The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-11-18
MISSIONARIES
ELIMINATED
Idaho is Entitled 10 The
Championship
SPREAD" It ON SATURDAY
WHITMAN WAS UNABLE TO SCORE
AGAINST MIDDLETON's
MEN-coLFAx WAS
CAPTURED.


the football championship contest Sat
urday and Whitman college dropped
back a notch taking second place with
Idaho leading with an apparent undls-
puted title However as put by num-
ber of Moscow citizens, 1.-The Whitman
the gamest bunch of losers that ever
shouted themselves hoarse at a foot
ball game
Eleven to nothing in favor of Idaho
tells great part of the story OF the
game but it does not begir. to tell the
story of the way Moscow was shown
how Whitman can take clean defeat
nor the way Whitman and Walla Wal
la was advertised by the 225 enthusi-
astic excursionists who made the trip
with the Whitman team Saturday.
"Turkey -"
Every city, town, hamlet, corral and
hay stack between the Garden City
and the Idaho burg was cheered to
the echo as the big delegation slowly"
journeyed ON it's, way to defeat. Colfax
was taken by storm. About 1890 the
citizens of the village were startled by
the strains of Turkey in the straw"
and the yells from the Jolly rooters.
Rushing from the stores to the side
walks and poking their heads out of
windows the Colfax people were "thun-
derstruck" to see a band marching
through the main street followed by
two hundred screaming but orderly
men and women waving the maize and
blue and shouting for Whitman ana
Walla Walla. The procession journed
across the town and again climbed in
the train which again wended it's tire
some way toward the battle field.
Two hours behind the schedule time
the train pulled into Moscow at 2:30
and the crowd immedia tely formed in
to the baseball grounds where seats
had been reserved for them. By the
time Moscow was reached the Whit
man rOoters had been increased in
State college in Pullman who marched
with the Missionaries and yelled, until
time was called, for the maize and the
blue.
Just in Time.
The Whitman aggregation We're
hardly seated before Idaho kicked the
ball down the field to Rigsby who re-
turned it for 20 yards and the struggle
was on From the start it looked like
Whitman would have walk-away.
They began Immediately to
open holes in Idaho's line and
go through for good gains.
Inside of the first 10 minutes
they were penalized twice for a total
of so yards and forced to punt. Idaho
then began with her famous spread"
and started for good gains. One for
ward pass was good for about IS yards.
Whitman took a brace but could not
hold and Captain Armstrong went over
for a touchdown. Johnson failed to
kick goal and the score was, Idaho, 5;
Whitman, 0.
well Show 'Em Yet"
This did not cast any gloom over the
Missionaries who were certain they
could score regardless of the fact that
the touchdown made a change of goal
necessary losing for Whitman the ad-
vantage of the wind which she had
when the game started and which she
did not again regain until just before
the finish.
Again Whitman began tearing off
yardage. Dimmick, Rigsby, Martin and
Borleske, all found holes in the lire
and went through with DOC" drag
ging them. Then the forward pass was
tried and looked good for an instant,
but the wind was too stiff and the ball
fell short costing Whitman Is yards
again. The ball would be- worked for
ward in good shape only to be brought
back again on a peLalty for failure of
the forward pass which Whitman
ington and which would have worked
with Idaho had it not been for the
wind. The half closed with the ball
near the center OF the field without any
more scoring.
History Repeated.
The second half was like unto the
first Whitman would tear off yardage
and then lose on a tumble or penalty