THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 21, 1909.
VARSITY STARS TO
MAKE LAST STAND
Famous Oregon and Washing
ton Football Men Keen for
v Final College Game.
: CHAMPIONSHIP AT STAKE
Winner of Game in Seattle Will
Have Clear Title Eugene Con.
tineent Takes Four Days Rest
at American Lake Resort.
THANKSGIVING DAY FOOT R A LI,
GAMES OF KORTKYVEST
COLLEGES.
University of Oregon vs. 1,'nlver.ity
of Washington, at Seattle.
Washington State College vs. Whit
man, at Walla Walla.
Oregon Agricultural College vs.
Multnomah, at Portland.
University of Idaho v. Boise Ath
letic Club, at Boise.
BY OBSERVER.
In the history of Northwest football
i there have been few occasions when
' srreater Interest centered on the outcome
of a single game than that which at-
' taches to the result of the annual contest
hetween the Universities of Oregon and
Washington next Thursday at Seattle,
It will be the first time In several
years that the actual championship has
been In doubt up to the very last same
or the season, as thus will be. Last sea
son Washington had the race salted down
a full two weeks prior to Thanksgiving.
7 But this year both Oregon and Washing
ton have gone down their schedules with
a clean string of victories, leaving the
final game to decide the supremacy be
tween them. Whichever eleven wins
will have an unmarred title to first placo
among the conference colleges; for all
their games have been won by such de
cisive scores that no possible loophole
has been left through which another
team might put a claim for consideration,
as Pullman did last year after holding
AVashington to a no-score tie.
This Thanksgiving game will mark the
last appearance in their college lineups
of many great stars whose playing has
made them, famous in the Northwest. At
least ten men on the two elevens will
never again take part In an Intercol
legiate game. In the Washington lineup.
Eakins. the wonderful punter who bears
the reputation of being the only man on
the Coast who ever outpunted Dudley
Clarke, of Oregon, while playing against
him. will finish his allotted four years of
football, two years-of which were In the
East; Captain Jlelvin Mucklestone comes
with Eakins under the four-year rule.
Tegtmeier. Washington's All-Northwest
center, graduates this season after four
years on his team. "Polly" Grimm, the
big tackle. Is In his last season.
Last Game for Oregon Stars.
Five men whose names have become
familiar to football fans through then
work in this and previous seasons will
graduate from the Oregon eleven after
Thursday's game. Captain pudley Clarka
will bo playing his last varsity contest.
So will Louis Ptnkham, the sterling
tackle who last year gained honorable
mention from Walter Camp In his AU
Amertcan lineup. Dodson and Kiitz, two
of the fastest ends to come from the
Oregon varsity since the days of Gordon
Moores and "Weary" Chandler, with
George Sullivan, are in their senior year
and will play no more.
The fact that so many of these players
will be playing their last game will help
to make the Thanksgiving contest the
fiercest and most spectacular of. the sea
son. No more training to look forward
to and the realization that it is their
last time on the gridiron, and that In the
decisive football battle of the year, will
lead the football men to take chances
they would not have dared to risk earlier
in the season when injury might have
put their college out of the race.
Moreover, both elevens should be in su
perb condition. Washington has been
testing up and practicing on its own field
since defeating Oregon Agricultural Col
lege a week ago Saturday. The Oregon
men had their hardest game of the sea
son only Friday, when they went against
the Aggies and beat them 12 to 0. so
Coach Forbes and the long-sighted
trainer. "Billy" Hayward. have taken
the squad to American Lake near Seattle,
where they can rent and perfect their
teamwork in easy practice for the re
maining four days.
Forbes System Ju-.tifcd.
At least one valuable feature of Coach
Forbes' system of developing early In the
season two men for every position on the
team was strikingly brought out In the
Oregon-O. A. C. game Friday. With
Clarke and Walker, two of his best
back field men Clarke especially because
of his punting ability and great power
as a Iine-smssher being considered the
mainstay of the lineup out of the game,
the ordinary eleven would have been
pretty well "up against it." But Forbes
was able to put substitutes In both posi
tions who knew the game so well and
handled themselves" so cleverly that the
loss was minimized. In the Washington
game these cripples will be back in the
lineup, and Forbes' team will be working
as a beautifully drilled unit. Though the
odds are sllghtLy against him. the Ore
gon coach and his Yale system are
mighty likely to down Dobie's powerful
Washington eleven and grab the cham
pionship themselves.
