CANTON HIGH WAS DEFEATED
Orange and Black Victorious Saturday.
SCORE: MASSILLON 6, CANTON 2
Hard Fought Battle on the High School
Grounds
Blackburn Picked Up Punt
and
Ran Forty Yards for the Only Touchdown
Canton Scored a Safety.
After forty-five minutes of strenuous play on the high
school grounds Saturday afternoon, between the Canton and Massillon high school
football teams, for the second time in the memory of living man, the orange and
black landed on top with the long end of a 6 to 2 score. Although the game was at times ragged and
loose on the part of both teams, at no time was there slowness or
listlessness. During the entire game
both teams played to the limit of their strength and endurance, if not to the
possibilities of their skill. The battle
was fast and furious from start to finish and all points scored either by Massillon or the east
side suburb, were due to individual and not to team work.
All of Massillon’s six points
are credited to Blackburn, who played right
half for the local institution. The only
touchdown was made by him after a forty yard run through a clear field. One of Heyman’s
punts was blocked by Canton,
and fell a short distance from where it was put in play. The ball touched the ground first and bounded
with several men of each team in pursuit.
Blackburn was the first on the ground
and after fumbling once scooped the ball up and ran unhindered to the
goal. By kicking a perfect goal another
point was added.
Canton’s
points were made on a safety near the southeast corner of the field when Heyman, attempting a punt, was downed behind the line after
missing a bad pass. These were the only
points scored against Massillon
out of the first three games.
An unprecedented crowd of 1,500 banked the high school
gridiron on four sides. The large
delegation from Canton displayed the red and black profusely, held forth on the
south side of the field, while the north side was a band of orange and black,
where Massillon’s rooting club, led by Raymond Bowers, made Rome howl with
yells and songs from the referee’s whistle to the timekeeper’s whistle.
The final score is perhaps a good comparison of the two
teams as they showed up in the game, but hardly of their real strength. Massillon’s
team did not come anywhere near the form displayed in the two former
games. The line which has here-to-fore
held against anything was punctured time and again, both on offense and
defense. The team work in the back field
was ragged and the interference loose. Massillon was able but
twice and for short spaces to gain consistently through the line, but worked
two tricks time and again for large gains.
These were a fake punt and a double pass to end.
Canton,
with a team of new men, was not particularly strong in any department, but
played a plucky game from start to finish.
The lines of the two teams played the game about equally, but Canton was playing to the limit while Massillon was loafing on the job. The same may be said of the backfield with
the exception of McCay, at quarter, who was Canton’s
particular star. His speed in circling
the ends was his great asset. Aside from
straight football Canton
had but two plays. One was a tandem play
in which the fullback hit the opposite side of the line, and the other a
forward pass. Neither was successful at
any time.
In the first half Massillon
kept the ball in Canton’s
territory, and once carried it within a few yards of the goal, only to lose it
on a fumble. In the second half,
however, Canton braced up and Massillon’s goal was threatened several
times. Massillon’s line in turn braced up and held
for downs, always punting out of danger.
It was near the goal that Canton
tried her forward passes but they failed to materialize. When Canton’s
safety was made Massillon
had regained the ball on downs on the five-yard line and was attempting to punt
out. After the safety the ball was
kicked out from the twenty-five yard line and the game ended soon after with the
ball in Massillon’s
possession in the center of the field.
Following is the line-up:
Canton – 2 Pos. Massillon – 6
Lash c Leahy
Howell, Repputh lg Heyman
Austin, Bonner rg Zintsmaster
Lothamer rt Erb
Seftovitz rt Clay
Gauchot re Ellis
Kahler le Miller
McCoy qb Atwater
Steiner lh Wells
Price rh Blackburn
Blanchard fb Sonnhalter
Time of halves: 25
and 20 minutes.
Score at the end of first half – 0 – 0.
Touchdown:
Massillon
– Blackburn.
Goal:
Massillon
– Blackburn.
Safety:
Canton – Price downed Heyman.
Referee and umpire, alternating:
Wittmann, Massillon
Smith, Canton.
Head Linesman – Bast.
Timekeeper:
Merwin, Massillon.
Zazlett, Canton.