Jackson High School - Osky Wow Yearbook (Jackson, OH)

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thrown on the defense and so on, while neither side gained until late in the third quarter a fumble by one of the J. H. S. players was caught up by one of the opponents who scored. They were successful with their goal kicks from this unfortunate play, (for us) till the end of the game, both teams played hard, Jackson trying to score, while Kingston worked just as hard on the defense. The game ended with the score 7--0 in favor of Kingston, while they played a no better game than we. We met the Ironton boys, Oct. 26th on the local grounds. This was our second clash with that team, who had proved our masters in the first game. This time we were better prepared for them and had out our full force which had practiced hard for the game, because we thought we were entitled to this game and knew what we were going up against. We were in shape to do the best battle of the season. The opponents also had out the best force that they could muster and we were slightly underestimated by them. Our boys knew that a great deal depended upon a terrific start, so they got right to work early. Capt. Morgan carried the ball in two successive downs to within one foot of the goal, then Gahm carried it over for the first touch-down. We failed to kick goal. Ironton then by a trick play scored, but thev also failed to kick goal. Tnen we, cneered loyally from the side-lines, entered the second quarter of the hardest fought battle of the season. At no time during the progress of the game did either side let up, but each thinking it possible to score the winning point, tore away incessantly at the opponent. In the first few minutes of the last quarter, Capt. Morgan was forced out on account of an injured knee, Coll was substituted, though the position was a new one to him, he did his duty and with fast work on the back-line from Alexander and Marshal we fought to a tie score of 6-6. We met our “Waterloo” on Nov. 16th when we played the Chillicothe boys on their own grounds. For this game we could raise but ten eligible men and one of these was early forced out of the game due to an injury which he sustained, thus leaving the team scarcely a shadow of its former self for our star men were now all out of the game. The opponents played us with an equal number of men, but unlike ours, their remnant was the flower of their team. They went through our defense like “greased lightning”, the re suit was that we were overwhelmingly defeated by a score of 61--0. This was the final game of the season excepting a game on Thanksgiving, played with a team which was picked up by the Alumni and which was defeated. Bartlett Gibson was manager and Wendell Morgan was captain of this team The following are the names of the players: Arthur Roberts Ralph Shuter Warren Dever Preston Turner Everett Alexander George Kendall William Steele Wendell Morgan Edward Abraham Basil Halterman Ivan James Harold Gahm Roger Thomas Leo Coll June Marshall William Long Finley Cherrington Benson Westlake The following Alumni: Haider Gahm, ’05, Marion White, ’09, and Heber Gahm, ’09, showed that they still had some High School spirit left, by coming out and coaching several times during the season, which was very much appreciated by the team. Base Ball-1912 The base ball season of 1912 was a short and unlucky season for Jackson High. We lost two out of three games played. On April 20th we dropped the first game to Chillicothe with a 23-0 score. The second game was at Ironton with the team of that place, on May 4th. This game we won by a score of 9-4. The third and last game was with Chillicothe on the local field, on May 30th. J. H. S. played a hard game but was out classed and was defeated a second time by C. H. S. The score was 7-4. The team was managed by William Michael, while Everett Alexander was Captain.

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BENSON WESTLAKE, ’14, Department Editor. Foot Ball Season-1912 The first game of the season resulted in a victory for Jackson, when we met Kings, ton on the local field, on September 28. The teams were evenly matched and every man on his respective side battled shoulder to shoulder; but with a little encouragement, our boys soon awoke to the condition of affairs and waded in with more confidence. Before the game had progressed far, one of our fellows carried the ball over for a touch-down, but we failed to kick goal. We were progressing very well and affairs were moving along smoothly but we were suddenly surprised when Kingston also pushed the pigskin across the line for a touch down. They too, failed to kick goal. From now on it was anyone’s game until in the last few miuutes of play Jackson succeeded in scoring and kicking goal; thus the contest ended with a final score of 13-6 in our favor. On Oct. 12, we journeyed to I ronton, where we played the second game of the season with the team of that place. Prior to this game the local field had been in poor condition for practice, hence the team was not in the best trim; again the team was handicapped in that all the regular players were not present. The Irontonians workout before the game showed that they were in the pink of condition, notwithstanding all this our fellows trotted out upon the field with that spirit of victory, that feeling which is always present in their camp. However they were forced to acknowledge their handicap when the game ended with a score of 0-19 in favor of the Irontonians. The big score with which Ironton won would seem to indicate that the game was one sided and uninteresting but on the contrary it was not; at no stage of the game did the enthusiasm displayed by the fans lapse, for our boys were the aggressors nearly as often as their op. ponents, and though they failed to score they bored in with a nonceasing fire. We next played the return game with Kingston on their grounds, Oct. 19th. The team went over on the 18th, and on the following morning the boys awoke fresh and near the field of battle upon which they were going to fight that A. M. Kingston had trained hard for the game because they wished very much to win this game so that they would break even with us for we had one game on them. It could be seen that they were confident of winning, still they knew that they would have to fight hard for it; Jackson was no less confident, if any difference existed our boys were a bit too sure of the decision. They relied too much upon their previous victory. However, a few of them lost some of this conceit when during the last few minutes before the game was called, Goth, Kingston’s big man, stepped into line, but our terror soon left when he proved to be a novice at the game or at any rate he did nothing out of the ordinary. The game was an even contest through the first half; at one moment we were on the aggressive, the next we were

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