Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-09-26
The FIRST KICK.
Recalling .tPap Hayseed," the
Greatest of the Great.

WILL bOI LAM AhISASoS q SAAA "a
the game. That is the resolve
that has come to many a Cor
wallis man especially after the
last time we got skinned. 1t is
human nature on such circum-
stances to swear off and that is
what we have all done.
But we don't stay quit. The
fascination little by little comes
back and we let it steal over us.
There is the hope of licking the
the fellow that.may have licked
US. There is the suspense, the
preparation and the climax. Il
spreads to young and old alike
and draws them all into the
charmed circle. They all say
the game is rough, and SO it Is
They say there is an element of
chance in it, and so there is.
They say it takes a good man
and a gritty man to play the
game, and so it does. And in
these things is the explanation
of why the game has such hold
on the American people. We
all admire grit. We applaud
agood, strong man. We extol
the dash and plunge of the
sweatered and nail-shod man
who tears up and dashes through
the organized mass of men dis
putting his progress to that goal
for which eleven good men are
>dashing, and to defend which
eleven other good men are giving
sturdy battle. 1t is a game of
nerve. and what American does
not admire nerve?
1t is a game, that experience
shows has aSferce hold on this
public, and it has come to stay.
So, with the season again On, we
shall all watch the intricate pro-
cess of developing great foot
ball team.
The story is that things look
good on OAC field now. DR..
Sickle is the master spirit there,
and as a coach he is probably
without peer in the West. With
him football is not a system OF
set rules, a schedule of tactics
always to be followed, and men
each a unit with all the plays to
be touched off exactly alike, nc
matter who the units are OF
what their capabilities be. He
is a student of the game, 9
thinker, planner, strategist
who measures FIRST the man, ane
then builds the play to fit him.
Speed, power and alertness
these are the forces he calls into
play, and when he has them al
combined to suit, the product i
a lightning ofense that it take
mighty men to stop. That i
what the great Multnomah game
opened with last Christmas, ant
that was what enabled the col
legians to execute "a formation
and drive the great Multnoma1
men back for a touchdown il
but five minutes and fourteen
seconds, spectacle in gridirol
battle acknowledged by Multno
NAH experts never to have beel
seen before on Portland's field.
Even with "a srawer, thinner
lighter bunch of men than al
now on OAC's field each night
with. Sickle at the head would, a
said above, look good out there
With a few old vets, warrior
like Root, Williams, Bundy
Dunlap, Dolan and Lawrence i
the lineup, and with big, ne,
men glore, the prospects of th
season are as fair as an Italia
sky.
The most interesting thing Q
the campus now is the aluml
game next Saturday. Nobod
has forgotten the pleasure of
similar game last year. It W;
the FIRST of the kind that had o.
CURED. 1t eclipsed anything
the kind that ever transpired
the state. The old champion
ship team of 1897 was, with Oh
or two exceptions, in the 1inet
against the new candidates f
championship honors. "P'
Hayseed, y the famous old eente
was not there, but Bodine, Thu1
ton, Mcbride, Walters, Edward