The Oregon weekly., November 21, 1904, Image 1

The Oregon Weekly.
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o f O re g o n
E u g e n e , O reg o n , M o n d a y ,
V o i.
N o v e m b e r ¿1 , IQ04
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hind them in every play. Earl c o n trib ­ coach loads of college people and sup­
uted 11 y ard s which he picked up porters. The tra in w as draped w ith
through A braham and Moores raced stream ers and pennants in Oregon col­
Rose’s end for 18 more, the best gain of ors, while there w as an a rra y of horns
Oregon Claims Northwest Collegiate Football Champion­ the
day. Our slashing advance could and m egaphones, banners and lemon yel­
not be checked, Joe w as slammed over low ribbon w ithin the coaches. The ex­
ship for 1904—'Varsity 6, O. A. C. 5
the last w hite line and then kicked a difli pedition arrived in the land of the enemy
cult goal. It looked easy but the “ Ag- about 11 o ’clock and scattered them ­
Corvallis Puts up a Good T eam But is Outpointed by 'Varsity Men on Every Hand—The rics” were not vet downed.
selves about the city, going for the m ost
They ran the kick-off to their 30 y ard p a rt to the Hotel Corvallis. The gam e
“ Farmers” Score on a Freak Play, Center “ Fat” Walker Making
line and then plowed dow n the field w as called at 3 p. in. and the time pre­
the Sensational Run of the Game
60 yards in 20 plays, m ostly by Mr. Wil­ ceding w as taken up w ith d em o n stra­
liams. But Oregon closed up, the work tions of college spiiit on both sides,
The ’V arsity eleven defeated the Ore­ have a g reat quarterback, Jack L atour- g o t harder and Williams w as held for There w as considerable evidence of the
gon A gricultural College on their own ette, who never fumbled the wet ball, ran dow ns 20 y ard s from our goal. It was rivalry existing between the tw o in sti­
field S a tu rd a y aftern o o n —score 6 -5 . It the team so we were not once held for a g allan t foray but th e'V arsity was able tutions, and num erous thefts of banners,
w as o u r n in th gam e w ith the “ F arm ers,” dow ns, raced back every O. A. C. punt to sto p it. One tu rn now and w estarted etc., are reported by each.
Besides the large delegation from Eu­
our sixth victory, th o u g h by the n a rro w ­ from 10 to 25 yards and made some out for an o th er score. They jam m ed the
gene,
ab o u t fifty people came over from
profitable
sallies
around
end.
Every
leather to center field where it w as fum­
est of m argins, and gave us our first
clear title to the leadership of collegiate m an in the line did Trojan work. Reid bled to C orvallis but regained on a fum­ Albany, while there were num bers of
football in the n o rth w est.
Rah for passed the leather adm irably and did his ble on the third play. Oregon executed 27 sp ectato rs from P o rtlan d , Salem and
Richard Shore Sm ith, ’0 1 ’. for he has led best against W alker though outweighed plays which netted 90 yards, including other lower valley points. The to ta l
and generalled the best season we have nearly 40 pounds. McClain and M cIn­ the distance lost by the fumble. It w as paid attendance a t the gam e was alm ost
ever played. It w as o u r day again and tyre opened wav for some long full-back desperate, hard, slow work right in the 1300. In spite of the presence of so
n o th in g b u t the colossal luck of the Col­ gains through center. Earl did great teeth of the storm so th a t every signal many social visitors, there w as no for­
lege men saved them from m ost decisive work w ith the ball and in preparing the had to be repented. The 'V arsity went mal reception given our people at night,
but the members of tile team were pre­
defeat. The ’V arsity played a desperate way for plunges outside his position into it fiercely and won their way to the
sented
w ith tickets to a musicale at the
skilful gam e and had their opponents Arnspiger showed up the Corvallis weak O. A. C. 8-yard line where time was
college arm ory.
beaten from s t a r t to finish Mr. Steckle spot in “ Swede” Abraham . It begins to called by special favor of the cherub who
The special train left C o rv allisat 10:30
has given the C orvallis men the best look as if we had raised another pair of w atches over the fate of ploughmen.
o'clock
at night and came stra ig h t
The rain grew steadily more plenteous
•coaching they ever received, his pupils N orthw est ends Chandler and Moores
but the players comforted themselves through io Eugene, landing its passen­
.did th eir u tm o st and p u t up a g allan t were down on every punt and stopped
all end runs. The speedy Williams never with dry jerseys .and the second half saw gers here about 1:15.
