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Show 9 q -FOOTBALL B"OYS ' 'HAVE . RETURNED tended for Donally on the Dutte end, but Captain Stoao of the Ogdcn team intercepted, springing high In the air and pulling down the flying spheroid. 11c wo.? on the dead run when his' feet strrck sod and off ho shot like a destructive rocket passed tho dazed Butte, forwards, his Interference forming' as he went. Ho shook off ladders like dummies, Moran blocking block-ing and giving splendid help till Stene was free of over" Butte ob-staclo ob-staclo and a clear field opened between be-tween him and the goal. He trolled over the line at the end of an eighty- (Continued on Page Seven) "We will pay the expenses of sixteen six-teen men to Ogden for post-season game with wlnnor of Thanksgiving day xuateJi, for Intermouulaiu championship." champion-ship." This lolegtani, sent to the manager o the Uuitec football team, and to the manager of tho Great Falls eleven elev-en by J. O. Cross, prlnclpul of tho Opden high school, a fow hours after tho arrlvaJ of the sqund iu this city his morning, show In wkat light tho local school men view the outcomo of ibo game at the Montana metropolis Sulurday. While the score In tho hard fought battle was tied ut 10 to 10 Ju tho lust half and the local team can therefor not claim u victory by 'he book, they nevertheless aver that Untie oniy escaped defeat by the violation vio-lation of all footlwll rules. Coach tleorge Brown and Principal Cross refrain from making any statement state-ment derogatory to the Butte team or ihe officials of the game, but even fi.m their statements It Is easy to discern dis-cern that they are not by any means jatisficd with the Irentmcm which the local boys received In the city of lu'ners. That all of the penalizing Inflicted on the Ogden team should have been Imposed io tl'o last half, when the score stood 10 to 0 against Butte, Is a fact that will not bo erased by any of the excuses which have been vouchsafed by the Butte officials. offi-cials. Referee ftobiDS, whom Coach Brown ciguated as the only official in t he rame who understands tho 1910 rules, stated I hat the Ogden team played the most perfect ganio of football that ho had ever seen In a high school contest. Yet Referee Roh.'ns tacked upon the local team penalties amount-lug amount-lug to 121 yards, and all of them In tre last half when the submerged Montana Mon-tana players managed to get their heads above the surging waters of defeat. de-feat. So confident is Manager Ed Smjth. who formerly played with ihe team, that he vowed ths morning that he would Iwt every snit of Chilian rlothes that bv has that the Ogden team can beat Butte 10 to 0. "I II make thh bet and agreo to wear my football uniform all tho rest of the season If I lose." Is th? enthusiastic challenge of the defiant youth Coach Brown, who was formerly one of the most brilllaot players on the Utah I'niversity team, utates that It was a hard struggle In whlcn the Ogden boyp attempted to stick to 1910 rules. "I would not chargo tbat tho Butte offleials were knowingly ciook-ed ciook-ed nor that the toam Intentionally violated the laws of 1910 football." said the coach, when seen nt the high school this morning. "Aside from Rob-Ins Rob-Ins there wasn't an official in the game, that knew the rules ns thev have been drafted fur this season. As a consequence, the Butte team used tactics that would not be teleratod.1 by the 1910 rule makers. Their tac-t tac-t cs were rough because they were obsolete. They would not have been considered last year but the gam-? has been changed debrutalized and the Butte team are not familiar with the new rules of play. "I fc-el confident that the Ogden team C3n beat the Montana squad lnva second game, should one be arranged. ar-ranged. Despite the fact that two or three of our tam wee somewhat some-what disabled, the IK'tte team rhould not have been allowed to score in the second half had the officials fore t-d the plajers to adhero strictly to the rules " Manager Smyth states tli3t Quarterback Quart-erback Esans scored a final touchdown touch-down in the last half during the last two minutes of play and that fhe Butte timekeeper called ' time" while the Ogden j. layer was on the run to the winning goal. Smyth does not hesitate to indict the officials of the gnme with having hastened the hands of their timepieces to quash the spec-taeiilar spec-taeiilar da.