The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-11-21
WHAT THEY SAY.
About Today's Great Game-Eugene
Newspapers Talk Football.

About Today's Great Game Eugene
Newspapers Talk Football.
+ The Eugene newspapers are full
each day now with comment on the
great game of football to be played
there next Saturday, between the
OAC and State University teams.
In a late issue, the Register says:
The game with OAC will be the
last and best game to be played in
Eugene during the season. It will
be the game in which y. of o. will
have the opportunity to establish
the undisputed supremacy of the
state, and it will be no easy task.
The Varsity realizes that the
Farmers have taken a wonderful
/ brace. Their game with Pullman
was superior to that put up blythe
| Varsity under similar conditions.
The Corvallis men are exerting ev-
cry energy and are sparing no ef-t
forts. Edwards, coach of Albany
last year, is now assisting Coach
McFadden. 1t is reported also that
several other men are helping to.
coach the team.
| The University boys will be in
good shape for a hard fight, and
the best game ever seen in Eugene
will in all probability result.
A great deal depends upon the
condition OF the field. Just now it
is in first rate shape. and will re
main s. if the weather continues
dry
When the Eugene people remem-
Der that on Saturday, Goodrich
aud .Thayer will appear on the To-
cal gridiron for the last time, the
game ought to assume a degree of
exceptional interest, Soon the
clever work of these men will be a
thing of history.
Commenting along the same line,
the Guard says:
Corvallis is making great pre-
parations for the football game to
be: played here Saturday. The
management of the OAC. team is
sparing no efforts to perfect the or !
ganization and team work of his
tea M When the Farmers appear
on Kincaid field on Saturday they
will be in perfect physical condi ;.
tion and prepared to put up a fast
and furious game. At no time dnr-
ing the season. has the Corvallis
team put up better ball than it is
doing at present, The team has
much improved since it was defeat.
ed by Albany. The fact showed up
in the late game with Pullman.
The Farmer boys are now under
the careful coaching Of several al
umni members. among them Fred
Edwards who is. assisting Coach
McFadden.. The team will have
had long rest before it lines up
against the Varsity, and the game
they will put up will be the best
seen in Eugene during the season.
= The local boys are anticipating
hard fight and they are preparing
themselves Jor it. There will be
some changes in the lineup as it |
has been seen during the season. |
Ifthe game turns against the boys,
it will be because their opponents
are superior. In any event the
game will be an excellent exhib.
ition of football, and well worth |
seeing. 4-es
Corvallis all enthusiasm over the
coming game. The business men
and students have combined in rum
ming an excursion to Eugene. They
will charter a special train which
will arrive at the depot at the de-
pot with the team at eleven in the
morning and leave at seven in the
evening. Some two hundred and
fifty people will come UP to see the
game Ali this enthusiasm for
Corvallis. while Eugene acts per-
fectly quiet, and the students of the
Varsity are content to continued
their peaceful and uninterrupted
way,
U. O. has an excellent team
which can play excellent ball. III
Corvallis accomplishes what it .ex-
poets to. the coming game will be
the best seen in the Northwest this
year. Not even making an excep-t
ton of the Washington-O Oregon
game.