THE CHEM AWA AMERICAN
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The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
Published Weekly at the Salem Indian Training School
Chemawa, Oregon.
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Ruthyn Turney, Manager.
OSCAR H. LIPPS
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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
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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