-h of the Ogden quarterback. quarter-back. Strangely enough, a touchdown was scored during the gamo In each quarter. Ogden In the first two and 'Butte iu the latter ones. In the firn quarter Montana had pressed the ball down into 1'tah's territory, when Streibech of tho Butte team was called on to shoot a long pass for the spread information. It was in- he missed u goal and tbo la tor mountain moun-tain championship was tnd lloyle was perhaps Oednn's chief fut-tor, with Stone n clo-io second. Moian did splendid open field rnn-1 rnn-1 ing. but failed to figure f.s prominently prominent-ly In the game on ho haj In sonic of the previous contests. Frcebourno, Orlgg an,! Hovinuln fre the- stars of the Hn'te nygrega-tion, nygrega-tion, although man for maa, tbey did not play the game thnt was played, by the leaders of the Ogden lineup. Following; Is the formation of both U urns: Ogden Position Untie. Whliiiieycr Ponncllv j. r:nd r. Sample WUherspoon I,. Tackle R. 1 Smith Carroll I L. tlu.ird II. I Smythc I.aytm I Ceuter. Anderson Chrlntin R. Cuard 1 (heckclts ..Spiegel. Casey R. Taiklo L. Allen Wilkinson R. F:nd U .Mora 11 Ilourquln Quarter. FJvaiiH Frc--liourno I.. Halfback R. Stone (Capt.) flrlgg (Capt ) R. Hairback h. Hoyle Stnlbeck Fillback. FOOTBALL BOYS HAVE RETURNED (Continued from Page Sixl yard run. It. was a w-ll earned touchdown the first blow to the hopes of Butte. The quarter ended with Moran falling to lick goal Tho Second Quarter. The second quarter opened with Strclbeck hurling a beautiful long toss to Wilkinson for a 21-yard gain Boiirquln, of the Butte team, attempted attempt-ed to follow suit, but be repeated some, of his earlier errors by lifting the pigskin too high. Strelncck was tailed on for another pass, but It was partially blocked and Ogdeu took tin? ball on Its own 2Vynrd line Play now vacillated about the center ot tho field for the next few minutes, when like a flash Ogden found Butte's cardinal weakness Just off tho tackles. tack-les. Tho march to the goal started v ith Moran running back a Strelbeck punt 20 yards. Stone took four at left hckle nnd then eleven. Beyle romped six In the same place and then four through at left guard. Kvans gathered 10 through ihe weak spot, but on the ji. xt piay, w ith only a snort gain, Butte braced and Kvans was twice clipped on the line. Grlgg failed to gain at ihe end aud then Bourqnln pulled his worst bull In the shadow of his own g-.nl he tried a forward pass. Stone gathered It in and. with no more ado Boyle tolled otf S yards on on-? side tmd Kvans annexed the last o and idled over H'o goal line, with Butte scrambling mound trying to liml bin.. It was touchdown No 2. Again Stone missed miss-ed goal, but by the narrowest martin. mar-tin. But It did not look like Ogden i d it anyway. The Ursi touchdown was made after af-ter 11 minutes of pi.iy and the second sec-ond after 11 minutes of the secoii'' quarter had passed. The first hall ot the j;anie finished with the Ecoie standing Hi to o. Second Half. If there was any conspiring done b-tho b-tho Butte team it was done during the intermission for methods changed when the last half began. In the third quarter the ball stuck like a leaden pillar within the thirteen yards of the Ogden goal. Ogdeu's forward for-ward was penalized seemingly at the dictates of the howling half-crozed fans, which brought the spheroid live yards nearer the goal. Then Grlgg, the Butte cnptaln, was thrown for a two yard losi to his team. Bourqul-i called for a forwnrl pas, hurling it himself, tkmelly gobbled it n foot from the charmed line and droppml to the ground tor Butte s firsi touch-c'own. touch-c'own. This made the scc:e 10 to 5. There was more penalizing. In the last quarter and the bull changed i auds many times. Onside kick were frequently attempted by Butte, without with-out success, when, out of the uncer-tniney uncer-tniney .if lufltating action, Grlgg went' G yards over left tackle and I leebourns switched to a forward pass. Instead of a kick from the puzzling speed formation. Donnelly glommed the ball fcr an iS-yard gain: Another pass was tried nnd Bourqnin 8. tot the ball Into Griggs arma for K yards more. Then came Free, r.-iirne's run of I" yard.', plowing pnsl right tackle for the touchdown. He came up with blood ctrvamlng from his battered novo but with arms swinging wi'i.lly with joj. By a yard |