The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-10-05
THE OLD BOYS.

CAME BACK TO COLLEGE TO
PLAY FOOTBALL.
Ninety-Seven Team and Substitutes
Gave o. A. c. Team a Lively
Practice Game-A Big Re-
ception and a Good
Time.
A big crowd of Corvallisites and
college students watched the '97 o.
A. c. field, Saturday. 1t was the
first Alumni game ever played at
o. A. c., and it called out lively
interest. Scores of people went out
to see the old boys give exhibition
of how the championship of the
Northwest coast was won in 1897
and they were well repaid for their
trouble. Save "Pap Hayseed," Nc
Allister, the old center, Simpson
and Kruse, quarter, all the mem
bers of the old team were on the
field. To fl the places of the miss
ing veterans, there were other old
men galore, Fred Edwards, SO
playing at quarter. Nash, ,03 at
end and Harley Hall '98 at full
back. The game resulted in score
>of / to 0 against the veterans.
! Though a practice game, the play
was characterized by an earnestness
and effort that made it highly in
teresting. The old men had rep
utation to sustain, the new ones, one
to gain. 1t would have bean dis
heartening for the latter to have
sustained defeat. The old men
had but single signal practice,
and were wholly out of training.
The new ones were working with
new plays and under a new system
of coaching. Neither team was at
its best by long shot, yet with
a fierce sun blazing down on a field
almost as hard as macadam, the
two lines of big men faced each 9th. !.
er for the scrim image, and went at
the work with spirit that won one
championship and that ought to
win aaother.
In the beginning, the old boys,
for a few plays, surprised the new
ones with good steady gains. They
received the kickoff and worked of
twenty yards or more before they
were forced to punt. They used the
form ations in vogue In their time,
and were not subjected to the pen.
alties incident to the new rules
They played good strong ball, but
all acknowledged aftsrward that
the speed and strength of the new
men were of consequential value in
the contests that are shortly to .be
ushered in on the gridiron. The
ball changed hands frequently be-
fore there was touchdown, the
new men oftea losing by fumbline
and the old ones punting to save
yardage. At last Rose made :
balk in passing the ball, and gain.
ing the oval himself dashed through
the center of the opposing line ane
ran sixty yards for a touchdown
1t was ruled out though as a for
wa,l pass and the new men penal
iz=i Is yards. After that, the ole
M, S punt was blocked, and grab
biru up p5the ball, Root lit out for
TO- y yard run and the first and on
ly touchdown Of the half. In tn
second half, Williams, whose play
fing ,ais year promises to be aggres
civ and If it is, will make him on
of the star men of the coast, go
away for a 90 yard run and the las
touchdown of the game.
After the game there was hi
reception to the old warriors in th
armory. 1t was attended by hun
dreds of students and scores {
down town people, young and ole
Frank Edwards, manager of the oil
} team, responded to the subject
"The cham pionehip team OF 1897,
and Coach Sickle did a simila
stunt on the topic, 'The team {
1904" Prof. Berchtold spoke
, the subject. 'tThe Alumni" and a
, ter, that there was conversation
music and a general good time. Ii
cidental to the programme was
: piano solo and encore by Prof. Tai
lander and a vocal solo and enco,
by Miss Spangler. Captain Gaul
of the veterans, made a brief al
!, ldress, expressing great satisfaciio
at the treatment accorded his mer
, and declaring that they would a