THE CHEM AW A AMERICAN
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The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
Published Weekly at the Salem Indian Training School
Chemawa, Oregon, HARWOOD HALL, Superintendent
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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.
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