St Xavier College - Xaverian Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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St. Louis November 1. EVENGE is sweet! So sayeth the Mound City warriors as they walketh from the field of bloody conflict. There is no blow so keenly felt as that which shatters self confi- dence, especially when the blow is dealt in drizzling rain on a football gridiron before a thoroughly appreciative audience. The pigskin representatives of St. Louis University had little trouble in recalling such an experience, handed them by our own St. Xavier in 1923. And beyond a doubt, they never tried harder to win a game of football than on November 1, 1924, when Xavier met them on Missouri territory. The boys in green lost to St. Louis by two touchdowns, 18 to '7 being the final count. But all who had seen or read of the game had only praise for the pluck and endurance of the Avondale gridders. Despite many injuries received in action, they put forth a fine representative brand of football, holding the Mound City eleven to one touchdown until the fourth quarter. Xavier scored her points in the last few minutes of play. Bray ran the ball twelve yards to St. Louis, five yard line and then passed to King over the goal. This conflict marked the fourth consecutive defeat of the season for the blue and white; but nearly all can be traced to sheer exhaustion due to the lack of a capable reserve. Transylvania, Wittenberg, St. Louis practically won their games in the fourth quarter, while Maryville did her counting in the third. . More glory for the spirit of pluck and determination that continued to live, even after strength and endurance had failed! Page One Hundred Sixty-two

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Maryville October 25. HENEVER the name of Maryville College is mentioned to a Xavier man, at least for some time to come, it is bound to conjure up that hectic battle waged on Corcoran Field. October 25th. And why? It is because his Alma Mater emerged a laurelled victor? Far from it. Was there much of the unusual about the game? Not exactly. But Maryville showed one play that had everybody in the vicinity of the stadium guessing. and we do not except our own pigskin warriors. Xavier scored her lune touchdown in the first quarter, after a varied attack of runs, bucks and passes. The second period gave no points to either side, and the half ended with a 6 t0 0 count in favor of the home team. The Tennesseeans did not seem sure of themselves or their opponents at any time throughout the first two rounds. Just what happened to the Maryville crew during the fifteen minute intermission is hard to say. Judging from their football in the third quar- ter, they must have snuffed dynamite; for the red-jerseyed outfit proceeded to garner three touchdowns out of five plays in highly efficient style. One of these markers resulted from the deceptive trick formation referred to above. Spectators, sport writers, players all spotted the man who was evidently carrying the ball. When attention was focused on this individual, Brown, Maryville tackle, came to life on Xavier's forty yard line, and with the skill of a master magician, produced a football from nowhere at all and strolled across his opponents' goal line. Even though the enemy augmented its lead, sportsmanship called forth much merriment at the mingled ex- pressions of surprise and dismay. Maryville added a fourth touchdown in the final stanza, making the count 26 t0 6. These figures stood till the final whistle blew. Pam: One Hundred Sixly-une

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Kenyon November 8. DEAL football weather welcomed the gridders of Kenyon College to the lists of St. Xavier. The game started with every wearer of a green jersey determined to show his faithful followers that the Xavier squad of '24 had something of the winning element in its makeup. But they say we improve by degrees; and the best that a hard battle produced was a mutual division of the spoils by two wornout contenders. The fifth game on Xavier's schedule ended in a '7 to 7 tie. The sparkling feature of this conflict was undoubtedly Beattyts seventy yard run through the entire Kenyon team. There was something familiar in the tingling sensation experienced, in the encouraging cheers of the crowd, as each Purple tackler sprawled in the tracks of the fleet-footed halfback. The teams seesawed until the third quarter, playing mostly a defensive game, always punting out of danger. But in this period Kenyonts kickoff was returned to the thirty yard line, the ball Was given to Beatty, and the speedy back proceeded artistically to cover the seventy yards between the line of scrimmage and the counting mark. Wenzel's kick was true. In the same round Kenyon bucked her way to Xavier's goal line. The Purple warriors opened the final quarter by completing a pass that netted six points. A fair kick knotted the score and the remainder of the game passed without danger to either team. Page One Hundred Sixty-three