Mail Tribune 100, Oct. 30, 1922 – Medford News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News

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Mail Tribune 100, Oct. 30, 1922 By Alissa Corman Oct 30, 2022 12:00 AM A A News from 100 years ago The following news items were drawn from the archives of the Mail Tribune 100 years ago Oct. 30, 1922 MEDFORD TEAM IS GIVEN OVATION ON RETURN TO CITY When the Medford high school football squad returned last night from its weekend trip to Albany and Corvallis it was met by one of the most enthusiastic delegations of rooters which ever stood on a station platform. The night was cold and chilly and many of those present should have been in bed at 10:50 p.m., but the curfew law was disregarded and the rooters were there forty or fifty strong. Although regret was felt at the inability of Albany to play, everyone is overjoyed at the showing made by the team against the O. A. C. Rooks. A large rally was held at the high school building this morning and more than 400 loyal Medford high school students assembled in the auditorium to do honor to the scrappy squad which made the trip and made possible the low score of 20-14. Yell Leader Jacobs led the students in a series of yells which made the decrepit old high school building tremble as though suffering a stroke of palsy and Superintendent Smith made a speech complementing the team and praising Coach Eddie Durno. Principal O. R. Campbell and Coach Durno spoke for a short time and Captain Willis (“Fat”) Stockman, of the team rose and announced that he didn’t have anything to say. Although Coach Durno is well pleased with the showing made by his men against the heavier and more experienced Rooks he warned the student body and the team in his speech this morning not to get the “big head” and advised that “cockyness” was the downfall of many champion elevens and that it was just as great a detriment in football as in any other lines of endeavor. The impressive feature of the game at Corvallis which elicited many remarks from the college students was the spirit of fight which permeated the Medford team. The eleven men who started the game played it straight through with time out for only one man. Medford seems to have plenty of pep and fight so far this year, even in excess of the amount which has been evident for many years past, but it is a certainty that it will be needed as a football season has never yet passed, nor a Medford-Ashland game has never yet been played during which Ashland did not demonstrate a bulldog tenacity and a spirit of fight which lasted from the kick-off until the final whistle. — Alissa Corman; [email protected]