Jesup Scott High School - Scottonian Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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I fi Qs esws -sf we A as . . sf X-Q lEEl QhlLilDj.DLUQji 55132351 EQUEEZI J, J ea 'QQ im!-154 Scott! On the next play Vick was unfortunate enough to slip, and our boys lost five yards. .As a retriever, Scott here attempted a forward pass, Dutch hurling the pigskin far over Tech's left end. But big Carlson sped across the field, pulled down the oval on his 18 yard line, and, with the all-important spheroid tucked under his arm, started for our goal, some SO yards distant. SOME REAL INTERFERENCE. Carlson, at best, was a slow, lumbering runner, and several of our men were directly in front of him. However, the Tech interference manifested itself like magic, and after he had sidestepped York and lXIeyers, others of our tacklers were bowled over and shoved off by the fiercely-charging Clevelanders, who formed a solid and impregnable wall about Carlson. The result was that the big fullback traversed eighty yards of the field's length for a touchdown, the first made against Scott in 1920. Johnny Behm kicked the goal. The fou1'th quarter, the most frenzied of all, saw two touchdowns and the downfall of the Green and XVhite. Tech opened the period with a fine display of running attack which subsided after a time without results. Then Scott com- menced to gradually move forward from the center of the field. A forward pass, hurled by the always-steady arm of Dutch Vick and caught by Eddie Scharer, put the ball on Cleveland's twenty-five yard mark. An end run by Dutch was good for nine yards. A line buck netting no advancement, Scharer called a forward pass signal. The ball, propelled by the dependable Shuey, whirled back to his waiting hands. Eddie got it, ran back, slipped away from a threatening tackler, and shot the oval over Tech's left end to York in the corner of the grid- iron. Herb pulled the twisting ball down and fell across the last lime-line for the first Scott touchdown. Scharer tied the score with a goal-kick. Tech appeared beaten at this stage, and the home crowd was crazy with delight, relief, and expectation. People yelled till they were unable to emit another sound, strangers embraced one another, articles of clothing flew in the air. lt was a scene absolutely unparalleled in the athletic annals of Scott. Play was resumed by Vick kicking off to the Clevelanders, who were unable to gain. A fifteen yard penalty for holding left Tech in possession of the ball on their own one yard line. The Scotters were straining at the leash and sighting victory in the offing. ' AUDACITY AND LUCK YVIN FOR TECH At this critical moment came the most outlandish play of the game, but it brought victo1'y. Carlson, standing half a score of yards in the rear of his own goal-line, pushed back encroaching spectators and threw caution to the winds by hurling a low pass through a medley of milling players into the waiting arms of Shirring on Clevelandys 25 yard line. The crippled Berkowitz took the next pass from Hardy, limped back and to the right a few yards, and then threw the ball with all his strength over Scott's left end and far down the field, where the Behm brothers and lXIcFadden, in a flying V formation, were tearing madly toward our goal. The game rode on the throw. Scharer took a chance, let Norrie Behm run by him, and dove at Johnny Behm and lXIcFadden, who were reaching upward for 124

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nk on QQ imma! 'Q' or f Egagmfgsmgiinmmi imi as Mai c:ziinEc::i.Qf 2 1, the Detroiters wished to avoid. lf Central has derived any satisfaction from the insulting way in which they dealt with us, they are yy elcomr to it. NVe suppose they are congratulating themselves yet on the gI'2'fCiflL2l I H manner in which they retired when defeat was imminent. Thus ignominiuusly ends the 'irhletic history of Scott versus Detroit Central. SCOTT-7 CLEVELAND EAST TEC-H41-f The sad tale of East Tech's l-l- to 7 victory at Scott Field the next Saturday is a story of the game as it was played inside Tech's Q0 yard line. Un four-fifths of the torn and trampled gridiron our eleven show ed a powerfully charging backfield, an unbreakable line, speed, strength, and courage which seemed to make victory sure. On seven separate occasions were our apparently irresistable marches toward victory stopped within the last five white lines. l7urthermore, two pla.ys, each having its beginning on Tech's 20 yard line, and each good for SH yards. gave the Cleveland school boys two touchdowns, the first victory over our football team since 1917, and a man's size claim on interscholastic honors. Disregarding, for the moment, the outcome, it was really a wonderful game. perhaps the greatest ever played on our field. The day was perfect, an enormous throng filled every nook and cranny of the big enclosure, and the playing was