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who made impressive sho wings were: Courtney, Olney,
Dumont and Wilbur Pepion.
Coach Sanders says we have good promising mater
ial although this meet revealed the fact that the boys
lack aggresiveness. This will be remedied as time goes
CHEMAWA 0, SALEM 7
That just about tells the tale as the Indians were
outplayed by a scrappy underdog team, but the pep
displayed by some five-hundred Chemawa rooters and
a band was not enough to inspire a team to fight. When
the bleacherites let out a semi-quarter yell, it lacked
pep and spirit and sounded mechanical. If Chemawa
is to have successful athletics the student body must
give better support than it did Thanksgiving night.
Chemawa’s play was not up to standard and numer
ous blocks and tackles were missed. Both teams gar
nered 12 first downs. Chemawa lost 65 yards from
penalties, Salem 25, but two costly fumbles and a
couple of missed blocks spelled defeat for the Indians.
After Salem had recovered a fumble in their own ter
ritory, two long completed passes and a line buck gave
them a first quarter score. From then on the play
zigzaged back and forth, with Chemawa making the
most determined drive to score only to lose the ball on
a fumble.
Leonard Vivette, Roy Meachem and Frank Dog
eagle played all through the game and performed
wonderfully. This was Vivette and Meachem’s last
game.
Chemawa will play Lincoln High in Portland
on December 10 and open Chemawa’s 1932-33 basket
ball schedule. Those who are likely to see service
are: Andrew Hatfield, Isaac Shoulderblade, Russell
Bobb, Matthew Cook, Wallace Zundle, Frank Dog
eagle, Leonard Vivette, Alvin Amera, Leo Teehee,
Peter DePoe, Vincent Pratt and Cyril Archambeau.
Chemawa won the cross-country run from Salem
on November 30 with a team score of 96 to 109.
Orville Olney covered the three and one-quarter miles
in 18 minutes 11 seconds. Peter Seltice of Chemawa
placed second.
FINAL STANDINGS IN CLASS FOOTBALL
WON
LOST
TIED
PER.
Seniors __________________ 2__________0_________ 1________ 1,000
Sophomores _____________ 2_________ 1_________ 0_________ 667
Juniors____________________ 1_________ 2_________ 0_________ 333
Freshmen_________________ 0_________2_________ 1------------- .000
Shop league basketball started Nov. 25.
Carpen
ters, defending champions, were favorites to repeat
but the barbers and painters also had strong teams.
This league has been discontinued for reasons known
to all students.
Last Friday night the wrestling team had a practice
meet with the Salem Y. M. C. A. in Salem. Those
oa.
Mrs. S. H. Gilliam and young daughter, Ann, have
been visiting relatives in New York. Mr. Gilliam
expects them back about the first of the year.
* Indian Service News !"
Miss Esther Sprague, who has served 16 years or more as
field matron at the Yakima reservation in Washington, has been
transferred to the Carson Indian school as matron.
* * *
On October 28 a bronze memorial plaque was unveiled at
Riverside, Cal., dedicating Sherman’s beautiful auditorium to
the memory of Frank M. Consor who served for manyyearsat
Sherman Institute as superintendent. Supt. Biery officiated
and J. Henry Scattergood, assistant commissioner of Indian
affairs, gave the main address.
* * *
Sherman Institute and Phoenix Indian School met on the
gridiron at Sherman on October 29 and played their annnual
game to a 6-6 tie. The coaches of the two southwestern ser
vice schools prime their proteges for this contest and when they
meet, the spectators are treated to rare football. This is in every
sense an “all-American” affair inasmuch as the coaches as
well as all the players aie Indians. Coach Clement Vigil of
Phoenix finished at Carlisle with one of that school’s last grad
uating classes while Bert Jamison, the Sherman mentor, is a
Haskell graduate.
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Here is something new—not to say unique! Flandreau In
dian school has issued a call for candidates for a hockey team.
The candidates are to be divided into two dormitory teams from
which the school team will be chosen, b'landreau will be a
member of an ice hockey league composed of near-by town
teams. This fills in very nicely an unhappy gap between foot
ball and basketball seasons caused by those early Dakota win
ters. R. G. Downie, advisor, formerly of Chemawa, has taken
his skates down from the attic and is directing the operations
of the Flandreau rink artists.
* * *
The Wakarusa valley must have lost its salubrity. For that
or some other reason Haskell Institute has suffered its worst
football season since the battle of Tippecanoe. Attendance at
games has fallen off and other forms of revenue have taken
wings with the absence of a winning team. Expenses have
continued to mount. In an effort to bring things to a little
safer financial footing the Haskell Board of Student Activities
has adopted a strict economy program. Frank W. McDonald,
athletic director, and Louis Weller, assistant coach, will bere-
leased at the expiration of their contracts on Dec. 30. Coaches
Deitz, Levi and Ward will be retained but at reduced salaries.
Other necessary steps will be taken to rehabilitate Haskell’s
athletic finances.
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For many years an Indian school-being neither a high school,
a college or any other one particular kind of school—had a
hard time scheduling games for its athletic teams. Other
schools, taking advantage of this academic fog, seldom played
them unless the odds were very heavy against the Indians.
It used to be common to see an Indian school team of about
the age and status of a junior high school playing its heart out
against a college. It was either that or no schedule. Since
regular high school courses have been installed in our schools
this has been changed and, one by one, they have been admitted
to the high school associations in their states. The latest is
Flandreau. They have every reason to feel proud and we offer
our hearty congratulations.