San Diego State University - Del Sudoeste Yearbook (San Diego, CA)

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WHITEANDGOLD 13 r. t., Sharp; 1. e., Lane; r. e., Tarwater; 1. h., Duffy; r. h., C. Smith; q. b., O. Smith; f. b., Gurwell. BefOre we had played any schedule game our quarter-back, Smith, found that he could not play so the team had to be rearranged 1n the following manner. -c., Barker; 1. g., Lusk; r. g., Sharp; 1. t., Butler tcapt l; r.t.Clark;1.e.,La11e and Watkiris; r. e., Tarwater; 1. hi, Duffy and Wight; r. h., C. Smith; q. b., Bigham and f.b.,Gi1rwell. Mr. West acted as manager after Mr. Bigham was put on the team. Another dihiculty was the inexperience of the men. Only three had ever participated in a game before this year. Another dithculty was the lack of a second team to buck up against and all the defensive work was necessarily theoretical and not the real thing. Our method of defensive work was obtained through the coach using explanatory diagrams on the black board. By means of these the squad learned how to meet and stop offensive play. After school the boys would don their suits and proceed to carry out these methods as far as was possible. The showing made was far more satisfactory than was at hrst expected. Situated as we are in the extreme southern part of California it was difficult for us to get games with any northern teams and although Escondido, Hollywood and Redlands negotiated for games, they could not be arranged so that, as a result, only four contests were had dur- ing the season. The first of these was a practice game with the Russ eleven, played on the Russ campns, Sept. 30. This served to show us our weak points and demonstrated the need of hard work if we were to make a satisfactory showing in foot ball. The second contest was a match game with the Y. M. C. A. team on Normal campus Oct. 21. In this game the main thing noticed was the development of defensive work. The offensive work, through fumblirrg, was weak, due to lack of practice in scrimmage. The score 5-0 in Y. M. C. A.,s favor was made in the first half. The third game played was on Normal campus with Y. M. C. A. on Nov. II. In this game the Y. M. C. A. greatly outplayed the Nor- mal in the first half but owing to an improvement in Normalls defen- sive play they were prevented from scoring although they were within the ten yard line once. The Normals in the second half outplayed the Y. M. C. A., but on account of fumbles were not able to score. The final score was 0-0. The game with the Russ on Thanksgiving day was the principal game of the season and both teams worked hard for this event. This game was played on Russ campus. The two teams were evenly matched. The game was won by Russ kicking a goal. The laurels in the first half were about even, while in the second half the Normals kept the ball in Russ territory all but three minutes of play and they

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12 WHITEANDGOLD inent factor in the local activities. Owing to the lack of ma- terial and grounds we had very few athletic activities during the year 1904-5. Basket ball was the only one worth mentioning. The first basketball league was then formed by the Y. M. C. A., Commercial College, Russ and Normal. Fair interest and enthusiasm was shown although the season was short. We hope to make the athletic events of 1905-6 more numerous and interesting than those of last year. Among these will be found foot- ball, basket-ball, hand-ball, base-ball, captain-ball, tennis and track work taking prominent places. This year we have an athletic field which, when linished, will be one of the best in the State. This field is 400 X 400 feet, located just north of the Normal building with the car line running along the east side. It is as level as a table. These facts make it a most desirable field on which to hold athletic meets. The field will be equipped for the following outdoor sports:--foot ball, base ball, basket ball, hand ball, tether ball, tennis and track. At the present time we have one basket ball and two tennis courts and foot ball gridiron completed. When the graders left the field it was covered with hard lumps and rocks. The boys objected to playing on a field in such condition so the girls, all unknown to them, decided to have a stone throwing pic- nic, if throwng stones may be called a pic-nic. On Friday evening before the first game with Y. M. C. A. they turned out and in a com- paratively short space of time Cleared the field. After stone throwing had proceeded for a time the girls continued their pic-nic by giving the boys a lunch. During the time the lunch was in progress several speeches were made by members of the faculty and team. The girls, of course, had something to say and said it. The affair ended with three rousing cheers for the girls. So far this year foot ball has claimed all the attention of the boys and as there were so few of them we experienced great diiTiculty in getting material for a team. The iirst line up of the season was as followsz-C., Lusk; l. g., Warriner; r. g., Clark; 1. t. Butler tcaptj; g THLETICS have been revived again at Norm al and form a prom-

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14 WHITEANDGOLD approached within the ten yard lihe twice. This half was Normalsl but they failed to score. The score at the end of the game was Russ 6 Normal 5. In this game Normalsl superiority was due to their perfect team work and not to individual effort. This was due first of all to our coach who worked hard the whole season and second, to the active work of Captain Butler; third, the good field generalship of quarter- back Bigham. During the season a number of rallies were held in which songs were sung and yells were yelled. The X. Y. 25 presented the team with ten dollars to go towards getting school sweaters and on Friday evening Dec. 1, gave the boys a banquet at the Normal. So far fall Athletics have been promising and during the ensuing year further activities will be pursued. Exchang'ef It is customary in school periodicals for a page to be devoted to gentle, friendly criticism, expressing the editor's opinions concerning the contents- of similar papers of other institutions. A department of the White and Gold has been established for this purpose but due to the fact that the petition of. the student body for the White and Gold has so recently been sanctioned by the faculty, it has been impossible tosecure in time for this issue, any periodi- cals from other schools or colleges; therefore our student friends will get off easily this time, onlv to catch it all the harder in our next number. llEvolution, quoth the monkey, llMakes all mankind our kin; Therels no chalnce about it; iTails we lose and heads we winfl-Ex. There was a great swell in Japan iWho'se name on Tuesday begane It lasted through Sunday lTill twilight on Monday, And sounded like stones in a caneEx. FO R SALE. Fresh oysters on the half shell in the Zoology Lab. A young man of husky build, dark brown eyes, hair to match, a good voice and worth seventy millions in his dreams. A pair of strong calf-skin boots Cheap. A half box of good apples. Ma-Step-was singing in chorus, HSe, me, ra, def over and over again.