Highland Park College - Piper Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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plays bet'ore they were started. In the backfield, Ferrell was the most consistent ground gainer, while McCauley got loose For several long runs. H. P. C., 16-DRAKE, 13 In the first football game ever scheduled between Drake and Highland Park, the Purple and White team came out victorious with the score of lti to 13, and won for themselves the highest position in I'lighland's hall of fame. Outfought and outclassed at every stage ot' the game, Drake put up a much poorer fight than is indicated by the score. lt was plain from the time that the team came on the field that Coach Hy- land's efforts to turn out a fighting bunch had not been in vain. They went at it with that grim determination which never fails to win l'ootball games, literally sweeping Drake ofl' their feet from the start. Highland won the toss, and chose to receive the kickofl' at the south goal. Drake kicked to Highland's 25-yard line. I-lighland was forced to kick, and gained yards by an exchange ot' punts. This seemed to take the heart out ot' the Blue and White, and Highland began a consistent march down the field to Drake's 20-yard line. Here a penalty ot' fifteen yards l'or holding prevented a touchdown. NVith one down left, Wampy McCauley dropped back for a drop kick, and he placed the ball squarely between the goal posts with a pretty kick, for the first score of the game. Drake then received, but fumbled on their 20-yard line, Highland recov- ering. The Blue and White line then held, but a t'orward pass, from Mctlauley to Hardy, carried the ball over, and the goal was kicked. Highland then plunged through Drake's line to the 40-yard line, where the quarter ended with the score, 10 to 0. ln the second quarter, Highland crossed the goal line again after Ferrell made a long gain through center, a forward pass was completed t'or twenty yards, and Hardy carried the ball over on a five-yard smash through the line. Drake's score was made by Smith, who raced through a broken iield t'or a spectacular seventy-yard run on the kickoff. McCauley also got loose for a seventy-five-yard run for a touchdown, but the ball. was called back by an offside play on High- land's part. During the third quarter the game was about even, neither side being able to score. In the l'ourth quarter Drake showed the first evidences that they had a football team, and consistent line plunging, in which Bunz bore the brunt ot' the work, together with a completed forward pass, brought the ball close to High- land's line. From here Smith carried it over on a short end run, but they failed to kick the goal. Highland excelled in the use of the t'orward pass, four attempts at the over- head route each being completed, while out of nine attempted by Drake, only two were successful, five being blocked, and two intercepted. McCauley was the hero ot' the Purple and White team, getting loose for gain at'ter gain, and it proved to be his drop kick from the 35-yard yard line that

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i Ihr Svvevann ng IGI-ILANID Park started the 1915 football season with a new I coach, tour veterans, and a dark brown taste, due to the re- membrance ot the disastrous record ot the previous year. For-- tunately, Coach Hyland, atieetlonately termed Mike, was a good one, and the remaining regulars were the men who had proved to be the mainstays of the preceding yearis team. The task, therefore, confronting the coach, was to build a team with only four men of known quality as a nucleus. How well he succeeded the records show. In order to get a flying start, and to let the new coach get acquainted with the candidates, a two weeks' eneampment was held at Camp Dodge. Here, twice daily, strenuous workouts were given, and the men in- structed i11 the fundamentals of the game. Soon there was a tentative line-up, and by the time school commenced the players were in line shape for a hard season. t It was early seen that our resisting power was the main source ol' strength. Accordingly Coach Hyland proceeded along the line that a good defense is the best oltense, ' and that to beat us, a team l1lllSl first score. His theories were borne out by the fact that only four touchdowns were made against Highland Park College in seven games, two of these being of the Nuke order. Only two earned touchdowns all season, and not a point scored against us in the last four games. It is a record ot' which we can be justly proud. The success of the eleven was a tribute to Coach Hyland. Hyland for Highland, was a phrase on every lip, the students enthusiastically supporting a team in which had been instilled the dogged never say die spirit ot' Fighting Mike. H. P. C., 29-CENTRAL, 7 Highland Park's football season was opened by a 29 to 7 victory over Cen- tral College at Pella. A special train was chartered and the College band to- gether with over two hundred rooters accompanied the team. Highland played straight football almost entirely, their only attempt at using the forward pass being intercepted in the fourth quarter and resulting in Central's only touchdown. Central was unable to penetrate l'Iighland's line, and all their gains were made on wide end runs and a few completed forward passes. l'lighland's line proved their strong point, the heavy linesmen tearing holes again and again, through which the backtield plunged for repeated gains. To pick any individual stars would be hard to do, for their success was due to team work and the fact that every man was in the game all the time, rather than to any spectacular individual playing. Callaham, Woodrow, and Ebers probably starred in the line, tearing holes through the center and breaking up Central's

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eventually won the game. Ferrell smashed the line consistently, and every High- land player was in the game t'rom start to finish. Bunz starred for Drake, gaining more ground than the rest of his teammates put together. Highland's team received splendid support, the student body turning out to a man, and staying with the team to the end. At the end of the second quarter, it would have been impossible to have told that a Drake rooter was on the grounds, so intense was the silence which reigned in the Blue and White bleachers. After the game the rooters started down to the city on the business of tear- ing up the town, along which lines they were somewhat successful. H. P. C., 0-COE, 8 In one of the most bitterly contested games ever played on the local gridiron, Highland met her first defeat ol' the season, at the hands of Coe, by the score ol' 8 to 0. One of the largest crowds that ever assembled on the Highland Park field witnessed the contest. The game was played under protest by Coe, who refused to concede the eligi- bility of Callaham, Cundiff, Standley and Woodrow, under the Iowa conference rules. Their demands were refused, however, and the men were used. So close was the game that at any time a hl'eak in luck would have made a different decision. In the first quarter Highland outplayed Coe, keeping the ball in Coe's territory almost all the time, except twicewhen Rust, Coe's speedy right' halfback, got loose f'or two long runs f'or touchdowns, both of which, however, were brought back by penalties. Neither team was able to make first down once during the entire quarter. The second quarter started out much the same as the first, and for a time it looked as is neither side would be able to score. However, near the end of the period Coe took the ball on their 45-yard line on a punt which went out of bounds. From here Elfrink tore otl' fifteen yards around left end. The Purple and VVhite line held then, but with one down left Rust made twenty yards around left end. Again Highland's line held, but the next play carried the ball over the line by the forward pass route, lilfrink to Krcsensky. An easy goal was missed. Coe's other two points were made in the third quarter on a safety by Mc- Cauley. Coe punted to I-lighland's ten-yard line, where the runner was downed without gain. McCauley then made ten yards, but a penalty for holding of fifteen yards forced Highland to punt. Coe blocked the punt, McCauley recovering the ball, however, for a sat'ety. Highland plunged the Crimson and Gold line for repeated gains, and gained more ground, and made first down more times on straight football than their opponents. Coe, however, always braced before the ball had advanced far into their territory, and their goal line was never threatened. To the Purple and White line belongs the biggest share of the credit f'or the showing Highland made. Coe was unable to advance consistently through the