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Santa Ana Game -- And the Championship
Enthused, but not over confident because of the great victory over Whittier,
the Tigers met the Santa Ana team on our own grounds Thanksgiving Day.
The crowd that saw the game was a record-breaker for the Chaffey field.
For two hours before the game started a steady procession of motor cars
had passed through the auto gate.
At the time for the kick-off machines were lined up two deep on three
sides of the field, and the bleachers were crowded as never before. There
were about seventeen hundred paid admissions and all Santa Ana rooters
and many others passed free.
The Santa Ana team is one of the best played against this season. They
played fast, keen ball, and were aided by their superior weight. Neither
team was able to gain consistently through the line of the opposing squad.
Every play was closely contested. The scoring began toward the close of
the first quarter when South kicked the first field goal.
In the second quarter the ball was carried to the visitors' ten-yard
line and lost on downs. They punted, and by forward pass the ball was brought
back to the shadow of the goal posts, and a second field goal made the
score 6-0, where it stood at the end of the half.
Santa Ana kicked off to Siemon who made a 15-yard run before being downed.
Manker and Arnett carried it thirty yards in six plays and Dahlem made
a perfect kick for the third field goal. The only touchdown of the game
was made at the beginning of the fourth quarter when Couch crossed
the line after receiving a perfect forward pass from Arnett. South kicked
a goal. A few minutes later he added three points by the fourth field goal
of the game.
Fighting desperately to avoid a shut out, the Santa Ana boys by line
plunges, aided by a Chaffey fumble, carried the ball almost to the Chaffey
goal line, and the whistle ended the game. The final score: Chaffey 19,
Santa Ana 0.
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