Ifight b u t Oregon surpassed them in every
g o t around them though lie tried it often s o m e o f the hardest ball ever played in
OFFICIAL PIN A D O PT E D
(departm ent of th e gam e. Our men rushed
enough. But the main thing about the Oregon. Corvallis got the kick-oil out
th e ball 236 y a rd s in 69 plays, while the
Oregon work w as unity and the s p i i i t . to their 30-yard line but were soon forced
•*Agric9*’ gained 14-0 y a rd s in 48 plays.
The Associated S tu d en ts met last
The line men would tear a hole which the to punt. Some fumbles followed a n d
Oregon w as never held for dow ns while
backs would assault unanim ously and at E.atourette very wisely let a punt roll W ednesday and adopted an official
th e ir o p ponents were five times held for
once. The F arm ers plugged in and were over our gold line. Tem pleton kicked Oregon pin to lie w orn by seniors
dow ns o r forced to p unt, besides being
under nearly every play but som ething out beautifully a clean 40 yards against and alum ni. The design is a gold "O ”
decidedly inferior in kicking and handling
had to give when th a t hum an sledge the rain Oregon g o t the ball on dow ns of the same shape as those w orn by the
kicks.
struck their line. Perhaps Root, Pilkmg- near center-field and struck out for a football and track men on their sw e a t­
The m ain feature of the gam e w as the
ton, and Bundy m ight have stopped it score. Fifteen slashing plays netted 47 ers, w ith a diagonal c ro s s b a r bearing
m iserable w eather which turned a fine
yards The last of the pile-ups quivered the num erals of the class. I his is a good
but we don’t see how.
g rass field to a sea of glass and greased
move, as it will relieve the classes of the
The Corvallis m anagem ent deserves and stopped well inside the Corvallis 15-
the ball a lm o st p a st holding. I t w as a special praise. The field w as well laid y ard line and every “ Agric” heart w as task of securing a design for their pin
crescendo perform ance of rain, wind and
everv vear, and will preclude the possi­
o u t and adm irably policed. I heir o rg an ­ aching. But just then “ b a t Walker,
cold, the sto rm sw eeping the length of ized rooters bellowed terribly. Over his plaster cast ankle and the football, bility of tiny th in g in artistic Is-ing w orn
the field, chilling and conquering several 1250 people attended in spite of the fierce wriggled d e a r of the heap and sta lle d bv collegians as the official Insignia of
of the players. O. A. C. profited by the day. Results were sent out by special dow n the field When nearly 20 yards tin ir class. The retd object of ad o p tin g
m ajo rity of the fumbles and made their wire from the g ran d stan d and nothing aw ay he slowed up and re,x‘atedly a uniforhi, however, is to make it possi­
•s c o re on one. Big C enter rush Walker, w as amiss save th a t the stan d only held looked around as if expecting to be ble to recognize an Oregon pin any time,
■ wlp> had one ankle in a plaster cast, p a rt of the crow d and you had to wade called back but the officials made no no m a tter w h a t class m ay chance to
sq u irm ed o u t of the heap on his own 15 in mud to reach it. The gam e w as called sign and some Oregon men sta rte d in w ear it The design accepted is the
■yard fline and ploughed dow n the field for a t three o’clock in a driving rain and the vain pursuit. So Mr. Walker took his w ork of Miss M ary Gray, ’05, and w as
•a to u ch d o w n .
The C orvallis rooters team s lined up:
so litary w ay to glory and made th at selected from a number of designs, by a
xwoke to ecstacy and thrilled the solid
magic touch-dow n while the Corvallis com m ittee composed of representatives
u o.
POSITION
o
.
A.
C
from each class. The pins are to be
g ro u n d w ith the clam or of their g l o r j .
