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VARSITY FOOTBALL ITH ALL but two of the 1927 Varsity returning to answer Coach Art Acker's call last September, Chico State looked forward to a most suc- cessful season on the gridiron. And why shouldn't she? Practically the same team, man for man, had been runner-up the season before, and had lost the coveted championship cup by the margin of one touchdown. But the gods decreed differently, and Chico State suffered her worst football year since Art Acker's regime commenced in 1923. XVe do not wish to go down in history as a school which alibies when humiliatingly defeated. Were Chico State a school whose pride went up in smoke when the sting and smart of defeat are felt, her stalwart sons could no doubt excavate in the smouldering remains and produce excuse after excuse to present to the public, that they might not lose the support of their followers. We don't alibi because we don't have tol Chico State is entering the Par Western Conference next season, and is leaving in the California Coast Conference a record that will not be equalled for some years to come. In five years between the season of 1923 and the season of 1927, Coach Acker and his teams won the conference championship three consecutive years and lost but two conference games. The Wildcats' tragic 1928 season was just one of those things. Every college has its years when, for no apparent reason, the bottom seems to drop out of everything, and Chico State is no exception. Coach Picker had an unusually long hospital list this season, headed by Cap- tain Elmer Allinger, who was injured early in the year and who was unable to don a suit the rest of the year. This is Captain Allinger's last year of collegiate football, and it seems a shame that a real football player like Elmer should have to end his college career with such an unfortunate piece of luck. Others on the injured list included Captain-elect Jimmy Thomasson, Louis Olker, Harold Spencer, Rockwell Blondin, Alton Cheney, Leo Barceloux, Herbert Carey, Norman De Vol, Paul Byrne, Kenneth Palmer and Arvid Pauly. Now that the disastrous 1928 season has passed and become history, eyes of 53 y
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