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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
* * *
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.
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