The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-11-30
ALUMN|S DO
THE TRICK
Beat the CoIIegIans at
Punahou. {
THE SCORE WAS Z TO 0
Live Football Game on the Oahu
Grdron--Enthusastic
Rioters There.

THE doughty Punahou football
eleven went down in defeat yes
III terday afternoon on the Oahu col
lege sridirOn under the superior
weight and activity of the Punahol
Alumni. Weight told from the frs
kickoff until the referee and the time
keeper stopped the oval from receiv.
ing further punishment.
! The Alumnis broke down their op.
ponent's line with human batterins
ram and played so quickly that the
youngsters were toppled over like ami
mated ten pins. The game from start
to finish was "A series of scrmmages
and gaily be-stockinged legs seemed
pointing skyward during the greater
part of it.
Surprise was manifested by the spec
tators that the graduates had so well
retained the knack of handling the pig
skin despite their lack of systematic
training. The sides were clearly very
unevenly matched and this soon be-
came apparent when the Alumnis took
the ball from the opponents after the
initial kickoff and managed to hold it
until the end.
The Punahou College team, however,
made up for their lack of weight by
dashing and brilliant playing. Indi-
vidual work was n noticeable feature
in their makeup, and many a beautiful
sprint was made around the ends of
the heavy Alumnis with decided gains
of territory in each instance. But
these were merely spasmodic and al
most invariably resulted in the loss of
the ball to the seniors by failure to
make downs. Splendid breaks through
the center were made by Soper, Castle
and Kaulukou of the junior eleven,
much to the satisfaction of the be-
ribboned young ladies of the college,
whose hearts and sympathies We're
clearly with the youngsters.
on the other hand, Cooke, Fuller,
ingalls, and Albert Waterhouse did
some fine work, especially by taking
the bull by the horns and breaking
down the weaker lines. Cooke excelled
in going straight through the center
of the college eleven and made several
magnificent struggles to carry the ball
even after tackled and weighted down
by the encrcling arms of the juniors.
There We're not many spectators
~ as ldu DttH eN-
pected. A large crowd was anticpat-
ed, but Thanksgiving dinners and pic
MICS, the horse races and general fam
lily gatherings elsewhere made sad in
roads into the expectations. There
was. however, n gay throng of ladies
and school girls dressed for the most
part in white and wearing the buff and
blue of the college. All about the grid
iron they We're grouped with back
ground of carriages. The campus was
with the moving and ex-
citable crowds which rushed from one
point of vantage to another as the sue
cessive plays carried the struggling
heroes of the gridlron up and down
the field. Crowds of newsboys in wag-
onettes witnessed the game and armed
with siren-voiced horns enlivened the
campus as only small boys know how.
The day was perfect, the sky cloud
less. There was a gratifying absence
IF rain or threatening weather.
The Punahou elevep won the toss-up
'Or position and chose to defend the
lwa goal the Alumni taking the Wal
liki end and the kickoff. The appear
lnce of the Junior eleven as they ran
rom their quarters to the gridiron two
~ two, brought out the familiar Oahu
College yell: