Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-11-06
KICK
AFTER
GAME
Willamette Claims TO Be the
Better Team. and Pleads
Many Ifs"

An honorable defeat with all the
honors Of victory was what the William
cite football team suffered Saturday
afternoon in their contest with the
University or Oregon Although Will
lamette was clearly superior, and fair
ly PLAYED the visitors OF their feet
tho final score was II to 8 against her,
simply because she made an unfortu-
nate tumble which gave Kerron, Of Eu-
gene. the ball clear Of the bunch Of
players and permitted him TO 60 down
the field for an sO-yard run and a
touchdown To do this, however, he
was aided by Moores as interference,
who. against the rules Of the game. used
his hands 20 keep Of the Willamette
players That he did this. nearly ev.
cry one Of the thousand and more spec.
tators who saw tho game would be will.
ing TO 20 on the stand and swear 20,
yet the official, though admitting that
this was wrong, said he did not see t.
The other touchdown was made on a
brilliant end run by Moores Of 40
yards, though this was only made pos.
sible by the Eugene men holding, con.
trary 10 the rules Of the game.
Aside from these two runs the visi
tors only succeeded In making their
yardago four times during the entire
game, while Willamette was held FOR
downs less than that many times The
local players smashed through the Bu.
gene line a. n Il had been 20 much pa
per, and. n Il had not been FOR FUN.
bles. which were AZ times lncxcus.
able, the score would have been "a 20 o
In favor Of Salem. Tho game really
would have been 90 one.sided that it
would not have been interesting.
AZ Il was lt was perhaps the most
spectaueuar game played In tho North
west Tho visitors. not being able 90
mako their yardaRe, aud being pushed
back at every down. were compelled %
punt nearly as soon ~ thoy received tho
ball. while Willamette was compelled
90 punt because of fumbles nut here.
In tho department of tho game In which
Willamette was supposed 10 be- 90 much
Inferior 10 tho Eugene team, the v,si,
tors were given a big surprise, when
Coleman, tho husky lefi end. fully
equalled tho famous Moullen Ia kick,
ing More than once be- booted ihe pig
akin down the field Tor 80 Yards
That tho Willamette team h uu.
douhiedly tho strongest team Is tho
opinion of all who saw the game. not
only of Salem people, but Eugene, and
tho Eugene players as well. Tho fol.
lowing statements were made 90 a Jour.
nal reporter after the gamei
Shorts, oregon's eoach-Willamette
clearly ouiplayed as, both on odeuse
and defense, II was not really a good
game, because the teams were not ey.
enly matched Not that Oregon was
weak, but Willamette was exceptionally
strong. Willamette played well aud de,
served 10 win,
Referee Siow-Willamette lost be-
cause Of hard luck They outplayed
Oregon two 10 one. Both teams played
like true sports
Bishop, Willamette's eoaeh-Oregon
ala not deserve 20 win. There Is no
comparison between tho strength OF the
two teams We outplayed them from
start 10 finish In almost every depart
ment OF the game, In Moores and
FFizzen they have swifteF sprintoFs,
That's an.
Chester Murphy Willamette Is 80
per cent stronger in everything except
fleetness. Pollard sud RAIDER played
great bali. Raiders defense was the
best I ever saw In the Northwest.
Captain Latoureite, Of oregon-Of
course, ! am satisfied With the result,
bat We we're plainly outplayed
Captain Pollard, OF Wnlamette-We
owe our defeat 20 hard luck Every
man on the team did his best, aud We
certainly deserved TO win, 1 DO not
think they are In our class at ALL
That the visitors did not put up a
better game was a surprise TO Salem,
as we'll as 10 the Eugene supporters.
With the exception Of Latourette, at
quarter, and Moores aud Chandler at
Ends there was nothing 10 the game
but Willamette
The Salem team proved 20 be even