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    The Maroons outwitted, and generalled and outplayed the Frankford Yellow
Jackets and defeated them Sunday by the new record score in the Pro League of
49-0.
     In going down to defeat the Frankford outfit proved one thing- they cannot fight
unless they are on the winning end of the score. The have no sting unless they are
on top of the heap. After the Maroons had marched straight through them for the first
six pointer they went helplessly to pieces and looked like a high school team with all
scrubs thrown in.
     It is estimated that at least 9,000 fans saw the battle. Every available seat was taken
and thousands of fans stood on the sidelines. Football enthusiasts from all parts of the
eastern Pennsylvania were on hand to witness the conflict. They came near and far
and it is stated that the game drew the largest crowd of spectators of any athletic event
in the country. The crowd was far greater than the Doaldale game last year which is
reputed to have amashed all previous records.
     In defeating the Yellow Jackets it is believed that Pottsville has established a high
score record in the National Football League for at least this season. As far as can be
learned, no score higher than this one has been made this year. It is the worst licking
the Maroons have handed any team this year and it is by far the worst the Jackets have
received in many a year, if not the worst.
     The Pottsville machine was simply invincible. They pulled everything known in the
football world. They used the air, they smashed through the line, they ran the end, they
held the Jackets down, smeared his offense and broke through his defense. The Maroons
put down a farrage of passes that held the Jacket in his dugout and when the Yellow
Jacket tried the same thing, all he could shoo across the line of scrimmage was a bunch
of duds.
     Red Grange made no longer runs than did our own Hoot Flanagan and he did it no
better style than did the Hoot, when he intercepted a Jacket forward on his own ten
yard line and sped down the field for a run on ninety yards and a touchdown. It was
beyond a doubt that the best run of the year on the home lot. Doing it once did not
satisfy the former Pitt star but he did it again the next time dashing off for a trot of
55 yards for another six points.
     Not only did Flangan turn two Jacket passes into six points for the Maroons but he
intercepted two others and made them good for many yards for the home boys. The
Hoot batted down a number of other Frankford heaves, smashed through their (Maroons') line
for substantial gains and on offtackle dives netted many yards for the Maroons. It
was the best game Flanagan played this year, and he looked almost as used to when he
and Herb Stein were the whole Pitt team not so long ago.
     The Frankford line meant not much to the tone crushers Toney Latone and Barney
Wentz. Both of the them went scrambling through and only once were they held when a
gain meant a touchdown. Once Pottsville needed a few feet for a touchdown and Toney
poked his nose through and over and the next time Barney responded when called upon
and smashed through the six points.
     The Maroon air attack was perfect. Fifteen passes were attempted by the locals and
ten of them were completed. Three of these passes resulted in touchdowns and three
times when Pottsville was held, they turned to the air and brought results.
     It was Jack Ernst cool as a cike of ice in the Polar Sea that was responsible to a great
extent for Pottsville's success. Through the air, he threw his passes as timely and
deliberately at Lt. Harma, circled over at Pottsville earler in the day. The three passes
tossed Walter French- two of which resulted in touchdowns- were about as pretty a heave
of a cowhide as ever a fan was permitted to look upon.
     Jack used excellent judgement and his directing of the Maroons attack was superb. He
marched his team mates from one touchdown to another, he ran the ball himself, and was
in on almost every play. He crossed the Jackets several times and moved his attack and
patched up his defense like the cool and collected general that he is.
     In the game of every turn were Racis and big Hathaway, the two old war horses of the
Maroons. Both these boys have played every minute of the last five games, which
included Frankford, Sat. and Rochester the next day, they being the only two Maroons to
complete his trick. Several times did Hathaway get through and pin runners for a loss as
did Racis. They make a fine pair on the left side of the line, which is incidently the
hardest side of the line to play. Twice Hathaway was in and tossed Bruder for a loss and
compelled the visitors to kick.
     Let those who have been finding fault with the Maroons air department now hold their
peace. It is evident that the Pottsville football team does not need any desperate depart-
ment for air. Dick Rauch being thoroughly capable to working our (team) a defense and
offense through the air that is good enough for any team.
     Pottsville completed the first six forward passes they attempted. The only difference
between the Maroons and the Jackets in this department was that the Jackets completed
only four passes all afternoon and one of them was awarded to them by the referee.
Pottsville got more of the Jackets passes than they got themselves. The Maroons
intercepted six of them, two of them being by Flanagan which ended in six points.
     Three of Pottsville's touchdowns came directly from the air. Walter French caught
two in the final period and raced over the goal line. And Berry scooped up one and got
across the final chalk mark. When Berry caught his pass on the 12 yard line, there was
only one Yellow Jacket between him and the goal.
     Suddenly there was a Maroon jersey that fairly flew from behind the big Maroon
captain. The next instant there was a flash and Walter French had hurled himself at the
Yellow object and it went down the road closed for Berry and he scrambled over for
six points.
     In the first period the Jackets failed to make a single first down. In the second period
they got three, one came in the third, and they got another in the final giving them five in
all. But this does not sound so big when it was considered that two of them came from
penalties- two by forwards while one lone down was made thorugh the line of scrimmage.

                                              HOW THEY SCORED

     It took only seven plays for the Maroons to ring up the first six points the Maroons
received. They marched it up from their own forty where Flanagan had dashed it from
the 10 yard line. Pottsville got a lucky break here whenafter they had advanced it to
the 2 foot line, the bal was snapped back with nobody on the job to receive (it), but Duke
saved the day when he recovered it, but the real break came when Frankford was declared
offside and the ball brought back to the 2 foot line and Toney went crashing through.
Afer that it ws easy, Frankford was licked from that time on.
     In the latter part of the opening session, Charlie Berry's toe gave us three more points
when he booted a placement kick, held down by Ernst from the 20 yard line. Berry kicked
on fouth down with three (yards) to go.
     Hamer attempted to throw a pass to Homan but it landed in the arms of Flanagan
on our ten yard line. Down the field, just three feet from the side line sped the former
PITT star. He ducked through the Jacket outfit and once clear increased his speed and
scored.
     Pottsville received at the opening of the second half and marched the ball down from
the 28 yard line. They used nothing but straight football and crushed the Jackets line.
Flanagan, Wentz, and Millman smashed their way to within one foot of the last chalk
mark. There the Jacket held like grim death, but htey could not stand the battering and
Barney crushed through.
     It was no longer after this that Flanagan repeated when he leaped high into the air and
came down to earth with another Jacket passed tucked in his arms and ran forty five
yards for another touchdown. This was even prettier than his first run, cutting and
wriggling his way thorugh the field of tacklers.
     The last three touchdowns came through the air. Pottsville held Frankford for downs
at the end of the third period and the fourth opened with the ball in their posession on their
way (on the 20-yard line). A march was taken up herewhich put the ball within a yard of
scoring. French tried to skirt the end but could not gain. Barney sent his hulk against
the Jacket line but it refused to give. He came within an inch of doing so. Then Hamer
punted to French who was thrown on the Jacket 30 yard line. A beautiful forward to little
Walter on the 10 yard line made six more points when the former Army star danced across.
     It was only the matter of another few minutes when Jack Ernst tossed another of his
famous heaves to Berry and he scored.
     Flanagan aided in getting the last touchdown when he intercepted a pass on the 45 yard
line and ran it back ten yards. French went out wide for a long forward from Ernst but he
missed it because he was interfeered with, but the referee would not allow it. The next time
Jack let loose, French gobbled it up and scored.