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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1930)
Page 4 The CHEMAWA AMERICAN HLETICS CHEMAWA BOWS TO SALEM, 14 0 Headed by the band and most all of Chemawa our football team moved on to Salem on Thanksgiving Day as defenders of the Willamette Valley title against Salem high. The 14 to 0 score the Red and Black team rolled up against us tells plainly enough who is now the title holder but nothing of the battle our team put up before relinguishing their grasp at the top of the Willamette Valley football ladder. By short but consistent gains through the center of our line Salem scored her first touchdown on her first uninterrupted march to our goal line. Several times on the march Salem made her downs just by inches. Sugai went over for the score. Late in the third quar ter, with the ball deep in her own territory, like a thunderbolt, Sugai once more crashed the center of our line and this time ran 70 yards before Hosie forced him out of bounds. And on the next breath he went through the same hole for ten more yards and a touch down. After each touchdown Sugai made a perfect conversion from a placement for the extra point. As for yardage our back field, Captain Wilder and Wallace Hosie halfbacks, and Roy Meachem, fullback, outshined their opponents. Twice during the first half they moved the ball within scoring distance but each time a bobble denied them the golden touchdown they were so eager to make. Clear out in the open and a pass laid nicely in his hands from the mitt of Motschman, our end dropped the precious oval like a hot apple and away went one of our big opportunities. Just a little later those same three backs shot around the ends and through the line from mid-field till Salem’s defense was standing almost on their own goal line and when it appeared that a touchdown was certain a fumble occurred in our backfield and another golden egg was lost. The first half came to a close with the score 7 to 0 just as it did a year ago. Chuck full of pep and determination our eleven took the field in the second half and appeared to be on their way to a flock of touchdowns but one break after an other checked their marches goalward. Right off the reel, behind a perfectly formed formation, Meachem carried the ball from his own line on the kick-off to the forty-yard line and then broke out into the open and was finally brought down on the fifty yard line by Jhe last and final tackler just when he appeared to be away. The next play netted a nice big gain but it was lost through a fifteen-yard penalty. A little later, after carrying the ball deep into Salem’s territory and a score seemed certain a fumble occurred and another : opportunity went shimmering. So went the ball game and with it went the Willamette Valley title to the victors. Even in defeat our team looked like champions. They executed play after play that netted them yard age and thrilled the spectators. Their fake punts, triple and lateral passes worked nicely and always for something. It was the last game for Captain Wilder and he turned in a fine afternoon’s work, as did Hosie and Meach em. “Biff” Jones, line captain, played a fine game and Miller, his end, also contributed much both offen sively and defensively. On the other side were Thomp son, tackle, and Vivette and Case, ends, and they were equally as tough for Salem to handle. Though Salem scored through the center of our line, Weeks, center; Archambeau and Churchill are deserving of much credit for the game they played against much heavier opponents. Considering that this is the first season for all three of them they did remarkably well. All-Stars 13, Hot Shots 13, was the way the last real battle of our football season ended last week. Edgar Simmons, Joe Ball and Elmer Cline, hard plunging All- Star backfield, went through the center of the Hot Shot line by short but consistent gains for their scores. Elusive little Oiville Olney was the big star of the Hot-Shot backfield. LOCAL Last Friday evening the “home management” girls gave a dinner honoring Dr. and Mrs. Bates of Cor nell University, Supt. and Mrs. Lipps, Asst. Supt. and Mrs. Ryan, and Miss Claribelle Nye of the ex tension department of O. S. C. The dinner was most dainty in every particular and was served very gra ciously. Next Saturday evening “The Virginian,” a movie, and a comedy sketch, will be put on the screen as a benefit for our Christmas fund for our younger stu dents. Tickets are now on sale. Here is a fine oppor tunity for our employes and older students to do some work that will eventually gladden the hearts of our little fellows. Let everyone “do his bit.” About one hundred members of the Y. M. and Y. W. C. enjoyed a “musical party” last Friday evening. Clever song representation, musical games, stunts and program numbers, made the evening pass all too quick ly. Additional guests for the party were Dr. and Mrs. Bates of Cornell University, Mrs. Lipps, Mr. and Mrs. Ryan, Mr. and Mrs. Mason, Mr. and Mrs. Downie, Miss French, Miss Judd, and Miss Peterson. The Y. M. C. A. boys had decorated the rooms with flowers, ferns and crepe paper in autumn shades, and the Y. W. C. A. girls prepared and served delicious refreshments at the close of the evening.
