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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 27, 1926)
THE CHEM AWA AMERICAN PAGE 2 The CHEM AWA AMERICAN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ —.—— —— t.......................................................... ................ ——• Published Weekly at the Salem Indian Training School ChedLawa. Oregon. Please address all communications to Ruthyn Turney, Manager. JAS. H. McGREGOR SUBSCRIPTION _ - - - Superintendent 50 Cts PER ANNUM ATHLETIC NOTES Weakened by the loss of Olie Strom and Jake At kins, tackle and quarterback, our team met its first defeat in two years when they played the Oregon Freshmen at Eugene last Friday. The score was 32 to 7. The strong Oregon yearlings scored their first touch down shortly after the game started. Thompson booted a perfect punt 40 yards down the field into the arms of a certain Carlson, who tucked it away and proceeded to wiggle and side-step his way through the entire field for a 70-yard run and a touchdown. Their attempt to kick goal for the extra point failed. On the next kick-off our team returned the ball to its own 30-yard line and on two successive forward passes placed it on the opponents’ 40-yard line. Here, on a nicely execut ed out of bound play, Thompson hurled a 30-yard pass to Reginald DePoe, who raced across the goal line for a touchdown. Thompson booted the ball between the bars for the extra point. The score stood 7 to 6 in our favor. Until the final minutes of the first half the yearlings were held on the defense, except for the long run while our team made two threatening marches to the enemy’s goal only to lose it each time on a fumble. After the second recovery in rushed almost a brand new team. The freshmen circled the ends of our already tired team, but found our line a stone wall and their aerial attack perfectly blocked, so resorted to speed which they used to good advantage and scored two additional touchdowns bv long runs in the last few min utes of the half. The frosh rolled up a nice score and to their credit be it said they did it against a stubborn defense and de termined opposition that neither stalled nor lost hope, but stayed by their guns until the last. It was a bit ter pill to swallow after two years of continuous vic tory, but they took it gracefully and admitted that the best team won. As the score steadily increased against them these men, Reginald DePoe. Raymond Haldane, Jack Abraham, ends; Peter Rassmussen, joe Webster, Paul Keta, tackles; Roy Peratrovich, Joe Peratrovich, Arthur Bruce, Moses George, guards; Sedan Thomas, center; Charles DePoe, quarterback; Coquille Thompson, acting captain and fullback, Sol omon Fleury, Lawrence Pratt, Bill Johnson, halfbacks, dug their cleats in the deeper and played the harder and much to their credit played a clean game. Solomon Fleury was hurt early in the third period and will be unable to play for some time. Reginald DePoe also collided with some one’s shoe and he is having a little nose trouble, but this will not affect his playing. One thing cropped out in this game to be criticised and that was the tendency of one or two players to tell the quarterback how to choose his plays. Th is was the only game in which we have noticed this and defeat resulted. Who can tell but what conditions would have been much different had the quarter been permitted to use his own good sound judgment? Play your position and let the quarterback be re sponsible for his. The sophies tightened their grip on the champion ship pennant last week when they hung defeat over the senior goal by the score of 7 to 6. It was a tough battle and the sophs came out on top only by the skin of their teeth when a try for the extra point was al lowed because a senior was caught off-side. It was not the fault of the senior girls that the game was lost by any means, for they figured prominently in the best cheering and singing heard at any game this sea son. In fact, they almost sang their team into a couple of touchdowns, only their warriors lacked the necessary punch to drive the ball over after carrying it to the shadow of the enemy’s goal post. The game was a hummer. This week the freshies will try and take the meas ure of the juniors in order to hold their place in the race. If they lose they will be counted out. Officials: Jack Abraham, referee; Charles DePoe, umpire; Lean der Wilson, head linesman. LILLIAN MARION Lillian Marion of the Senior Class passed away on Saturday evening. Lillian had not been sick long, though the end was expected for several days. All within the power of man was done for her, but “Him that doeth all things well” called her, and we, though it is hard, must say “Thy will be done.” Before and after death many beautiful boquets were sent her by the different societies, classes and McBride Hall Girls. Father Gall held a memorial service for her Sunday morning, all of the Senior Class being present. On Monday morning the class held a service at her bier in Salem. Charles DePoe, president of the class, presided and a very impressive but simple service was held. Her remains were sent to Rollo, North Dakota, for burial. J. J. Spencer of the class of ’22 is now located at Honolulu, T. H. He is enlisted in the United States Air Corps and is getting along nicely. In a recent letter to us he desired to be remembered to all of his Chemawa friends. He expects to return to San Francisco some time in January.
