The Seattle Athletic Club Squares Off at Madison Street Park
A local football scrimmage draws a crowd of one hundred as the city gears up for a high-stakes Thanksgiving match against Tacoma.
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The Seattle Athletic Club's football team had a lively game yesterday afternoon at Madison Street Park with a scrub eleven that gave the regulars a tough rub to win. The score was 14 to 0, the club team scoring three touchdowns, from one of which a goal was kicked. About 100 spectators watched the play. Prior to the game, the club team put in some hard work practicing, with W. B. Goodwin, George R. Carter, and Richard Hurd as coaches. A good deal of attention was paid to interference, in which the team's rush line was weak in the same at Tacoma. There will be practice again at Madison Street Park at 10:30 o'clock this morning. The interest in the Thanksgiving day match is growing day by day, and with fair weather, the seating capacity of the park promises to be tested to the utmost.
“The interest in the Thanksgiving day match is growing day by day, and with fair weather the seating capacity of the park promises to be tested to the utmost.”
Football fever in late 19th-century Seattle was already bridging the gap between local club matches and civic boosterism. Madison Street Park, once a hub for early athletics, has long since been subsumed by the dense urban fabric of the First Hill and Central District neighborhoods.
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