California State University Chico - Record Yearbook (Chico, CA)

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ff:-:,:4Q:--f5'+'f -Q 5. ft A ' C l I , football enthusiasts are turned toward next fall, with everybody wishing Cap- tain-elect Jimmy Thomasson and his team a most successful season. ll' ' MODESTO 31 - CHICO 6 jx For the first time since Modesto and Chico have been engaging in intercol- legiate football competition, Modesto cleaned house at the expense of the Wildcat. Spencer, Chico fullback, was suffering with a badly injured ankle but due to a lack of substitutes, also on account of injuries, he was forced to play almost the entire game. This is one example of that inexplainable thing called .Y Y. Mental Attitude that is so necessary in a successful college athletic team. The YN absence of Captain Elmer Allinger was beginning to be felt and it was, to say the least, not too encouraging to his teammates to know that Elmer would Watch the rest of the games from the sidelines. Thomasson, Chico's shifty halfback and next year's captain, was the shining star for the Wildcats, but the Modesto offense Was too much for the Varsity to cope with. The game was not as one-sided as the score may indicate, because in a des- perate attempt to score-once defeat was almost certain-Chico concentrated all eiforts on long passes, most of which were intercepted by Modesto with fatal results. Thirty-one is the largest score that has ever been piled up against the Wildcats since Coach Acker has been at Chico State. l. I I . A ai.. . Q AVE.. .Er . V c 'F' f' l V A X N -..iq 54 gp..- jk Y 421: :nf :Q 4

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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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SAN MATEO 25 - Cl-IICO 14 The San Mateo Bulldogs won the California Coast Conference champion- ship, and if ever there was a team that deserved to win, it was this one. San Mateo has always had a good team, and though they have defeated Chico but twice in six years, the Bulldog has always been a tough nut for the Ackerites to crack, and their games have been more or less pointed to by Coach Acker as the Big Game. Once more poor tackling spelled doom for Chico, as San Mateo's four touch- downs were made on long end runs. That Chico's offense was working smoothly is clearly shown by her two touchdowns and conversions. But San Mateo won the game and they earned it. SACRAMENTO 14 - CHICO 13 Advocators of the Do-away-with-the-conversion-after-touchdown move- ment could undoubtedly have enlisted many recruits among Chico Staters fol- lowing the game with Sacramento Junior College. For it was a mere, insignifi- cant conversion that caused Chico to be defeated by Sacramento, her arch enemy. The game was played in the new stadium Jaysee has built, and of which they can be justly proud. Although the Wildcat attack was the second on the Panther menu for the new battleground, the Cats had hopes of dedicating the stadium in their own manner and in a way never to be forgotten by Coach Scheuttner and the boys. But the Wildcat was still crippled and bruised from the Aggie brawl and left the stadium more crippled and more bruised than ever. -at 55 .