East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-10-22
LOCALS take GAME
FROM WALLA WALLA
PENDLErON HIGH RETURNS
WITH LAUREL WREATH
Boys Win First mterscholastic Game
by 5 TO o Score-Game Was Hard
Fought-Score Came I'm Last Quar-
ter

Bearing the laurelwreath of victory
the Pendleton High school football
team returned on the early morning
train from Walla Walla after defeat
ing the Garden City high eleven by
the score of to 0. According to the
boys, the game was one hard fought
from start to finish, the local boys
making the only touchdown in the
last few minutes of the final quarter.
And even then it looked for a time as
If the contest might be tie for with
but two minutes to play, the WASH
ingtonians executed three forward
passes and, by the assistance of re-
covered fumbles, worked the leather
oval to the Pendleton three-yard line
where the final whistle stopped it's
progress.
The Pendleton team was handicap
ped by the absence from the game of
Richard Thompson, who is suffering
from a bad ankle. Kimball, the
speedy little quarterback, sustained a
twisted ankle during the game and
for some time.
Coach Lytle and Captain Devine
are both immensely pleased at win
ming the first interscholastic game,
and the hopes of the entire team of
winning the championship of eastern
Oregon have been perceptibly raised.
According to Coach Lytle, William
son, who played guard on the Pen
dleton team, was one of the stars Of
the day. Being one of the lightest
men in the line, the Walla Walla
players concentrated their line at
tacks on him but without effect. He
proved a tower of strength, stopping
every play that was aimed in his di-
rection and frequently breaking
through the line and breaking up the
plays of his opponents before they
got started.
Regarding the game yesterday this
mornings Walla Walla Union has the
following to say:
"Pendleton high school defeated
Walla Walla high school yesterday
afternoon by a score of to in one
Of the best games ever played on
Ankeny field, both as an excellent ex-
hibition of football and as a mani
festation of true sportsmanship.
Though the game was a struggle clear
through, there was no ungentleman-
ly conduct whatever. The Pendleton
boys averaged about five pounds heav-
ier than the local team but the diff
ference in weight was not great
enough to make a perceptible differ
ence in the playing of the two teams.
Pendleton's only advantage lay in the
greater experience of the men. Coach
Shaver of the Walla Walla team said
that the game was well played and
that he was well pleased with the
showing made by his players. He said
that Pendleton won by good clean
playing, and that he had no fault to
find. Coach Lytle of the Pendleton
team commented on the equality
shown by the teams. He said that
he thought the yardage made by the
two teams, both by forward passes
and otherwise was about even. He
said that the horseshoe just happened
to fall Pendleton's way, and that WAL
la Walla would probably have scored
had the game continued longer. For
the local boys, Booker, Cowan, Haw-
kins and Shared played great ball,
and for Pendleton Devine, Chapman,
Kimball and Bowman deserve special
mention, Chapman doing we'll with
forward passes"
The following was the lineup of the
two teams: