Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1921-11-04

which the following excerpts are
| taken:
1t was our privilege to be at the
Multnomah hotel after the Washing
ton California football game
saturday night when Andy Smith and
Gus WEIGH, the Washington State
coach, met each other. Welch had
come to pay his respects to Andy and
to congratulate him on his victory.
This was not the first time they
had been opponents on the football
field. Years ago, when Smith played
at Pennsylvania, and later coached
there, Gus WEIGH. who is a Chippewa
Indian, had played quarterback for
| the Carlisle Indians. in those bat
thing, battering days, it seems, each
came to know the other we'll and each
attained respect and an admiration
for the other that has never wavered.
They sat about informally on the
! beds in one of the rooms and began
exchanging reminiscences-for ex-
ample, of that memorable game when
Pennsylvania beat Carlisle, "a to 27,
game in which the spectators, they
said, were stirred to such a frenzy
of excitement as each team in success
! sion scored touchdown after touch
down, that they could hardly be re-
! strained from rushing on the field to
! get in the game themselves Never
was there such another football game
as that, these veterans declared. And
they recalled other games in which
the plucky Indians had won.
Then the talk drifted to various
plays in the Washington State-Cali-
fornia game, and then to their respec-
tive football problems and their phil
osophies of football and of life.
1t was one of those rare occasions
when the light shines in for all to
see on what man stands for and
what he really is. Much of what was
said was, of course, strictly lin club"
and not for publication. And yet some
of the things that the light shone on,
1t can do no harm to relate.
For instance, the wonderful sports
manship of Gus WEIGH. When a coach
has lost game like that one Satur-
day, in which breaks figured so i'm
portantly, it's mighty hard unless he
is all man, to take it smilingly and
without a whimper. Then if ever is
when the alibis will crop out But
there was never an alibi from Gus
Welch, never an excuse nor the SEM
blance of one.
I'll tell you, Andy, what pleased
me most about that game" said Gus,
THAT was the craftsmanship of both
teams. l never saw two football elev-
ems play harder or more fiercely, yet
their playing was absolutely clean.
There was no smuggling, no underhand
work, no dirty playing of any kind.
They played like gentlemen. and col
| legians ought to do that always
though they don't. I want to con-
graduate you, Andy. on having not
only a great team, but team that
plays such clean football. -
Andy replied that it made him feel
good all over to hear Gus say that
and that no man could remain on his
team one minute who ever pulled a
dirty trick.
I'D rather lose every game I play
than win that way, Gus" he asserted
And it was plain how sincere he was
Believe me, ! know what it is to lose
too. had some mighty lean years at
California before l turned in win
ner. But lean ones or good ones
winning team or losing one, nobody
can say that one of Andy Smiths
teams ever played dirty football
And if I coach 1000 years they never
can say it, either.
"And, Gus, let me tell you some
| thlng else. After what happened last
year I think you did a wonderful
thing to bring that team down here
and have it play the football it did.
| don't believe another coach in the
country could have done it, with the
circumstances as they were. They
played fine game and an absolutely
clean game.
lone thing the people out here do
not realize yet is that the class of
Pacific coast football is just as good
as it is anywhere in the United
States. and I verify believe just lit
tie better. I have coached almost
about everywhere-in the east, in
the middle west, on the coast. The
east has nothing on coast football.