1912 Olympic Games Official Report Part 2

of the second half. Comers were forced on both sides, but most of them werebadly placed.When time was called the game thus stood at 2 goals all, and an extra halfhour had to be played. This gave the inherent tenacity of the Finnish-Swedishrace an opportunity of showing what it could do, the Finns obtaining the lead after10 minutes and retaining it to the end.Finland had its best men at centre half-back and outside left, while the strengthof the Italian team lay in the outside left — Mariani — the left back and the goalkeeper.All the Italian team seemed to be tired after the long journey from thesouth of Europe. If the men had been thoroughly rested they would have had afar greater chance of beating the Finlanders.AUSTRIA v. GERMANY. 5—1.Råsunda, Saturday, 29 June, 3 p. m.AUSTRIA : (forwards, from the left): L. Neubauer, A. Müller, J. Studnicka, R.Merz, L. Hussak; (half-backs) : R. Cimera, K. Braunsteiner, J. Brandstetter; (backs):B. Graubard, L. Kurpiel; (goal) : O. Noll.GERMANY: (forwards): J. Hirsch, E. Kipp, W. Worpitzky, A. Jäger, K. Wegele;(half-backs): H. Bosch, M. Breunig, G. Krogmann; (backs): E. Hollstein, H. Röpnack;(goal): A. Weber.Referee: H. G. Willing (Holland).This match had drawn a pretty numerous public out to Råsunda and, as wasto be expected, the spectators saw a hard, quick game. Little was seen of thefiner points of football but still, the match was a very entertaining one.Germany won the toss and, during the first half, played with the wind at itsback. At first it seemed as if Austria was going to be beaten by Germany, whoseforwards were working magnificently. In front of goal, however, the attack wasaltogether too nervous to be able to trouble Noll very seriously. Graubard veryfinely cleared a hard head-punt at goal by Worpitzky. The Austrian right wingHussak and Merz, distinguished itself now and then by fine runs, but the forwardsfell asleep with the ball when they came near the goal.After 30 minutes, Germany was given the lead by Wegele who should havebeen given off-side. Immediately after, Noll was hard put to it to keep the ballout, and when half-time came, Germany still led by a goal.During the pause, the Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf came out to shake hands withthe men and then the game began again, but the character of the play was quitealtered, the Austrian forwards beginning to get a good deal of life into theirwork. Their rushes came with lightning rapidity and with lots of power behindthem, and during the course of one of these attacks the German goal-keeper washurt pretty badly, though he managed to stay at his post. Ten minutes afterplay had re-started, however, he lost his first goal, the ball being put into thenet by Studnicka. The ice was now broken for the Austrians, and a brilliantpiece of combination by their forwards allowed Müller to give Austria the leadwith a very hot shot. A brief pause had to be made in order to attend to theGerman goal-keeper, who was obliged to leave the ground. Worpitzky tookhis place, but the match was hopelessly lost for Germany and, with very brief intervals,Merz put 2 balls past the temporary goal-keeper. Germany’s defeat was madecomplete when, just before the whistle was blown, Cimera found the net with awell-directed side-shot.485