The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-09

favor and the bah was i'm Whitman's
possession on its own 25-yard line,
with seemingly little danger of any
scoring being done. Then the luck
and the officials turned the game in
Whitman's favor. a forward pass was
thrown to Degrief. Whitman end.
standing in the middle of the field.
Sullivan interfered with him as he
was about to catch the ball, and the
referee awarded the ball to Whitman
NJ the point where Degrief would have
caught it, which was all according to
HoNle and Walter Camps personally
| supervised set OF rules But then the
officials did something not according to
Hoyle or Walter Camp, penaliZng Mon
Itana Is additional yards for interior
| ing with the catch. This put the ball
on Montanas 35-yard line and from
there Bolts broke away for long run
and touchdown. A touchdown in the
last 35 seconds Of play on a long for
ward pass swelled Whitmans score.
Ageies Are Trimmed.
| The next game was against the Ag-
gies and in this contest Montana,
though severely crippled and with Two
green men playing at the ends. won
by staging a sensational come back
after the Aggies had assumed the lead
| with but five minutes to play. A long
run by Driscoll, "a series of bucks by
Chris Bentz. already a hero because
of his 43-yard field goal. and the As
gies went home defeated. while gloom
descended over Bozeman.
The team put up fine exhibition
against Washington State college, los
ing eventually after having held the
wonderful Diet2 aggregation from
crossing the goal line until the last
minute of the second period. Handi-
capped by injuries, the Bruins We're
unable to make as strong a showing
in the second half, but at that sur
iprised Dietz.
The Idaho game was lost in the air
Idaho punching their successful for
unable to do.
Prospects for next year if football
survives the war, or if the war ends
before the coming of another grdiron
. year, are excellent. The following
veterans will return: Layton, three
Years; Dahlherg, two years; Sailor
two years; Lamb. two years: Leahy
pohertY. Carver, Van Horn, Donohue
priScull. sullivan, kries, Harris, IIor,
+ rigau and baVry.
# the football team had hegur
ira EinG during the first nr SeconI
week ~ September as has been th'
" custom, Nissen would have turned on
It Formidable eleven despite the lnsse:
. t" lhr army and navy. Jerry did won.
=, dcrS with the eleven during the montl
hr lad the team in charge, and one car
pat wonder what the team, in goot
physical condition, and with sufficien
. training, H.iIld have done to Whitman
:, Idaho, the Utah Aggies and the Mon
tana AggicS. And would they hav,
tgiVeu Washington State college Il fight
They sure would.
Considering all circumstances, Mon
- tanas first season in the northwest
efn conference might be summed III
as an honorable retreat, a team de
- feated, but winning laurels even il
- defeat.
Coach Dietzs Washington Stat
, college team easily won the champion
=. ship honors, keeping its goal line IN
- crossed during the entire season an
y. winning six straight conference game.
> The final standing of the Northwest
e ern conference for the season of lsl
follows:
~ The complete records of the confe,
ence teams for the season follows:
Warrington State College.
. Q, Camp Lewis Officers ...............--.
~ &c, Unworthy of Oregon --.--.......-........
w. 10, Whitman ......,..- .,..-.....-...,....-...
-, 10, University of Idaho ...................
~ 6, Oregon AgSies .-............-..-..--..
%. Montana State Unworthy
~ IA, University of Washington .........
ay Oregon Asgies.
is "a, Vancouver soldiers ..............,....