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Capt T.G. Cook

Took an outstanding football team to the 1918 Rose Bowl against the Mare Island Marines as a player/coach of the 91st Division team.

Camp Lewis held a 12-team league season playing 6 games on each Wednesday and Sunday with the 91st being tops.

 

1920 Roster

 

Lt. Roderick - HB

Lt. Boewe - FB

Lt Matlock - QB/K

Lt Zimmerman - HB

Cpt Houston - HB

Lt Hartman - OL

Lt Rodman - OL

Lt Hull - OL

Sgt Phillips - OL

Sgt Crawford - OL

 

 

1921 Roster

Goodwin

Hull

Carr

Schwarz

Vogel

M.G. Smith

Butner

May

Green

Eglin

Roderick

Daniels

Rogers

A. Smith

  Camp Lewis (1917 - 1921)

Designations:

91st Division - 362nd Infantry - 32nd Regiment (1917)

13th Division (1918)

Years of Operation: 1917

 

Overall Record

 

First Game:

 

First Win:

 

Final Game:

League Affiliation:  

 

 

 

Team Headquarters: 

Fort Lewis Military Base

Fort Lewis, Washington

Owner: United States Army

 

General Manager: Lt Mallum (1917)

 

Coaches:  Lt. William L. "Fox" Stanton (Head Coach 1917); Capt. Trevanion G. "Van" Cook, (1917-1918) Edgar Kienholz (Head Coach 1918); Capt Brumage (1920)

 

 

Home Field(s): Tacoma Stadium

Titles Won

1917 Camp Lewis Championship

1918 Northwest Service Championship

 

 

 

Honors

1917 Player of the Year: Dick Romney

1918 Player of the Year: Raymond Selph

 

1917 Walter Camp All-Service 3rd Team: Bill Snyder (G)

1917 Walter Camp All-Service 3rd Team: Bill Holden (G)

1918 San Fran Examiner All-Coast: Capt. Dunlop (G)

1918 San Fran Examiner All-Coast Hon. Mention: Oberle (HB)

1918 San Fran Examiner All-Coast Hon. Mention: Towell

1918 San Fran Examiner All-Coast Hon. Mention: Raymond Selph (C)

1918 Sen Fran Examiner All-Coast Hon. Mention: Schultze (E)

1918 Walter Camp All-Service 2nd Team: Raymond Selph (C)

1918 Walter Camp All-Service Hon. Mention: Eddie Kienholz (T)

1918 Walter Camp All-Service Hon. Mention: Tillman Gerlough (FB)

1918 Walter Camp All-Service Hon. Mention: Elmer Leader (T)

 

Camp Lewis was established in 1917 by citizens of Pierce County who purchased land and donated it to the military to build a base to train soldiers for WWI.  The Soldiers won 5 games, tied Washington State before losing to the Mare Island Marines of California.  A rematch was played in the 1918 Rose Bowl with the Marines again taking the game from the Camp Lewis soldiers, in a game that is said to have "saved the Rose Bowl" from nearly being scrapped during World War I and the financial loses organizers had taken in the years prior.  25,000 fans came out to see the Marines and the Army battle it out and thus saved the bowl game later to become "the Grandaddy of them all".

 

Romney scored the only TD for the soldiers in the Rose Bowl match up and McKay kicked the conversion through. Top scorers for the Soldiers in 1917 were McKay and Romney.

 

Former Spokane Athletic Club head man, Travanion "Van" Cook coached the Camp Lewis Eleven's.

 

1917 players (some rotated out as part of the 91st called to France in 1918):

Lt. Everett May (Dislocated knee 1st game)

Trevanion "Van" G. Cook (Coach/T), Bill Snyder (G-Medical Corps), Lt. Russell (C-362nd Officers), Christensen (G), Kenny Bartlett (T-Medical Corps), McRae (E), Sharpe (QB), Cpl. Douglas C. McKay (HB), Ernest Lowell "Dick" Romney (HB), Craig (FB), Lt. Gard (E-362nd Officers), Lt. Duerr (E-362nd Officers), Green (C), Lane (C), Lynch (T), Lt. Edgar H. Kienholz (T), Walt McKinney (HB-Medical Corps), Kapple (QB-362nd Officers),  Orville "Monty" Montieth (FB-Medical Corps), "Happy" Van Pelt, Charles Kelly (G), Ernie Vesper, Capt Thorpe (G-362nd Officers), Lt. Morse (G), Lt. Kapple (QB), Lt. Bell (HB-362nd Officers), Lt. Hutchinson (HB), Lt. McLean (FB-362nd Officers), Bill Holden (G-Medical Corps), Sam Cook (316th Sanitary Trains star)

Ralph J. "Speck" Hurlburt (KIA WWI)

Capt Elijah "Lige" Worsham (KIA WWI) 

 

Bill Snyder (G) and Bill Holden (G) were 3rd Team Walter Camp All-Service selections following the 1917 season.

