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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 7, 1925)
THE CHEM AW A AMERICAN PAGE 2 The CHEMAWA AMERICAN Published Weekly at the Salem Indian Training School Chemawa, Oregon, HARWOOD HALL, Superintendent Address all communications to Ruthyn Turney, Manager SUBSCRIPTION 50 Cts PER ANNUM ATHLETIC NOTES By smashing and dashing through the Commerce line our team defeated the stenographers here on Sat urday afternoon a week ago, 25 to 6. The mighty plunges of Thompson, our crashing fullback, never failed to pierce the Commerce line for a gain. Like wise his side partners, Charles DePoe and Bill John son, darted through the line like streaks of lightning and wiggled and turned their way through the Com merce defense for good yardage. These three men carried the ball over for the first touchdown shortly af ter the first quarter began. Commerce scored early in the second quarter by a pretty run from our 20-yard line through a broken field. Both teams failed to kick goal and the score stood, at the first half, 6 to 6. At the start of the second half Ole Strom, captain and left tackle, led his team into the fray with more fight and determination. The men in the line with him were: Paul Keta, tackle; Charles George and Reg inald DePoe, ends; Roy Peratrovich and Peter Rass- mussen, guards; and Sedan Thomas, center. These boys played a fine game offensively. The holes they opened up in the lines were wide and done quickly and blocked like veterans. They reached their stride in the second half and played in mid-season form, averag ing one point a minute, which was largely due to the nifty work of the linemen. Jake Atkins, quarterback, called the plays and di rected our attack in no unskilled manner. Though this is Jake’s first attempt at directing the offense he showed rare ability and gives promise of being the best field general we have had here in years, providing he can keep himself off the injured list. We were with out his services in the game against Benson because of a badly strained neck. Jake is a brittle piece of ware and does not stand the hard knocks like his hefty full back. Atkins was on the passing end of two nicely executed forward passes; the receivers were Charles DePoe and Charles George. This line-up worked like a well-oiled piece of machinery in the second half and gradually worked the ball across Commerce’s goal line four times in the second half. Thompson kicked one goal. The following paragraphs from The Oregon Journal tell the story dear to us: “The Chemawa Indian football team, one of the most powerful Chemawa elevens to appear on the local gridiron in several seasons, battered its way to a 12 to 6 victory over the Benson Tech pigskin chasers on Multnomah field Saturday afternoon, Oct. 3. “Benson kicked off to the Indians’ 30-yard line, from where the hard-hitting Redskins plunged their way up the field, with C. Thompson bearing the brunt of the attack, to a touchdown without losing posses sion of the ball. C. Depoe made the touchdown on a one-yard dive over the line but the kick failed. “The battering ram, Thompson, was brought into service at this point and he, with the aid of C. DePoe and Johnson, pushed the ball to the four-yard line, where a forward pass, Bernard to George, netted a second Chemawa touchdown. Thompson’s kick was blocked. “The outstanding feature of the game was the work of C. Thompson, giant fullback for the Indians. He did the kicking for his team, averaging 40 yards in his boots and was a tower of strength on both offensive and defensive play. ” CHEMAWA AT THE FAIR The Oregon State Fair was larger and better this year than ever before and the same can be said with emphasis of Chemawa’s participation in the fair. It is never the intention of Supt. Hall to do anything by halves—it is the whole thing or nothing with him—so our readers can safely assume that our exhibit was immense. Thousands upon thousands of people passed by our large array of booths and commented upon the marvelous display in evidence—domestic art, domestic science, nursing, farm products, carpentry, tailoring, painting, printing, machine shop, blacksmithing, and other departments of a vocational character, to which must be added work from the academic building, all contributed to the glory of our great school on this occasion. During the afternoons of the week a fine mu sical program was given by the pupils of Mrs. Turney, solos, quartets and octettes (all vocal), and by the school orchestra. The various singers of Mrs. Turney certainly did well from every point of view and were the recipients of much enthusiastic praise, while the work of the orchestra was well received and added largely to the occasion. We believe that our singers are better this year than ever before and the same may be said of our orchestra—at least thousands of fair visitors said so. We believe that Supt. Hall and all of his co-workers at the fair should be happy over their great success. We understand that they are, too. Subscribe for The American—50 ce nts a vear.