Two other Interesting games will be
played Thanksgiving day. Washington
State College and Whitman, between
whom there Is -he bitterest of rivalry,
will fight it out In Walla Walla, while
the Oregon Agricultural College eleven
will try to defeat the Multnomah Club
for the first time, in Portland.
Pullman has already beaten Idaho, and,
judging from the ease with which the
Washington Aggies piled up 38 to 0
against Whitworth, whlie Whitman could
not score on this team, should also de
feat Whitman. All that the game can do
for Pullman, however, will bo to give
the Washington State College men in
Involved claim on second place, for In
asmuch as both Idaho and Whitman were
out of the race before Pullman played
them, these games have no bearing what
soever on the championship: while the
loser of the Washington-Oregon gam
will generally be considered as having
earned the second position.
If Coach Jletzger's Aggies can trim
Multnomah, they will fulfill what haa
long been an unrealized ambition when
they play the clubmen, snatching victory
from them mora than once Just when
things seemed tr be going all their way.
Last year, in one of the hardest fought
games ever seen on Multnomah Field,
Multnomah won in almost the last min
ute of play. II to 10, on a sensational
40-yard run by Plowden Stott after Mult
"nomalr had been outscored and outplayed
I during all the rest of the contest. A big
crowd will no doubt urn out next Thurs
day to see the fast eleven that Metzger
has developed out of what was anything
hut promising material at the beginning
of the season.
There was an interesting Incident in
connection with Multnomah's defeat by
Oregon at Eugene three weeks ago that
is worth recalling. It was the first time
since the two teams have played each
other that the collegians have ever out
weighed the clubmen. Oregon averaged
179 pounds to the man In this game to
175 for the clubmen. The time was not
very long ago when the spectators at a
Muitnomah-Oregon . game felt almost
sorry for the varsity men when they
trotted out on the field they looked so
overwhelmingly outweighed by their club
opponents. And they were. .Up to two
years ago it was rare for Oregon or any
other Northwest college to turn out a
team averaging more than 165 pounds,
while this season Whitman-, the lightest
of the conference levens. averages 168.
It Is not that the clubmen have been
growing any lighter. - but .. the.- college
teams have been growing heavier. It is
only one sign of the remarkable growth
most Northwest educational Institutions
have enjoyed of late vyears. '
Light Men Were Once Stars.
Football fans ' will remember the time
when Seth Kerron, who played guard and
full for five years, never weighing more
than 180 pounds, and McKlnney at 187.
were the heaviest men in the Oregon
lineup. Today Oregon has four men who
can make 190 or better. Jack Latourette
made All-Northwest quarter four succes-sh-t
seasons weighing about 138. His
brother Earl at 156 is the lightest man
on the - Oregon sauad today. "When
George Hug played center on two cham
pionship elevens he weighed between 1S5
and 175. while ,Ftank Templeton never
tipped the scales for more tnsn ito
When Dick Smith coached Oregon in "04,
he turned out a chmplonship eleven that
onlv averaged 158 pounds to the man.
The same thing has been true of the
other colleges. In place of comparatively
heavy men like Keck and Woirr ana
Evendon, O. A. C's star players of a few
vears ago were all light men. Ttube Wil
liams played half at 160. and Koot and
Pilkington were considered huge players
at 170. Dow Walker, tne lamous Agri
cultural guard, would, of course, be a big
man in any lineup.
At Washington, men like Mucklestone.
Eakins. "Poliy" Grimm and Baker, all
weighing from 175 to 190. were unheard
of three or four years ago. Around '05
and '0 Washington had men like Tllley
at 145 and Wlnsor at 150 playing half.
Crim was center for four years at 165
pounds. It was this same Crlm who once
accomplished the unique feat of break
ing through the opposing line on an at
tempted punt, catching the leather at
the exact Instant when It was balancing
on the end of the kicker's foot, and run
ning 40 or 60 yards for a touchdown.
COAST MEN ARE SPEEDY
ATHLETES AT XOTRE DAME DO
EXCELLENT WORK.
Dolan of Albany Constdcrea esi
Guard Football Team of Univer- -bity
Has Had Thus Far.
BY JESSE H. ROTH.
NOTRE- DAME. Ind., Nov. 20. (Spe
cial Correspondence.) The University
of Notre' Dame is known in the West,
and chiefly along the coast, through the
affiliation of the University of Colum
bia, at Portland. Or., and also through
students and athletes that she draws
from that portion of the country. One
of the best students that Notre Dame
ever had was Ignatius E. McNamee, of
Portland, Or., who was president of the
senior class of '09, and winner of the
Breen oratorical prize. He also won
the state oratorical contest, and was
kept out of the Interstate contest on
account of a technicality.
