East High School - Quill Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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2 :aeil E it Tia Captain Hibbs put up a great game as .did Handstrom, Walters, and McConkey. McMains and Bollinger, who went in place of the regulars, playefl a good game and promise to make two good men in the backiield. The improvement East showed compared with the way they stacked up against the Oskaloosa and Indianola teaivs proved to the followers of the Scarlet and Black school that the Fast side eleven still has its hat in the state high school football championship race. Coach Moyer's players worked well together, and the first line charged and held the opponents at the right time. St. Joe Central High vs. East High HE Missourians came to Des Moines Friday night expecting on the morrow, October 18, to give East High a good wai- loping. According to the score it was the other way around, for East High found St. Joseph Central High easy picking in a one-sided game. The game was featured by many spectacular plays in which the East High players starred. Our fighting warl- riors worked like a well oiled machine and played a fast, clear game of football. Despite the topheavy nature of the score, the visitors played a i'air game hut the East line held at all times and St. Joe's chances to score were very slim. During the first half, the East High hackiield got away with long gains through holes made by the line. The St. Joe line could not stand the on-- slaught of East's husky warriors, and the hard smashes made by the backiield. At the end of the first half, the East eleven had been across Central's goal line three times and easily kicked goal at each attempt. During the last half, the visiting eleven stiffened somewhat but the East line held, and the only way that St. Joe men could gain was by forward passing, They gained very little ground by this method until Wyatt ot Central caught a forward pass and started towards East's goal line with a clear field in front of him. This netted the visitors a fifty yard gain and would have given them a. touchdown had not Pete Vifalters outsprinted the runner and tackled him from the rear. During' this half East High succeeded in carrying the ball across the goal line for three more touchdowns and also kicked goal each time. The final score was 42 to 0. East High vs. Council Bluffs HE game with Council Bluifs on Oct. 25th. was 'looked for- ward to all season as it meant a nice trip to the river- town. The team left on Friday afternoon. A pep meet- ing was held during the day and the team was given a good send- oif. Since there was no diner on the train, Mr. Warren anticipat- ing the appetites of a football squad made arrangements with Page Twenty-eight

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qi Te game off with a rush. 'Osky won the toss and elected to receive, failed to gain, and punted. East advanced twenty yards on a pretty forward pass, failed on two line plays and then called upon Pete Walters, all-state end of 1917, for a drop-kick. The ball sailed squarely between the posts. The rest of the game was a mud battle with the advantage de- cidedly in favor of East. Osky was unable to gain ground and re- sorted to kicking whenever they got possession of the ball. Se- veral times East was in easy scoring' distance but fumbled or lost the ball on downs. Wallerstedt, Garretson, and Hanclstrom were able to make good gains and several passes were completed for long gains, usually with Pete on the receiving end. .Brookings, Osky's speed merchant in the backneld, did not come up to expectations, as East High's line nailed him before he could get started. A. Muhl, the plunging fullback was easily stopped. Osky tried to play an open game but the slippery field made the footing uncertain and fumbles were frequent. In the third quarter East had a good chance to score but the ball was lost in mud puddle and Osky lficked out of danger. In the fourth quarter the ball was again in easy kicking .distance for a goal but Pete tried a run instead, and the game ended with the ball on Osky's twenty line with the score 13 to OJ. Altogether it was a good game and evens up a tie and a defeat of the past two yeras. The treatment rnccordezl East by Osky's rooters could not be complained of and our boys came back none the worse from the grueling contest and happy and proud of their victory. Eldora vs. East High AST HIGH was scheduled for a football game with the Eldora Training' School eleven on Oct. llth, but put on a track meet instead. The East High grid team found the Eldcra Training school eleven unexpectedly weak, and the Scarlet and Black players had little difficulty in irouncing the visitors, the final score being 66 to 0. The Training School boys fought hard, and played a good, clean game of football. The visitor's First line was unable to stahd the unslaught of the locals, and time after 'time the Scarlet and Black men bioke through, and downed he Training School man in his tracks. Eldora tried to register gains by bucking the East line, skirting' the ends, and forwardpassing, but seldom with suc- cess, owing to the watchfulncss of the Scarlet and Black players. East High got away with many long gains by forward passing and bucking the line, and finally defeated the Eldora players with a score of 66 to O. Page Twenty-seven

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2 Miss Snook and the girls of the several cooking classes to put up lunches for the boys. And such lunches! Ask any of the men who made the trip. They certainly went right to the spot and we think they aided materially in East bringing back a victory. East received the ball on the 'kickoff and punted, recovering the ball on Council Bluffs fifteen yard line. With a series of oi tackle plays the East High warriors carried the ball over and kicked a successful goal during the first three minutes of the game. From then on it was a fight back and forth in the Council Bluffs territory, until in he last quarter, under the generalship of Bus Tew, and with the renewed effort of the back field and of the line men, East High began to gain ground consistently and showed all the fine qualities that go to make a championship eleven. With the East back field puncturing the BIuff's line for long gains, and with many beautifully executed forward passes, our team advanced across their opponent's goal line three more times and kicked one goal. By winning this game with a score of 26 to 0, our team showed us that they were in the fight head and feet for the state cham- pionship. Q C ' 1 East High vs. Storm Lake ' TORM LAKE gave us a surprise, on November first, when she downed our championship contenders by a score of 10 to 7. East High had not looked for much of a battle, as Storm Lake had won only one game during the season. The game opened with East receiving. The Storm Lake line held and East was forced to punt. Long end runs by Storm Lake brought the ball to our 25 yard line, and after the East linelheld they landed a drop kick between the goal posts. ln the second period East blocked a punt on the 12 yard line and when they .gained little headway with line smashing, they slipped over a nice for- ward pass and went for a touchdown. In the third qurter, neither side scored and the ball was kept zigzagging across the field. In the final period East carried the ball to the ten and 'fifteen yard line seven different times but were either penalized or fumb- led. Once Wallerstdt ran the ball over for touchdown but the Referee said he blew his whistle by mistake so the ball was brought back and the run not counted. Several passes were tried but Pete and Mac were held, blocked, and tripped so that it was impossible to complete any of them. The Ul11l3lTByS attention was called to these flagrant fouls but he appeared either blind or paralyzed and did not call ,one penalty. When the game was ended the ball was in East's possession on Storm Lake's ten yard line and our boys were fighting every inch of the way. The team was somewhat crippled in this game for the Hibbs Page Twenty-nine