Auburn at Ohio State

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  The Washington herald, District of Columbia, November 25, 1917, page 12

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  Ohio STATE BATTLED To DRAW BY AUBURN Alabama Polys Spring Surprise Of Grid Season by Jolting Buckeyes. Montgomery. Ala. Nov. 2I-The Alamaba Polytechnic Institute (Auburn) sprang the football surprise of the season here this afternoon when her football team played the Ohio State University. Western Conference champions, to a scoreless tie. The Plainsmen fought doggedly throughout. and at one time threw the Buckeye lads back for losses when they had but yard to make and a touchdown. This was in the first quarter following a 45-yard run by Chick Harley, Ohio’s All-American back. Harley failed at two tries for field goals later ip the game and for ward passing in the final quarter when within reaching distance was broken up by Auburn. Ducote’s all-around play featured for Auburn. He was their most consistent ground-gainer. and he was a whirlwind on defense. making two thirds Of the tackles. Harley was So roughly handled that he was relieved by a substitute in the latter part Of the game. The Plains men had no opportunities Of scoring. The line-up and summary

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  The Daily Missoulian, Missoula, Mont., November 25, 1917, page 1

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  Auburn Holds Fast Ohio State ScOreless. Montgomery. Ala. Nov. 24.--Auburn today held the western conference champion football team of Ohio state university to a scoreless tie in beneut game played before the Ohio ma tional guard division at Camp Sheridan. “Chic” Harley. the visitors star twice had opportunities to achieve VIC tory through field goals. but his kicks were wide. Right Halfback Ducote for Auburn played almost as brilliantly as did Harley.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Auburn leads 1–⁠0–⁠1 in two meetings, counting the one since this game.