Two of Notre Dame's greatest ath
letes. after leaving school drifted out
to the Pacific Coast and won consid
erable recognition for themselves on
various athletic teams. One of these
was Lonergan. and the other Klrby.
Forrest Smlthson. the world's cham
plon hurdler, attended the South Bend
institution m '06-7, winning the 120
yard high hurdles In the western con
ference games at Chicago in the latter
year. After his departure from Notre
Dame he entered Yale.
This year Notre Dame draws four of
her best athletes from the Coast.
Mathews, of Fairbanks, Alaska: Phil
brook, of Los Angeles, Cal , who Is
better known as the mainstay of the
Whitman football and track teams;
Dlmlck, of Portland, and Dolan, of Al
bany, Or. With these four men, three
of whom are young giants. Notre Dame
has been able to startle the whole foot
ball world by her phenomenal work
on the gridiron.
The gold and blue have not only
beaten the strong secondary colleges
of the West by large scores, but have
taken the measure of some of the fast
est elevens that are playing football
this season. The Catholics, not content
with giving Pittsburg a good trounc
ing, went to Ann Arbor, November 6,
and defeated Michigan, one of the
strongest machines that have been or
ganized this year. By winning from
the Wolverines, the Irish received a
ranking with the championship eleven
of the East. Walter Camp watched the
team In action Rnd expressed, his sur
prise at the strength of Coach Long
man's warriors.
Mathews played last year on the
varsity, and though barred from a good
many of the contests by the freshman
ruling, showed that he had the right
material, and this year Coach Longman
placed him at end, where he has mora
than held his own, with the best men
playing at the extremity. Fast, a sure
tackier, and an elusive runner, he has
won praise from most of the football
critics In the Middle West. "Mat" has
two more years on the varsity.
This is Dolan's last year. "Rosy," as
he Is best known about the campus,
has played for the gold and blue three
years, and to say that he Is the best
guard that the Irish have ever had Is
putting it mildly. He is always In
every play, either upsetting the op
ponents' formation or helping his team
mates along. Eckersall, Ail-American
quarter back, and former Chicago Uni
versity' star, said that he is one of the
best defensive men in the game here
In the West today. Aside from being
a great athlete, he is also a popular
student. He Is class president, and
also won a position on the Dome staff.
This is the second year that Dlmlck
and Philbrook have played side by side
on the gold and blue line. Little need
be said about these two athletes, as
they are both well known throughout
the Northwest. Dlmlck played at
tackle, and has won recognition from
the. greatest critics of football. Camp
and Eckersall both commented on his
work In various contests this season.
Coach Longman, who is an old Michi
gan man, said that Dlmlck would eas
ily rival Maddock, the greatest tackle
that ever donned moleskins In the
West.
In the recent contest. In which Notre
Dame won from Michigan, the big
tackle upset play after play before
Yost's men could get them started.
Dlmlck is also a star track man, his
forte being the weights. .
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COSTLY TO GO OUTLAW
M CKEDIE, COTJIiD OXLY MAKE
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and Cons of Question War
Would Be Expensive.
"It's easy to talk of outlaw baseball for
Portland." said Will G. Mac Rae, "and
while I believe the Northwestern- League
would be a formidable organization, yet
before the Coasters could effectively e
driven out of Portland, the fans would
have to remain faithful and the business
men who have a pride In the city would
have to stand by the McCredles to the
end. Just as they did with the. Coast
League when It Invaded Portland In
1903.
"In the old outlaw days, the Portland
franchise was not worth much more than
the paper on which it was written. Now
It Is a valuable asset, and for the Mc
Credles to toss away the Coast League
franchise would be like asking them to
give away $20,000. In time, the North
western League franchise would be worth
that much, but before that time the fans
must get over the idea that there Is such
a vast difference between Class A base
ball and Class B.
"I don't know how much the business
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land, because of Charles Graham, is de
nied It. Portland voted Graham's team
into the Coast League after it had been
kicked out bodily because baseball did
not pay. - Should his vote deny Portland
the right to have two teams "and contin
uous baseball'?
