THE CHEM AWA AMERICAN
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Published Weekly at the Salem Indian Training School
ChedLawa. Oregon.
Please address all communications to
Ruthyn Turney, Manager.
JAS. H. McGREGOR
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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.