The Washington times., 1921-01-11


Eastern is blessed with no athletic
facilities whatever. Back of the
school there is a well worn lot. In
side the ancient structure there is
small playroom which serves as
drill hall and gymnasium. Around
the wall guns are racked. The cell
ing is ten feet high. The floor is
about twenty-five feet wide and forty
feet long.
On the lot back OF the school and
at the Rosedale Fairgrounds more
than a mile away, Eastern practiced
football. In tine low-cciling drill hall
Eastern practices basketball.
There are few more than one
, hundred and fifty boys in the school.
But the spirit is there. And Guyon
is there with it.
Last fall in football Guyon took
over the Fasteners. Straight away
he began to get results. In the first
game Eastern met Western and the
Westerners won by 10 to Z. Many
said that Western had an off day.
The Westerners were perfectly
frank about it and said that while
they didn't get the breaks in the
luck they should have had. Eastern
had a first class team which was
credit to defeat.
Then Fasteners said very little but
kept plugging along. In the game
against the big Central eleven East
ern lost again but the game was
virtual victory, fop Central just man
aged to win by a single touchdown.
The game was played in the Central
stadium. The Fasteners were out
weighed many pounds to the man.
but kept the Central lads on the jump
right up to the final whistle. The
Fasteners, let it be known. don't
| know what quit" means.
Against Tech the little Fasteners
took the field. Tech, like Central,
was held to a single touchdown and
had it not been for an unfortunate
| tumble Tech might have won by only
| a 3-to-0 score, as Heine booted fine
| field goal for the Tech lads. in addi-
| ton to the touchdown they managed
| to shove over with Ed Pugh.
Last Friday Eastern hoped right
| into the title hunt in basketball and
| played rings around Central in the
coliseum. The Fasteners. despite the
poor breaks for Central in the matter
| of basket shooting, ran the Mt. Pleas
| ant lads ragged. They were not dis
couraged in the slightest. They didn't
know that $500 boys and girls were
watching them.
1t was preposterous that Eastern
should lead Central to at the end
OF the first half Even Coach Metzler,
Of Central, admitted that after the
first quarter he expected to see the
| half end something like 20 to in
! favor Of Central.
But the Fasteners went right out
| in the second half and played even
better, despite the loss of "FoXey"
| Faber, who was ruled out on personal
In, a,,I y,,ot
as well as Faber. with the result that
Eastern wound up a 16-to-9 winner
and kept Central from scoring sim
gle point during the last ten minutes
| of the game.
And back on the side line was
Charley Guyon. the Indian coach. He
smiled occasionally. That's good"
he said every little while. THE boys
are playing a good game, and they're
| going to win" After the game Guyon
was right on the job with his young
sters
Now George Marshall, whose spe-
cial hobby is football in the fall and
| thcaters in the winter. was captious
enough to make a remark at a foot
| ball game last fall.
Said Marshall, IL that bird Guyon Is
| at Eastern next fall you'd better
watch out for the Eastern team. lie
made q real football team out Of
| lot OF little kids this year. Look out
| for next year"
Exactly seven days after next
year" which. according to reckoning
lands us right here in 1921, Guyon's
basketball team walked right into the
title hunt and defeated Central, upset.
ting the dope, as II were, from Mt.
| Pleasant to Capitol Hill and back
over to Georgetown.