"Personally, I would like to see a sea
son of outlaw baseball in Portland, but,
knowing Judge McCredie as I do, I can
say he will not make a move until he is
absolutely sure of his. ground. Another
thing, if Washington's new Congressman
bows his neck, he will stick to the fin
ish. If the McCredles owned their own
ball "park here, it would make matters
pretty easy. If the McCredles elect to
go outlaw, and the Coasters can get
others to finance" a Coast "League team,
It Is going to cost them lots of money to
get grounds and to build a new grand
stand. It will take over $100,000 as a
starter and I don't believe with the fans
and business men pulling for the North
western League team, any sucker is go
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THANKSGIVING
DAY
Great Football Game Is SchecUi
uled for Next Thursday,
November 25.
SOCIETY OUT IN FORCE
Big Crowd Determined to See Battle
for Supremacy Between Two of
Strongest Teams In the
" Northwest.
BY W. J. PETRAIX.
Thanksgiving day. and football are
synonomous in Portland, for the good
things partaken of on that day, when it
Is customary to give thanks, do not go
well unless topped off by the treat of
seeing two of Oregon's sturdiest football
elevens in the struggle . for supremacy
upon Multnomah Field.
The annual , football game has become
an established custom, and while the
programme has been varied by the Mult
nomah Amateur Athletic Club this sea
son to the extent of playing the Oregon
Agricultural College instead of the Uni
versity of Oregon on that day. the In
terest in the coming' fray is quite undi
minished. Society Out in Force.
Like past occasions, the game promises
to be a social event, for Portland's elite
turns out en masse to see the gridiron
warriors display their science and
strength on the field of football suprem
acy, and so does everybody el6e.
Thanksgiving day-on Multnomah Field
is a gala occasion, and this year it will
be the usual scene-of . the gathering of
the clans. :.-- " .' -
Unusual .interest is attached to-, this
game, for it may be the last big game
of the season in Portland unless Mult
nomah Is successful in securing Denver
University . as an attraction at a later
date.
This fact, together with the well-known
spirit with which these rival football
elevens engage In annual battle, creates
greater enthusiasm among the rank and
file of Portland's lovers of football than
is usually evinced In any other branch
of sport aside from baseball, which en
dures prestige for a much longer period.
O. A. O. Stands High.
This season the Oregon Agricultural
College team is on a par with any eleven
that Institution has turned out In years,
yet it has the misfortune of meeting bet
ter drilled and more expsrienced players
than In the past, and its record -is nt
quite so brilliant. However. the "Ag
gies" are stronger than last year, for they
played the University of Washington a
much stronger game than In 1908, when
they succumbed to the "W" bunch by
a 32 to 0 score. As this season's game was
won by Washington by a score of IS to 0,
the Corvallls institution can be figured
as twice as strong as the previous sea
son's aggregation.! Then the game Fri
day against Oregon also shows the O. A.
C. boys strong.
The "Aggies" have been Multnomah's
most formidable opponents in the history
of Northwestern football, for 'the Mult
nomah eleven has gained more decisions
over O. A. C. by the margin of one lone
point than can be boasted of by any
other aggregation in this section of the
country. Many have been the nerve
racking struggles between these rival
elevens, and the football fans of Port
land are always on edge when a game
between the "Aggies" and the Multnomah
contingent 1f announced.
Team May Be at Winner.
Down Corvallis way they have a strong
hunch that Coach Metzger is at latst
about to perform the- long-cherished feat
of sending a winning team against Mult
nomah a trick that has not yet been
accomplished by the "Aggy" eleven. It
is especially galling to the Corvallis stu
dents to see their team defeated year af
ter year by Multnomah, when the Uni
versity of Oregon has succeeded in re
versing the usual order of things during
the past, four years.
The State University's success against i
Multnomah only stimulates the efforts of
the Corvallis boys, who will come to
Portland this year with the determination
of denting Multnomah's string of suc
cesses. -- - -
From Corvallis " comes the news that
Coach Metzger and Captain Evendon, are
using every means In their power to per
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smash the Multnomah line and offense
play into smithereens. The "Aggies"
are working like Trojans to accomplish
their one object in football that of de
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Club eleven. If they do it all the defeats
of the past and seasons to come will be
forgiven; for the old-time rivalry of the
two institutions has brought nothing but
gloom to the O. A. C. In the past, while
the clubmen have enjoyed all the 6miles
resulting from the previous competitions.
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affairs is evidenced by the strenuous prac
tices being engaged in by Manager Mc
Millan and the winged "M" squad" in the
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