Roanoke High School - Acorns Yearbook (Roanoke, VA)

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112 awrns uf isuauuiae 1917 all they had, to the last second of play. ln the first quarter we had trouble getting started, handling a new ball we fumbled several times, but after the first five minutes we gave l... H. S. a pretty good idea of what our intentions were, and we carried these intentions out. A few minutes after the second quarter started we succeeded in scoring a touchdown through their line after steadily advancing the ball from our territory into theirs. All during the first half the goal was kept in danger, We were as strong in the last half as in the first and on a well-executed forward pass to Yates we scored another touch- down from easy striking distance of their goal, making the score I4 to 0. We really beat them worse than the score shows. They didnlt earn two first clowns throughout the game. All the breaks went against us as we were penalized time after time and lost several good chances to score on account of fumbles. The entire back field starred on the offensive while Meador, lVlcConnell, H. Yates and Rankin were the R. H. S. strength on the defensive. This game put the Hill-toppers out of the race for the state championship and gave us the title for the western part of the State. John Marshall High School. .33 Roanoke High School ...... IO Saturday, December Zd, we went to the fair grounds to battle with John Marshall High School of Richmond for the championship of Virginia, but our battling was in vain. Soon after the starting whistle blew it was plain that we were up against a team superior in weight and speed. Our boys scored first on a place kick by Captain Gettle, but our opponents found little trouble in scoring a touchdown soon after and continued to drive their plays over us almost at will. After recovering a lVl. H. S. fumble on their twenty-yard line we pushed the ball over for a touchdown in the second quarter. When the first half ended the score was 20 to I0 and when the game ended it was 33 to l0, as they made two touchdowns in the last half while we were unable to score again. Hock and lVleador at the ends did stellar work, boxing in all end runs. Rankin played his usual good game while no other player on the team displayed any of their former class. Care for lVl. H. S. was in- vincible at quarterback. Although we ended rather disastrously we had a very successful year, winning live out of seven games and winning the championship of the western part of the State. We defeated, decisively, two old rivals, Lynchburg High and Randolph-Macon Academy. We also trounced Salem, who could hardly be called a football rival of R. H. S., but whom it is always a great pleasure to beat.

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1917 Srlcntns ut iliuanukvz 111 detail of offensive work, forward passes included, while our defense was un- movable. The first half ended with the score Z0 to 0 and in the second we were as strong as ever. Our end runs were more effective than any other method of ground gaining and the entire back field starred. The honors in the line were about evenly distributed as every man did his duty. Faucette proved the best man for C. S. A. Roanoke High School ...... I3 Blacksburg High School .... 20 Friday, November I0th, we journeyed to Blacksburg, where extreme over- confidence and lack of team work resulted in a defeat at the hands of the Blacksburg I-Iigh School eleven, the score being 20 to I3. ln the entire first half we were completely outclassed both on offensive and defensive being un- able to gain and finding the Blacksburg backs hard to stop. ln the second half we came back rather strong and succeeded in scoring two touchdowns, while we were still unable to hold our opponent who scored another touchdown in the third quarter. With about two minutes to play in the last quarter the Blacksburg man picked up a fumbled ball on our seven-yard line and raced across the goal line with it, game ending with a score of 20 to I3 in favor of our opponent, Bock for Blacksburg was the star of the game, while Yates did stellar work in advancing the ball for R. I-l. S. Roanoke I-Iigh School ...... 20 Randolph-Macon Academy . 3 The next week we covered ourselves with glory by defeating the heavy R. M. A. squad on their home grounds by the score of 20 to 3. We kicked off to our opponents who advanced the ball to center of the field and marched steadily from there to our twenty-yard line, where we braced and held them for three downs. Connor then dropped back and put a well-executed drop kick over the crossbar, making for R. M. A. three points. From then on we completely outclassed them in every phase of play. They were utterly unable to stop our sweeping end runs, while our line plunges were as merciless. Nve ran up twenty points while they didn't make another first down. McConnell showed great speed and ability in circling their ends, while the rest of the back field did stellar work. The entire line was a wall of defence and the team as a whole worked like a machine. Warren was easily the star for R. M. A. Roanoke High School ...... I4 Lynchburg High School .... 0 We next met our old rivals from Lynchburg I-Iigh at the fair grounds and revenge was sweet. We defeated them I4 to 0, but they did hard fighting with

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