thrilling and spectacular above all previous encounters. THE FACTOR OF GENERALSHIP Generalship, that impalpable, intangible thing which is invarihly com- mended when it succeeds and as often blamed when it fails, played perhap-1 the most important part in the result of the game. Our generalship was seemingly as poor as our luck. The most discussed failure of the game was in the second quarter, when Tech held a seven point lead. A well-executed runhack of a punt by Vick, who caught the oval on Cleveland's 40 yard line and ripped his way seventeen yards before being thrown, coupled with line plunges by York and Vick. gave us first down on Tech's six yard line. York made three yards on the next down: a second plunge landed the ball a scant foot from the goal-line. York again tried, but failed to gain through the struggling, fighting Tech line. Then Scharer elected to attempt a left end run, although the pigskin was on that side of the field. He slipped, and was flattened out with a four yard loss. Carlson of Tech then punted out of danger. The more legitimate and the orthodox attack, Vick through the line, might have met with no better success, but Dutch was the plunging star of the after- noon, and, even had the play failed, it could not have been called poor strategy. CLEVELAND GETS THE BREAKS Tech attempted a large number of forward passes. Still, our goal-line was never approached except when Cleveland scored after long runs. The first seven points was tallied towards the end of the first quarter. The battle had been waged in midfield until Tech received a penalty for holding. At this point Carlson threw a forward pass which Vick intercepted and went dashing down the field over line after line until he was stopped on Tech's twenty-five yard mark. Dutch followed instantly with another gain, this time of five yards around left end. The stands were booming forth frenzied demands for a Touchdown. 123

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l4gET4EEEiEiEUQQiTQTli.EEtEQE caogoa, N bg-I M fx is . J EHS the catch. The spheroid came down into a swirl of opposing arms, bounded up again and onward, and was ultimately snatched out of the ozone by Norrie Behm, in midfield with no one between him and the Green and lVhite goal. Kleyers dove desperately at Behm, but the perfect blocking by the Carpenters shoved lXIOnk out of the play, and the Tech man sprinted unopposed fifty yards for the epochal touchdown. Johnny Behm then made it fourteen by booting the ball over the bar. Tvith but two minutes left to play, Scott inaugurated yet another terrific drive. Vick received Tech's kickoff and ran it back to his SO yard line. Then Dutch succeeded in throwing a forward pass to llyers, who was thrown on Tech's 47 yard line, and another to Luke Hunt, who was not stopped until be had reached Cleveland's ten yard mark, near the edge of the gridiron. At this point, York attempted to slip away from the scrimmage in order to take a pass, but the alert enemy spoiled the play, and Yick's toss sailed over the goal- line for another touchback. Tech was given the ball on the twenty-yard mark, and the historic struggle came to its close after a few short gains. YICK AND CARLSON STAR The two fullbacks, Carlson of East Tech, and Dutch Yick, of Scott, were easily the stars of the game. Vick's line plunging in itself should have been enough to have secured victory for Scott. His forward passing was consistently good, but the remarkable defence of the Cleveland team against this play rendered many of his best efforts ineffectual. Vicks punts were always well placed, had plenty of distance, and were sent away with speed and certainty. Carlson, although slow, possessed a wonderful knack of sidestepping tacklers, and it usually required several to bring him down. His forward passing was en- tirely satisfactory, and his punts, although not averaging as lengthy as Vicks saved his team time and again when a fumble or a fizzle would have meant disaster. cull defense he was a bear, his size coming into play. Un the Green and YVhite line, lleyers and Shut-y were the outstanding features. Although lIonk was playing his premier game at tackle, he appeared entirely at home in his new position, and was all over the field, breaking up plays and players. Shuey was handicapped in that few of Tech's plays were directed at our husky center, and he did not have so great an opportunity to demonstrate his capabilities as he usually does. Nothing startling in the way of new plays was introduced by either team. Although Scott had been drilled on various novel methods of attack, they had not been tested by our players in a real game, and Scharer was reluctant to try them. The game was cleanly played throughout. The only serious injury sustained by the players of either team was a twisted back which Jack Reeder received in the early part of the game, and suffered from throughout the remainder of the affray. 125