West Fairmont High School - Maple Leaves Yearbook (Fairmont, WV)

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ll 1:4 EMPLGLISIBUES 'fill Fairmont 14-Shinnston 0 The old weatherman showed the royal rooters, who followed the F. H. S. football team to Shinnston the first, real football weather of the season. The dear old Blue and White fluttered on in the rain to a fourteen-to-nothing vic- tory over the heavy Shinnston gridders. Fairmont out-played, out-fought and out-scored the boys up the river. Every player was a star in himself on the slippery gridiron. Delligatti kicked off for Fairmont, and when we got possession of the ball We quickly put it where it belonged, behind our rival's goal. Due to the condi- tion of the pigskin, the score for the extra point was missed. A Shinneston player fumbled behind his goal line and recovered, only to be tackled by a Fairmont man. Two more points were added to our score, making it eight. Late in the fourth quarter a pass was completed, which paved the way to our Hnal touchdown. Knight carried it over. The extra point was missed. The Shinnston team failed to get any closer than twenty yards to our coveted goal, and did not get a single first down. About as many people from Fairmont High as from Shinnston attended the game. OCTOBER 9 Elkins 12-Fairmont 0 A surprise greeted the football fans of Fairmont on Saturday morning, Oc- tober the ninth. On awakening and looking from the window at about seven o'clock one could see large snowflakes Hoating to rest on the wet ground. Snow or rain cannot stop a football game, so, at two-thirty, a good sized crowd flocked to the park, despite the cold, to see Fairmont High School and Elkins clash. The team came out of the Shinnston mix up rather cut up. Mitchie, the captain: lVlcLeary, end, and Jones, a back, were out of the line up, several other men were not in shape. Delligatti and Spadafore were the stars. Knight also played a stubborn game. Jimmie Spadafore had a rib broken, but played a complete quarter before he was removed from the game. The Elkins' team out-weighed the home team twenty pounds to a man. Fairmont fought gal- lantly, but finally lost by a twelve to nothing score. The game was very thrilling. If you remember, it was Elkins who kept us from the State cham- pionship last year. This year they broke our record of not being scored upon for twelve consecutive games. Previous to this game the Blue and White had run up a score of two hundred and thirty-three points to their opponents' nothing. OCTOBER 16 Fairmont 3-Wheeling 25 The Fairmont High gridders suffered their second defeat of the nineteen hun- dred twenty-five season when the team. with a small band of loyal rooters, journeyed to Wheeling. Wheeling has the best team in the history of the school, and the students of our school cannot say so much, since the Blue and White failed to out-battle the Wheeling team. Previous to the game with Fairmont, Wheeling had not been scored upon and had run up a total of one hundred and five points to their opponents' nothing. Their record was shat- tered, however, when their center gave a bad pass to the fullback, which he fumbled. Fairmont recovered the ball, and after working it over to the center of the field on the Wheeling ten-yard line, Agrippe dropped back and drop- Page 96 x 'i ul:

