East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-01-02
PENDLETON WINS
FOOTBALL CAME
SWEET REVENGE TAKEN
FOR CHRISTMAS DEFEAT
Two TouchdOwns and Two Field Goals
Result In Score of 10 for Locals
and Nothing for La Grande-Ba-
ker's Trusty Toe Helps Win the VIC
tory-Jim Hill and George Strand
Also Stars.
Pendleton, 10.
La Grande, 0.


In a fast, clean game-a game Of
the whirlwind sort in which Pendle-
ton played the visitors off their feet
the La Grande Commercial clubs
picked eleven yesterday found that
the Pendleton All-Stars, representing
company L, had forgotten football
perhaps, but forgotten fully as much
as the visitors playing indicated the
Boosters had ever known.
The game was won by Pendleton by
score Of 10 to 0. 1t was a game re-
plete with sensational plays in which
the local team had every advantage
and made the most OF them all.
When Tracy Baker made his first
kickoff, he landed the ball within La
Grande's 5-yard line where it was
stopped by the fast work of the locals
and La Grande was forced to attempt
to punt, the ball being blocked on
about La Grande's 25-yard line. From
thence the locals try for place kick
failed, but Tracy Baker again got busy
with a long forward pass to Kimball,
when following heavy attacks on the
visitors line the high school captain
was sent over for the first touchdown
and goal kicked amid the cheers Of
the big crowd attending.
Old Timers Are Good.
Then the old timers who battled
for Pendleton's honor, cheered by the
first success opened a series of spec
tacular line shifts and forward passes
that completely bewildered the for
merly confident visitors and gave the
locals good gains up to the 25-yard
with but 20 seconds to play, Baker
booted one of the prettiest and cer-
tainly one of the fastest place kicks
of the season for a square drop be-
tween the posts.
Comes now one George Strand, he
ro of hundred such battles, more or
less, and outwitted the visitors when
he evaded what seemed an inevitable
tackle for slight gain by the visitors
by low punt which the Boosters
but was again forced to punt, when
Baker sent the ball across the line,
where Herb Thompson beat the visit
ors' safties for a touchdown.
Place Kick i'm Time.
The final score was made by Ba-
ker's place kick from the 35 yard line
with but one-half minute to go.
Wise selection Of the team and not
only splendid individual work, but a
team spirit and team work were re-
sponsible for the splendid victory Of
the company l. team. The old timers
delivered the same article OF football
that had made them formidable in
high school days, while Baker and
Kimball were never seen to much
better advantage than in their clever
playing yesterday. Jim Hill and
George Strand were the same depend
able ground gamers of other years,
while Sturgis and Thompson were
not only splendid in their interfer-
ence and tackles, but fast in their
work throughout.
The teams lined up thus:
Pendleton. La Grande.
Dean '''''''' '''''..'''' L. TROUT
center.
Cresswell ................. Jasper
left guard
Engdahl ...'.'r. .....'...... Goodall
left tackle.
SturgIS DrlScOll
right tackle,
Turner (captain) ............ Nelson
left end.
lHOmpSOn '..',.'..... ........ FTencn
right end.
kimball ..'..'..'..''.'... Reynolds
quarterback
strand ................. Childers
left half
Hill ............. Gillian
right half
odher '.'s'. 11elnueIlTelCuSl
fuiiback.
Pendleton Observation-Disclosures
Pierce.
La Grande substitutes Caylor,
Sttt.
Officials-C. c. Clarke of Union, M.
of Pendleton.
WEEK OF PRAYER.