Arkansas College - Scot Yearbook (Batesville, AR)

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. '- tggful-Q1 1 N D E X 1 9 2 5 team. Arkansas scored a touchdown in the third quarter on an eight-yard plunge by Cy Henry,'ancl Firpo kicked goal. Only once did the visitors threaten to score: early in the last period, by a series of line bucks and forward passes, Little Rock advanced the ball to Arkansas' twenty-yard line. On the next down Grisham fumbled the ball and A. C. recovered it. The game ended: Arkansas, 7, Little Rock College, o. On October ro, the VVest Tennessee State Normal team invaded Panther territory. And just a little over an hour later the score stood, A. C., 49, VVest Tennessee Normal, o. Notwithstanding the one-sided score, it was an interesting game, filled with spectacular plays, beautiful runs, and long passes. It offered, besides, an excellent opportunity for the development of all the new candidates, and helped to whip the team into shape for Hendrix the next week. Nearly two hundred students and townspeople accompanied the team to Conway on the seven- teenth of October. Enthusiastic supporters of the college from over the entire state gathered in Young Stadium to witness the fray-even three young gentlemen from Arizona, friends of the college, were there. And the event played up to the fullest expectations, with one exception-the Panthers lost the most thrilling game of the entire season by a score of I3 to 9. Arkansas scored first and last-but the score does not tell all. Some of us were there and saw the game. Ask us about it, space won't permit its being treated here as it should be. But if you are proud of any- thing your college has ever done, you should be proud of the spirit she showed out there on the Hendrix football Field. , To those who had witnessed the Panther-Bulldog game, the Panther defeat at the hands of the Monticello Aggies, a week later, was not so surprising as it might have been. The boys were crippled and still somewhat broken-spirited over the loss of the previous week. The Panthers thought they were doing their best, but they were not, and Monticello won the game, 9 to 8. Not discouraged by this blow, but rather encouraged by it to fight harder, the Panthers came home and put in three hard days working up for the game with the Arkansas State Normal the coming Friday. Two of the Panthers' best were compelled to forget the pleasure and profit of the game because of insufficient grades. In a clean, hard fought game, the Teachers bested us, I7 to 3, in the first victory the Normal has ever won over a Panther football team. Henderson-Brown and Arkadelphia were next honored by the Panthers, the game being the fourth in succession on foreign territory. There, outweighed and outclassed, the Panthers put up a game stand against a superior eleven, fighting like a crowd of demons, but covered with glory, they went down in defeat. We were not ashamed of them, on the contrary, we were proud of them when we heard how they had fought to the final whistle. The Panthers came home for their last stand on November zo, against their old rival, the Jonesboro Aggies. This was the most interesting game the Panthers played during the entire season. In the first two or three minutes of play, after a long run by Manning, Carpenter dashed forty-five yards for a touchdown, after which he kicked goal. Throughout the remainder of the game neither team could gain any decided advantage over the other. Many spectacular plays were made by both, and when the Final whistle of the season blew, the score stood, Arkansas College, 7, Aggies, o. Seventeen of our men made letters. Three of them graduate this year-three, who, for the past four years, have been the mainstay of the Panther football teams-Jones, Conner, and Goff. Aside from these three, who will be greatly missed, all the men are expected back. Others played in the games, but did not make letters, these, too, will be with us next year. So, all in all, there has been laid a strong foundation for a bigger and better season in 1925. 63 -ef 'Fri ' W' ' : g . as ' E W -srl! - QV