Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-09-25
". j. VARSITY SWEEPS
ALUMNI OFF THEIR
FEET--SCORE Il TO 0
Matthews Team Shows Vast
Improvement Over Last
Years Early Season

The willamette varsity rushed the
alumni off their feet in the first half
of Yesterdays game and scored four
touehdowns while the old grads were
getting limbered up. The second half
was battle royal from the start and
after the alumni rubbed the noses of
their mascots during the rest period
they held the varsity to scoreless half.
In the first quarter after the varsity
received the kick they worked the ball
down to the Is yard line where Teall
circled the end for 10 yards and Hend-
ricks bucked it over for a touchdown
after nine and one-half minutes of play.
Flegel converted it into q goal.
Henrdicks opened up the second quar-
ter with 30 yaro gain on a split
buck, which placed the ball on the 10
ward line. Irvine then tried quarter
back run but failed on the 10 yard line
Irvine then tried quarterback run but
failed to gain and when tackled dropped
the ball. The ball rolled through the
goal posts and Willamette recovered
Flegel failed to kick goal but the vars
ity netted six points in one minute of
play. Three minutes later Archibald
returned punt 80 yards and Teall
made 40 yard gain around the end for
touchdown and Flegel kicked goal
When there remained but one and one
half minutes to play in this quarter
Teall went around the alumni left end
for 20 yards to touch and Flegel booted
it over for goal, ending the scoring
of the game and netting the varsity u
points.
maggie, - the black bear that mas
cotted for the alumni, shambled out on
the field while the men were resting
between halves and looked over her CO.
horts. The sight cheered the old war
horses and they entered the second half
with renewed pep. After a quarter of
see-sawing back and forth in the center
of the field in which an occasional bril-
liant run by Bishop for the alumni or
Teall for the varsity brought the stands
to their feet, the varsity was content
to let the score rest as it stood. The
subs were trotted out and all were
given a chance to absorb few of the
bumps that the alumni men were dis
tributing about the field.
The varsity this year was a great
surprise to many of the spectators and
shows what careful coaching and fight
will do for team. The varsity that
played yesterday in alumni game would
score 10 touchdowns"in game on the
varsity that played the@ alumni last
year. The boys went NJ 1t hammer and
tongs and for the early season all seem
ed to be in excellent condition. They
play with a vim and snap that is
bound to prove a stumbling block to the
non.conference teams this year. The
w. N. team is light and will be far
outweighed by the conference colleges
but at that they will put up lively
scrap. Teall at left half proved to be
the best ground gamer and the speed of
the fleet footed lad enabled him to
shake off tacklers like duck sheds
water and 20 and 30 yard runs were
not unusual for him.
If he gets loose in any game he is q
dangerous man for the opposition and
will not stop short Of the safety full.
Hendricks, yearling from Bezdeck IS
squad, fills in nicely at full and ham
mered the alumni line for substantial
gains as well as being good man with
the forward pass. Archibald will de-
velop into sure gamer on short snap
py bucks and is the one who calls the
signals on square formations. The line
with few exceptions held against the
alumni but the alumni backs failed to
develop the interference that will show
IN the conference ana although the
alumni game never decides any cham
pionships Coach Mathews appears to
have instilled a vast amount of football
knowledge and ginger into the players
IN short time which augurs well for
The regular season when the finished
product is trotted out to line up against
Ire old rivals Of Willamette.
The first lineup;
Varsity-Teall, left half; Hendricks,
fug; Clinton Archibald, right half;
Irvine, quarter; X. Archibald, center;
Grellop, left guard; fiegel, captain, left
tackle; Tobie, right tackle; Pandall left
end Miller, right end. Subs-Stann,
Proctor, Mann, Gleiser, Bower, Harris,
Reetzl
Mumni-Bishop, captain, left half;
SSingrieh, full; Ludlam, right half;
Small and Graham, quarters; Massey,
center; Tobie, left guard; Compton,
night guard; Carson, left tackle; Hinkle,
riight tackle; Hall, left end; Edwards,
night end.
The officials were; Bartlett, referee;
yates, umpire; Gillette, head lineman;
Lloyd Hauser, field judge, and time