The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-11-13
PUNAHOUS
BEAT KAMS
First Senior Football
Draws a Large
Crowd.

| 1t was a real football game that was
| played on the Punahou campus yester-
day afternoon between the senior teams
of Oahu College and Kamehameha
| Schools. The game was the first of the
senior series and furnished an excellent
exhibition of football under the new
rules.
| Oahu College won by the score of 4
to o. after a stubbornly contested game,
| the score being obtained by a place kick
of Lowrey in the first half.
The winners put their strongest COM
| bination in the field, but the Kams
| were without four of their best men,
| who will, however, be available for the
next game.
The Kan. crowd protested against
Referee Reeds decisions several times,
but Captain Oliver saw fit to make no
protests against the official ruling.
| The crowd was a very large one. the
| fair sex being in great evidence. Rib
bons, horns and chrysanthemums were
plentiful on the campus and the college
spirit manifested itself in yells of ev
cry description, some Of them having
been manufactured especially for the
occasion.
| Alloy Asoong led the Punahou shout
ers and did his work well.
| The Kamehameha chorus was in
splendid voice and sang the famous
Kamehameha song with telling effect
The partisans of both sides rooted
vigorously until the end of the game.
Apart from Lowrey's game-winnine
| kick the Punahous had the best of the
! contest. They battered their opponents
for fair and it was a tired crowd of
Kams. that limped off the field when
the final whistle blew.
! Komamua and Mahukona had both
been rendered hors du combat and
Captain Oliver was knocked out in the
| last play of the game
Next game will see the Rams. greatly
reinforced, however, and their chance
to win the championship is at least an
even one.
FIRST HALF.
Oahu took the kick, McDougall driv
ing the ball to the Kams' ten-yard line
1t was retrieved twenty yards. Rams
made up ground in the next few plays,
doing some good ground-gaining.
To save the ball on downs Oahu kick
ed the ball reposing on the Kams.' As
yard line.
Kams. kicked and the ball struck a
Punahou player, who grabbed it and
carried it several yards the wrong
way. Lowrey then got in a 15-yard
run, and McDouga1I booted the leath-
er. oliver fumbled, but quickly regain
ed possession and threaded his way
through the opposing crowd for fair
gain.
McDougal kicked and the ball did
another bounding stunt, being downed
on the Oahus' 25-yard line by a Kan.
man.
Punahous got the ball on their IS
yard line and kick put it in the CEN
ter of the field.
Lyman managed to make the Kams.'
12-yard line, picking up the ball from
a bad kick. A penalty against the
Rams. for offside play placed the
leather on their 5-yard chalk, but thir-
ty yards were Immediately gained by a
timely kick.
With the ball on the Kams.' 1S-yard !,
line Lowrey tried a goal from the
field and gained his points amid ire !
mendous enthusiasm.
Play ruled even for while and then
the Punahous were penalized 10 yards /
for some violation of the rules of the
game, Lyman following with a 10-yard
run.
A kick by McDougall put the ball on
the Kams.' sevenyard line. Then the
Kams got the ball and "a big kick re-
moved the danger which had threatened
the citadel.
SECOND HALF