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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 1927)
THE CHEM AWA AMERICAN PAGE 2 The CHEMAWA AMERICAN Published Weekly at the Salem Indian Training School Chemawa, Oregon. Please address all communications to Ruthyn Turney, Manager. OSCAR H. LIPPS SUBSCRIPTION - - - - - • - Superintendent 50 Cts PER ANNUM ATHLETIC NOTES helped us to win many a contest during his athletic career here. He’s doing it for Willamette now. Though outweighed considerably, both in line and backfield, our team refused to be outcharged and they were the aggressors to the very end of the game. The backfield charged fiercely and the line opened up holes that would have done credit to a team twice its size. The only thing that marred their offensive was the costly fumbles that occurred. But then the ball was terribly muddy and slippery. On the defense they were the demons of the day. Willamette found only one hole that they could work with any regular ity and that was soon taken care of and the collegians found their offense stopped until their last grand march in the final minutes of the game. Chemawa has played many a grueling contest, though none in recent years, but we dare say that Willamette has never come nearer being beaten with out it actually being done than she was here last Friday afternoon. She tackled, in some respects, a different type of a player. As in other games this season our boys took the field against Willamette, not over-confident, but confident that they were just as good as their opponents and that they had a fighting chance. In other words, they were not defeated before the game was played. And no team ever gave a better account of itself than did the following boys who entered the game for the Red and White: George Meachem, left end; Peter Rassmussen, left tackle; Roy Peratrovich, left guard; Percy Roush, center; Joe Peratrovich, right guard; Ernest Brunoe, right tackle; Eldred George, right end; Jake Atkins, quarterback; Solomon Fleury, Captain, left half; Peter Cimino, fullback; Lawrence Pratt, right half. Substitutes: Walter Howard, Bill Johnson, Francis Ross, Cecil Stagner, Leander Wilson. Saturday the team will travel to Medford to play the undefeated high school team of that city. Indi cations are that this game will be every bit as hard as the game previously scheduled with Linfield. The Medford line averages about 180 pounds and she has been downing her southern Oregon rivals by unheard- of scores. The class game for next week is to be waged be tween the juniors and the seniors. The game will be played only if the weather permits as this is the game to decide the championship. If the juniors win it means that the cup goes to them as a permanent property, for they will have won it three consecutive times. The officials for the game are as follows: Reginald DePoe, referee; Charles DePoe, umpire; Raymond Haldane, headlinesman; all of Willamette University. A single fluke was all that saved the Willamette University eleven from defeat and deprived our boys of victory here last Friday afternoon. With the score 6 to 0 in our favor and a scant few minutes “Lady Luck” suddenly smiled on the fighting Bearcats and they recovered a fumble to tie the score. Both teams’ attempt to score the extra point failed. Captain Fleury’s kick was wide and Willamette’s pass was grounded, so the game ended 6 to 6. The game was played in a continual rain and on a terribly muddy field, but for all that it was a terriffic battle. Mud or no mud, rain or no rain, twenty-two undaunted men gave their all to win and each was equally rewarded for his gallant efforts. Both teams came within scoring distance on different occasions, but the fighting spirit and determination of the one always deprived the other of that cherished hope to carry the ball across to win. Captain Solomon P'leury’s 45-yard run to W. U.’s 20-yard line at the beginning of the third period paved the way for the first score. It looked for a minute that he was away. It was the most brilliant run of the entire game. Here Jake Atkins hurled a 13-yard pass to George Meachem, who snatched it from the clutches of a horde of Willamette men. On the next play Peter Cimino, our diminutive fullback, dashed around the end and across the goal line on a fake line plunge that was executed so neatly that the Bearcat defense was caught flat-footed. In the closing minutes of the game the collegians made their strongest bid to score. On a series of line plunges and end runs they carried the ball from our mid-field to our goal line. But just when it looked DETAIL FOR WEEK like they would carry the ball across they met one of Visitors to literary societies: Nonpareil, Principal the most stubborn forward walls they have tried to Home Economics; Winona, Teacher No. 13; Reliance, pierce this fall. As they had done on every occasion Laundress; Excelsior, Farmer; Winona Jr., Black throughout the afternoon our boys repulsed their scor smith; Nonpareil Jr., H. M. Mitchell; Reliance Jr., Teacher No. 9; Excelsior Jr., Carpenter. ing attack and Willamette lost the ball. It was here Escort for girls going to Salem, Nov. 5, Teacher that Willamette did enough to stave off defeat by re No. 12. covering our fumble for a touchdown. Reginald De Escort for girls walking, Nov. 6, McBride, Teacher Poe, one of our boys who is now playing end for Wil No. 14; Winona, Teacher No. 6; Hawley, Poultryman. Teacher No. 10 in charge of the auditorium. lamette, made the recovery. ‘ ‘ Freak’s’ ’ aggressiveness
