Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-26
AGGIES ARE
DUE TODAY
OREGON FARMERS EXPECTED TO
ARRIVE AT NOON
Northwestern Champions Are Doped to
Give Saints the Fiercest Grid
iron Battle of the
Season

The Oregon Agricultural college foot-
ball team of Corvallis, champions OF the
northwest, will arrive in Los Angeles on
the coast line at noon today, ana VIII
hold their last practice tomorrow AFTER
noon in preparation for their game
against st. Vincent's college at f1esta
park Thanksgiving day.
There will be twenty men in the party,
including Coach Norcross, Trainer Heat
er. Manager Greenhow, Cooper, left half
Barber. left guard; Bennett, left tackle
Dunlap, left guard; Jamison, right
tackle; Pendergrass, captain and right
guard; Wolff, fullback; Kelly center
Iooney, fullback; Emily, left end; Dob
bin. right end; Cox, left half; Rinehart,
right half; Gagnon, quarter; Cody, right
end; Harding, left end, and Reynolds,
quarter.
The team as a whole is composed OF
giants in height and weight. The north
western gridiron experts give great
credit to Coach Norcross for his splendid
work In turning out winning team at
Corvallis. Since college opened two
months ago Norcross worked with but
one end in view-the defeat of Oregon.
His early season games were arranged
to this end and they gave his new men
experience which stood them in hand
when the crisis came. From the Agrl-
cultural college standpoint everything
centered on one game-the contest with
Oregon. All else was secondary.
The teams of recent years had tri-
umphed over all their rivals but Oregon
Ten years had passed since the colors
ee the university had been lowered, but
out of the defeats of those long years
came a victory that was sweet indeed.
Norcross is a master hand at the game
He learned his football from Yost and
he has the faculty of putting the right
kind of fighting spirit into his men, He
has done something that no other Cor
Wallis coach has done since the days OF
"Bilr' Bloss.
Old Michigan Captain
Norcross was captain of Michigan three
years ago and was chosen as all-western
quarter.
The Oregon line is big and the backs
fast Wolff, the fullback, is one of the
best punters ever seen in the Pacinc
northwest He is a trifle slow, but he
boots the ball with unerring accuracy.
He takes plenty of time to size up the
back field of his opponents and then
sends his long spirals for fifty yards.
Dobbin and Emily, the Corvallis ends,
are both good men. Dobbin is sure
tackle, but when it comes to smashing
in interference Emily has the lead on
him.
lege team is Jamison, 2OO-pound fresh
man, who plays right tackle. Jamison
halls from Utah, where he played on the
Utah Agricultural college team. His
chief value to his team lies in his ability
to run with the ball from his tackle
position. He is usually good for hVe
yards and sometimes more. Pendersrass,
captain of the Agricultural eleven, plays
a consistent game at guard. He is MT
a sensational player, but his work is OF
great value to his team.
The ST. Vincent'S eleven will have to
be particularly careful about fumbling,
and the locals can learn a good lesson
on this point from the Oregon-Aggie
game when the university fumbled
wretchedly. Every tumble was gathered
in by Corvallis her men going after the
ball with fiendish glee. 1t was this work,
above all else, that enabled the farmers
to gain the vantage point from which
Wolff sent the leather spinning above
the cross-bar. Corvallis is also good in
other important lines-punts far has fine
defensive ends and gains much in run
ming her tackles with the ball. Taken
as a whole, the st. Vincents back field
is strong, and Casey, Stoney and Gait
should be able to tear up the Corvallis
center and gain on straight bucks right
down the field
Pass May Fail
Although John Gait has been very
lucky in throwing the oval in his games
SO far this season it is doubtful whether
the Indian half will be able to get away
with his brilliant forward pass against
the rubes, who shine in scraps for the
ball.
st. Vincent's has neat interference
for wide end runs and uses the forward
pass with better results but that forward
pass may prove costly play in Thanks
giving's contest
university November 16, which the
farmers won by AZ to O. serves as an
illustration of tthe Corvallis method. o.
A. c. made her big score by a place
kick by Wolff and seven touchdowns.
Corvallis rushed 3S3 yards and their de-
Tense was so superb that Willamette
could only rush Is yards. Coach Nance
of Willamette said after that game;
"Corvallis played like a machine and Her
interference was irresistible. 1 believe
the Aggie team is the strongest in the
west today" That is what rival coach
admits.
In that contest VOLTS short trick
punts for his mates to recover and the
rushes of himself and Jamison, tackle,
were phenomenal. Wolff's place kicking
average is about so per cent Rinehart
starred at half and Emily played a
whrlwind end.
Following is the prospective lineup for
the Saints as given out by Coach Walter
Hempel last night Dechman or Brannen,
left end; Taylor left tackle Rheinschild
or Bourg, left guard; Phillips, center;
Murray or Beinhoffer right guard:
Brinkop, right tackle; Grindle, right end;
De Yuberrando or Huppert, quarter;
Gait, right half; Stoney, full; Keim or
Casey, left half.
Fisher may go in at end and Beatson
may fill one of the halves.