CANTON
H.S. – 8,
MASSILLON
– 0.
High School Football Team Beaten
OUTWEIGHED
BY MANY POUNDS
Showing
of the Massillon Team Was Fine Considering Handicap Which They Were Forced to
Give in Weight
A
Touchdown, Goal and Safety Responsible for the Score
Although defeated by
the Canton high school by the score of 8-0 in the game at Meyer’s Lake Friday
afternoon the Massillon high school football team has every reason to feel
proud of the showing made, in view of the great disparagement in the average
weight of the two teams. After having
held the heavy Cantonians to a 5-0 score on the Massillon high school grounds
last Friday, the local students were inclined to feel that with more coaching
and practice they would defeat their heavier opponents in the second game. It was impossible, however, for the lighter
linemen of this city to push aside the heavy guards, center, tackles and ends
of the Canton team for any substantial gains.
On the other hand Canton was forced to abandon the end running game and
resort to line bucking where their weight soon told on the light Massillon
forwards and a touchdown was made, not, however, until after a stubborn
resistance of every inch of territory on the part of Massillon’s plucky
team. The touchdown was followed by a
goal. Previously, the Canton team had
carried the ball almost to the goal line of the Massillon players, where they
were held and the ball went to Massillon.
On a few attempted line plunges the locals were unable to score and were
forced back for a safety, probably the first instance of the kind in this
vicinity for several years. A safety
counts two points for the opposing team, and this with the touchdown and goal
made the score 8-0, all in the first half, no scoring being done in the second
half.
For Massillon Wert,
Albright, Myers and Smith played the star game and were ably supported by the
entire team. For Canton, there was no
particular stars, the entire team playing steady, consistent football. No great variety of plays were tried, the
Canton team contenting itself with line plunges, principally the “tackles over”
formation, which was a good ground gainer.
For Massillon, the quarterback tricks, end runs and line plunges were
but partially successful. Wert and
Kirchhofer ran the team in good shape at quarterback and easily out-generaled
the captain of the other team, whose judgment was somewhat poor at critical
times in the selection of plays. For
the Massillon high school Smith, who has been playing left tackle, showed
promise of developing into one of the most valuable men on the team. He was in every play, and showed that
quality of “nerve” which is required in a successful football player.
Captain Albright, of
the local team was also a star in many of the plays. It was his tackle in the first half which prevented another
touchdown, after Canton’s right half had circled the end for a forty yard run,
and was almost over the line. In line
plunging Albright was at his best; although he is still inclined to hit the
line a little high, his form was otherwise good.
For Canton, Captain
Buckwalter, at quarter, ran his team in good shape, but was guilty of
considerable fumbling at critical times.
It is this feature which in all probability saved the locals from a
higher score. The visitors had weight
enough on the line to run up a much higher score under favorable circumstances,
but lacked the spirit which characterized the play of the Massillon boys.
Line-up:
CANTON Pos. MASSILLON
Lowman L.E. Smith
Marsh L.T. Limbach
Winger L.G. Stoner
Gibson C Tucker
Brambaugh R.G. Hollinger
Holl R.T. Burkhart
Williams and R.E. Wert
Lowenstein
Buckwalter (capt.) Q.B. Kirchhofer
Gould R.H. Kaylor
Kennedy L.H. Schnierle
Robb F.B. Albright (capt.)
Officials:
Canton – Unfair.
Massillon – Markel;
Willenborg; and Harrison.
In the last half it
took the combined efforts of Chief Ertle and Officers Wittmann and Wissmar to
keep the crowd back.
When Wert broke
through the crowd in the last half it looked good for a touchdown, but he
stumbled over the feet of Buckwalter, whom he had “stiff armed,” and fell.
Benny Gans, who was
on the grounds ready to line up with the high school team, was barred by the
vigorous kicking of Captain Buckwalter on the grounds that he was not a bona
fide student of the school.
With Gans at the
other end of the line to Wert, the Canton team would never have had a ghost of
a show to score on ends runs.
About four hundred
people witnessed the contest and evinced the utmost excitement at times. The principal “rooters” were the girls from
Massillon and Canton high schools, who formed into “rooters” bands with horns
and made considerable noise.