Northern Arizona State Teachers College - La Cuesta Yearbook (Flagstaff, AZ)

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Football The 1924 football season was a decided success in a mini her of ways for the Normal School. The team won half of the eight games played and showed real fighting spirit in most of the others. W. E. Rogers, who took R. H. Di-ake ' s place on the school faculty, coached the boys, and Jake Bracker was student manager. Prof. C. F. Deaver coached the second team and assisted Mr. Plogers with the first string. The first game of the season was played with the cham • IMon high school team of the north for the previous year. The game was played on McMullen field October 11. The Jerome boys had a fighting team and a good fighting spirit, but the husky Lumljerjacks played them off their feet. On only one occasion did the visitors make a score. All of the home team ' s backfield men had a chance to score one or more times, and the final score was 64 to 6. This was the only game in which l ete Brown former U. of A. star, played for the Normal, he ()eing called to Greeley, Colorado the week following this game. The second game, with Williams, was not regularly scheduled. The Normal squad was picked, none of the players weighing over 1.50 pounds. The boys from the neighboring city being light in weight, scheduled this game on those special terms. The game was played in Flagstaff on McMullen field Saturday, October 18, and was a decisive victory for the Nor- malites. The score was .51 to 0. On October 25th the team went to Prescott to i:)lay. Normal winning by a score of 19 to 6. Although the Prescott aggregation was heavier, the members, as a whole lacked training and were in no condition to meet the strong Lumber- jack team. In this game Heckerthorne suffered a broken col- lar bone, which disabled him for the remainder of the season. The fourth consecutive victory for the Lumberjacks was the game with Needles on November first. The Normal team motored down to Needles and were received in wonderful fashion by the Needles team, being treated to shows, dances and other amusement. The whole town turned out to see the game. Our boys expected to find stiff opposition, but, al- though the home team had some fine material, they had just Ijegun football and were inexperienced. We loggers took the game with a score of 51 to 0. The boys will remember the fine time they had in Needles. Arthur Shaar suffered a broken foot in this game and was out the remainder of the season. The turning ])oint in the season came on Armistice day when the Lumberjacks met the Flagstaff high school team at the City Park field. The dope was all with the larger team to win Ijy a large score, but the smaller fighters from the high school N i n c 1 y - S e V o n