The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-09
AcC|ES' DEFEAT
LONE TRIUMPH
Victory Over Montana Farm
ers Makes Season Success
full Despite Other Defeats.
DIETZ' ELEVEN BEST
Pullman Team Kept Goal
Line Increased; Oregon
lAggies Finish Second.

The Montana State university i"'t- !
hall eleven finished its first season as
a member Of the Northwestern col!est-
ATE conference at the potion ruhs VI
the ladder. suffering the fate common
10 the neophyte IN every bfahch ~ sll'tt
When a new city breaks into a proies-
sional baseball league, 1t IS a t"o-to-
one bet that its team VIII hhlSh III
the cellar and the same pessimlstic pre-
diction holds good throughout the Ell
tire athletic world. Montana elevens
have played conference teams curing
former wears, but not as members oil
the conference, and it seemed that me
admit,ance of the school brough, dis
aSter with IT.
Three times the Bruins faced CON
ference elevens, and each time the en-
env was on the long end of the score
when the referees whistle halted the
game. But Nissens team, though thrice
Vhlpped was never dlSgraced, loslils
two games through bad breaks III luck
at nopportune times, being d""neu III
the other game by the Washington
State college-nuf sed. Dame fortune
never smiled Ola the Bruins throughout
men saw that they have never seen a
team get AS many lucky breaks as
Idaho did in the Thanksgiving day bat
tie here.
The Big Game Won.
But what matters the defeats by the
teams from the west, as long as the
Aggies were defeated In spite OF the
growing rivalry between, Montana ana
Washington state college, there is no
eleven against which the Bruins VIII
fight harder than against the Montana
State college team from over the noun
tains. Year after year the Aggies send
we'll trained well coached, husky
teams. with records far better than the
Bruins have made, against the state
University eleven. and yet the iShtlnS
men from Missoula always lead when
the fray ends. No matter how many
other games were lost, season IS al
ways grand success as long as the
Agsies are trimmed. In 1916 Nissens
men achieved wonderful record, win
ming four games and losing but one
and in spite of that there was unrest
and discomfort, because the battle With
the farmers ended t" .,
Seasons handicaps Many.
When the State University opened on
October |, there was grave doubt as to
whether the football team would even
materialiZe OF the members of the
1916 eleven who were expected to re-
turn To school and play on this falls
team, no less than eight. Adams, half
back; Jones, quarterback, Sanderson,
fullback; Molthen, halfback; McQuar-
F,1 1pI- SrhpTk.
I.ockridge, halfback, and Woodward,
guard. were already IN the service of
Uncle Sam. The men who returned
one by one, during the first week We're
Captain Chris Bent2. Orr, who was
ineligible to play until the last two
games of the season. Nelson. Layton
games of the season Nelson. Layton,
O'Rourke ineligible last year and
Lamb a substitute.
sentz Captain and Coach.
Coach Jerry Nissen was i'll in bed
being unable to begin drilling the boys
until November /, and the entire bur
den of assembling and coaching team
fell on Christian BentZ, who set his
husky shoulders to the task. over q
score of men, IL Of them freshmen, re
sponded to the first cali for candidates
and worked hard at the fundamentals
of the gridiron game fur two weeks
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! ! Mountain conference CHAMPIONS A de,
'r' perate battle, playing Wats"n'S teai
e To IA Standstil fer three quarters
i, though lacking the variety of uttac
To score in the pinch. In the last pc
Rod the lack OF training told ON ia
home guards and the visitors clinche