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LEGION EXPECTS FAST GAME SUNDAY■ mo moSELMA OUT FOR CHAMPIONSHIPmo mo mo omFRESNO MUST BUCK A HEAVY LINEUPTwo of tlw1 fastest American football elevens in the- San Joaquin valley will oppose oarh other Sunday afternoon, when the Fresno American Legion teamgoe* to Selma to play the Legion football machine of-that tpwm Fresno and S*1ma teams have- shown up so far this season as two of the three leading football teams in the valley, the Exeter eleven being the only other team with strength enough to Jay claim to championship caliber.Last Sunday Selma defeated the fast Dinuba eleven by a 20 to 7 6core. In the hardest fought game played in the valley that day. The Dinllba team was thoroughly outplayed by Selma, making Its only touchdown in the second quarter when Benny Tout intercepted a forward paps and went over the Selma goal line after a forty-five-yard rumSelma was handicapped in the game with Dlnuba by having several star players on the injured ll?t. Moat of these men are back in suits this week, j and the Selma managers report that their team will be at its full strcngt for the game with Fresno.With the state American Legion championship as its goal for this year, Selma Is out to win every game on Us schedule, and a defeat by Fresno Sunday will put it out of the running unless the “peach eon ter can come hack and win on Fresno's horr.e field on December 11 Whrn the uvo elevens play theirsecond game,Fresno players also have the coveted state championship tlUeKin their minds and will fight just as haul Sunday to keep from being eliminated in this race. If the local team wins this week. CoachLcymel is confident that his men can also take the second game from Selma. Fresno will then Have but one dan^trou* team to face; the -Exeter, eleven which Is scheduled to play hero on December 18. H is prevailing opinion, hero that the San Francisco American Legion team is not :t* strong as the valley teams, and that the championship will be won by the eleven that wins all of its games with San Joaquin valley teams.The Selma eleven will be a hard combination to buck. Selma is perhaps the leading football town in the valley anlt;' its players have grown up with the game. The eleven is composed entire!* of local talent, every player on the team having lived most cf hU life .in t.iat town. ‘White th^ team do** notjdam: any outstanding stars, like the Frcsnc team, most of the players have been \v the game together for several years, ana as a result have develop*! a football machine that excels In team work.Fresh- will have plenty of weight tc buck Sunday when it goes up again»i the Selma 1 me which averages pounds to the nmn. Conch l*oynie llgure* on using his heaviest men tlt; start the gamo ir. the back field, OUver Mum son, New man. Cline, Meyers am Hastings will attempt lo stop Uic- s^lm;plavers who gut past the first line Interference. Allota ami Ry»n are expected lo start tin- game us phO* smc these nun should do some flashy wort in getting down under puuts and eat civ ing far ward £:*s?es.The definite lineup for Fresno wUL no he announced until after the final vom out Saturday evening.
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Fresno Morning Republican
Fresno, California, US
Thu, Oct 20, 1921
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