Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-28
sPEIDEll'S KICKS DID IT.
Washington and GA Each Score Touch
down, but Speido11 makes two Place
Kicks and Added Ten Points.

Washington and GA Each Score Touch-
down, bat SpeidelI makes two Place
Kicks and Added Ten Points.
| Coach Herbo1d and his aggre-
| cation of football heroes from old
o A G returned from Seattle on
Yesterdays West Side train.
They were given an ovation al
the depot by their fellow students
and many admirers from town
who had assembled to greet them.
While the score shows that
the "farmers" went down to de-
feat before the Washington Uni
yersity eleven at Seattle, Satur-
day, the details show that the
Oregonians played their oppon-
ents to a standstill. This was
something more than the most
ardent apmirers of the orange
had hoped tor. Everything was
against the local eleven, and the
watchword was ''hold down the
score" Football cranks OF Cor
wallis and the 0 A c have gotten
past the stage of childish enthus-
iasm, so manifest in communities
new to football, where victory
early in the season turns the
heads of devotees aud leads them
| to proclaim their team world
beaters.
These things were taken into
consideration:
Washington University had
| not been scored against this sea
son. 1t defeated the "All-Club"
team of Seattle last Tuesday by
a score of "a to O. Its members
out-weighed the o A c team on
an average of eight pounds to
the man. Pilkington, considered
by many the bestall-round play
CT On the farmers - team, was
suffering with a lame ankle and
could not play, and Nash, upon
whom so much depended, owing
to his position as full back, was
sick, More than this, Washing
ton was to play on her own field
in the presence of her supporters,
and her men were not not fatigu-
ed from two days of travel.
So when the news reached
Corvallis by wire Saturday, that
the final score was 16 to 6, the
crowd of enthusiasts who had
assembled at the telegraph Office,
looked upon the result as a vic
tory for o A c.
But the story of the game
which appears in the Seattle pa
pers, shows that the "farmers"
really played their opponents an
even game. The university team
carried the ball over the o A G
|goal line in seven minutes after
Nash kicked of, without the
''farmers'' ever having the ball.
The boys were nervous and could
not pull themselves together.
Had Washington kicked off, the
story might have been different.
When Nash kicked off again the
''farmers' had settled down TO
business. Washington was held
for downs and Root was sent over
for touchdown after two minutes
of play. These we're the only
teuchdowns of the game, and
without Seidell's place kicks, the
score would have resulted in tie.
In the second half, Washington
kicked to Oregon's 15-yard line.
Back and forth the ball went until
but IS seconds of play remained
and Washington was further from
10 A C's goal than she was when
the half opened. Speidell was
called upon for another place kick
from the 3o-yard line, and he did
what he might not do again in a
dozen attempts-made SUCCESS.
full kick from the side line.
That Washington's success was
due to Speidell's kicking, the Sc
attic Times supplies this evidence
Gwen though every zone o.
those eleven young young fellows
who fought so nobly and we'll fe,
the state 'U' deserves all kinds O.
GROWERS of praise, there is a Ger
tain part of certain young mar
that must go down in the poetic
history of the University enshrin
ed in the halo of a glorious memo
ry. Quarterback Speidell's righ
leg saved the day for Washing
! ton."
The Seattle Times gives the fol
lowing
DETAILS OF THE GAME
/ Washington won the toss ant
chose the south goal. Nasl
kicked fifty yards down the field
"Spy'' running back ten. WE'LL
skirted right end for five yards
l and Strauss found left for fifteen