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CATSHOFFMANTRUNK FACTORY A'ROCHELLEBOCK ISLAThe Hoffman Trunk Football lean of this city played the Rochelle fir*team at Rochelle last Sunday, am were defeated 24-12. From start LNEXT SUNDAY THE FAMOUS BATTERY B ELEVEN OF DAVENi PORT WILL PLAY HEREfinish, the game was very exciting, am the Rochelle laris Mere hoarse Ironlooting.The Wild Cats trimmed the Rock Island Navahos at Hicks Park last Sunday bv a score of (5 to 0 in one of the• ftbest played games of the season. The visitors had a fast eleven but were weak offensively and were unable to get near the goal. Only once did they make their first down and that was in the last few minutes of play. Rock Island had two fast colored players but they were unable to break through the line or get away on an end mil. The left end played a star defensivegame.The Rochelfe team scored a touch* down through a forward pass the first five minutes of play. This got tin local boys “sore/’ and from then on the game was in Rochelles territorypractically all the time. During thesecond quarter. Me Donald, right haltback for the Trunk team, caught a for-rightThe Cats had many opportunities to score and several times had the ball inside the visitors’ ten yard line. However, it was not until the third quarter that a score was made. W alker made an end run of 15 yards and placed tJif ball over the fc'ne. He was presented with a box of Uhlan Cigars, donatedbv Barnev Rosenzweig to the playerward pass, and ran fifty yards for a touchdown. Bill August it is, tackle picked up finable, and alsoran about fifty vards for a touch-* * ■ .down. The score at the end of thefirst half was 12-7 in favor of the Trunk Team. In the second half Rochelle made a successful drop kick, and brought in two more touchdowns,Mason andNorberg of the trunks both picked upfumbles and ran for touchdowns, but the referee declared the ball dead. Tha game ended with the ball in the middle of the field, and t he fans declared themselves well satisfied with themaking the score 24-12.game. The Rochelle team plays Dixonmaking the first score. A little later I November 4th. Cinotti captured a forward pass and ran 40 yards before being downed.The light baekfield composed of Coveny, Walker, Baima, Lolli and Gin-otto charged fast and were down on©every play. Baima was injured in the last half and may be out for tlie rest of the season. Cork of Princeton will be substituted.Marco Perino, who plays center for the trunks, played wonderful game, and it took several of the RocheLefrombreakingThe Wild Cats line, as usual, was astone wall. With the ponderous guards,Ryczek and Kudela, ably supported by the might v Goats at center, and flank-ed by Perino, Acttfa and Krueger they proved as solid a gang as ever faced an enemy. And they frequently broke through and grabbed the runners before the play started.players to keep him through their line. “Iggie” Karpinski left half, made repeated gains through line plunges, and knocked out two of the Rochelle players. Me Galium, enl also put Rochelle’s quarterback out of the gani®.Odell, tackle, got his ear pretty* badly scraped, but it is improving rapidly.halfCaptain, received tlie ten dollars offered for the first touchdown of the season. Pelligrini, full back for the•Chuck Me Donald, righttrunks, who was hurt in Morris game,refereed Sunday and expects to playRusk us ky* played end and he wasdown the field on every* play and Sit-terlv and Chandelier easily broke U] the interference.Most of the gains made were on close line plays and but little forward passing was tnied by either team.Next Sunday Battery B of Davenport will tackle the C at H^eks Park and they appear to be prettyevenly matched. Davenport defeatedRock Island 9 to 0 and the Cats will do well if they emerge victors.again the 2Sth.The team is improving with every game, and expect to show the Navahos the 2St.li, what a strong aggregation really is.Next Sunday the Trunk team• TV/; *Chillicothe Legion at Chillicothe.plays*•ARLINGTON SILK THIEVESTO WIN PAROLEFAILEfforts to procure tlte parole of William Lee and Frank O'Brien, convictedof tlie Arlington silk train robbery in
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Spring Valley Gazette
Spring Valley, Illinois, US
Thu, Oct 18, 1923
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