The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-03
Neither Portland Nor Seattle
Could Win at Football.
PLAYED wlTHoUTEvER SCORING
Greatest Battle Ever Fought on the
Pacific Coast.
The Goal Lines Never in Daneer-Port-
lands Team Work the Best-Good
Individual Work by Seattle Players
Scenes at Madison Park.

Lautels crown alike the heads of Seatt!e's and
OF fortlands football heroes. The white and
due OF the one aud the red and white of the
Other float proudly aloit together The greatest
football battle the Pacific coast ever saw has
been fought and victory belongs to neither of
the coniendIDg forces. ChecS mated almost at
every turn. each side saw It's most desperate
efforts TO gain the coveted prize 20 Tor naught
Inc GodGess OF Fortune cast her smiles equally
upon the red and white and the blue and white,
aad @ ehary indeed she was OF them TO any one.
Mnat she wrote in her book OF chance was:
SEATTLE. o."
PORTLAND, g."
1t was Trojan against Trojan: and both
proved uaconquerabe Never more evenly
matched combatants-never a more splendid
contest twenty-five young knights who fought
as vaiiantly as did ever crusaders OF old SO
earnestly did they struggle that their spirit
seemed at times to spread itself to the expectaut
crowd, ana ct times hush fell upon the
throng. And then such din as followed
Fully $500 enthused beings, each striving to
outdo his neighbor in frantic denomination
the nolslest, eraziest crowd that ever entered
Madison park.
The game was one of the most remarkable
ever played Not only was there no scoring
but neither goal line was at any time seriously
threatened. No mutter how calamity they fought
neither team could carry the ball past the thirty
yard line In addition TO this, the ball was
never out OF bounds. Every man was on the
alert. and almost every play that promised well
was nipped in the bud. With few exceptions
the gains were all small and only made after
desperate fighting. Apart from those made by
Kicking, there was not a single gain, either
through the line or around the ends, that netted
over fifteen yards, aud few indeed that were
worth more than FIVE.
TAKEN on the whole. the Portlands certainly
showed up the stronger team work. Their
massed plays through the center were worked
with splendid effect. Their interference, too
was OF very high order. In the second half
their play was very aggressive and the ball was
In seatties territory most of the time.
In individual work Seattle showed up bril-
hantiy, but the men did not play together as
well as their opponents. They could make lit
tie headway in bucking the center, and gave it
up after several Intellectual efforts In the first
haif their best gains were through holes that
Church and Blaine made through the Portland
center. In the second half kicking tactics was
the strongest line OF play. Throughout the Sc
attic team played magnificent defensive game.
Ihelr interference, as rule, not very
strong. and on the rush line most of the men
Played too high. giving the Portland rushers a
chance to go under them
Perhaps the best work for Seattle was done at
the center of the rush line. Church, who
captaned the team. played like a demon,
ciSoAAAS tuiouSu tiHlS hlu aSdiu, dHl Dy NJ
tricky plays keeping the man opposite con-
stantly in hot water. Blaine, too. put up won-
derful game and had little trouble in handling
Greer, who was badly overmatehed. Young
Nichols made a remarkable showing against
such hurricane player as Savage, and gave the
Portland giant all he could do to look alter him.
The grounds were not in as bad condition as
on Thanksgiving day. They had been rolled
and several loads of sawdust dumped upon
them, but still there was plenty OF black mud
that plastered the players over in a short time
so as to make them all but unrecognizsble The
treacherous foothold and the slippery ball kept
the play from being fast as it would have
been on dry ground, but under the conditions
there was very little fumbling.
AT 2 O'Clock the Multnomahs have not reached
the grounds. Some OF the younger Seattle play
ers, eager for the fray, are chasing up aud down
the field af.er the elusive leather egg. The oder
men. covered with sweaters and oyercoats, are
taking matters more coolly. The uneasy crowd,
which is boiling over with expectancy. grows
more and more impatient and each minute tho
din grows more discordant aad the flourish of
coors more demonstrative. Finally, at a quar-
ter past the hour, the Multnomahs march on the
field. They are given an ovation that fairly
seems to make the earth trembe. Little time is
lost IN preliminaries hasty consultation of
the captains with the referee and umpire and
they are ready to 60 at il. twenty-five young
athletes strip off their sweaters. trot into their
positions and the fight is on. This Is how the
team lined up: