Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-31
SOME SPLENDID MEN.
Students Who Have Won Honors for the
College and Themselves.

, Students Who Have Won Honors for th
College and Themselves.
Sundays Oregonian contained
the following bit of GA e his
tory which, while fresh in the
minds of most of us, will prove
interesting reading. These things
are what help to advertise the
college, and these achievements
of its students challenge the adj
miration of all who read and win
their interest and support.
The action of the regents OF
the Oregon Agricultural College,
whereby athletics at that institu-
ton are abolished, is a very un-
welcome piece of news to the
sport loving public of the state.
The preamble of the resolution
passed by the board states that
intercollegiate games have
passed beyond the bounds of
reason and developed into a form
of mania that is demoralizing to
the moral mental and physical
well-being of college students. )"
+ Statistics from nearly every
educational Institution in Amer
ica disprove this allegation. 1t
is a pretty we'll established fact
that the best American college
athletes are among the best stu
dents, and this has helped in
part, to make college athletics
so popular, as they are today.
1t is not true that athletics,
under prope:- supervision, over
tax. the physical man. Proper
training is conducive to good
health, and the training that the
athlete receives is often of great
assistance to him in after life.
Athletics develop not only the
muscles, but also the nerves and
the brain, and prepare men for
decisive action at the critical
moment.
The Oregon Agricultural Col
lege boys began their athletic
work in 1894. when "Bill"
Bloss. "the father of Oregon foot
ball." organized a football team,
with which he won the intercol-
legiate championship of the state
for the college. In 1896 the
o A c eleven was beaten by
Eugene, by a score of 10 to 6,
but in 1897 it won all games
played, beating Eugene 26-S,
and the University of Washing
ton by I6 too. For the last two
seasons, Eugene has won from
o A c the score being $50 each
game, but the Corvallisites have
had good representative teams,
although they were trihe slow.
o A c may be said to rank sec
ond in the intercollegiate foot
bail league.
Some splendid men have
played on the Corvallis line,
''Pap Hayseed", Bodine, Hol-I
gate, Phillips and Thurston being
among them, and ranking with
the best football players of the
state. Then there were the Bur-
nett brothers, Eigin, Walters,
Mcbride and Goodrich, all of
whom helped to make the O A c
teams Of the past years famous.
In track athletics the work of
the college has not been SO bril-
liant, although some remarkable
men have been developed. o A
c won the cup in 'o7, but in
other years has had hard strug-
gle with Willamette University
for second place. The fast sprin-
tiers, Kelly and Crawford; the
Burnett brothers, in the dis
tances, and Bodine, in the
weights, helped to make the 81
team invincible. Of the later
men, Palmer, the hurdler and
Redd, the quarter-miler, were
the most conspicuous. Scott
has done 2 I feet s inches in the
broad jump, and Burnaugh is
one of the best all-areund ath-
letes in the state. A number of
these men have graduated, others
will go elsewhere to college,
while some will probably return
to Corvallis to complete the
course and to dream again of
the days when the Farmers"
were victorious and the orange
waved triumphant.