast Aledo team by a small score of 14 to 0.
The game was fast and furious; critics pronounced it the best staged in
Aledo during the season. It was anybody's game until the final whistle;
Aledo's touch-down came in the last two minutes of play by a freak forward pass.
After a slow, uninteresting game, the Juniors returned from Delmar
with the long end of a 41 to 6 score. Even this lopsided count would have
been much worse if it were not for a slippery field. The field was on a very
decided up-grade, and gave the team trying to drive it up something of a
sensation of climbing the Alps.
The next Saturday the Juniors kept the scorer working so hard that
the adding machine refused to count after the bearings were burnt out.
The final score is said to have been 86 to 0; but whether that was all or
not, no one knows.
The "Little Ambrosians" proved too much for the St. Mary's Academy
of Clinton and won, 38 to 0. The game was hard fought, and the issue was
in doubt until the last quarter. The feature of the game was a 45-yard drop
kick by "Red" McLain.
The Juniors and the Maquoketa High School battled to a scoreless tie,
on the St. Ambrose gridiron. The game was one continuous see-saw up
and down the field, sensations being heaped upon sensations. Twice the
Juniors were held for downs within the ten yard mark, while the visitors
were able to drive within the same chalk line on two occasions.
Although they led the Juniors throughout the first quarter, the Riverside High "griders" were unable to keep up the pace they had set, and
fell before the "little Ambrosians" with the score 47 to 9. Neither side
made consistent gains through the line or around the ends and resorted to
passing and kicking. Skelley, Hand, McLain, and Norton deserve credit for
the victory, for they showed considerable skill in grabbing passes out of
the air and slipping around the end.
The Juniors were to play Monmouth High School on Turkey-day, but
Monmouth found an easy victim and preferred a sure victory to taking a
walloping from the much feared, although small, team.
The two teams that beat the Juniors afterwards proved they could beat
other teams. Aledo defeated Rock Island, while Washington snowed under
the fast club from Burlington.
The Juniors, although they have not gone through the season without
defeat, as they did the two previous years, have an excellent record. It
consists of six victories, two defeats, and one tie; 346 points scored to 61
by their opponents; and all this by a team averaging only 130 pounds and
almost every player under 17 years of age.
FEENEY.
squad ranked among the teams of their territory as one of the best.
Overwhelmingly outweighed, but not outplayed, the St. Ambrose Juniors went down before the fast Aledo team by a small score of 14 to 0.
The game was fast and furious; critics pronounced it the best staged in
Aledo during the season. It was anybody's game until the final whistle;
Aledo's touch-down came in the last two minutes of play by a freak forward pass.
After a slow, uninteresting game, the Juniors returned from Delmar
with the long end of a 41 to 6 score. Even this lopsided count would have
been much worse if it were not for a slippery field. The field was on a very
decided up-grade, and gave the team trying to drive it up something of a
sensation of climbing the Alps.
The next Saturday the Juniors kept the scorer working so hard that
the adding machine refused to count after the bearings were burnt out.
The final score is said to have been 86 to 0; but whether that was all or
not, no one knows.
The "Little Ambrosians" proved too much for the St. Mary's Academy
of Clinton and won, 38 to 0. The game was hard fought, and the issue was
in doubt until the last quarter. The feature of the game was a 45-yard drop
kick by "Red" McLain.
The Juniors and the Maquoketa High School battled to a scoreless tie,
on the St. Ambrose gridiron. The game was one continuous see-saw up
and down the field, sensations being heaped upon sensations. Twice the
Juniors were held for downs within the ten yard mark, while the visitors
were able to drive within the same chalk line on two occasions.
Although they led the Juniors throughout the first quarter, the Riverside High "griders" were unable to keep up the pace they had set, and
fell before the "little Ambrosians" with the score 47 to 9. Neither side
made consistent gains through the line or around the ends and resorted to
passing and kicking. Skelley, Hand, McLain, and Norton deserve credit for
the victory, for they showed considerable skill in grabbing passes out of
the air and slipping around the end.
The Juniors were to play Monmouth High School on Turkey-day, but
Monmouth found an easy victim and preferred a sure victory to taking a
walloping from the much feared, although small, team.
The two teams that beat the Juniors afterwards proved they could beat
other teams. Aledo defeated Rock Island, while Washington snowed under
the fast club from Burlington.
The Juniors, although they have not gone through the season without
defeat, as they did the two previous years, have an excellent record. It
consists of six victories, two defeats, and one tie; 346 points scored to 61
by their opponents; and all this by a team averaging only 130 pounds and
almost every player under 17 years of age.
FEENEY.
Publisher
Wagner's Printery
Date
1918
Rights
St. Ambrose University, 518 W. Locust St., Davenport, IA 52803
Identifier
http://cdm16810.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16810coll2/id/6658