The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-22
'OOE OUT FOR
# IDAHO SWEEP
oDe Indicates That Whlrlwnd
Team Will Meet Utah on
Thanksgiving Day.

-e4sitv OF Idaho team tilS year lids
inst notch below me expectations
go Of the game in the northwest
- .arrast intentions or the MOSCOW
- Who will meet the University of
b f,.taaU team NJ salt Lake on
nkscivng day. ,.., ..
- me almost wonderful success
- bv Coach Middleton with the
fast men ut Idaho last year Wheh
Effected the Idaho sweep. since
- by eastern colleges. the eyes OF
-ftr.-I MORT invest have been turned
Ssbo waiting and watching attentive
- tt. Swinging of new, bewildering
vricb varied from the old style
Eh-ard-turiule football Because OF
-+,.rfi0r games iu which the univer-
tcam has participated have been
s-fIy studied by rival coaches. strlN-
m niarcr the mechanism which Mid
II, had So diligently creased. This
c1ain4ed has been the cause OF the
n scores and uip-and-tuck battles
,bf against northwestern colleges this
L. lIiddlator takes his team To Salt
n, anticipates meeting men who are
familiar with his formations, his
- and his piayeTs. In short he eN-
r. The forward pass. the Idaho sweep
E he open formation TO win for idaho
ECoach Working Under Difficulties.
Epddleton and his team have from early
II the season been working under diff
NJ irTeS on the morning before the game
H. The University of Oregon, which was
bv the phenomenal score Of ~ 10 -,
infant son of Coach Middleton died.
Sing q gloom over the team and the
neer who has won hOuOrs for the L
q sn the team went to Walla Walla.
3 re the Idaho sweep was defeated by
4 tmaH college by a score of II to o,
men on the team were in the pink
- condition which Middleton had eX-
Nd A switch Of men in the lineup.
ii pied with a bit of internal dissension,
ID caused a dampening Of the do or die
liz Elton had been knocked out with
81 bad knee in the Oregon game. Small
switched to full and a new man put
81 BIS place at quarterback Whitman
BE- a safety after Idaho had carried
II bali over the missionaries line and
q fumbled. The winning touchdown
III scored on a raw fluke when Whit
"A ran half the length of the field after
outside kick.
III Won on Series of Flukes.
H. oregon game, which resulted I'm a
tory for the WebfoOters by a score Of
to -. was "a series of flukes. a kicking
Oregon scored four goals from the
= q bf kicks by MOullen. the big tackle
rushed over two touchdowns by clev-
Ey-executed forward passes. Idaho
&yed straight football. carrying the
skin a total of $50 yards and was van
Gshed. Never before in the history of
Etball has such a remarkably close
nc been rolled up.
III the recent game against the Wash
h uuu State college at Pullman. the old
Ia rival of Idaho. the sweep proved the
Pc ground-gainer for Idaho. The game
ri Ied N a tie score. I TO l. Idaho car
- be hal fz-f r1s
He ON $50 from the scrimmage. In this
$ai b. Idaho returned kicks IA yards to
~ amgtons rs. the Pullman team
Ns lng but one forward pass success
l1 Tor gain OF thirty yards. After the
NJ zen minutes Of play the game re-
~ cd ITSELF into a kicking duel between
20 ney Small OF Idaho and Hahn Of
sc
d aho claims the tackle-w ithOut-a-peer
e. the northwest in Rodney Small. who
"a az fuil. quarter and right half. A
ma Standing ; feet 10 inches in his
Sc King feet, weighing los pounds. =
~ rs Old. Small has made the record in
rs northwest this year for sensational
tsf IS and hoir-sinseins leaps to get his
IN the game against W. ). G.
q" ca Friday the 18TH. not a man got
~ llm, his leaps of sometimes twenty
H DOWNING the runner IN his tracks
BY IS acknowledged 10 be the logical
northwest quarterback and field cap
ri for l9tS
60,
SuH another Star.
III Leigh Savfdpe cs,,rair ,s ,,,,, 49,.
u 10 has aDot6er IN rl-ti,,,..i.+ ' .si
r. made M. -. ,' 80 ma
ii I5s- ,-as- an, ,,ie p4 tp team at left
ii onal game rbro,,.rFo,,+ '','S u ( d sci
IA been made sro,,r5 - - 80 vi ui
Ha fs ~ 1.-,,31,- - m e"H rms sea
81 and n r'.'- I3st ON ms
81 DE y.a..r.. rs- vi uIeIIeIence.
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