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ui IRT y ' tuetettnfvcsi ai .fill glfunilmll Glanqx the first day of September, the Fairmont High School footballers entrained for camp, where they were to get two weeks of prelimi- nary work. The camp consisted of a large field, a mess hall that certainly put out eats, and a bunk house which was capable of holding eighty men, although there were only twenty-six men from the High School. The rest of the house was taken up by the Normalites. For three or four days the boys worked out in gym suits so as to get lim- bered up and in condition for heavy work. It was very hard for the boys to get up at six-thirty o'clock and take setting up exercises. Those who were late to these exercises were put on the wood pile till the breakfast call, which came at seven o'clock. Following breakfast there was a two-hour-and-a-half rest until the first work out, which lasted two hours. Then came dinner at twelve o'c1ock, The boys were then given another rest followed by another workout. The boys were called to mess at five o'clock, and the rest of the evening was their own. Some of the celebrities of camp were Alex Ronay, Red Hammond and Carl Booth. One day they were all worrying, because they thought they were to have the heavy work slung on thick that afternoon. Finally, Alex said that he would go see if they were to dress light that afternoon, and on going up to the coach to get the desired information, he received an answer something like this: You boys will dress to light on your-head. So naturally that part of it was settled. The camp this year, under the fine coaching of Mr. Ice and his assistant, Mr. Hicks, was a great success, and we hope the camps in the future will be even better. i SEPTEMBER 25 Fairmont 14-Weston 0 The day dawned beautifully and was even more beautiful when the two teams lined up for the kick-off. On September 25, 1925, at 3 o'clock, the Hrst game of the season was started at South Side Park by the Fairmont High School team. The lineup for the first game was: Knight, fullback: Spadafore and Jones, halves, and Mitchie at quarter, Tork at center, Linger and Delli- gatti, guards: Davis and Haun, tackles: Kirchman and Glover at ends. Knight caught the first ball on the 10-yard line and ran it to his own 35 before being stopped. He also made the first touchdown. On a forward pass, Mitchie to Knight, he ran 46 yards for the first touchdown of the game. Spadafore added the extra point. Fairmont worked the ball down to the 1 yard line and Spadafore got another touchdown and added an extra point by a drop kick. Fairmont intercepted 6 forward passes. Fairmont worked the best in years for the first game. Page 95 -I

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'Ni' ,::a,,-WI W1-fT h ' QPLGLGAUES ill game was a rather neat affair at all stages. Knight gained continually with line plunges. but the wet field always prevented the Bears from putting the kicked a field goal. This put a mantle of surprise on the Wheeling crowd, for Fairmont had scored first. This did not last long, however, for the heavy team continually worked the ball down the field for touchdowns. One pass was completed for Fairmont for a gain of twenty-five yards. Fairmont seemed to fight better in the latter part of the game, and started down the field for a touchdown. but old man Time interfered and the game was over. OCTOBER 23 Fairmont 7-Washington Irving 13 On October the twenty-third, Fairmont faced the Washington Irving grid- ders at the South Side Park. W. I. was rated as a better team than Fairmont, but the latter proved to the large crowd which had gathered there that they were a fighting team, for they held the Clarksburg warriors to six downs while they netted seven. The first quarter passed without much real gaining. One play drew the crowd to its feet. Spadafore dropped back to kick, but the ball was blocked and a Clarksburger recovered and carried it across for what seemed a sure touch- down. W. I. was offside and the score didn't count. In the second quarter the same thing happened again, but this time it was the real thing, and W. I. was given the first points of the game. They also kicked goal. When the second half started, Fairmont showed real fight. They started from the forty-nine yard line and Hnally placed the ball over the goal line. While working it down the field a double pass was pulled which gained fifteen yards. Agrippe attempted to kick for the point, but in their anxiety the W. I. team was off-side and the point was given to F. H. S. In the fourth quarter a Fairmont pass was intercepted and W. I. made an- other touchdown. So the game ended with Washington Irving leading, thir- teen to six. Fairmont spoiled another record on this day. Clarksburg had gone undefeated and un-scored on until this game, having made ll3 points to their opponents' nothing. OCTOBER 30 Fairmont O-Morgantown O After losing three games to superior teams or hard luck jinx, the Fairmont High School Polar Bears were growling all around the park while battling the Morgantown gridders to a scoreless tie. Although the snow was half a foot deep, the Bears were not as much at home as the name indicates. A wet, heavy ball prevented a gaining punt game, and the slippery field held the players from making any noticeable gains by the run route. Both teams played ex- cellent football considering the prevailing conditions. The officials were handi- capped by not having a field which was laid off in the proper manner fthe snow preventing thisl, but did very well, and no unsatisfactory penalties resulted. Neither team was nearer its opponents' goal than fifteen yards. Tork. Agrippe, Delligatti, Fisher and Spadafore were absent from the line-up, due to minor causes. NOVEMBER 6 Fairmont O-Fairmont Normal Reserves 0 On a mud soaked field, before a medium crowd on a cold, wet day, the Fair- mont High School Polar Bears held the Normal Reserves to a O-O tie. The pigskin behind the opponents' line. Page 97