The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1895-12-05
YAKIMA VS.. ELLBNSBURG
A Contest on the Gridiron TO Determine
Which Were "HayseedS."
YAKIMA SECURES THAT DISTINCTION
The Score stood IS 90 o I'm Favor
Of the Normal schooi-Johnny
ktngsbury's Yale Locks Capture

The game OF football between the Yak
ina High School eleven and the Ellens-
burg Normal School eleven, which was
held in the "Windy City" on Thanksgiv-
ing day, excited considerable interest and
aftermath comment. Our boys took the
train with joyful anticipations and with
yells which bespoke their confidence in
the outcome of the contest. They came
home looking weary and bedraggled, and
in response to the calls What's the mat
ter with Yakima?" the answer came
back in mournful sounds, Rotten! Rot
ten! They're on the bum" How it all
came about is difficult to say, for the
Yakima boys claim they were most con-
versant with the rules and put up the
best game. All concede that they had
not enough weight to successfully with
stand the rushes Of the "beefy" Ellens-
burgers, but another factor which prob
ably had as much to do with throwing
the home team down was their poor
judgment in the choice OF mascots.
Their chief mascot was John Reed, who
brought confusion to the Yakima ball
nine when they visited Ellensburg this
summer, and his first assistant was Fred
Miller, who was on the Yakima hose
team two years ago, and who, through
falling and sprawling all over the coun-
try, managed TO keep our boys from win.
ming the first prize.
10 connection with the football game a
little story has cropped out which is too
good to keep, in view OF the score OF So to
zero. The challenge came from the Yak.
imas. A reply was received from the
Ellensburgers that they had no team with
which they thought they could success.
fully cope for the championship. Upon
this, according to THE HERALD's inform
ant, rather sarcastic letter was sent
back enclosing a lot Of hayseed. This
put the Normal School boys on their met
tie, and the result was the game on
Thanksgiving day. The Ellensburg
Register says: "At first it was thought
to have been meant for slnr
but since the outcome OF the con.
test, it is quite evident it was sent as an
emblem of the Yakima aggregation" In
justice to the Yakima eleven, it is only
proper to state that they one and all deny
having sent the bucolic token. The
HERALD had two local correspondents in
the field, and takes pleasure in presenting
both accounts OF the game.
FIRST REPORT
Despite Capt. Kingsbury's "Yale locks"
the foot ball game on Thanksgiving day
between the state normal school team
and the North Yakima high school boys
resulted rather disastrously for our stu
dents, they being defeated by a score of
So to 0. The ocore, no wever, although it
looks very big, is not indicative of poor
playing on the part of the Yakima team.
1t was game, fguratively speaking, be-
tween giants and pigmies, and considering
the enormous difference in weight be.
tween the teams, our boys are to be con-
graduated on having come out of the
game uninjured. Blair, the left halfback
of the Ellensburg team, weighs 1888
pounds, and the balance of the players
will average about 155 pounds. They are
all men, while the thigh school gang"
as they call themselves, are with one or
perhaps two exceptions, only boys IL or
IS years of age, their average weight be-
ing l35 and 140 pounds. With the tre-
mendous odds in weight against them it
was physical impossiblity for the high
school line to keep back their oppon-
ents, who repeatedly plowed through
their center for from two to ten yards
gain, or for them to do much effective in
reference. The only place where they
could get in any effective work was in
tackling, and this they did with cour-
ageousness and pluck that astonished the
spectators. The tackling of the two
Thompsons, half backs, and Allen, right
guard, was especially noticeable, neither
of the three missing man, and all down.
ing their men in fine style. Morrison,
left guard, and Kelsey, right tackle, de-
serve special mention for their fine work
in blocking and tackling, Morrison also
for his grit in coming back into the game
after being carried off the field uncon.
scious from kick in the temple, which
he received ia the scrimmage. This was
the only case of injury to any of the
players, with the exception of Kelsey,
right tackle, who had his olfsctory organ
transformed into very classical aquiline
in hard scrimmage. One of the FL
ensburg men was "done up" and had to
retire from the game, while another was
pretty well bruised. The boys played
hard, plucky game, the two Thompsons
particularly putting up a superb game
throughout, and had one or two OF their
players been little more experienced and
better posted on the signals. Freeman
being especially lacking in the last par
ticular, they might possibly have scored.
1t was remarked on all sides that they
were an exceedingly nervy and plucky
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