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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.