The Chemawa American, November 26, 1930, Page 4, Image 4

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The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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SCALP SALEM!
On Thanksgiving Day Chemawa will pit its very
best in an athletic way against that of Salem high
school at Salem. When the whistle blows to start
the game to decide the winner of the Willamette Val­
ley title Captain “ Lefty” Wilder and line captain,
* ‘Biff ” Jones, will lead a team into action that is fully
aware of the enormous task that lays before them.
Salem has made a most enviable record this season
and such a good one that they were among the few
teams . considered to play for the state championship.
Our scores are not impressive, due largely to the fact
that our team had to go out of its class to secure games.
But those games are behind us now and because they
were hard we know they served a purpose. That they
put our team in shape to play a hard and gruelling
game. Had we gone through the season winning
handily from all our opponents without reversals there
would be some cause for concern. We would wonder
whether our aggregation could fight if they were be­
hind. Will they give up in despair after a touchdown
is scored against them? Will they lose hope because
everything does not go the way they have planned?
Will they stay and fight when the outlook seems the
darkest? Those are just a few of the questions that
come to mind at a time like this;. But we are not
anxious on that score for they have learned long ago
the bitter price that must be paid for such folly. And
instead of a haughty, over-confident team taking the
field to defend our colors a determined aggressive
eleven will show its wares.. The practice periods,
since our preparation for Salem first began, would be
convincing enough of the fact that we need have no
fear of the physical or mental state of our pigskin
chasers. The field has become a place of solemn
preparation that is entirely free from fun or farce.
Regardless of Salem’s untold strength, speed and de­
ception our team has been thinking only in terms of
victory.
The starting line-up that will take the field in our
behalf will be: Albert Miller, Clifford Case, ends;
William Jones, George Thompson, tackles; Howard
Churchill, Harry Archambeau, guards; Lonnie Weeks,
center; Charles Motschman,. quarterback; Warren
Wilder, right half; Roy Meachem, fullback; Wallace
Hosie, left half. Captain Wilder will call the plays
as he has done in the last few games instead of Dowd
Franklin who is expected to be in little if any of the
game on account of a shoulder injury which has re­
fused to heal fully. Leonard Vivette, Ferdinand
Thomas, Peter Emmons, ends; Dennis Brown, guard;
Alphonse Hoptowit, tackle; Elmer Kalama, halfback;
are capable replacements who could be sent in without
weakening our team a great deal. Any way the task
of solving Salem’s riddles will fall upon the should­
ers of those mentioned.
Headed by our band and a large delegation of root­
ers who will have a reserved section in the grandstand*
our squad will leave for Salem shortly after noon
prepared to solve the biggest and toughest problem
they have faced this season.
The class games that were played last week brought to a
close the most exciting and interesting schedule of games our
class teams have ever played. And the climax was reached
when the champions showed their teeth to the All-Stars.
Both the eighth graders and the sophomores, champions in their
respective divisions, proved themselves worthy of the honor
they won when the eighth smacked the grade school All-Stars
21 to 0 and the sophomores held the high school All-Stars 19
to 19. The eighth, with a series of triple and lateral passes
were just too hot for their opponents. All we can say for the
high school game is that it was the cream of them all in
every way.
ARE YOU GOING TO BE WITH THE
TEAM AT SALEM?
W IN S NATIO NAL PRIZE
Some years ago we had enrolled at Chemawa a
“ wee bit” Of a girl from Juneau, Alaska, who was
very precocious and who in time became the school
pet. In the course of time she returned to her home in
Alaska. Just recently she was brought to mind again
by a clipping from a Juneau newspaper which set
forth that our erstwhile pet was recently a winner in
a nation-wide contest. Here is the clipping—read it
for yourself:
Frances Oisen, eighth grade pupil in the Juneau
elementary public school, is one of nine national first
prize winners in the “ Our States Project,” con­
test conducted by Current Events, a publication
issued by the American Education Press and circul­
ated among all the public schools of the United States
and its possessions.
Miss^Orsen’s subject was “ Airplanes in Alaska.”
It was submitted last month and reads as follows.:
“ The increasing use of airplanes is an important
‘current event’ in Alaska. Airplanes were only
recently introduced in Juneau, but they have met
instant favor for transportation of both passengers and
merchandise. Two airplane companies have been
formed. One is the Pioneer Airways and the other
is the Alaska-Washington airways. Planes of both
companies make trips to Seattle, Wash., and back and
to near-by towns. They are kept in constant use by
business men and for pleasure trips. There have
been airplanes up near Fairbanks, but this is really
the first time that airplanes have been stationed in
Juneau.”