The Washington herald., 1914-12-20
of Past Combats In Major Scholastic Championships for 1914
Divided Among Four Schools Business Eastern Central and Technical
Capitol Hill Team Won Base
ball, While Manual Trainers
Land Grid Championship.
ocHSENREITER IS STAR

ginning Of the season, il is obvious that
such should be in the methods Of seholas-
tic coaching
In the upset of dope In the footban
campaign Eastern and Western figured
prominent for a one-sided defeat. When
the final whistle blew the verdict stood
to 0. and tradition, that always marks
a centrai-Western game, was not
crushed
On the other hand. Eastern came across
with victory over Central by a 7-to-O
score. that completely made ths
''dopesteTs" give Up an hopes Of picking
high school winners. II was nearly as
certain that Central would win from
Eastern~ as 1t was that the sun would
sink. Possibly the Streeters were a bit
stale ard peevish AT the time Of their last
battle. but the Eastern victory over Gen.
tral went down in history for the first
time since 1901.
Those who have written reams about
the great football eIevens OF the year.
seem to have overlooked entirely the
Everett High School eleven. OF Everest.
Mass. which. all things considered. ranks
as the greatest football team Of the year.
Everett High played thirteen games
during the year and won them all Not
once during those thirteen games was il
scored upon, and its total scoring for
those thirteen games was exactly co..
pOints-a greater number of points than
ever has been scored by an eleven, col
lege. high school or otherwise. in the his
tory Of the game. Yosts great scoring
machine OF ton years or so ago rolled up
so points, but Everett exceeded this
mark by fifty points.
game was . trihc over IS points Its
BIGGEST score was made against the Oak
Park High School eleven, Of Chicago.
champions OF the Western section Ever
EFT rolled up eighty points against Oak
Park. and Is the players hadn't grown
tired Of running down the field toward
the enemy's goal line they could have
made II leo points or more.
Rindge Tech School held Everett TO
twenty-one pOints-the best defensive
work shown by any eleven that played
against the team.
Some folks may ask. Was Everett's
work more wonderful than that of Har-
ward or the University of Illinois, and
the answer is Yes
Everett. of course. was only a high
school eleven, but in comparison with
other high school elevens it stood so far
above any other high school. eleven in
the country that there was no compari-
son Everett played out. its regular
schedule and then accepted challenges
from two sectional high school cham
pions- One was the Oak Park eleven. OF
Chicago, the pride of the West. which
Everett at once smothered under that
30 to o score.
The Stamford. Conn. high school
eleven, ranking as one or the best de-
yeloped in the East during the 1911 sea-
son. then met Everett. They met them
going toward the Stamford goal line
Everett gave Stamford a g. to o beating
that's all.
Cleo O'DonneI was coach of the Everett
team. and his work this year has given
him a national reputation. Many of the
college athletic committees who are cast
ing about for new coaches are consider
7 ing O'DOnnell, and the chances are that
he will graduate into major league
coaching society next fall.
O'Donnell had some great. natural foot
! ball material to work with, but O'DOn-
nell taught his men how to play after
his own ideas and the so to record
seems to show that O'Donnell as a coach
is a wizard.