Manistique High School - Kidinedamawin Yearbook (Manistique, MI)

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. FOOTBALL SCHEDULE M. H. S. 13 ..... ..... a t Manistique ...... Newberry 13 M .H. S. 0 ..... .... a t Escanaba .... ..... E scanaba 61 M. H. S. 47 ..... .... a t Munising .... ..... M unising 6 M. H. S. 19 ..... .... a t Newberry. . . Newberry 26 M. H. S. 53 ..... ..... a t Manistique ..... Gladstone 0 M. H. S. 47 .... ..... a t Manistique ..... ..... M unising 0 M. H. S. 20. . . .... at Manistique .... ........ S oo 2 FOOTBALL The football season this year was a great success. The prospects for a winning team were rather poor at the beginning -of the season as we lost our entire backfield of last year. Coach Houston deserves a great deal of credit for the fine backfield he developed. He picked out a backfield from the green candidates that re- ported for practice and in a few weeks had a backfield that would be hard to surpass for ground gaining and speed by any team in the Upper Pen- insula. Next year M. H. S. ought to have a good team because there will be four vets and four sub vets back. M. H. S. 13-NEWBERRY 13 As this was our first game of the season we were somewhat doubtful as to the outcome and it was the Hrst game for a good many players, but after a few minutes of playing the new men lost their shyness and fought for all that was in them, so that when the final whistle blew the score was a tie. M. H. S. 0-ESCANABA 61 Well, no one can say that we didn't try. Every man fought as hard as he could but we were completely outclassed by Escan.aba's heavy but fa.st team. This was our second game of the season and the Escanaba team had played together for several years and all the members of her team were vets from the year before. There was no individual starring by Manistique in this game. All plays were backed by every man in the team. M. H. S. 47-MUNISING 6 Mmising proved to be an easy victim for the Green and White. The game was won by passes and long end runs and the Green and White went sailing down the field. Munising could not gain an inch and it was only through a fumble that Munising made its score. M. H. S. 19-NEWBERRY 26 This was a hard fought game on both sides as one team was about as good as the other. The score was a tie until a few minutes before the whistle blew. Drevdahl was going down on a touchdown, when, he was in,iu.cd and the score remained a tie. The referee who was a Newberry

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man penalized Manistique until Newberry was within a yard of their goal and through a fake they made a touchdown putting them ahead of us by one touchdown. M. H. S. 53-GLADSTONE 0 Gladstone had heard of our being defeated by Newberry and thought that we wo-uld be an easy victim. So they came here in full colors with a special car of rooters. But they soon changed their mind when they found they couldn't gain an inch through our line. They never got any fcloser to their goal than the thirty yard line. M. H. S. 47-MUNISING 0 We were going to avenge ourselves this game for letting Munising get a touchdown in the last game so we were determin-ed to give them a shut- out. Our center and tackles were repeatedly breaking up the plays behind their line so that they came nowhere near their goal. M. H. S. 20-S00 2 it f Hurrah! Who Said we couldn't play football and didn't have a chance with a team like the Soo, who had defeated most of the strong teams up in the copper country. Take a look at the score and you will soon see how we outclassed them. The Soo had defeated all the teams it had played including some of the best teams in. the Upper Peninsula. They came here with the idea that we would be only a scrimmage for them but they left with the idea that we had rough boys on our team. Every player on the Green and White played a good game. The line was like a stone wall and the Soo never gained an inch. They came near their ten yard line and were sure that it meant a touch down but the line pushed them back and Manistique went down the field for a touchdown. This marked the greatest success of the season. because when the whistle blew the score was 20 to 2 in favor of M. H. S. 523. 96 - f -'