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THE JUNIOR YEAR BOOK FOOT BALL. BY WILL TUTTLE. The foot ball season of 1907 was very successful for the Momence High School Team. They only lost one game of the season and were only scored on by two teams during the entire season. The team commenced practic soon after school opened and played their first game Oct. 5th, on the home grounds, On this date they met the fast Lowell High School Team and defeated them by Ihe score of 11 to 0. The game was fast and exciting all the way through, and although the boys were outweighed, they finally won out. The hardest game of the season was played with Watseka High School on the latter’s grounds. The two teams were about evenly matched in both weight and knowledge of the game, and during the greatest part of the time the ball was kept in the center of the field. Only two long runs were scored during the entire game. The first resulted in a touch down from a fumbled ball by Watseka, and the second by a 30 yard gain by Momence’s quarter back. The ends were too fast and watchful to allow many end runs, consequently the largest number of the plays were directed at the lines by both teams. At the end of the first half, the score stood 5 to 5, and the outcome looked doubtful. But during the last half Mo¬ mence were able to march the ball over to another touchdown, which gave them the winning 5 points. Neither side was able to kick goal, so the game stood 10 to 5 at the close, and Momence had won the hardest game of the season. The following Saturday the Brook High School Team came to Momence and was defeated by the score of 28 to 0. It was a bad day, nearly the entire game being played in a drizzling rain. In spite of this there was quite a crowd of ardent supporters out to encourage the home team. The feature of the game was Giroux’s run for a touchdown and the kickoff. The boys met their first and only defeat at the hands of the last Kankakee team on Nov. 23. The home boys seemed to have a day off, and started off with a fumble by the Momence quarterback on the kickoff, on which Kankakee made their first score. This was followed by some good, hard playing, and Momence worked the ball down to within ten yards of Kankakee’s goal, where they lost it on a quarterback run. Near the last of the first half, Kankakee scored another touchdown on a forward pass. In the second half, Momence w’as marching down within strik¬ ing distance of Kankakee’s goal, when they tried an end run, and the sec ond costly fumble occurred. Kankakee’s quarterback broke through and picked the ball from the mix-up and ran full seventy yards fora touchdown, no Mo¬ mence man being able to stop him. The game ended with the score 17 to 0 in favor of Kankakee. On Thanksgiving day the boys met the old Gridiron Stars of Momence High School, and tramped their colors in the dust to the tune of
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