University of Oregon monthly., November 01, 1908, Image 18

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started with the score 6 to 4 in Idaho’s favor. Then Oregon led
on a place kick, 8 to 6. Next Idaho 10 to 8 by the same means.
Mx^illen’s thifd place kick made it 12 to 10 for us. Soon Idaho se­
cured .another touchdown and again changed the balance of Vic­
tory’s scales 16 -to 12 for the Argonauts. Now, Oregon was busy
with her first touchdown, and then crowding Idaho out of. her turn,
made a place kick immediately following, which raised her score
to 21, Idaho remaining at 46“ Each secured one more touchdown
after this, b u t,Oregon was never headed after she made her. two
scores sö closely together-.,,^But the most remarkable circumstance
connected with this famous game was the fact that the Oregon
team ran out of substitutes and was - compelled to play the last
twenty minutes of the contest with only ten men; and the almost
inconceivable feature was that these men, realizing just what they
were u p against, fought all the more desperately and’ scored ten
points,-»-against their opponents. It would have .been a matter of
courtesy for the Idaho contingent to have allowed Oregon to put
in, one of her players who had already been taken out, but an Idaho
supporter in discussing the point after the game, said, “It was this
way. We were there tp play football and win, and not to talk
ethics.”/
Following this brilliant conquest came our two defeats of the
season by Whitworth and Washington, respectively. Wlytworth
had us badly outplayed on team work and in fact in this* regard
nearly outdid the performance of our redoubtable second team the
pay they erased Second Multnomah. The Oregon men seemed un­
able
get together on the Whitworth rushes and teamwork was
woefully lacking on our side. At that, we would have »won had not
the brilliant Whitworth halfback, Colbert, whirling, spinning and
twistings made two long runs for touch downs through scattered
fields of Oregon men. However, the victory was fairly and cleverly
earned by Whitworth and the writer does not wish to detract in
the least from their glory.
Since Whitworth was not a conference college, Oregon sup­
porters sfill had hopes of landing the Northwest championship, but
these were rudely shattered by the stinging defeat of 15 to 0, ad­
ministered by Washington on November 14. With a team out­
weighing us not, a few pounds to the man and including several im­
ported ex-collegiate stars, they were able to. batter the Oregon line