The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1915-11-19
GLORIOUSLY DEFEATED.

The Oroville high school football
team did not return home from Omak
Saturday on their shields, neither did
they come back conquorers. They went
IdOwn to ignominiouS defeat before a
team really no stronger than them
disappointing to the hackers of Oro-
Iville on the side lines Had the Oroville
boys kept up the lick developed and
exhibited in the second and third
iQuarters the score would have been
about 81 to 12. But they let off steam
failed at crucial periods, lacked head
work, or something and the sad re-
frain ''it might have been," can be re-
sorted to in commenting upon the re-
suit.
There is no desire to detract from the
Omak victory The down river boys
carried off the laurels by superior
head work They knew what to do,
when to do it, and how to do it, and
did it, to the great discomforture of the
visitors. They hardly out bucked Oro-
willie, but they put it over them by
getting away with end plays, and were
heartless robbers in grabbing passes
that Oroville players should have
gathered in.
At the very opening of the game
Omak galloped across the goal so
quick that it made the heads of the
Oroville lads swim, and not satisfied
with this high handed outrage did it
again in the same quarter. Things
commenced to look somewht brighter
for Oroville in the second canto
when, after an exciting struggle
up and down the field, Ford carried the
ball across the line, and afterwards
Dallam negotiated a drop kick that
added three more points to the total,
while Omak had to remain content with
the 12 counts already accumulated in
the first round. So the first half closed
with a score of IL TO 8 in favor Of
Omak and anybody's game.
The third quarter was a sizzler,
without damage to either side, althouh
Oroville got within striking distance
of the line and lost the chance. The
last quarter proved to be a Waterloo.
for within the first seven minutes
Omak scored twice, Fiker at last sue
ceeding in placing the ball between
the uprights on four trials. During the
last few minutes Orovile fought des-
perately to reduce the distance be-
tween the scores, but there was moth
ing doing. Twice they worked down
within easy reach of the goal line, but
instead of trying to buck through the
agile Omakers grabbed the ball and
Oroville's hopes went a glmmering.
| During most of the game the play
ers confined themselves to the open
play, although occasionally the teams
would lock horns in desperate line
bucks. McMahan made considerable
lyardage boring in, and so did Whiting,
the big man on the Omak team. The
Omakers developed clever end playing
and made it work out advantageously,
Iyet in the main they did not surpass
the visitors at that game. McMahan
made number of beautiful passes,
thu scovering much ground, but twice,
as recorded the forward pass proved
disastrous, developing into touch
downs for the active opponents. There
was altogether much fumbling on both
sides.
The casualties were few, as the
teams are light, and there was no
rough work. Some elephant stepped
upon Ford's chest, just before he made
his touchdown and for time it was
feared that he was seriously hurt
Much to his disgust young Ford was
not permitted to go into the last half,
although eager to play, which requir-
ed several changes in positions, and
that probably accounted for the poor
showing made by Oroville in the last
quarter.
In the evening the Omakers banquet
ed the visitors at the high school and
the fraternizing players had a jolly
good time, the humiliation Of defeat
being forgotten in the exchange of So
social antilles.