Everett High School - Crimson Tide / Memories Yearbook (Everett, MA)

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22 1920 ECHO Although there were mistakes, which must be remedied in the Everett defence, the way the backfield con¬ ducted itself deserves much credit. The ' backfield works in unison in pro¬ viding interference for the man with the ball which e nables Kelley and Sweetland to circle the ends in the manner they do. Hanson and Beck excelled for the Everett linemen. The former playing a wonderful defensive game while the latter opened up large holes for Silvaggio on the offensive. Berry and McGoldrick excelled for Medford. Berry smothered many a play while McGoldrick blocked Kel¬ ley’s punt and placed Medford in a scoring position. CAMBRIDGE LATIN 7—EVERETT 0 VERETT was forced to de¬ feat by Cambridge Latin for the first time in the season. The field was in poor shape owing to the rain Friday night and since Cambridge had a big weight advantage, she had the ad¬ vantage over Everett’s light team However, in all fairness to the other side, we must admit that their brand of football was slightly superior to ours. For the first period neither team showed to any marked advantage. There were numerous fumbles by both teams owing to the muddy ball. The second period showed Cambridge to be the aggressor with their heavy linemen opening large holes for Zara- kov and Crowley and keeping the play well in Everett’s territory. The third period brought disaster to Everett. “Buck” Sweetland, while at¬ tempting to recover a fumbled punt, wa ' s kicked in the head and forced to leave the game. Losing such a first class player as Swe’etland took much assurance from the team and as the game progressed Cambridge showed more offensive power. At the beginning of the fourth period Cam¬ bridge started what proved to be her winning march. By successive line plunges, the ball was brought 60 yards to the Everett 15 yard line, “Izzy” Zarakov doing the heavy work. On an off-tackle play full back Crowley crossed the Everett goal line. Al¬ though Everett fought gamely to the end she was unable to score. Nov. 8 Rindge 0—Everett 36 Everett 10—Malden 0 Everett defeated her great rival, Malden, in one of the best games of the season. Both teams played with a wonderful fighting spirit and there were anxious moments for both the Everett and Malden followers. Never before during the season has Coach Keaney’s machine worked with such smoothness. Both Everett and Malden showed fine offensive power but when Malden neared the Everett goal line they did not display the win ning punch. However, the Everett attack was well directed and there was more coordination between Eve¬ rett’s backfield and line than in the Malden backfield and line. Many times during the game, Everett linemen threw their oppon¬ ents for losses. The line, which has caused Coach Keaney more concern than the backfield, had developed re¬ markably under his careful coaching. Three times Malden carried the ball to within ten yards of the Everett goal, but in each case was held for downs. On Malden’s last attempt when within four yards of the Everett goal the linemen broke through and through Capt. Nayor for four and

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24 1920 ECHO five yard losses. Malden kicked to Everett and for the first period neither team got with¬ in scoring distance). Elarly in the second period, Kelley kicked a low punt, which Glennon touched but bounded away from his grasp. Everett ends ' were down the field like a flash and ' Hiltz finally recovered the fum¬ ble. Everett was unaible to make the best of its opportunity to score. After an exchange of punts, “Buc¬ kie” picked up a rolling kick and made one of the best exhibitions of broken field running of the afternoon. He ran through practically the entire team with a wonderful change of pace and some fine side stepping. By a series of line plunges by Sil- vaggio and Oberlander the ball was brought well into Malden territory and $ince further attempts at the line proved futile, Sweetland dropped back and kicked a field goal. This score, as was later proven, would have been enough to win. The play, which brought every spec¬ tator to his feet, was a 78 yard run by Kelley. Aided iby fine interference on the right side of the ' line he clev¬ erly evaded every Malden tackier and did not stop until he had planted the ball fairly between the goal posts. Capt. Nayor and Glennon were the stars for ' Malden. The latter was forced to retire from the game in the fourth period because of injuries. The work of Kelley, Sweetland, Capt. Beck, Porter and Eames was outstanding. Somerville 21 — Everett 0 While the great Harvard-Yale game was being played at the Stadium, Somerville and Everett were playing a miniature Harvard-Yale game at Braves Field, only unfortunately Eve¬ rett represented the Yale team. By losing the game we were put out of the race for this year. Everett was outweighed about 20 pounds to a man, but the light Everett team showed as great if not a greater fighting spirit than Somerville. When the game was apparently lost Buckie Sweetland called for many forward passes in an effort to win. Few of these were completed. Simpson inter¬ cepted one of these and had a clear field for a touchdow n. Sweetland and Kelley proved once more that they form the mainspring in the Everett team. Sweetland stopped off tackle for gains time and again. He was also very successful in running back punts and in addition to his offensive value he made many neat tackles when Somerville touch¬ downs were very evident. Many times Steve Patten found only “Buckie” be¬ tween him and the goal line and every time a Somerville back broke through the Everett forwards, iSweetland was right on the job and prevented a score. Kelley also made consistent gains but because of the inability of the Everett linemen to open up large holes Kelley was prevented from breaking past the line of scrimmage where he would be able to make his broken field running very effective. His punting gained many yards for Everett and on every exchange of punts Everett gained from 8 to 12 yards. Capt. Reardon, Patten and Laverty were the Somerville players who com¬ pare favorably with Capt. Beck, Sweet¬ land, Kelley, and Silvaggio of Everett. Although the Everett team could not win, they had the satisfaction of seeing a great number of the Somer¬ ville players carried off the field all in. Everett 7—Bridgeport 0 The last game of the season was with Bridgeport at Bridgeport, Conn. On November 28, 18 players, the coach,