THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
Published Weekly at the Salem Indian Training School
Chemawa, Oregon. Please address all communications to
Ruthyn Turney, Manager.
JAS. H. McGREGOR
SUBSCRIPTION
Superintendent
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ATHLETIC NOTES
Tomorrow our grid men play the Bachelors’ Athletic Club of
Portland and the season will be over, a thing of the past,
history. Just how the season of 1926 is to be regarded in the
future depends somewhat on the outcome of this game. If
they win those who composed the squad will be recalled as
“game,” “gritty,” “loyal,” and the season a success. If
they lose there will be much said of “what might have been,”
for the squad embarked upon the season’s schedule with thun
dering force by winning the first games handily. Then a horde
of injuries took its toll and so wrecked the make-up of our
squad that only the slightest hope of eveii finishing the sched
ule remained. At one time eight regulars and two relief men
were out on account of injuries, almost the entire team. And
all this just at the time the team was facing the hardest games
on the schedule. To be sure the remark that an American
patriot made a long time ago, “These are times that try men’s
souls,” is fitting here, for ours stood the test and have “car
ried on” and have fought their way through a tough schedule
with creditable results. Tomorrow we shall see just how fully
thev have recovered from their mid-season shock. They
will battle one of the strongest club teams in this section.
It is believed that when the team takes the field tomorrow it
will be almost as strong, if not as strong, as it has been at any
time this season. Francis Ross has developed into a formid
able halfback to replace Solomon Fleury, our flashy ball car
rier, who has been out with a broken arm since early in the
season. Ross is big and fast and will have to be reckoned with.
He and Charles DePoe, or Lawrence Pratt, make fine run
ning mates for Coquille Thompson, our fullback. Jake At
kins, our heady and veteran quarter, will start the game after
being out for the greater part of the season. Either of these
four will make the strongest backfield we have had this sea
son. At practice they have been traveling at a terriflic rate.
Our line, composed of Reginald DePoe, Raymond Haldane
and Jack Abraham, ends; Peter Rassmussen and Paul Keta,
tackles; Roy and Joseph Peratrovich, guards, and Sedan
Thomas, center;, will be in shape to surpass any brilliant
playing they have done this season and are determined to
make more than a “last stand.”
This will be a farewell game for six of those who have been
our mainstays for one or more years. When the whistle blows
closing the game Coquille Thompson, fullback, and main cog
on our offense, will have played his last game for Chemawa,
as will Reginald DePoe, end and veteran center on our basket
ball team and a valuable man on our baseball team. Charles
DePoe and Lawrence Pratt, halfbacks, will also go by way of
the sheepskin route. Jack Abraham and Raymond Haldane,
ends, will also graduate in June. Thus will move on six val
uable men. Just how much they will be missed cannot be
measured now, but in the fall when the process of moulding
another team is started we will find it hard to fill their places.
It was hoped that our last game could be played here so that
all could see these men as well as the rest of the team in action
for the last time, but being unable to schedule a game here
the team will play in Portland.
It was a much surprised audience that saw the juniors snatch
victory out of the sophomore clutches in the closing minutes
of the exciting class game played here last week. A game
that gave little hope of excitement and figured to be an easy
victory for the sophomores turned out to be the biggest lion of
the season and brimful of thrills and tense moments.
At the outset, Lee Wilson, who has generaled the fighting
sophomores to the top of the percentage column, paraded his
warriors across the junior goal line shortly after the game
started. Early in the second period his team scored again.
This was all done with such apparent ease that the only ques
tion remaining in the minds of the spectators was “How big
will the score be?” But hardly had this question flashed across
the minds of those present when a string broke and turned
loose eleven juniors who were transformed into ferocious wild
cats and immediately threw sophomore wool in every direction
and the way they ripped around the sophomore ends and
through the line was astonishing. The sophomores were so
surprised that they did not recover until the score was tied
and the wild-eyed juniors were lined up in front of the goal
to attempt to win the game by a converted point. With the
score now 12 to 12 and the sophomore chances for a repeated
championship hanging in the balance both teams became
more determined to do their “stuff.” The ball was passed,
the holder held, and the kicker booted it squarely between the
bars and the sophs were beaten 13 to 12. It was the combined
effort of those fighting juniors who were determined not to be
beaten that did the trick. They won a splendid victory.
The outcome of this game makes the juniors and freshmen
tied for the championship. It was hoped that they could play
the game off Thanksgiving Day, but so many of both teams
will be away that another game will be arranged to furnish
the excitement for the day. Watch for the selection of the
class all-stars in the next issue.
LOCAL
John McGregor arrived home in Chemawa a day or
so ago from college in Hastings, Nebraska. We are
informed that his visit was occasioned by the illness of
his mother. We are all anxious for the speedy recovery
to health of Mrs. McGregor.
A clipping of unusual interest was handed us re
cently. It was from an eastern paper and contained
an account of a game of football between Boston Col
lege and Haskell men. The game was a tie—it was
terrific. According to the clipping at hand Louis
Colby was the outstanding player for Haskell. Our
great interest lies in the fact that Louis is a former
Chemawa boy. Good for Louis!
Miss Judd took the Wednesday morning assembly,
“umbrellas, distressed feelings and all,” with her on
her Alaskan trip. Miss Judd certainly made all who
had not visited Alaska want to go. In the afternoon
Mr. Turney played a number of double bass solos, ac
companied by Mrs. Turney. This music was greatly
appreciated by this division and their best applause
was really the way the students listened. Both asem-
blies were splendid.