Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-12-05

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day when he stopped the heavy
plunges of the California backs.
But he was not there with the
goods yesterday and he was out
played on defense by both Palmer
and Bagshaw, both smaller and
lighter men. There is only one
explanation of it. The big cap
tain has gone stale. He vas not
on fighting edge, and he could
not get into the thick of it with
his old time dash and swing.
He offered no excuse, bnt it was
learned after the game that he
had had trouble with his stomach
for several days before the game
and was not assimilating his food
properly. Tom is not a man
who ever makes excuses for him
self and he is as game a loser
as ever doomed the moleskin,
but he makes no secret of the
fact that he is not satisfied with
the game he put up yesterday.
Washington lost because a
green team was opposed by elev-
en- men who have played togeth-
er practically four years. Next
year the coach at Corvallis will
be up against the same situation
that met Cults here this year
he will have to build a new ma
chine, for practically every mem
Der of that magnificent eleven
that Inundated Washington yes
terday will graduate next June.
Wonder was.expressed that the
Oregon State University team
defeated the Farmers 6 to O.
There is no doubt but that Wash
ington is stronger than Oregon,
and Washington was helpless be-
fore the Farmers yesterday.
!, The reason for the defeat of the
Farmers by Oregon is plain
when once made public. In that
: game the team was split into
three factions. Many of the
: men were not even on speaking
I terms.
Coach Sickle shook the team
together after that and they wad
= ed through the strong Willamett'
q team aud then came to Seattl'
like big happy family ant
slowed Washington away. Tn
farmers should have defeated
Oregon "a to 6, and they woul'
0 have done SO, had it not been 70:
i the dissension n the ranks. N,
team that ever played in Seattl,
showed the powerful offense tn
Farmers put up Yesterday, and /
was not in the Washinton team t
stop it.
The charge that the Farmer
. were brutal in their play is &c
true. They are able, str, n
men, and they played a big
d strong game. The Washingto
S. team composed of lighter an
Of younger men could not stan
= them off, aud some Of them wer
ID badly battered trying to do Sc
to Coach Cults was on the sid
" lines during the entire game an
he says he did not see a singl
instance of foul playing or un
= necessary roughness. To bran
5 the Farmers as brutal players
,e simply because they romped a
over Washington is doing a lc
of very gentlemanly fellows a
lie injustice, for there is no founda
ton for the charge.
e But had Babcock and Tile
ut been in from the start of th
game it would have made n
l. difference in the final result. Th
'p Fa- had the power an
a knew how to use it, and it wa
N only a question of how badl
r Washington would be licked.
2. No finer line of buckers tina;
to Dolan and W. lker ever plave
h in Seattle. TINS big fsllo,
Id Walker was wasted at center fc
J two years, and was switched t
as tackle for this game because tn
regul + man was hurt. He dem
y onstrated to bis coach that b
N was one OF the surest men on tn
g team carrying the ball, for he h;
4 the line as if shot from a cate
re putt and kept going. The Wash
t, ington men could not throw hir
le hack and there was NOT euo1o