The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-10-17
SNOHOM |SH
BITES THE
DUST
Visitors Boosted in Vain :
Wenatchee Challenges
the States Best.

Wenatchee has a great football
team. There is no longer any Occa-
sion to doubt that fact. The Snoho-
mish game of Saturday is another
story like the Ellensburg slaughter
of the innocents. The boys from over
the mountains were heavier and more
vicious in tackling than the kittitas
county bunch, but their inferiority
in knowledge of the game, spirit and
| team work is told in the final score,
63 to O.
The Wenatchee coach, G. w. Slew
ers, formerly quarterback on the ia
nous Michigan invincibles, has built
up typical Yost machine and it
works like watch. Foster is the
handspring, Sterling, Koehler and
Floyd Ross are the cog wheels and
the balance of the team perform
their work in tackling, interference,
line bucking. straight arm defense,
etc, with all the precision Of a per-
feet ana powerful mechanism.
Foster and Sterling were the great
ground gamers. Time after time the
| fullback would get the ball and run
along TO a favorable position until
Sterling was amply protected by an
| intricate interference, then by sud
den forward pass the pigskin would
shoot twenty TO thirty yards over the
heads of the bewildered visitors into
the quick and sure hands of Sterling.
/ Then his getaway was always good
! for several yards more.
The few times that Snohomish got
! the ball and tried to work the for
ward pass were quite different in
their results. Once Foster caught il
as the sphere was about to drop in
PLAYERS hands Racing around the
! end he evaded all-pursuit except
| Hewitt, the Snohomish center. 1t
was neat little foot race for few
|
ahead and scooted over the line for
a touchdown after making 70-yard
run. Another time he duplicated
this performance, but only had to
run from the 35-yard line.
"Gooky' Koehler, the stocky half
back, could not be called a pretty
lad. He is short and broad but is
as awkward to stop as beer key
rolling down hill. He was the great
est ground gamer in going through
the line. Once Wenatchee was pen
allied for Koehler's hurdle. His pas
sion to cover yardage tempted him
sometimes to crawl Never did his
hands touch the ball that an advance
was not made.
FLOYD Ross shone like bright
! light when it came to catching the
kick-offs and speeding down the
field. Tweed played fine game
Notwithstanding he was in crippled
condition. In fact, the entire line
was invincible at all times and work
ed its interference and straight arm
with telling effect.
Snohomish worked all the time
and were game to the finish. Their
center, Captain Hewitt, made a
splendid showing. He played a
"heaiy' game and scarcely ever fail
ed to get his man in tackling. He
was favorite with the fans because
of his fairness and good nature. He
; showed a nice courtesy in helping
Wenatchee players to their feet when
emerging from hard scrimmages.
Snohomish averaged $50 pounds
to the man. as against 15S for We
, natchee.
There were twelve touchdOwns and
only three goals. 1t was Foster
, off day in finding the posts with the
pigskin. The honOrs individually
we're distributed as follows: Ster-
ling, 2 tOuchdOWnS; roster, 4; flo!u
Ross, 2; o. Ross, l; Koehler, 2, and
Tweed, /.
With two such decisive victories
. to their credit the boys are now itch
ing to get a game with a team wor'
thy of their metal. Hopes were en-
tertained that the Quen Anne high
school team of Seattle would pass III
Portland next Saturday and take or
; Wenatchee. That now seems impos-
, sible. Circumstances are now begin
, ming to indicate that none OF the Sc
attic schools are willing to take or
Wenarchee. Pressure will be brought
to bear and no effort spared to force
J the issue.