Midland University - Warrior Yearbook (Fremont, NE)

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Although hopelessly defeated they gave I lie game all they had until the final whistle was blown. The score. Midland 101, Dana 0. Midland 13 Hastings 3 This game may be classed as the most thrilling and the most extraordinary game of the year. It is a game which had in it six minutes of the most concentrated effort ever witnessed on the Midland gridiron. A Midland punt was grounded by a Midland player before it had hit the ground and the officials, interpreting this is an interference to a fair catch, gave the Hast- ings team a free chance at a goal kick. McGrady, Hastings quarterback, standing on the fifty-two yard line, booted as pretl a drop kick as ever seen on the Midland field. This little handicap, thought by some to be a donation, served as the fuse for some dynamite which was soon let loose. The Warriors' blood was up and in six minutes of the most powerful offense uncorked by the team during the season, Midland chalked up thirteen points. The game ended Midland 13, Hastings 3. Midland 6 Yorl( 6 Although outplaying the York Panthers in every department of the game. Mid- land had to content itself with a six to six tie in this game. York’s first touchdown in history against a Midland team came in the first quarter after a Midland fumble had shown them that there was a Santa Claus after all. Midland, at the start of the second quarter, began another drive similar to the one the week previous against Hastings, and it soon scored a touchdown. Another touchdown was made on a recovered fumble but this was disallowed.

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Midland 0 Peru 20 Before a large crowd of old grads, present for Homecoming Day, Coach Gatlin's Warriors displayed some of the old Warrior spirit and light when they were de- feated by the Peru Bobcats. Although handicapped approximately twenty pounds to the man. the Warriors went out there and cracked the Normaliles for all they were worth. Many was the time that Midland would stop Peru in its tracks, hut the weight and experience told against the Warriors and. aided hy several breaks, the Bobcats pushed over their twenty points. Midland was unable to score, however, Peru's protected goal line was almost crossed when a Midland player recovered a blocked punt and all but scored. The game will be remembered as the best game of the season, the final result being, Midland 0, Peru 20. Midland 101 Dana 0 Running up the highest score ever made by a Midland football team, the War- riors trounced Dana, 101 to 0. Dana college having just entered the state confer- ence at the beginning of the season, was not in the same plane as the Warriors and was completel) outclassed by Gatlin's men. “Punk Cunningham, now in the backfield. made five touchdowns, while Marty Koolen scored four. The large score was made possible only through the playing of the eleven men. and not the individual playing of am one man. Something should he said concerning the spirit and light of the Dana team.

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The Warriors outplayed the Panthers eleven first clowns to two in the last half hut they could not push over another score. The game resulted in a tie. Midland 6. York 6. Midland 44 IVapne 0 In a game quite similar to the Dana episode of some weeks before, the Warriors defeated the Wayne Normalites by a very large score. It seems that the two War- rior hack field aces. “Marty and “Punk. decided that they would be impolite to the guests and let them look at the back of a Warrior jersey for a while. When the smoke of the battle, or rather the snow, cleared away. Midland had scored forty-four points and had held it?- opponents scoreless. The game was played on a snow covered field, which was quite slick. The playing was neither very in- teresting nor very thrilling. Score. Midland II. Wayne 0. Midland 12 Chadron 52 Journeying, via bus. into Northwestern Nebraska. Midland was defeated by Chad- ron on Thanksgiving Day in tin final game of the season. Garvin. Chadron backfield star, was the outstanding player of the game, making twenty-four points for his school. F.ven though the Warriors were defeated, they were the first team to cross the Kagles’ goal line in three years. “Marty and “Swede both turning the trick. The game was also Midland's worst defeat in nine years, but every Midland player seemed to think that the Kagles deserved every score that they made. The final score was Midland 12. Chadron 52.