Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-30
u. S. c. AND REDS
PLAY TIE CAME
VICIOUS PLAYING CHARACTER
lies FOOTBALL CONTEST
Sherman Indians Get the Worst Of Vt
Not Only From Their Opponents
But From the
officials

There has been an unwritten law IN
America, from time immemorla, W
hand It to the Indians in large pack
ages. o,.,-
Since the year /, when John snltn
discovered the star spangled pailller
and the STANDARD Oil our red Drotners
have been receiving the rough END OF
the heavy goad in manner snamelul
to see. 49,.
And SO It was yesterday in the an
nua1 contest between the boys OF the
University of Southern California ana
tbe indian lads from the Sherman
reservation school at Riverside when,
after two long and wearisome halves,
the teams left the field, neither side
having scored and the Indians having
received the worst of it from the Of
ficials from the time the game started
to the finish.
Much Vicious Playing
The game was marked by hard,
vicious playing throughout, but even
that kind of play is permissible and Is
straight football, yet the white lads
never missed an opportunity to come
through with some rowdy language,
and in one mix-up, after a hard, fair
tackle by the Indians, one officious
member from the U. s. c. ranks under
took to appoint himself a committee
of one to demonstrate with the red
skin who had tackled him. His idea
of remonstrance was to hit the Indian
in the face, and trouble followed. A
hot-headed sub, who later went into
the game at halfback, also imagined
that for the benefit of the grandstand
and the good of the community at large
he ought to get in and do some more
of the same kind and he also made a
headlong plunge for the fight. He got
almost there when Referee Bill Traeger
caught him by his sweater and hustled
him out and the police jumped in and
stopped the free-for-all fight
The teams had hardly lined up again
when the trouble started second time.
Burek, the fullback for the U. S. c.,
tried q buck through the line and his
effort was stopped by a huge redskin
who didn't handle him any too gently.
Ordered Off the Field
If Burek intends to play football he
had better learn to take a hard jolt
as part of his medicine. He had been
slamming away, but didn't care to get
a slam, and either his youthful assur-
ance or a bad case of Indigestion
cropped out when he reached back and
attempted to slug the man who had
stopped him.
The act was so thoroughly unsports-
manli1e that Referee Traeger most
properly ordered the u. S. c. lad off
the field and refused to allow him to
play again.
The man at center for the U. S. c.,
instead of attending to his business as
the middle post of the line, assumed
the duties of manager and general df-
dector of the team, interfered in mat
ters where Quarterback Best should
have entered protest and caused con-
siderable delay.
In cto RI ffr sr,tc nf bn
game Hamilton, as umpire, penalized
the Indians for heavy losses while the
u. s. G. boys, who were as heavy Of
tenders, managed to escape notice
when they held in the line or pranced
off side. At one time the Indians were
penalized ten yards for some unknown
cause, and this years rules do not
seem to have recognized any ten-yard
penalty.
During the game the Indians were
penalized somewhere in \the neighbor-
hood of $50 yards and most of those
penalties came at critical moments,
so that the redskins had not only
fast team to contend with, but mis-
fortunes never before recorded on
football field.
Falls Short of the Goal
The climax of the trouble came in
the second half when Elliott for u.
S. c.. tried place kick at the Indians
goal from the forty-yard line. The
kick was a good one, but the ball fell
fully three feet below the cross-bar
at the goal thus disqualifying the kick
as a score.
Probably the only man ON the field
who was not in position to determine
just whether that ball went over the
bar or under the bar was Referee
Traeger, whose business it was to de-
eide the point He was directly behind
the kicker and looking toward the light
and his decision in calling it score
can be pardoned from that standpoint.
The thousands of people in the grand
stand. however, could see very well
that the ball fell below the bar miss
ing it by many feet, and they arose.
sportsmanlike to the core, and declared
for the Indians. AS for the redskins,
they knew that they were getting it
good, but they didn't know just what
to do and they refused to accept the
score. Coach Holmes of the U. S. C.
was on the side lines and he ought to
have been In the same position as
the people i'm the grandstand to see
the kick fall short, but when asked
about it he declared that in his opinion
the ball went over the bar and was
a score.
ReVerses His Decision
Later, Traeger, after having inquired
and learned from those near the goal
that the ball had fallen short, reversed
his decision and declared no score and
Holmes announced 10 his men to go
ahead and play.
So that with the many bad breaks
of the game the contest was practi-
cally spoiled as scientific exhibition,
but for vicious, hard football in spots
1t has rarely been equaled. Best, the
little blonde quarter for the u. S. c.,
Haigley at tackle and Shute at half
did magnificent work for their team,
while little Boles. Tories and Scholder
for the Indians did the particular star
playing for that aggregation. For
some reason or other Scholder for the
Indians and Shute for the u. S. @.
We're off color in the puntng line yes
terday and, with the exception of the
last kick of the game, fifty-yard
punt by Scholder, the pigskin rarely
ever Travelled more than forty yards.
In the first half the u. S. c. resorted
to quarterback kicks and long wing
passes to do their most effective work
and the ends were kept i'm desperate
sweat following the kicks. The ball
remained for the greater part of the
time I'm Sharman faprifo,.,,