Moores supporters aroused to life and hope,
r
e
1
I t w as t h e m agnificent happening of the Rose
m arred the dying day with their frantic from the same die each year, so th a t air-
Arnspiger
r
t
1
(lay, and of those wierd things th a t hap­ A braham
yells. It was very q u e e r . An O. A. C solute uniform ity will be obtained.
is r g 1 McClain, Crow
pen in football a b o u t everv ten years.
A FRESHM EN P A R T Y
Reid player said it w as a shame to score on
c
But R hinehart did n e t kick the goal. I). Walker
M cIntyre such an awful fluke but these are the for­
1 g r
Besides this miracle Waller w as the Dunlap
Earl tunes of w ar. Then Mr. Rinehart missed
11 r
Bowers
The menilrers of the class of '08 were
an absolutely easy goal with the wind
whole show in the line, tackling any
1 e r Chandler, John-
Steiwer,
Emily
delightfully entertained on last Friday
where from end to end and alw ays in the
E ato u rette [son behind him.
q
R hinehart
The w eather got worse, the players evening by the Misses C urtis, Shelton,
play. D unlap and Bowers, Emily, the
F. Templeton
r h 1
Cooper
(c)
sub-end, and C ooper a t rig h t half-back
were chilled through and it w as all over. Noies and Wilkinson a t the home of
1 h r J. Templeton (c)
Williams
;a 1 so distinguished themselves. But be-
Gray The gam e died o u t in a mess of mud and Mrs M orris on E ast Ninth Street. As
each guest entered the room a slip of
Ihind the line it w as all W illiams, hurdling
Kerron, J- Tem- desperate line bucks mixed w ith some
fb
M. Walker
.over center, dodging p a st tackle, a n y ­
[pleton fumbles and more punts. The tide was paper Irearing his name w as pinned to
running a g ain st O. A. C. ami it w as him; this served as an introduction. 1 he
w here. He m ade all the O. A. C. long
neth C. H am ilton, San
their ball on their ow n 7-yard line when first p a rt of the evening w as passed in
g a in s and a b o u t half their sh o rt ones,
Francisco.
the w histle blew. C ap tain Templeton g etting acquainted. Refreshments were
b e in g , as he has proved himself before,
Referee—W. L. Thom pson, Albany.
g athered up the leather, the crow d served early on account of the football
the best offensive back C orvallis ever
Halves—25 minutes.
splashed solemnly hom ew ard and the men who p arto o k of whole w heat bread
T o u c h d o w n s-J. Templeton, D. W alker.
h ad .
,
w ettest, m ost nerve rending game th at Mrs Claire W illoughby, w ho chaper­
C a p ta in “Jo e” T em pleton, '05, played
Goal—J. Tem pleton.
ever decided the leadership of N orthw est oned the p a rty , pleasingly rendered sev­
his la s t college gam e for Oregon and it
Score—I • O., 6; 0. A. C , >».
football had ended w ith Oregon some­ eral solos The Sophs, offered their a s­
certainly w as lovely w ork. He me e
C ap tain Tem pleton won the toss and w h at ahead. F o r six is more th an five sistance in the dispensing of refreshments
and rebucked u n sto p p ab ly , took t ie in chose the southern goal C aptain Coop
but not lieing sufficiently urged they de­
over for our touchdow n, kicked a difficult er kicked off 25 y ard s to McClain who especially when the five is accidental
parted. J u s t before dep artin g cheers
Rah, Rah, Oregon.
goal, punted well, w as good on defense
came back 10. Oregon had 70 y ards to
were given for the faculty, the football
LAROK CROWD AT ' KNOB
in sh o rt played his gam e gloriously
go for the score and made it in 16 plays,
The Eugene delegation left in ‘heir team and for the class of '08. The guests
F ran k sta rre d on defense as usual and taking seven m inutes The Tem pletons
were all loud in their praise of their ho st­
■ w as in everv play. K erron did g re a t did the bulk of the w ork by banging s|iecial train for C orvallis at 8 o ’clock
. work in helping his halves along
and th ro u g h tackle w ith the entire team be- S a tu rd ay m orning, there being four ess« •
We also
THE
m ade good
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE IS LOSER
y a rd a g e
h im s e lf.