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1918:

Raymond Selph (C), Hollinger (G), Ben Stark (T), Noggle (E), Rogers (G), Laird (T), Schultze (E), Lyle Bigbee (QB/HB), Harold Huyck (QB-Syracuse), Eddie Kienholz (HB), Bryant (HB), Tillman "Turk" Gerlough (FB), Lt Frank "Curley" Skadan (QB/Capt), Ira Blackwell (FB), Taylor (T), Oberle (HB), Hoerline (E), Lt. Dunlop (T), Elmer Leader (T), Daigh (G)

 

The team played back-to-back games on successive days on a couple of occasions, and against the Barracks team it seemed to cost them after a hard game against Multnomah.

 

Camp Lewis boldly traveled down to San Francisco and waited four days for the Mare Islands to accept their challenge, but instead of a rematch with the Marines, the Sailors squad took the challenge. 

 

Upon returning from California the team stuck together and tried to get the Great Lakes Navy team to come up following their bout with the Mare Island Marines, but ended up playing against the Camp Lewis Intra-Division Champion First Infantry team as the finale on Jan 4, 1919, the touchdown scored as the fog thickened and shrouded the goals posts from sight.

 

Raymond Selph (C) was awarded a spot on the Walter Camp 1918 All-Service Second Team published in Collier's Weekly (Jan. 1919).  Eddie Kienholz, Tillman Gerlough, Elmer Leader received honorable mention

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1920: Kennedy (T), Urban (E), Frenbaugh (G), Hartman (C), Rodman (G), Hull (T), Brittain (E), Mattock (QB), Roderick (Capt/HB), Zimmerman (HB), Saul (FB), Houck (FB), Crawford (T), Haynes (T), Phillips (T)

 

1921: Gilbert (E), Campbell (T), Travis (G), Rogers (C), Dietrich (G), M. G. Smith (T), Butner (E), Eglin (QB), Searless (HB), Zimmerman (HB), Roderick (FB), Greene (HB), Daniels (T), Doran (E), May (QB), Norman (QB), Lindsay (FB), W. Goodwin (E)

 

 

Lt Col William H. Jordan returned to Portland in 1921 to face his old team, the Multnomah Athletic Club where he starred before joining the military.  He would take command of the Vancouver, WA post of the 59th Infantry.

 

Former QB Frank Skadan (1918), following his graduation from Washington State College in 1922 took over for Olympia High School as football coach.  The football field at Lindsay High School in Hanford, California now bears his name where he was athletic director and coached baseball and football from 1925-1960.  Skadan appears in the 2008 Washington Cougars record book for Long Rush at #33 with a 70 yard run.  Frank passed away in 1972 at the age of 76.

 

 

 

 

 

1917 Schedule/Results (5-2-1):

91st
Oct 13 - Whitman College Cancel
Oct 20 - Fort Worden 6th Company Cancel
Oct 27 - Camp Lewis Red Cross Co. B 0-0
Nov 3 - Oregon Ag College Frosh 20-0
Nov 10 - Mare Island Marines 0-13
Nov 17 - Multnomah Athletic Club 10-3
Nov 29 - Navy All Stars 14-13
Dec 1 - Chemawa Indians 49-0
Dec 8 - Fort Stevens (Oregon) 53-0
Dec 8 - Camp Custer (Battle Creek, MI) Cancel
Jan 1, 1918 @ Mare Island Marines* 7-19
  * Rose Bowl - Pasadena, CA  
   
1918 Schedule/Results (8-3): 13th Div
Oct 20 - Foundation Shipbuilders 21-0
Oct 26 - Multnomah Athletic Club 7-0
Nov 2 - Oregon Ag College 21-6
Nov 10 - Camp Perry Bremerton Navy 13-0
Nov 16 @ Multnomah Athletic Club 7-17
Nov 17 @ Vancouver Barracks 6th Sprucers 6-7
Nov 28 - Mare Island Marines 0-16
Dec 7 - Vancouver Barracks 6th Sprucers * 19-14
   * Northwest Service Championship  
Dec 14 - Bremerton Marines 13-0
Dec 21 @ Mare Island Navy Sailors 7-6
Dec 25 @ Olympic Club 27-0
Dec 28 @ Rockwell Field Flyers Cancel
Jan 4, 1919 vs Camp Lewis 1st Inf 6-0
   
1920 Schedule/Results (4-1):  
 - Aberdeen American Legion 13-0
 - College of Puget Sound 33-7
 - Chehalis 17-0
 - Naval Apprentice Station 30-7
Nov 11 - Gonzaga University 0-27
   
1921 Schedule/Results (2-4): 9th Army Corps
Oct 1 - University of Washington 7-24
Oct 7 @ University of Idaho 0-6
Oct 21 - Gonzaga 0-7
Oct 22 - Gonzaga 10-7
Oct 30 - Olympic Club 6-0
Nov 19 - Multnomah Athletic Club 7-14
   
1922 Schedule/Results (0-0): 9th Army Corps
Sep 30 @ University of Washington  
Oct 7 @ Washington State College  
   
Oct 21 @ Gonzaga  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 

 

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

 

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