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Show the freshmen much, as the team they were fighting was practically as BtroiiK ns the one which began the contest. The freshmen were merely keyed to a higher pitch and to a greater determination. Little Joe Buys, of Eureka, the Frosh quarter, Lob Collins, Sanity Dixon, Reed Colvin, Owen Eowe showed up well in the back field for the Frosh Colvin showed himself him-self to be the possessor of a hefty foot in the punts until an injury received re-ceived in a line buck took him from the game. The Frosh line with Big Phil Jackson, coach, encouraging them, played a stiff gamei The iar sity had to fight for every inch' of ground it gained. Oviatt at center ; Merrill at tackle ; Condon, at guard, until ho was relieved on account of au injury to his leg; Corbctt, nt tackle; Ivy at guard and Anderson and Johnson on the ends, made a light but speedy line that looked good at all times. Substitutes were equally as effective, but men were changed with such rapidity after the game got well under way tha' it was impossible to keep the players play-ers in mind. Lob Collins, acting captain for the Vrosh, was n cnteletic agent of unusual un-usual virility. His rook-like voice could be heard soaring up above every pile of bodies or from any corner cor-ner of the field. Mcintosh and Fuller both worked well at quarter. Lawrence Peterson Peter-son and Lloyd were not disappointing disappoint-ing at the half positions, and Dixon played bis usual game at fullback. Later, Knudsen, Biddulph, and Pearce were substitute for Dixon, Peterson and Lloyd and carried on the battle in good shape. The line was placed and replaced with such rapidity that a real estimate could not be properly made of the ability of any of the men. Jackson acted as referee, Hart as umpire and Meith Mneser as head linesman. COUGARS BATTLE AGAINST COLORADO TIGERS TO HAVE MOST UNIQUE ATMOSPHERE ever assembled on a Y athletic field. Every effort is being made to prepare seating room for all who desire to assemble on that historic occasion The Cougars are shaping up into a formidable organization, if one can judge by merely watching them on the practice field. In spite of the fact that many holes were left in the old organization, the machine is beginning to look like a unified outfit rather than one made of eleven independent parts. Furthermore, Further-more, the coaches are working' all of the men. Not a man yet certainly certain-ly 1ms a place on the team. It is si ill free for all, with everybody having a good chance to show his wares. Several of the new men are showing up well and will likely fit into the harrow that is to do a bit of leveling this year in the conference. con-ference. In the game with the Frosh Thursday afternoon, the Cougars succeeded in piling up IS points without a great deal of trouble in spite of the fact that the kittens dug in their claws and held for all they were worth and became so wrathful in the end that they tore off a fake triple pass that bam-bouzled bam-bouzled the vets and placed the ball on the vols' one foot line. The Frosh bucked it over on the net play and suceeded in kicking goal afterward, a feat the Cougars themselves had failed to do three different times. This performance coming at the end of the contest, made a splendid climax for the frosbnien who went off the field feeling that tin v were in a class with veterans anyway. At the time the freshmen scored, however, there was not a single Inst years regular on the Cougar learn. All of the men who had played earlier in the game had been relieved and bad gone into the showers. This fact, however, does not minimize the performance of "G-r-r-r! G-r-r-r! Lick the Tigers!" is the growl that is gathering gath-ering force as the battle of the half century approaches when the T I'.lne Cougars are to clash with the Colorado College Tigers on October 17, in the semi-centennial football game which is also the Y home-coming game for this year. No such a battle lias been seen on a Y field in the fifty years Young university has been in existence, and probably such another battle will never be seen again in the next half century, for it takes great occasions ns well ns great teams to make great games, just as it takes great occasions to make great orations. That game on October IT is to be unique. There has never been such an occasion before and there never will be such au occasion ngain in nil of tlic years the world is yet to lust. Klcvou I5!ue Cougars will flash out onto the football field followed by eleven striped Tigers from Colorado. Colo-rado. The ball will be put in play. Twenty-two brawny men will push it back and forth over the field for yixty minutes and then the curtain will fall never to be raided again on the game of ttie half century at the llrigbam Young university. Ttiat one flash of sixty minutes is all thai fate will permit. On the side lines there will be thousands of yelling enthusiasts urging both teams on ! Some of the original twenty-nine who beL'.'in-S' beL'.'in-S' bo.,1 under the White ami Ihe isitic and the Y a full fifty years ago, will be there, their heads crowned with the almond blossoms of literary liter-ary fame, their faces lined witli experience, ex-perience, but their hearts alive with the old Y spirit that has become famous fa-mous in a thousand struggles; some of the old faculty members will be there their eyes dim. their strength abated, but with souls on fire with the old fervor. These will look and yell for one short hour, and then they, too, will be removed from the board, some of them never to meet again in this life. Great occasions are all like tltat. The importance of that game of the century has already begun to get under tbe skin of the Cougars. They sense the tension already and are straining every nerve to prepare to win from the Tigers if it is humanly human-ly possible. The coaches are pointing point-ing for tbe semi-centennial, homecoming home-coming game. They are anxious to welcome the old grads and all of the former students of the institution institu-tion who will lino the stands that day. back to the Y by displaying the old " spirit. "Y wins!'' is the yell that has-been has-been hcanl ringing over Y fields of honor in tbe past. The coaches are as anxious as the men to resurrect tlie slogan for the home-coming game. Committees have already been appointed ap-pointed to look after the various details connected with the game, as all of the officials are expecting the greatest crowd of fa us Hint hits |