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Pa'll' 12
THE MAROON TIGER
cMaroon football
The shouting and the tumult have ceased. Kid Pig
skin, commonly called “King’’ by his hi-jacking co
horts, has just about ended activities and with the emis
sion of a few last sleepy yawns, in the form of post
season games, will crawl into a far niche of the “Hot
Stove League” and there hibernate until brought forth
by the golden sun of Autumn to satisfy again the
popular demands of tme seething fan.
It was a well known fact that Morehouse did not
have the best team in the conference. The final rec
ord being three won, four lost and one tie. Neither
was she accused of playing up to the capacity which
was expected of her. However (without too much of
the sob stuff and useless sentiment) there was some
thing exhibited on the field that is really worth men
tioning—something that seemed to bespeak the spirit
of the “old school.”
It seems that sometime during the past ages a More
house man got the idea of clean play and sportsman
ship. He fondled, petted, studied it until it became
a reality. When he left, it was passed on and on,
increasing every minute, until it grew into gargantuan
heights. It formed a pyramid and quite a few were
unable to cling to its sloping sides, quite a few stuck,
however.
It was near this perpetual pinnacle that the football
team of ’32 stood. Led by Coaches Forbes, Ellis and
Mann. THEY STUCK THANK GOD!
However, during the time that this pyramid was be
ing built other necessary structures were forming. One
of these happened to have been Strict Training. Liv
ing the life of a pseudo libertine and fighting on the
gridiron for the principles of the Tiger at the same
time is generally wrong. Outbursts of dissipation were
frequent, rules were scattered to the wind by quite a
few of the brave and true Morehouse warriors. A
righteously indignant student body (at least a portion
of them) were afraid to report the miscreants. (Of
course, we of the student body must not be judged too
harshly; no one likes to play the role of informer, even
if one of the fine principles IS being dragged in the
mire of Sodom.) No one hut a semi-saint would try
to condemn the slight outbursts of dissipation from
students not in training. Rut please, oh god of football,
give us a team that would keep the good points of the
present team and still not live the life of v!!;xZ night-
hound.
Incidentally, a MERR\ CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY
NEW YEAR from “THE TIGER’S PAW.”
TIGERS WIN FROM FISK BULLDOGS
BY 13-6 SCORE
Emerging from what seemed to have been a perman
ent lethargy, the Tiger lashed with utmost vengeance a
snarling Fisk Bulldog whose threats were many but
whose materializations were scanty. Twice the awaken
ing Bengal crossed the Fisk goal and only once was
the “pup” able to find the elusive terminal horizontal
which seemed so near but yet so far.
Morehouse scored early in the first half. On the first
play, “Big” Jones, all-Southern bidder who seemed much
nearer the hospital than the gridiron, tore through tackle
for 25 yards to place the hall on the Fisk 20-yard line.
On the third play Kelly by some tall maneuvering put
the team on the Fisk 3-yard line. On three successive
plunges “Big” Jones pushed his frame across the mark
er for the first touchdown of the game.
Optimism, however, seemed shortlived for the More
house Cohorts. After the next few minutes of every
day football, HELL suddenly broke loose in the Fisk
battalion. On the Morehouse 43-yard line, Fisher, on
two plays, gained 12 yards. Bostic slipped over guard
for 6 yards to place it on the Morehouse 25-yard line.
On the next play Morton got 8 yards, but immediately,.
Fisk was penalized to the 22-yard line for off-side.
The momentous Morton, coming back with terrific force,,
carried the ball on two plays the entire distance to score.
Number one for Fisk. Bostic missed goal.
See-sawing was paramount from that point until the
fourth quarter when Fisk on their own 20-yard line-
tried a lateral pass which unfoi tunately for them landed
in the arms of the errant Evans who galloped 20 yards
for the final touchdown of the game.
Morton, Fisher, Hall, Coleman, and Alexander were
outstanding for Fisk, while effervescent Baugh, crippled
Jones, Red Smith, Kelly, McFall and Alex. Reid brought
joy to the hearts of the Morehouse rooters.
The Line-Up
Fisk (6) Morehouse (13)
Hall L.E. Archer
Cater L.T. Mazique
Jackson L.G. Bowen
Holland - —. C. — Red Smith
Sanders .... ....... R.G. .... McFall
Alexander .... . R.T. Alex. Reid
Coleman .... . R.E. ....... . Hendricks
Morton Q.B. Kelly
Barksdale L.H. . Ohio Jones
Fisher .. . .... R.H. Big Jones
Bostic F.B. ... . .... Mclver
TALLADEGA DEFEATS MOREHOUSE, 7-0
Playing far “off form” but still good and lucky enough
to keep a fairly strong ’Dega team from scoring for 57
minutes, Morehouse was finally beaten in the last three
minutes of play when Speed, elusive ’Dega halfback
romped 45 yards through a Tiger Team to score the only
touchdown of the game. Dizzy Pigrom completed the
disaster with a perfect drop-kick to make the final score
7 to 0.
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