Notre Dame at Nebraska

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  Omaha daily bee, Nebraska, November 29, 1918, page 1

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  NEBRASKA UNI. AND NOTRE DAME PLAY TIE CAME Cornhuskers and South Bend Team Unable to Score on Field Covered With Mud and SIuSh. Lincoln, Neb,, Nov. 2s.-(Specia Telegram. THE smallest Turke, day crowd in the history of Corn husker athletics saw Nebraska and Notre Dame fight to a 0 to draw on Nebraska field this after noon in game married by the soft field, which was covered with two inches of snow. There were less than 1000 people in the stands. but the holiday spirit was present and roofing spirited The condition of the field forced both sides to resort to punting prac. tically during the entire game, with honors divided about equal between Dobson and Gipp, the Notre Dame kicker. Nebraska failed to make a first down. Notre Dame made Il and had all of the edge when it came to advancing the ball. Three tunes the visitors were halted in side of the 20-yard line for lack OF the punch to put the pisskin across. Touchdown Disallowed. The South Bend warriors scored one touchdown on a fashy 40-yard sprint around the end by Barry, but the play was disallowed and the ball called back because a Notre Dame player in the interference grabbed hold of a teammates belt. The visitors drew a 15-yard penalty on the play. Penalties came thick and fast during the entire game, both teams suffering equally. The first quarter was all Notre Dame. The visitors rushed the ball down the field after an exchange of punts on end runs by Gipp and the speedy little Barry to the Husker ll-yard line, where Lantz inter cepted a forward pass. Nebraska kicked, but the Catholics again rushed the ball to the Husker 23-yard line, where Howarth inter cepted forward pass. Cornhuskers Pick Up. In the second period Nebraska flashed her strongest play. The Huskers drove the ball into Notre Dame territory when Dobson out kicked Gipp and twice rushed it to the Notre Dame l5-yard line, but were halted there. Dobson shot forward pass over the goal line, which was incomplete and Notre Dame put the ball into play on its own 20-yard lire. The third period was limited entirely to a kicking duel, Nebraska making no attempt to carry the ball, and Notre Dame compiling only one gain of II yards on forward pass to Kirk from Gipp. Notre Dame Near Victory. Ir the final quarter Notre Dame again carried the fight to the shadow of the Nebraska goal. lGipp, Barry and Lameau smashed through the Husker line and started the ends for substantial gains, carrying the bali to the Nebraska 15-yard line, where the Huskers recovered it. The Huskers kicked to safety and time was called. Dana, the Husker right guard, had his arm broken at the start of the game while going down on the kickoff. Captain Bahan was also forced to retire because of an in jured knee. Nnfra Dam

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  The Sentinel=record, Arkansas, November 29, 1918, page 4

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  FOOTBALL RESULTS.I ScoRELESS CAME BETWEEN NOTRE DAME AND NEBRASKA Lincoln, Nef, Nov. 95.--Notre Dame and Nebraska University football teams played a scoreless tic here to day The field was covered with mud and sl0sh following q heavy fall of snow. making il difficult for both teams to play their best. Both teams puuted repeatedly In scrimmages in the initial quarter. Dana. Nebraska’s right guard suffer- cd a fractured wrist and Captain Bn- han, of .’Notre Dame received an in- jury to his knee making it necessary for both players to retire from the EAmN.

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  The Evening Missourian, Columbia, Mo., November 30, 1918, page 1

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  The Nebraska Cornhuskers and the Notre Dame Catholics stopped about in the mud and slush for sixty min utes of scoreless football Thursday on Nebraska field, the combat terminating in a 0 to 0 tie. A ten-yard streak down the middle of the grid iron was fairly dry, but the outer edges were inches deep in mud. The slippery footing took the punch from the offensive tactics of both teams and neither the Huskers nor

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Nebraska leads 8–⁠7–⁠1 in 16 meetings, counting the 12 since this game.