The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-12-28
THE ORANGE LOST.
By Single Point bot Twice Crossed
Multnomah's Goal Big Excursion.

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Defeated, but covered with glory,
vanquished, but showered with
plaudits. beaten but wearing
lanrels no college team in the.
Northwest, has worn before, is the
record the OAC football team made
in a great game with the Multno-
NAH team in Portland Monday. It
was by the mere trick of goal
kick, the deft swing of the famous
Chester Murphy's right leg that
the clubmen were able to claim
victory over the Aggies, and even
this precious victory was only
snatched from an apparently inev-
liable defeat after the Portlanders
had summoned ball players from
all over the Coast to save them
from the fierce rushes of the re-
doubtable college boys. Until the
last few minutes of the game the
college boys were winners. With
in FIVE minutes and ten seconds af-
ter the kickoff the grand stand was
wild with the plaudits of OAC
rooters because of the fact that the
sturdy Aggies, without giving the
Portlanders chance to once handle
the pigskin, had forced them over
their goal line for a touchdown and
a score of FIVE points. In another
40 seconds of play, the Aggies
went over the Multnomah goal line
for a second touchdown in one of
the most spectacular plays ever
seen on any field, having In less
than six minutes of actual play
rolled UP score of more points
against Mu1tnomah than was ever
scored against her on her own field
by any team, club or college. This
performance they followed up by
taking the ball on their own rs
yard line and by the same whirl-
wind play that had served them so
well SO far in the game, they
marched without a break down
the field IS yards to Multnomah's
rs yard line where they were pen
allied IS yards on a bad decision
and lost the ball at a time when
they were going at five yard clip
for third touchdown,
By this time Multnomah's sup
porters around the sidelines were
paralyzed, and the managers and
players trenzied with the situa-
ton. They had thought no col
lege team could score on their
giants. In the morning, when an
OAC man had said to certain op-
ponent of the Orange. "We are 60
ing to score on them today" he re-
joined, well; you brought your
gall along with you.'' When the
half closed, with the score 10 to o
in favor of the Aggies, Multnomah
realized that she was up against the
hardest proposition she had ever
struck. But it IS the reputation of
the clubmen to win, and there is a
measureless resource with which to
do it. That it could not be done
with the original lineup everybody
knew. The second half played
with the same Multnomah warriors
against the powerful Aggies meant
q Multnomah defeat of 90 to o.
So, there began a scramble for new
meh. Hurry calls were sent for
the best material within the re-
sources of the club. When the
giants came on for the second half
there were new faces and new forms
everywhere. Pratt, great Cal
ifornia player was at tackle. Stott,
a famous quarter this year on the
Stanford team was at end, Loner-
gan, coach of the Columbia Uni
versity team and a famous Notre
Dame warrior, was at half. The
whole back field was new with the
exception of Chester Murphy.
With all of this and other recruit
ing, the supporters were still afraid
of the handful of collegians, and
the supporters set up a yell of,
"We want Mcmillan; we want
Mcmillan" That fierce old war
rior who had led Multnomah to
so many victories, was in the grand
stand. Four clubmen hauled him
out of his comfortable seat against
his will, and led him bodily to the
club house and made him don a
suit. Back they brought him to go
in at fullback, where he played
through the rest of the game.
The result of all this was that
the Aggies were simply stopped in
their career of victory. A bunch
of eleven boys, splendid as they
are, couldn't play the whole Pa
cifc Coast, and the football chief
tains of three or four generations.
Sheer force of numbers and con-
slant recruiting from an inexhaust-