West Plains High School - Zizzer Yearbook (West Plains, MO)

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were determined that it should go no higher. After about tive minutes hard fighting and a fumble with the ball on our part they suc- ceeded, in the first quarter, to make another touchdown, making the score 55-0. The score was 55-0 during this quarter and the last quarter and every boy on the team is to be given credit for his knowledge of old time, knock-down and drag-out football. All scientific rules were forgotten the result be- ing that several of the antagonists were car- ried injured from the field. At the end of the hard fought game the score still stood 55-0 in favor of Springfield, and although I - it :seal , -- . AROUND THE COURT the boys had lost the game they had learned more fcotba11 than they had ever known before. Johnson next matched a game with Moun- tain G-rove for Thanksgiving day and although there was not much time for practice, they all felt sure of success. Hogan put the boys through some l1al'd practice a few davs he- fore Turkey Day and left them in 80011 condition to meet the long and hated rivals of the W. P. H. S. Thanksgiving day found it again muddy but the sky overhead was clear. Mountain Grove's hopes were high when they saw our line up of small men compared to their in- vincible huskeys but their hopes dropped when on first play, Cordell, with go:d sup- port tore around their right end and running forty yards scored a touchdown for the hsme team. The Mountain Grove bojs tried line drive after line drive but without effect for our uniform line held like a brick wall. They seldom gained their ten yards, either around the end or through the line. Rice and Lee broke their flimsey lines time and again making long gains down the sloppy field. Shadburne made useful prac- tice cn his favorite method of stiff arming, sending many of the big boys to a muddy bed. Mantz and Green showed up well on the ends although the slippery ground can'- ed several errors on the forward pass. Both men with the support cf the halves held down the end well and stopped many of their opponents behind their line of de- fense. Hogan, at guard, is to be given credit for some of the best playing that was done on either side. Hogan, that slow and lazy Hogan, forgot his manners. It is said that someone poked him and woke him up. Evi- dently something must have happened for the big bull broke the opponents line at every chance, several times tackling the Mountain Grave quarter before he had delivered the hall. Johnson at tackle made some fast runs and plucky tackles and is to be given credit for a good game. Spears encountered his first game with the Mountain Grove lads and showed up well. Spears is a freshman, a big lad and a fast man and with another year of football we feel that here will be one of our choicest men. Harlin, our refined center, our noble P. I., as usual. showed the people that in football he was never timid and always responded readily to the systematic sigrals of our cool headed quarter. - At the end of the first half the score was 13-0 in favor of the home team and with a desire to make it 55 the boys went cheerfully into the second half but the bell rang with the score 39-0 in our favor. Paul Rettig, another freshman was tried out for the first time in this game and showed signs of being classed next year among the lest on the first team. Summing up our team in general, we consider that we have the roughest, one of the fastest and one of the best teams in the state with rnly a lack of games to show our superiority. XVAITING FOR A HOT ONE Center LINE UP. -------------H------Amos Harlin Culrds ..... -,Thad Kenney, Senator Hogan Tackles ......... Clint Johnson, Dick Green E11dS ------ ----.. H erhert Mantz, Guy Allen Quarter ------ .-........ - -Dick Snadburne Half -------.. ---Dick Rice, Herbert Cordell F1111 ---- -- ------ -- ------- ---Francis Lee SubS, ---NVill Spears, Paul Rettig, Orr Reed