Gridiron Showdown at West Seattle
The University of Washington takes on the Tacoma Athletic Club in a highly anticipated football match.
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This afternoon at West Seattle, the State University and the Tacoma Athletic Club will do battle on the football field, and everything points toward a hot contest. The college boys showed what they could do a week ago when they defeated the Tacoma Club at Tacoma, while the visitors came within one point of defeating the Seattle Athletic Club three weeks ago. The Tacoma team will be considered the heavier, but the Universities expect to offset this by greater speed and the advantage of being in better condition. The college team has kept up faithful practice every day during the week. The final work was done yesterday afternoon, when the tricks were rehearsed. The university boys have many admirers, who think they are promising candidates for championship honors, and there bids fair to be a big pilgrimage of 'rooters' to West Seattle this afternoon to flaunt the purple and gold.
“There bids fair to be a big pilgrimage of 'rooters' to West Seattle this afternoon to flaunt the purple and gold, and to yell: 'U. of W.! Hiah, hiah! Skookum! Skookum! Washington!'”
Long before Husky Stadium existed, University of Washington football was a scrappy local affair played on makeshift fields in West Seattle. This rivalry highlights the early, hyper-local nature of collegiate athletics in the Pacific Northwest before the institutionalized juggernaut of modern Pac-12 (now Big Ten) sports.
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