Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-12
BISBEE'S POSITION
 AS 10 FOOTBALL
Question of Championship oi BiSbee High School EIev-
 en Raised

Is the 1911 football team of the Bisbee high school the champion of Arizona high schools2 That is a question that is being asked by sup porters of the local high school team. Championships in football are not as easily determined as ia base. Lall, where 1t is a matter of figures The football championship of the east, west and south is in doubt. and it may be put up to the rules commit tee of college atletics to name the champion of each section.
 Dope. which is the odor of com parisons, largely determines football championships. and that is about as close as it c5n be approximated. Tue son has defeated Bisbee in one game and Tucson was defeated by Bisbee in a second game. Tn a baseball se- fies, that would be no argument. but 1t is evident that if Tucson defeated Bisbee by the score of 24 to three Me,Nzs ago and Bisbee defeated Tucs son Saturday by the score of 17 to 6. that Bisbee has progressed in football ability, even if it be granted that Tucson has not retrogressed.
 Tucson was unable to score on straight football tactics in Saturdays game 1T Champion hau not tried to run the ball back on to the football field when it was punted over the goal line at the kick off, it Is doubt ful if Tucson would have scored at all. The correct play at that critical moment would have been for Bisbee Co allow the baIT to go out of bounds, and then it would have had the priyi- lege of bringing it back to their twenty-five yard lins A number of times Tucson was nearer than twen ty-five yards to Bisbee's goal. and yet was unable to carry the oval over the line.
 Champions work at other stages of the game was so brilliant, however. that his lapse of memory at that point of the game can be easily over looked From the standpoint of Tue sons welfare, Champion was every where that he should not have been.
 Going back to dope"
 The only question to consider is, Which is the stronger team, Bisbee or Tucson We have the word of Coach McKale, an ex-Michigan star, that the Bisbee team is the stronger of the two, and nothing could be more evident from comparison of tEe scores of the two games.
 Douglas need not figure in the comparison. They belong to class D. The team averages more weight than the Bisbee team, but they lack az gressfYeness. and evidently and un- fortunately, they seem to be lacking in scipline Bisbee's victories over that team eliminate it from considera- tion
 Tucson defeated Phoenix in two games, and defea>ad the strong In dian team. Tucson has not played Prescott, but Phoenix defeated Pres colt on Thanksgiving Day by the score of 3 to o, so according to dope, Tucson could defeat Prescott By the same token, Bisbee could defeat all the teams that Tucson has defeated since they easily defeated Tucson.
 So, 6fpe gives Bisbee the high school championship of the state.
 Dope. however, is not a mathemati- cal certainty. In game with any of Tucson's victims, a s'ngle brilliant play might give the enemy the vic tory, as m lne case or lhe 1dIS-f fllCt- ton game, when Sam White pulled off a freak play and won the game. But in the absence of a more exact way of determining the championship, Bisbee unquestionably has the right to be called High School champions of Arizona for 19S<
 The 1911 high school team will go down in local nigh school traditions as one of the most remarkable teams ever turned out. Bisbee has been rep resented by stronger. heavier and per haps better teams in the past, but for solving an equation when only x was known. the present gridiron rep resentatives of the high school take