Whitman at Washington

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  Evening capital news, Boise, Idaho, October 21, 1917, page 1

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  FIRST TESTS OF STRENGTH FOR TEAMS IN WEST Many Surprises in Football Results in the Northwest Conference and in Cali fornia. Oregon Falls Before the Washington State Eleven While Washington Wins From Whitman by Only a Narrow Margin. San Francisco, oct. 20.-Pacific coast football opened in earnest today when the first real tests of strength came for the universities in the Pa cific conference. The surprise OF the day came in the defeat of the Oregon university eleven conceded by many to have been the strongest team on the coast last year, by Washington State. % to g. Washington University, for so many years undisputcd champion Of the coast, defeated Whitman only IA To 6. CALIFORNIA; SHOWING. The showing made by California IN defeating Occidental 20 to o is considered remarkable by many The Bears. playing their third year OF American football and with team composed mostly of novices at the game. ran over Occidental. which won .he California championship last year. All the coast teams have been great ~ weakened by the fact that the stars OF other years have either graduated or have gone into the army or navy.

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Washington leads 17–⁠0 in 17 meetings, counting the 15 since this game.