1908 Chillicothe Hornets
Top Row:
Robert Packard, Chester Baum, Otto Weddle, Edgar Jones, Lee
Brookshire.
Second Row: Supt. A. R. Coburn (Faculty Mgr) Earl
Markee, Julius Meinershagen, Herman Shiflet, Harry Kinsey, Allie
Howard, Coach Douglass Stewart.
Third Row: Mervin Jones
Student Mgr, Lester Wikoff, Anson Atwell (Captain), Gilp Brant, John
Atwell.
Bottom Row: David French, Buel Swope
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Record |
4 - 4 |
Points For |
53 |
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Conference |
None |
Points Against |
70 |
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From The Chillicothe Yearbook
The fall of 1908 rolled around,
finding football material scare, only six of last year's
players being with us.
For three weeks the players were drilled every evening
in signal practice, trying different men out and showing them
the fine points of the game. Graduates of the Chillicothe High
School and others interested in the team, coached us. With
seven inexperienced players the first game of the season was
played.
(Summary from the Yearbook follows the score)
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| Sat. |
Sept. 26 |
Carrollton |
Lost |
0 - 12 |
"With
seven inexperienced players the first game of the season was
played September 26th on the Normal gridiron, against the
strong team from Carrollton. Nevertheless our boys made a good
showing, being outweighed about four pounds to the man."
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| Sat. |
Oct. 3 |
Brookfield |
Lost |
10 - 15 |
"On
October 3rd, we played Brookfield, our old rivals, and in a
lifeless game and full of flunks, the visitors carried off the
big end of the score."
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| Fri. |
Oct. 9 |
at Braymer |
Won |
6 - 0 |
"On
October 9th, we went to Braymer and had a very interesting
game. There we won our first victory of the season. A large
crowd of rooters accompanied the team and won the day for us."
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| Sat. |
Oct. 17 |
Breckenridge |
Won |
20 - 0 |
"On
October 17th we scalped the Breckenridge team to the tune of
20-0. This was a fast and interesting game, the only drawback
being the short halves."
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| Fri. |
Oct. 30 |
Meadville |
Won |
6 - 0 |
"On
the 24th of October, we journeyed to Carrollton to get revenge
for our defeat that we received on September 26th. On account
of the bad weather the game was called off. Although it was a
tiresome trip, everyone had a good time.
"On October 30th the strong Meadville team came to Chillicothe expecting
to carry off the laurels of the season, but in a well fought
battle the red and black came out six points to the good."
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| Fri. |
Nov. 6 |
St Joseph
Central |
Won |
6 - 5 |
"Our
best game of the season was pulled off on our home grounds
November 6th, when the undefeated team from St. Joe came. The
touted eleven came here with intentions of whipping our boys
to a stand still, but by hard playing we won the game by the
score of six to five. After the kick-off it took St Joe eleven
minutes of hard line plunging to score its first touchdown and
then they failed to kick goal. In the second half an onside
kick by St. Joe was captured by Chillicothe which resulted in
a touchdown and an easy goal. Two games have been played with
St. Joe, one this year and one last, Chillicothe winning both.
St. Joe's defeat was celebrated by the famous "shirt-tail
parade.""
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| Thu. |
Nov. 26 |
at Carrollton |
Lost |
0 - 32 |
"The
last game of the season was played at Carrollton on
Thanksgiving day before a crowd of three hundred people. It
would be useless to tell the game in detail for it was a
referee's game instead of a foot-ball game. We received
several bad decisions and finally refused to play until a new
referee was procured. Only once did we ginger up and play
ball, then we easily advanced the ball seventy yards only to
lose it on a fumble."
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| Sat. |
Nov. 28 |
Livingston
County Club |
Lost |
5 - 6 |
| "A
post season game was played November 8th with the Livingston
County Club of the University. Notwithstanding that we were in
no condition to play, we did our best with the final score of
? Oh, well, 'nuff said" |
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