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

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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,

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1920 ECHO 25 and managers left Everett, arriving there about 8 o’clock that evening. They were met at the station by the Bridgeport team who were surprised at the lightness of the Everett play¬ ers. The Bridgeport eleven had not been defeated for three years and their goal line had not been crossed for two years. The next afternoon the teams turned out on the field on which a rain had just fallen. Everett received the kick-off and started down the field by line plugging and the triple pass. Their advance was stopped at the two foot line. During the first half of the game Everett did not score but several times were inch¬ es from the goal line. One of the features of the game was a spectacu¬ lar kick by Tickey from behind his own goal line. The ' ball landed sev¬ enty yards from the kicker. “Buck” ran it back 15 yards and by a forward pass and a few line plays were with¬ in scoring distance but again failed to score. iLater in the game Everett again fought its way to the five yard line and Kelley scored the only touch¬ down of the game with an end run. The game ended a few minutes later. This victory showed that Everett, al¬ though not a championship team, was a fast, strong team. The Bridgeport team was the Champion of New York, Rhode Island, and Connecticut and although they could not add Massa¬ chusetts to their list they showed themselves good losers. At seven o’clock the Everett team left for home and arrived at South Station around 11 o’clock. Everett 32—Brookline 0 Playing on a field, which resembled a marsh in many respects, Everett encountered little trouble in her last league game of the season. While Everett was defeating Brookline, Rindge, a team which Everett defeat¬ ed 3G to 0, was holding Somerville to a 0 to 0 score. This is a good illustra¬ tion of how a wet gridiron favors some teams. During the game Everett received the kickoff only once. The first of the five touchdowns was scored by Kelley who picked up a fumble by G. Kelley of Brookline and ran forty-five yards for a touchdown. With such a wet field Coach Keaney was taking no chances with Oberlan- der’s weak ankle so Thacher was giv¬ en a chance to display his football ability. Sweetland was very much in evi¬ dence during the game. He crossed the Brookline goal twice besides mak¬ ing many tackles. Everett resorted to old style football because of the condition of the field with Silvaggio going through the line almost at will in his same fearless manner. Janscy played with the team for the first time this season and many a Brook¬ line play that was directed at right tackle was smeared. Current Plants A farmer stopped in front of a city electric plant, and asked a bystander: “What is that air building, a factory?” “No, a plant,” was the answer. “What do they raise there?” “Currents,” replied the quick-witted bystander. “Wihat are they worth a bushel?” “W e don’t sell them by the bushel, we sell them by the shock.” The farmer jerked his beard and drove away. If the Kaiser Were electrocuted All the world would sing Ohm sweet ohm. When ice cream grows on macaroni trees When Sahara Sands grow muddy, When cats and dogs wear B. V. D.’s. That’s the time I like to study.