Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 10, Number 47, DeMotte, Jasper County, 10 October 1940 — DHS Drops Last Game to Fair Oaks Team [ARTICLE]

DHS Drops Last Game to Fair Oaks Team

A grim-faced DHS football team tried desperately hard to score the wnning touchdown in the last few seconds of the game Saturday night but couldn’t quite make the grade.. The Fair Oaks and DeMotte six man football teams, as evenly matched as any two teams could be, battled out a nip and tuck game on the local lighted gridiron Saurday night. Fair Oaks made the first touchdown in the first quarer, a pass to Randolph turning the trick. Wood, who was substituted for Winslow after the touchdown, romped around end for the extra point to put the visitors in the lead, 7-0. At the end of the half the score remained 7-0. In the third quarter both squads made touchdowns with the locals converting their extra point as Fair Oaks missed. The third quarter score 13-7 still in favdr of the visiting horde. The first f£w minutes of the last stanza saw A. Schoonvelt, DeMotte end playing halfback, scurry around right-end to tie the score at 13 all. The local team again made good their try for the extra counter, forging into the lead, 14-13. They relinquished this lead a few minutes later, however when Petz, hard hitting Oaks half-back, plunged through the line for the victory-win-ning tally. The Red and White clad boys knocked hard at the goal line door in the last few seconds but the Fair Oak timbers would not yield. Coach Ruch pulled the “sleeper” trick out of his well-laden bag only to have the ball twice elude the grasp of K. Zeck and bounce to the sod, carrying with it two “should-have-beeji” touchdowns. The starting lineups: DeMotte; K. Zeck, Lund, A. Schoonvelt, Hook, Bernard, and J. Evans. Fair Oaks; Barker, Henry, Randolph, Winslow, Petz, and Lakin. Substitutes for O sting, Oliver, and D. Evans. For Fair Oaks, Wood. Officials were Kurtz and Kresler, both of Rensselaer.