Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-11-19
VICTORY FOR PACIFIC.
Although Defeated, the Farmers Played
q Good Steady Oamc.

Although Defeated, the Farmers Played
Good Steady Game.
Although defeated by score of II to o
in its game Saturday with Pacific univer-
sity, supporters OF the o A @ team are
well pleased with the showing made by
the farmer lads. With the exception of
! U. of o. the Pacific eleven is probably
the strongest aggregation representing
any of the Oregon educational institu
tions. They play fast, snappy, clean
game. A number Of their players are
men Of several years experience on the
gridiron, and for the past two months
they have been working hard uIder the
excellent coaching of McFadden, who
played end onslast years Stanford elev-
en-. AS result their team work is ex
cellent, and every man is in superb phys
ical condition.
The local team is composed almost en-
tirely of freshmen. They have been or
ganized scarcely more than q month and
have ha d no coaching except what Man.
ager Gault has been able to give, while
playing position en- the team. They
have had bat one other game, that with
Albany, in which to gain experience,
but their defensive work, especially in
the last fifteen minutee of the game, was
beautiful.
Their great weakness is in offensive
play. Their team work is ragged, and
their interference weak and slow in
forming, This, of course, is due to in
experience and lack OF practice, but the
advantage it gives their opponents is
very decided. During the entire game,
the farmers had the ball in their poses
sion not to exceed ten minutes, yet they
held the university down to two touch
downs ntthe first hall, and one in the
last 25 minutes of the game, Time and
again o A G held the visitors for yard
age, only to lose the ball on tumble, or
be compelled to kick on the second
down. The game was clean and excit-
| fng, and neither side made use of a
| substitute.
Pacific kicked off to Captain Gault
who ran in 20 yards. The ball was ad-
| vanced 15 yards by hammering the line
and then punted into Pacific territory.
The visitors tried the farmers line, but
found it impregnable. Then Day found
| a hole between tackle and end and
plunged down the field for forty yards.
With the ball on o A C's 6-yard line,
Mills was sent around the end for the
| first touch down, after II minutes Of play
He failed to convert it into goal, and
the score stood, P. u, 5; o. A. c., O.
| After ten minutes more of fast work
in which Captain Day was sent against
tackle for certain gains, and short runs
were added by Mills. second touch
down was scored; goal was kicked.
Score, P. u, IL; 0. A. c., o.
The farmers kicked to P. U.'s 20-yard
line, aud succeeded in stopping the WIS.,
itors who had advanced the ball by ram
ming, to the center of the field. Will
liams plunged through P. US line and
made sensational trun of 40 yards.
Time was called, with the ball in the
farmers possession on Pacifc's 10-yard
line.
| The Stanford system of playing by
series, disconnected the home team, who
had been used to hearing signals before
the ball was put in play, and they were
slow in tackling in the first half During
the latter part of the game, however.
they watched the ball and moved when
it was put in play. As result the last
half was a pretty exhibition of football.
| A short kickoff, which was well ham
died, left the ball in Pacifc's possession
almost in the center of the field for the
first down at the opening of the second
half, and in II minutes Bryant was sent
over for the last touchdown, after hard
struggle. Mills kicked difficult goal
Score, P U, 17;OAC, o
The farmers seemed to gain rather tina II
lose heart and their tackling was desper-
ate. q could get the ball to the ten
yard line, but the farmers would secure
possession of it and punt out of danger,
and it was see saw between center and
lOA C's ten-yard line during the re-
mainder Of the half.