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FOOTBALL IN THE NORTHWEST

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DON MORRISON, Fullback on the Albany Team

Northwest remains a mooted question. Opinion inclines to the belief that the University of Washington had the strongest team. The comparative scores — which, by the way, experience has taught mean little or nothing — of Washington and Oregon against Mult- nomah seem to indicate this. Multno- mah defeated Washington 7-0, and Oregon 16-0. But Multnomah played Washington in Seattle and Oregon in Portland ; consequently, although Washington may have been the strong- er, the difference was very little, prac tically one touchdown, if we adopt this uncertain method.

The championship of the minor col- lege league of Oregon, to which neither

the University of Oregon nor Oregon Agricultural College belongs, was easi- ly won by Albany. The strength which this team showed was a great surprise, and it won for Albany the right to be considered one of the *'big three" of Oregon. Whether in a college so small as Albany there is enough material to assure the development of a team of equal strength year after year, remains to be seen. Pacific University fell be- low the standard of last year, and won only one game, that with Washington Agricultural College. Many of last year's men were not in college, and the new material did not develop into first- class players. But the P. U. players should be commended for their willing-

HOMER WATTS, Tackle, elected Captain for 1903. U. of O.