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ncss and determination to do their best under the discouragement of successive defeats.

It is a common remark among those who have watched the development of academic football in this part of the country, that no teams play snappier or better ball than do the teams of the academies and high schools. The youngsters who make up these teams go into the game with an enthusiasm and a vigor which their seniors might well emulate. They play hard and they play all the time. There is no **playing

The academic games in Portland have been unusually interesting this year. For the third season in succession, Portland Academy has won the penant from Hill Military Academy, Bishop Scott Academy and Portland High School, winning five of the six games played, tying in the other, and scoring 131 points as against 6 by their oppo- nents. The P. A. boys also defeated Pacific University, but lost when they went out of their class and played Al- bany. Their victory this year is due, not so much to superiority of material

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for wind," no shirking. To win or lose means life or death to them, and they play to win.

There is no inter-scholastic cham- pionship of Oregon, and only one team has had the effrontery to claim a paper state championship. Oregon may be said to be divided into three divisions, the southern, the eastern and the north- western, or Portland, division. The Eu- gene High School may well claim first place in the southern division, Pendle ton High School in the eastern, and Portland Academy in the Portland.

as to good coaching and the hard, con- sistent training they were willing to do. The Hill team won second place in the race, and toward the end of the season played good ball.

The innate rivalry which exists be- tween the two principal cities on Puget Sound, Seattle and Tacoma, manifests itself in sport as well as in business. This last fall it found opportunity to show itself at the football games which were played by the Seattle and Tacoma High School teams. Seattle won the first game 16-0. and it seemed that the