THE FIRST BATTLE

High School Boys Sturdily Breast the Blows

 

WEIGHT TELLS AT LAST

And the Youthful Knights of the Gridiron Go Down to Defeat Before the Hardy Men From the County Seat

‘Twas a Game with Many Fine Features

Other Athletic and Sporting News

 

The Canton high school eleven in a hotly contested game of football, Wednesday afternoon at the Massillon baseball park, defeated the Massillon high school team by a score of 5 to 0.  The game was scheduled to begin at 3:30 but it was nearly 4, when all the preliminaries, were arranged.  The Canton aggregation came in a special car, accompanied by many friends and admirers, among who were many ladies.  The Massillon school also turned out in force, and the cries of the rivals filled the air.

 

The toss up was won by Schnierle, the Massillon captain, who chose the west end of the field and the kickoff.  Canton, after making a small gain, lost the ball on a fumble by the quarterback.  Massillon, after a vain attempt to trample the Canton team into the ground, also lost the ball in the same manner.  The Canton team’s superior weight now began to tell on the Massillon line, and finally Rob was rushed across the line for a touchdown.

 

Massillon then kicked off, and held the Canton team for three downs, obtained the ball and by a good run by Wiseman advanced the ball ten yards.  J. Miller punted the ball far into the enemy’s territory just as time was called.

 

The second half was a hard struggle between the teams, Massillon trying hard to score, and the Canton boys working just as hard to prevent them, when time was called the Massillon team, was very near the Canton goal line.  The halves were of twenty minutes’ duration each.

 

The features of the game were the tackling of Young and J. Miller, and the end running of Wiseman.  Ray L. Markel, of this city, and Boyer, of Canton, were the referees.  J.M. Sarver acted as timekeeper.  The game was very free from objectionable slugging.  There were no accidents.

 

The teams lined up as follows:

 

C.H.S.                            Pos.                                       M.H.S.

Zollinger                       right end                                   J. Miller

Cross                         right tackle                                    Young

Correl                        right guard                                   Nother

Slaker                            center                                    Schnierle

Wagoner                     left guard                               Sonnhalter

                                                                             and Gorman

Cook                          left tackle              Albright and F. Miller

Strang                           left end                       Bast and Oberlin

Mahaffey                   quarterback                                     Hipp

Van Horn                 right halfback                                  Myers

Rackle                       left halfback                               Wiseman

Rob                              fullback                                  M. Miller

Rex, Hudson,                  subs                                     Benedict

Snyder

 

Score:

C.H.S.                 5

M.H.S.                 0