The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1916-12-07
FOOTBALL
By Earl Weber

Sing a song of football
On Thanksgiving day,
Four and seven iremen
Said that they could play.
But when the game was finished
The Bugs began to shout:
'Now wasn't that a heluva team
The high school put to rout."
Once again the dope sheet was upset
and spilled all over Columbia field.
Once again with class written all over
every member of their team, the fire.
men under strict orders of Chief Nor
gan to quench every spark of fire left
in the high school eleven, hied them
selves to the gridiron brimful of conf
dence and doubling not in the least
that they would bring home victory.
Lee paulding. prognosticator extra
ordinary, had predicted the II. S.
would win. Two or three members of
the II. s. eleven backed that prediction
with coin of the realm, but these men,
bers would bet their hats even il they
we're going to play Oregon, and Lee
always predicts the II. S. will win, so
the people who really conceded the blue
jerseyed boys chance were mere
handful.
But their rooters were more than a
handful. Close to 500 people paid ad-
mittance to the grounds and their root
ing was divided between the teams as
near $3.50 as lie possible.
At 2.l5 the firemen kicked off and
following an exchange of punts and a
tumble, the ball was soon on the fire.
mems nine yard in possession of the
high school. After three vain attempts
to penetrate the firemen's line, Nickel
sen stepped back and placed a drop
kick between the goal posts for the
games only three points. After this
the game was fought between the 80
yard lines, neither team getting dan
gerously close to its opponents goal
until the last quarter. Then the high
school, by succession of forward
passes, plac the ball on the five yard
line. Nickelsen reeled off four yards
through tackle for first down on the
one yard line. Here the firemen's line
again held like stone wall and threw
Bentley, johnson and Henderson, sue
cessively. in their tracks and time was
called just as signals we're being called
IOr the IOurtn DOWN.
1t was big day for the little men.
Johnson, Nickelsen and Sonnichsen, of
the H. S., and Imholz and Geg Franz,
Of the firemen, enjoyed rare after
Moons play. Especially Imholz, whose
work on both offense and defense stood
out like Mount Hood on a May day.
But the feather weights we're not the
only luminaries. A. Button, Huggins,
Lancaster and Dutch Franz formed the
nucleus of line the high school backs
could not sift through. Capt. Ford, M.
Button and Coshow in the firemen's
backfield, hit the line for gam after
gain, but always something would stop
them in their headway. Condition it
was chiefly, or rather lack of condi-
tion. Lady Nicotine is too good
friend of all tiremen.
Stanton starting the game at full
back, had his nose broken on the third
down, following the kickoff. His nose
was patched up and he reentered the
game in the second quarter, looking
very much like man from the trench
es at VeIdun. Some unfeeling player
again attempted to put his nose. guard,
bandage, nose and all on the other side
of his skull and he was again forced
out of the game. His loss was felt,
too, as it left the firemen shy a kicker.
Ford booted well, but was out kicked
by Nickelsen.
Bill Baker, fresh from the wilds of
Parkdale and arrayed in riding pants
and puttees, entered the game in the
second half and proved lather costly to
both sides, smearing several high
school plays in the making and Offset
ting this work by being penalized twice
for total of 20 yards. Brick Lafferty
and Tom Waldie also broke into the
game, but even the red hair of the two
of them helped add but little smoke to
the firemen.
Much has been said about the fremen
and their rushing the ball. but they
we've out played by the high school for
all that, and the victory of Monkries'
boys was we'll deserved one. They
were in much better condition than the
firemen and there was better team
work and more cohesion of play shown
by them. Henderson. in the backield
for the first time. played fine defen-
sive game and Nickelsen was at the
signal calling station where he had not
played since last year.