East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-11-21
OREGON AND D. A. c.
BATTLE TO SCORELESS
TIE ON FIELD Of Mud
Neither Team Able to Get Point
But Oregon Missed by Inch
When Placement Kick Failed


When Placement Kick Failed !
/ EUGENE, Or, Nov 21.-(A. P)-- I
The football championship of the {
state Of Oregon is hanging on a limb.
And it will hang right there for an
other 12 months. for the University Of
Oregon and oregon Agricultural coll
lege in their annual game here Satur-
day for the second time in two years,
played TO a no-score tie.
Hayward field, where the game was
played, was the mud capital of the civ
ilized world. From start to finish.
without let-up or slackening. it rained |
Through the muddy struggle-a driv-
ing barrage of little wet pellets, that |
hit the players like needle shower |!
before the force of Q gusty south wind. !
II Place Kicks Are Attempted.
It is not often that a game, played
in mud is so brilliant in spots and so
IIspectacular all the way. Ordinarily a
mud game is one of straight football
lIplugging, with little to stir the pulses
of the spectators about their normal
Bttits iNN II was uiIltitIl Htlts
Twice oregon attempted field goals
and four times the Aggies likewise
tried All six were place-kicks and all
six went awry, by wire margins, save
one-but that one was the big thrill,
the stirring play of the day.
HI Once more in the first half, after
Spike Leslie's kick had failed by inch
les, Oregon seriously threatened the
Aggie goal line, this time after a for
ward pass. Crowell of the Aggies had
| just made his third attempt at goal
from placement. The ball kicked
from Oregon's 45-yard line. was block
ed by Spike Leslie. 1t bounded back
but he pursued it and threw himself
on it on the Aggie 80 yard line
Il King and johnson hurled them
| selves against the Aggie forwards with
| scant success. Then Chapman flipped
beautiful 10-yard forward pass to
tall Hunk Latham, who plucked it out
of the air and raced IS yards before
he was downed on the Aggie 14-yard
line. Then, If ever seemed to be
lNOregons chance to make a touchdown.
That was not to be either. King
took the ball on an off-tackle buck
but fumbled, an Aggie player recover
ed on the 11-yard line. Miller kicked
out Of danger.
I'LL Aggies Also Threaten.
Shortly before that. 1t had been the
III Aggies turn to threaten. The break
in that case was a 12-yard punt out OF
II bounds by Spike Leslie to the Aggie
i II35-yard line, followed by a whale OF
a punt by Miller, with the wind help.
ing him. for so yards. The ball bound
II ed several yards after hitting the
| llground and the Oregon safety was
downed with it on the oregon 2-yart
| line.
llI Thus the game went from first t
last. One side would have the advan
tage one moment, but the next a fun
BILE or long wind carried punt woulC
reverse the odds. Occasionally on
III eleven would threaten seriously, b.,
=, not often. Most of the battle wa
: fought in a quagmire of mud betwe
the 9O-yard lines, with frequent fun
ne bles keeping the excitement always a
he fever pitch.
is Neither eleven came very close t.
ht the opposing goal in the last half
TT though the Aggies once worked th
gh ball to the oregon 90-yard line on ;
ST forward pass. This happened in tn,
- fourth quarter, after McKenna ant
he Gill had replaced Miller and Summers
in the 0. A. c. backfield McKenna go
IN ing in at quarter and Kasberge
lr- changing from quarter to half Afte
i'd Oregon had gained on several punt
ew the gain was nullified by tumble tina
IT. gave the Aggies the pigskin in mid
Of field.
of 1t was a great battle. despite th
he mud oregon showed decided super
on, iorty in line plunging with five firs
lot downs from scrimmage to one for tn
BE- Aggies, and 1876 Yards in scrimmag
as plays to 3S for Oregon Agriculture
ills college. But this superiority wa
ip- mostly in her own territory. or in mid
field. When the Aggie defense stiff
in fened in their own territory, line bucl
on ing availed little.
70 Despite the tense feeling betweel
:, the two elevens, it was a cleanly play
ed game, too. Oregon was penalize,
twice and the Aggies four times al
for off-side playing. Not an offens,
was charged against either team foi
holding or rough work.
And in that football quality called
fight" there was little to choose. Ore
4 gon was fighting as Oregon alway.
III fights, but so were the Aggies, too
1t was a standoff as to that just as il
was a standoff as to score.
The attendance was announced as
Il. $500.
w Summary:
IL 0. A. C. (0)-- Oregon (O,-
y McFadden .... ,LE.R. ...... Brown
Locey. .,.....,.L .LTR... Wonder Abe
Christensen -. .LG.R. ,.F. Shields
80 stewart t''.',.....C.. Callison
vi Taylor r...RGL Sbialds