Arizona republican., 1921-01-23
PIMA RESERVATION
 CLOSES SEASON IF
 FOOTBALL ACTIVITY
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 Football activity on the Pima reser- vation came to a close on January 15. A five-tea league under the direc- ton of the Pima Athletic association has been in session since early in Octo- Der, playing total of r games, 10 league games and games with teams not represented in the league. App proximately 500 men, varying in age from 15 to 45, participated in the grid iron sport, with an attendance approx imating 5000.
 The love of physical activity and natural athletic ability, accompanied by a keen sense of adaptability to the technie of the game is accountable for the wide participation in football. Foot ball among the Pimas is not new thing; it has been the winter sport of these people for more than a decade and is destined to be the natural ath- letic sport of the coming generation.
 In all the games played since the initiation of football among the Pimas comparatively few fatal accidents have occurred. All types of men have in dulged, fleshy and lean, varying in weight from 120 to 225 pounds. Slow and fleet-footed men have defended the honor of their respective teams, in cidentally painting on the pages of Pima history or stamped in the minds of the rising generation as unwritten tradition some spectacular victory, to be handed down from mouth to mouth to the unborn generations.
 The success of the sport is due large ly to the enthusiasm and support which Superintendent Haygood of the agency and Rev. Dirk A. Lay, the missionary to the Pimas, have rendered. Without players there would be no game, there i fore the greater success might well be attributed to the many students who after leaving institutions like ths Phoenix Indian school. sherman insti- l tute, Haskell institute, Chillocco In dian school Escula, Carlisle ana Hampton, have returned to the Pima ! country to strengthen and further en 1 courage wholesome community activ 1 ity Too much credit cannot be givel 1 these young men for their hearty co operation. participation and continue, {! interest in physical and athletic activ 1 ity after leaving the regular routine 0 school life.
 In recent years with the organization of the athletic association regula
 schedule for the teams has been ar
 ranged. with 6 large silver loving GU
 as an award to the league champions
 The teams included in the league fo 1920 were as follows: Blackwater. Sac aton Flats, Sacaton, Santan and tn
 Sacaton Indian school. Contests wit
 the following teams not represented i
 the league were held: Phoenix India.
 school two games), Lehigh etw games), St Johns school (thre
 games). Four of the games with tn l outside teams were lost while thre
 were captured
 The championship for the 1920 regu lar scheduled games goes to Sacato
 Flats, which team lost one game dur , ing the entire season. Two game were required between Sacaton an i Sacaton Flats to decide the final cham pionship. the last game, which wa won by Sacaton Flats in a gruelini well played game on January 15 by score of to 0. Both teams were rer
 resented by former stars of India
 schools, whose defensive and offensiv
 attack was equally balanced. Individ
 ual players might be mentioned frol
 ship and ability as all-around footba
 players who have played eonsisteT game throughout the season.
 . The highest tribute that can be pal , to the participating teams might |
 summed up as lovers of clean sports
 manship. The marked absence of pro
 fanity and general unsportsmanlib conduct speaks for itself and will hay it's wholesome effect on generation who are yet to engage in the sport Organized football like that on tl Pima reservation might easily be pro noted on other reservations and | made the redeeming feature to bride
 the gulf of uncertainty which present !. itself between the student life an home life, thereby adjusting and hal
 monizing more readily school life ar 2 the sometimes less attractive reserve | ton life