The football season of the Lincoln High School was a crowning success, considering the material with which it had to build.
This was due to the undaunted efforts of Coach Allen and Manager Hauck, and the untiring spirit with which the boys worked.
Hauck was greatly handicapped in arranging a schedule, as
most high schools had arranged their schedules the year before.
Nevertheless he rounded out a surprisingly good one and insured some good games for next season.
Lincoln retained but one of the old Seattle High School
stars—Roscoe Pike—and as captain he successfully piloted the
"eleven" through the season, working all the time like a Trojan.
The first day of the turn-out was one of the worst days of
the whole season. The field was one massive lake, about half
the squad was without football suits and a drizzling rain chilled
all to the bone. In this downpour Coach Allen gave many their
first experience in football. Throughout the season everything
worked in harmony, and everybody was always willing and
ready to step down to allow a better man in his place.
The Lincoln team will be without Pike and Harvey next
season, but there will be plenty of new material who will make
competition for their places very keen.
We are glad to note that Ernest Maguire, our speedy little
clear-headed quarterback, will captain the team next year.
The Lincoln High School team lost the first game played
to the Bellingham High School by a single touchdown. and
then won games from Ballard, Puyallup and Bellingham. The
most important contest for the Lincoln team, excluding the
Washington game, was with the Salem High School, inter-scholastic champions of Oregon. In a hard-fought contest the local
team emerged victorious by a score of 12 to 0.
Lincoln's goal line was crossed but twice, both times in the
Washington game by the heavy Broadway backs. It might be
said here that the defense Lincoln put up against men outweighing them twenty pounds to the man was the grittiest exhibition
that was ever seen in an inter-scholastic game on a local diamond.
Lincoln won five of the eight games played, losing to Everett
and Bellingham on flukes, and piled up a total of 68 points to
their opponents' 28.