The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-11-23
UNIVERSITY WON.
Ann ual Football Game-The Score is
Six to Five.

Ann ual Football Game-The Score ls
Six to Five.
The annual game of football be
tween the state university and OACI
e1evens is history, and the record
reads, q of o, six; OAC FIVE. The
game turned on the kicking of
goal, and by the token, victory res
| ted with the university. With a
deft and accurate swing of his right
leg. Joe Templeton, captain of the
university eleven, sent the oval
spinning between the goal posts
and set the score of his team in a
notch that the Oregon Aggies near
ly. but not quite matched. It was
a beautiful kick. made from a dif.
fcult spot, and though nobody
knew it at the time it won the
Northwest College Championship
for the U of o eleven, 1t came af-
ter the game had been in progress
but eight minutes, but it was the
last point that the University men
were able to score in the game.
Fighting against the odds of this
early score crippled with three of
their veteran team mates out of the
game without their captain, and
with but six men playing in their
regular positions, the resolu.e
Aggies held their -unhandicapped
antagonists to this original score
throughout the remaining forty
two minutes OF play. Better still,
with the spirit Of last ditch fighters,
after being worsted in the first, half,
they rallied. and in the second half,
carried the ball more and made
more yardage than did their un-
scathed opponents, made bigger
percentage of gains, and in addi-
ton notched out a figure for their
own score that will always tell the
story that after all. it was only
a goal kick that won the game
It was gallant stand by gallant
band and it is no wonder that the
| men they strove against went home
without note.o triumph or ban-
ner flying, and with many an un-
der-breath expression of thankful
ness that the old leader and his
veteran mates were not in the team.
| 1t is Dow Walker, the redoubt-
able center in the OAC line to
whom the Aggies owe their touch
down and the prestige that achieve
ment gives them. Others of the
old guard did their duty that day
and none more than Williams and
| Abraham. and Bower. Dunlap, and
Rhinehart, and so did Ray Walker
and Steiwer and Emily and Cooper
as long as he lasted. of the new
men; but it was Dow WalkeF-who
) with ton weight of men on top 81
him in a pile up. craw1ed out Of
! the heap with the coveted oval IN
| his arms, crept away unobserved to
a safe distance, and then 1eaping to
his feet sprinted away like quart.
Ter horse for a 90 yard run and q
, touchdown
1t was a run that chilled the
; marrow and froze the blood of ths
, Eugene rooters, but it made the
. grand stand roar and screech ane
scream as it never did such thing.
before. Walker had been playing
like a demon from the moment the
!. game opened. His ankle was in {
! plaster of Paris cast, and it painee
, him every step, but he had torn VI
: the Eugene line and tackled all ov
| er the field. He was handicapped
to be chief man in the sprint, undel
5 the circumstances, but when b,
/ found himself loose with the ball
5 he lit out to do his best. Arnspig
, er and Reid of. the University triet
= to catch him, but the big fellov
!. looked back and saw them coming
, Before that, they had gained /
: little on him, but they didn't an.
| more, Over the slippery field il
6 full flight the big fellow went, owe
oI it, in hot pursuit went the 1emol
r men while the Aggie rooters yel1et
and screamed with delight. Blu
. it was no use. Over the goal lin
: plunged the, big runner and ther
s he planted the precious ball saf
and sound for touchdown for th
orange and turned with grin t
see how the rest of the fellows wer
making it. Up the field with til
If others, came Joe Templeton, tear
a coursing down his cheeks. It wa
G he who had fumbled the ball, an
(. his modification was complete
Il Comfort came to him only when
g came time for somebody on th
Il Aggie team to try for the goa
: Cooper was to have done the kick
Ii ing. but he had left the game i
n the first half. Not a man anon
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