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VANDALS DEFEAT
WASHINGTON 1928
IDAHO TAKES SECOND GAME
LEAD TWO CONFERENCES
EXTRA PERIOD THRILLS,


EXTRA PERIOD THRILLS.
The Idaho Vandals and Coach David
Mcmillan!
A mighty anthem of victory, OF
praise for typical sons of Idaho, IN
which the cheers Of 2,000 the scream
OF whistles and the resonant blare OF
victory horns mingled in perfect har-
mony-such was the tribute fittingly
paid Coach David Mcmillan Captain
Richard Fox, Al Fox, "Oz" Thomp-
son, Percy Steiner, William Gartin,
Harold Telford, and Adrian Nelson at
the university gymnasium Wednesday
night
Lead Two Conferences
University of Idaho basketball
players won their sixth consecutive
victory in the Pacific coast confer
ence by taking the second game, 80 to
2S, from the University of Washing
ton in the university gymnasium
Wednesday night This victory places
Idaho foremost by a goodly margin
as the leader in the race for the bas-
ketball championships of the Pacific
coast and Northwest conferences
Those who saw Wednesday nights
contest witnessed the greatest and
most sensational game in the history
of the present college generation 1t
was game, won in in extra five
minute period that virtually decided
the championships of two confer
ences.
Free Throw Ties Score
Leading from the start the Idaho
Vandals finished the first half on the
long end of a Is to 10 score. The
score zigzagged between a three
point and six point lead for Idaho
during the second half until the last
minute and half of the game. A long
shot by Nicholson of Washington
made the score "a to 23 and with a
minute to go a foul was called on an
Idaho man. Time was called for by
Washington and after a moment OF
rest Lewis, Washington,s star for
ward, with a steel nerve and steady
hand that won admiration from even
the most ardent Idaho enthusiast,
shot the free throw and the score was
tied "a to "a
An all too brief moment of rest and
again the bitter fight for victory. |
Five minutes in which to decide the
supremacy of two great teams. Five
minutes in which to decide the two
conference championship.
A Tense Five Minutes
With Al Fox dropping from the
terrific strain of full game, played
at top notch speed, but. with undaunt-
ed courage and herOiSm, playing his
full part; with two varsity captains,
Captain Richard Fox of Idaho, and
Captain Bryan of Washington, on the
sidelines, each with prayers for the
success of their team and with aching
hearts that they could not give of
themselves in the final test; with the
crowd, now unacnny in it's quietude,
now thunderous in it's applause, now
eloquent in virtual prayer for Idaho
success; such was the five minutes
of agonized suspense, of rising hopes
and fears.
Again the clash of mental and
physical courage, of training, of
cleyerness, speed and strength.
Desperate attempts at baskets by
players of both teams, lightning like
passes of the ball., bitter guarding and
frantic efforts to score, until Telford
slipping down the floor counted a ,
field basket through long and diff
ficult angle shot. The basket broke :
the tie and again Idaho lead the score
Washington Comes Back
But Washington, not whipped until I
the end, with a determination not to :
be denied came back and again the i
score was tied 26 to 26 when Lewis
made a field basket. Idaho prayers ;
were answered when "Oz" Thompson,
slipping away from his Washington
opponents, dribbled down the floor
for another field basket for Idaho A
moment later the brilliant Ad Nelson
scored for Idaho with his field bas-
ket and the andals had a four point
margin.
Desperation marked the Washing
ton play and Froude from the center
of the floor scored his field basket
making the score 80 to 2S But de-
pendable Percy Steiner, the old red
headed scrapper from Moscow, in the
final minute, sped down the floor,
dribbled through and hooped the final
basket seconds before the bark of the
timers gun.
Coach Thanks Men
Coach Mcmillan with tears in his
eyes and voice husky with emotion ,
and pride tried vainly to thank his |
men amid the glorious bedlam of the
crowd. Captain Richard Fox, disre- !
garding conventions, attempted to {
embrace the players of his team in :
telling them of his appreciation. I'm :
dergraduates hugged each other, sang I
shouted and generally "cut loose" ;
Faculty members of the university !
equalled undergrads in their unre- i
strained exurberance, Deans, profess +
ors, instructors from President Up
ham on down, grinned "boyishly" or 2
rushed to congratulate Idaho players. r
Carry Vandals Off Floor
AL Fox, half fainting from his tre i
mendous exertions and the terrible v
gruelling of the game, was picked up
by eager worshippers along with c
other members of the team, and car
ried in triumph to the dressing room.