St Xavier College - Xaverian Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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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

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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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T575 . f . Kentucky Normal November 15. EFORE a crowd of four thousand football fans, St. Xavier proceeded to squelch Western Kentucky State Normal in the afternoon sun- shine of November 15th; 29 to 0 was the sad story carried by the Kentuckians to their haven, somewhere in the dark and bloody ground of a pioneer state. Xavieris line played a real game of football against the Normal aggrega- tion. Their offensive work was faultless. The backfield was protected in the execution of every play by a forward defense that never faltered against heavy onslaught. Especially to Mike Queenan do we tend the laurel, for his play was conspicuous throughout the thickest of the fray. The backfield, too, gave a fine account of itself. Snappy shifts, clever footwork, effective line bucking, and good passing made this performance the best up to date. The home team employed every scoring device in run- ning up her points;-line buck, end run, forward pass and field goal were worked equally well. Her defense was unwavering, her aggressiveness per- sistent. There was co-ordination at all times between line and backfield. The Xaverians counted in each of the first three quarters and brought the ball to the one yard line twice in the fourth period. Normal played a defensive game throughout. The only bright spot in their afternoofs work was an intercepted pass in the final stanza, which was run back through the green team for sixty-four yards. The timekeeper's gun barked twice. A jubilant crowd marched through the exits of Corcoran Field, a crowd confident that a world of ability was wrapped up in local green jerseys, and that it was just beginning to find its way out. Page One Hundred Sixty-four