Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1910-11-18
u. OF ". WINS FROM ". S. c.
Large Crowd Sees State College Defeat
- ed in Spokane Last Saturday.

The U. of W. w. S. c. football
game, played in Spokane last Satur
day drew the largest crowd that ev
er attended a similar contest east oil
the mountains. Almost every owl
in Eastern Washington sent its rep
resentatiyes, and the way the people
of Spokane turned out assures them
Of at least one of the big conference
games each year. The score was 16
to 0, with w. S. c. on the short end,
but the game put up by the State
College boys brought honor to them
selves and to their college The FOL
lowing account of the game was
written for the Evergreen by Roy
w. Merritt, a student at w. S. c.
In a game that was stubbornly
fought throughout, in which good
clean football was played every min
ute by both teams, w. S. c. went
down to their third defeat before the
smoother working team of the Uni
yersity of Washington, Is to in Spo-
kane last Saturday afternoon. The
element of football luck was very
much in evidence, but it broke
against the State College at every
turn, and in the new style of game,
this element of luck is what wins
many games of football. Beginning
with that intercepted pass in the first
quarter, when the University gained a
touchdown through an open field, the
breaking of the luck was all against
the wearers of the crimson and gray.
The defeated team played like tro-
jams, and had the season been earlier,
giving the men more time to find
themselves, they would undoubtedly
have made better showing against
the University team who did have an
earlier start, the result of which was
obvious in the smoother play of that
team.
On the roll of honor, at the top of
the list, stands the name of Heintzel-
man, who, but his second chance this
season, played a marvellous game, es-
pecially on the defense. Battered
and torn by the machine-like inter-
ference that came around his end
time and again, he gave no thought
of numbers and invariably stayed
with the rushing mass of opposing
Drawn and speed until he had cap
tured his man. The awful strain
told on him physically, but his 140
pounds of pure nerve and fight
brought him up on his feet again,
ready for another onslaught Helm
tzelman is not overly fast, and he
lacks weight but these two disadyan-
tages are more than balanced by his
grit and staying power. Laird was
in every play, and was always the
| first man to break through the line,
proving beyond a doubt that he has
plenty of All-Northwest stuff in him,
and outside of Eakins, has no peer in
| the Northwest conference. Buck.
playing on defense was exceptionally
good, he being the man chosen by
| Osthoff to play back for punts. All
but twice did Buck capture those
difficult high spirals from the boot
of Eakins, and although he made very
little yardage running the punts back
this fact was due more to the ability
of Washington ends in getting down
on the ball, and Eakin's ability to
send the ball into the air high enough
to give these ends time to nail Buck
in his tracks. Foran, as usual,
played excellant ball, both on Offense
and defense, and up until the time
his poor leg gave out he was kicking
right up there in Eakin's class. With
another years training Foran will be
one of the best kickers in the
Northwest, and if the quarterback
position is allotted him next year he
ought to be a strong contender for an
All-Northwest position. When it
comes to running a team, Jacks work
can seldom be questioned, and as an
all round field general, he ranks with
Coyle and Latourete.
Galbraith, for hard fighting and
steady plugging, can always be count
ed upon. His great work in the clos
ing moments of the game, when he
begged the University quarter to send
the play around his end, and as
promptly intercepted the forward
pass that Coyle did shoot in his neigh
borhood, thus cheating the Washing
ton team of another touchdown,
stamps him as man among the best
of them. The honorable mention